So much for New York’s elite schools. They will quickly become not different from the rest.
Right. And then ALL of the NYC public schools will be disgusting cesspools staffed by brand new inexperienced teachers who will not get tenure and therefore will leave for the suburbs where they have a far better class of student and a higher salary. There has been a concerted campaign going on to harass veteran teachers out the door to retirement or termination with the higher salaries, tenure, AND an institutional memory of what teaching is SUPPOSED to be like--without the Commie Core, without the 60 item punch list supposedly used to evaluate teachers but actually used as a political and punitive weapon, where there were actual consequences for student misbehaviors instead of the teacher being fired for disciplining a student, etc.
Veteran teachers are counting the days until they can retire and get away from the absolute libtard wet dream of madness passing for education nowadays in NYC. It's a politically driven fraud perpetuated on the public, with fake graduation rates of students who then have to take multiple years of non credit remedial courses in college---where they didn't belong in the first place. But all hail DeDumDum, the great leader and the corrupt piece of garbage.
Yes, this is sad. My child is a product of the specialized High School’s and is doing very well. I am very familiar with these programs and I can tell you they may as well close the schools if they do this.
There are various Honors programs throughout the NYC public school system. Some of my kids school mates from Junior High didn’t score high enough in this test to make the specialized schools and ended up in them instead. I had 4 years to compare the work and results, the Non-specialized schools are good as well, but they run a trophy for everyone program. Everyone got great grades, in the specialized program everyone earned good grades. I could go on, but it’s pretty obvious where it goes from here...