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De Blasio wants to scrap admissions testing for elite high schools
nypost.com ^ | 6/3/18 | Selim Algar

Posted on 06/03/2018 3:38:35 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

De Blasio wants to scrap admissions testing for elite high schools

Mayor de Blasio unveiled a plan Saturday to boost black and Latino enrollment at the city’s eight specialized high schools — and he wants to scrap admissions tests outright.

In an op-ed for education-news site Chalkbeat, de Blasio announced that 20 percent of seats at those eight schools would be reserved for low-income applicants.

Kids in the Department of Education’s Discovery Program who score just below the admissions cut-off would be given one of those saved seats, according to the plan.

De Blasio said he will fight to eventually replace the single-test system with new admissions criteria based on middle-school class rank and state test scores.

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KEYWORDS: deblasio; diversity; homeschool; idiots; newyork; nyc; publicschools
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

DeBlasio wants to destroy elite high school.


21 posted on 06/03/2018 3:59:20 PM PDT by tje
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Hell, why shouldn’t kids with IQs in the 70s and 80s have a chance for an elite education? We’re going to need more medical doctors and rocket scientists. ;-)


22 posted on 06/03/2018 4:00:05 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
One would think think that changing the rules to admit less qualified students because the effect would benefit blacks and Latinos would be seen as racist.

Are Libs truly blind to this?

Actually I don’t think so. Their goal has nothing to do with educating blacks and Latinos (they remain opposed to that) it is all about appearances and votes.

And don’t think that a highly educated black and Latino population would help the Dems. I don’t believe that for a second and neither do the Dems.

23 posted on 06/03/2018 4:01:43 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The NY Giants and the NY Jets should do the same thing. Scrap try outs. Set aside 20% of starting positions for people who are out of shape and have never played football.

The noncompetitive NFL recruiting results will be the same as bringing unprepared students into elite and competitive high schools - those who are unprepared will be crushed. I won’t see it in either case, since I’m not in their schools, and I won’t be watching the NFL this year.


24 posted on 06/03/2018 4:01:54 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Specialized [elite] high schools but 20% reserved seating for low income hispanic and black students who score just below the admission cut-off.

So, lowering the minimum score for admission wouldn’t work, because some white students might have better scores and, thus, disrupt the admissions of lower-scoring hispanics and blacks.

What does income have to do with it? Are only hispanics and blacks ‘poor’?

This whole ‘plan’ is reeks.

One could assume that the overall academics would have to be lowered to accommodate those students who did not earn a high enough score.

There, the result — which is probably what De Blasio intends — would reduce the ‘elite’ status to just another school.


25 posted on 06/03/2018 4:04:36 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Big Bird belongs in a cage....


26 posted on 06/03/2018 4:06:12 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

...and then give ‘em jobs as air traffic controllers or surgeons. Wonderful, deBlahBlah.


27 posted on 06/03/2018 4:08:28 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: House Atreides

“Hell, why shouldn’t kids with IQs in the 70s and 80s have a chance for an elite education? We’re going to need more medical doctors and rocket scientists. ;-)”

And politicians...


28 posted on 06/03/2018 4:13:08 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Then they’ll no longer be exclusive schools, just the regular run of the mill PC ones.


29 posted on 06/03/2018 4:13:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I guess he thinks blacks are inferior to whites and unable to intellectually compete.


30 posted on 06/03/2018 4:18:02 PM PDT by boycott
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

One of the nicest things about going of those schools for a non-Asian is he or she doesn’t need to worry about being raped or mugged.


31 posted on 06/03/2018 4:18:45 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: wastedyears
I hate this whole city, city government, state, and state government.

Born in Buffalo. Moved out as soon as I got my MBA

32 posted on 06/03/2018 4:22:25 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

But, but those “elite, racist” schools can now become “PROMISE” schools, just like Marjorie Stoneman Douglas HS with all the miracles of “diversity” that brings.


33 posted on 06/03/2018 4:22:40 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Pollster1
The NY Giants and the NY Jets should do the same thing. Scrap try outs. Set aside 20% of starting positions for people who are out of shape and have never played football.

I can't jump. I can't play defense. I'm slow. But I can hit 85% of my free throws. 60% from 18 feet. As long as I'm not guarded.

I want to play on the Knicks. They need a graybeard!

34 posted on 06/03/2018 4:26:07 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Placing unprepared high school students in an elite environment is a dumb move.

I saw a recent study that said the reason so many blacks never complete college is because affirmative action admissions policies place them in schools where they are competing against the best Asian and White students. This policy dooms the blacks to frustration and failure before they even start.

The most successful black graduation rate is for blacks who attend traditional Negro colleges.
 

35 posted on 06/03/2018 4:32:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I wonder how’d he’d have felt seven years ago if Dante came home and told him he didnt get in to Brooklyn Tech because his place was given to a Haitian kid from East NY whose family was on welfare.


36 posted on 06/03/2018 4:33:32 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Black Privilege......


37 posted on 06/03/2018 4:37:41 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Stormdog
#28: "Hell, why shouldn’t kids with IQs in the 70s and 80s have a chance for an elite education?"

I agree. They should be enrolled in the same advanced placement classes as the Ashkenazic students with IQs of 140.
 

38 posted on 06/03/2018 4:39:02 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
might's well say they will graduate at the top of their class too...
39 posted on 06/03/2018 4:40:32 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

So if i was a less gifted minority i can take a seat away from a more gifted caucasian.

I think if we made it mandatory that politicians and their families could only hire or go to these folks when they need care or services, that would be fine.


40 posted on 06/03/2018 4:45:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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