gotta water down the collective IQ somehow
Posted on 05/23/2018 9:06:10 AM PDT by EinNYC
New schools Chancellor Richard Carranza wants to expel the controversial single-test admissions process at the city’s eight specialized high schools.
Making his first appearance before the City Council Tuesday, Carranza endorsed taking multiple measures into account instead of relying on a sole exam.
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All students are perfectly able to take the entrance exam to see if they have what it takes to keep up with the rigorous level of work at these prestigious high schools. It is not anyone's fault but the student who is taking the test if they don't pass and therefore do not belong in that school. It has NOTHING to do with prejudice. You can't have a reading level of 1 or 2 out of 4 and expect to pass the entrance exam, let alone do the level of work done in those schools. Thus frustrated, such sub par students would take out their frustration by disrupting classes--hey, if they are unable to learn [at that level] ain't no one gonna be able to learn--and destroying desks, books, equipment, student work hanging proudly in the halls, etc. This piece of excrement is flat-out LYING when he says “I will tell you in every single one of those instances we have never diluted the talent pool,” Carranza said. “In fact, we’ve increased the diversity and we’ve been able, I think, to strengthen those schools because they have an influx of diversity.” Who among us is an educator? Have you ever seen "bad" kids take their example from the "good" kids and start to behave? I sure have never seen such a thing, but I certainly have seen the opposite take place many times. So the high level classes will be disrupted, everyone will think it's OK to act out, and the once prestigious school will be no better than the average NYC school, which these days is not much. The idiot City Councilwoman Inez Barron, whose IQ approaches that of a tsetse fly, rationalized this insane new policy: “In this country, we know that it was built on the appropriation of lands that belonged to the indigenous people and we know that it grew based on the exploitation of enslaved Africans,” she said. “Free labor. Every institution in this country has embedded racist policies in it. Bar none.” Barron noted that only 10 percent of admissions at the elite eights went to black and Latino applicants this year. So the hard work of white immigrants to America, according to this ignorant woman, counts for nothing. History according to a racist lens. More than 75% of black students in NYC are born out of wedlock, with all the attendant problems of the resultant poverty and lack of supervision. We can't help it if that number is far smaller among Asian families, who actively encourage scholarship for their offspring and if that results in higher grades in classes and on entry exams. The black and Latino students, as I said, are perfectly free to take those exams and if they pass, to gain admission to those schools. No one is preventing them from doing so. I just LOVE the comments of the imbecile spokeswoman for the equally imbecile mayor, Ms. Olivia Lapeyrolerie: “We are committed to making our specialized high schools more reflective of our city, and are exploring actions that can be taken at the city and state level to accomplish this imperative.” OK, so she is basically saying that she wants to make the specialized high schools into low performing schools with numerous discipline problems whose diplomas signify nothing but fraud. And folks, that's PROGRESS, right?
In other words: Let’s get rid of objective criteria, so we can make subjective political decisions.
You are perfectly justified to sound off on things like this. It’s an outrage and, frankly, very troubling.
I’ve got to believe Governor Cuomo is fully on board with this.
A once great city; a once great state.
Of course. Certain politically favored people are failing because they know their test scores will be artificially raised, they will be passed, graduate, get jobs all without having to work.
Meanwhile, achievers get to pay for the failures of the indolent.
Very tragically for this country is the fact that this entire post could be written about the majority of the school systems across the entire nation.
The American Public School System was founded to and succeeded in educating millions of immigrant children who became AMERICANS and went on to build the greatest country in history.
All too many or today’s COLLEGE students are, most likely, unable to pass the “get out of eighth grade tests of a past era. At that time the aim of schools was “education” and no one knew just what “DIVERSITY” was all about.
This policy is going to back-fire on DeBlasio when the upper west side schools get diversified and those parents who effectively have gotten a free private school-like education will soon have to start paying for private school. The Upper
West side elites are true hypocrites. “Diversity for you but not for me” is their silent motto.
nyc schools new motto “dumbing down for diversity!”.
The American school system up through our universities is dead. A complete and robust homeschooling is far better for our children. I now believe college is not essential to being highly educated. Self learning makes better thinkers and individuals. The left knows collectivism is immense power. Americanism is the enemy to them.
Too many whites and Asians passing the test.
“A complete and robust homeschooling is far better for our children.”
Right you are shanover.
That is becoming apparent to an increasing number of parents (and taxpayers).
gotta water down the collective IQ somehow
Even worse, open acceptance that blacks and browns can’t pass it. The same government that insists we treat certain minorities as our equals then proceeds to very publicly enshrine genetic (and gender) inferiority into our legal code. At this point I’m highly suspicious of any “preferred minority” in any position, and I’m usually right.
They seem to think they will fix this by exposing the bottom-feeders to civilized people; nowadays “whitening” a school is the solution (but it never works - and never did).
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