Posted on 12/10/2018 8:57:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
New York is facing an educational disaster. Mayor Bill De Blasio's socialist plan to end meritocratic entry to New York's famed specialty schools - in performing arts, hard sciences, engineering, academic achievement - in the name of racial equality, is about to trigger a huge white flight. And not just white flight, Asian flight. Here's an excellent report from New York Post columnist Karol Markowitz:
In a push to improve diversity at District 15 middle schools in Brooklyn, Mayor de Blasio last week approved a plan to remove admission standards at all of them.
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The announcement of the changes featured some blatant doublespeak. “The District 15 middle-school diversity plan will remove screens from all middle schools and will prioritize 52 percent of sixth-grade seats for students from low-income families, English-language learners and students in temporary housing.” Got that? They will remove screens and replace them with other screens.
The removal of standards won’t just be academic. Schools that previously focused on music or the arts will no longer be able to audition students. Students who have dedicated their lives to learning to play the cello will be in classes alongside kids who have no interest in the arts at all.
Does that sound revolting or what?
Imagine being an Asian student or a parent out in some place like Queens and working hard as heck to get into one of these good schools as the kid's ticket out of Archie Bunker land and being told the kid is not good enough, solely owing to his inability to 'contribute' to the racial balance. For him, it's back to the crappy public schools with the mold and the tumbledown bricks,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Libtard response will be “da crackas had it comin’”.
Equality, or ‘equity’ as the SJWs call it. An unmitigated disaster.
One wonders, however, how many of their parents voted for Warren Wilhelm Jr (aka de Blasio)?
In a way, good - NYFC deserves to reap what it has sewn.
OTOH, all of those whites and Asians will go to surrounding areas and continue to vote for liberals/Leftists, not comprehending that this particular voting pattern is what forced them to leave. They are like a plague of locusts, destroying one area, then leaving for greener pastures...which they promptly destroy.
Whoa, shoot. He should read about Pasadena Unified in So Cal. They started busing kids to schools across town, so schools were no longer neighborhood schools. Ghetto kids were mixed into upscale neighborhood schools.The school district spent millions of dollars on BUSES, not teachers.
Unintended consequences - Pasadena has a good number of very nice private schools. Pasadena Unified has lost about 75% of its students AND ADA funding, and is closing schools right and left.
“Students who have dedicated their lives to learning to play the cello will be in classes alongside kids who have no interest in the arts at all.”
On the other hand in the name of fairness and diversity, the student who has no interest in music or the cello will be told he is a musical genius and to go play in the orchestra for a performance of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” ...
The Emperor has spoken. Get down on your knees and bow before him.
Future conservatives (one hopes).
I have posted previous stories about just this subject. DumblASSio is a straight-out commie. The commie agenda is that everyone is equal; no one is really bad and no one is really good. These simple criteria apply across the board to anything; wealth, grades, achievement, etc. So he deliberately puts jails and homeless shelters into the nicer neighborhoods to bring them down to the level of the slums, so that all is equal. He takes high functioning schools—the schools who hold up the higher end of the numbers used to calculate averages—and eliminates the things which make them higher functioning: select students who can pass a rigorous entrance exam and a free for all for available seats in the schools. Now, entrance exams will be waived, allowing your little ghetto rats to walk right in to utterly destroy the quiet scholarly atmosphere these schools strive for and thrive on, and reserving 25% of the precious seats in these schools for also-rans who could not pass the exam. Now this makes sense, right? To allow students who have already fouled their own nest to come in and foul the few places students can really learn something. But that is from the commie agenda driven “mind” of DumblASSio and his Mexican version of Igor, schools chancellor Carranza—who has discussed NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING but “diversity”, “equality”, and social justice crap like that. Nothing about academics. I’ll wager my cats are smarter than him and DumblASSio put together.
Good post.
DeBlasio, like the Obamas, (Like Obama’s Dad,) like all hard leftist elitists,
sends his kids to elite private “white” schools,
while, virtuously, sending yours to hell.
The people who are upset about this are in favor of it... for your kids. You voted for him, you got him.
DeBlasio, like the Obamas, (Like Obama’s Dad,) like all hard leftist elitists,
sends his kids to elite private “white” schools,
while, virtuously, sending yours to hell.
NEEDS 2 B repeated relentlessly !!!
Everything liberals touch. Everything.
Screw them. They are getting what they voted for. Let them stew in their own stupidity. Racist liberals.
Strange. I feel like I have lived this scenario in the past...something like 1962-1964, and busing in the South...from one school to another...
When busing went North, all he!! broke lose. Not it is breaking lose again.
Schools are no more bricks than countries are "magic dirt". Schools are KIDS and countries are PEOPLE.
You know what was drilled into me by Japanese teachers in Japan? That the quality of the school is actually just the quality of the student body after the losers have been filtered out, and yes, there is TONS and tons of student tracking/testing in Japan.
If you are a loser in middle school in Japan you end up at the high school for losers, and if you're a brainiac or simply worked your butt off, well then you'll be surrounded by those in high school.
I've seen PLENTY of excellent Japanese high schools that resemble prisons, and then lots of fancy ones well known in their areas as being no good.
And to return to my country example since immigration matters are of concern:
If you swapped the populations of Haiti and Switzerland I submit that in 5 years the Matterhorn could be covered in trash and chicken heads and Port au Prince would be swaying with palms and humming with cuckoo clock assembly.
Countries are PEOPLE, not magic dirt.
Well educated critical thinking students are a threat. Mandated diversity is a way to eliminate the threat
Sadly, it’s what the people of NYC have long coveted.
I’m more inclined to think that they’ll simply fight harder amongst themselves for the non-affirmative action spots and not change their liberal attitudes at all.
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