Posted on 12/22/2020 10:37:47 AM PST by Rummyfan
Ending selective admissions for top performing public middle schools in New York will disadvantage the city's brightest and highest achieving students as well as those who are not academically gifted.
New York had 1.1 million public school students, though that number has now shrunk to 900,000 or so, and they are not all academically gifted. Most of the kids who have left the public school system since the pandemic are from low-income families. Those who are not academically gifted, or even who are not academically driven, are not stupid, bad, or in need of having all the super smart kids descend on their classes.
De Blasio and the United Federation of Teachers believe that because the diversity at the top performing middle and high schools does not reflect the ethnic and racial makeup of the city, there's something wrong with these schools. Instead of being pleased that the city is able to serve the most academically gifted students with free, world-class educations, de Blasio and the UFT think they need to destroy those programs and replace them with, well, nothing.
As Eliza Schapiro wrote in The New York Times, "In doing this, Mr. de Blasio is essentially piloting an experiment that, if deemed successful, could permanently end the city's academically selective middle schools, which tend to be much whiter than the district overall." Most of the city's top achieving students, however, are Asian.
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Di longer you live here, diverse it gets.
Burn it to the ground. With any luck, some NY’ers will go down with the ship.
If they want a good education, let them go to Dalton and pay the 54K annual tuition. Oops... Dalton got woke and has proposed eliminating its advanced classes by 2023 if they show any sign of racially different grading results.
I can’t even imagine sending my kids to public school these days. I’ve felt that way for over a decade.
Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its useulness in the early 21st century. It’s primary function today is threefold:
1. Supply employment for over-educated products of our university system.
2. Supply free daycare for parents that have sold themselves into indentured slavery.
3, Indoctrinate our progeny into full blown leftism and marxism.
It is good at those three things, actually.
So, why aren’t NYCers trying to recall him?
Or do something else?
LOL!
I don’t know.... Actually I would think they would do something much more dramatic than a recall. Tar and feathers would be minor..... Scale it up from that.
Well, if they’re going to ruin the public schools, they better ruin the universities, or there won’t be any place for these kids to play basketball and study victimhood.
4) Public works program for people who got “education” degrees because they were not smart enough for anything else.
He’s up for election this year
Personally, I think the fact that Newsome, Whitmer, Cuomo, De Blasio, etc., are still alive and have not even been shot at is proof how starkly law abiding American gun owners really are.
Wanna bet he wins?
Not that elections mean anything any more.
The larger question is, is there really anything left that IS good in New York. It's a sewer.
I thought he was term limited to 2 terms?
Just left New York City for good on Friday. De Blasio and Cuomo were the main reasons. I read somewhere that since the summer $347 Billion in taxable income ha left New York City alone. I believe it. No one I spoke with was staying because they had a choice and wanted to. These scumbags ruined my city and my state.
They won’t by top performing much longer.
The won’t be “top performing” much longer.
It isn’t just NY. They are using race as the battering ram to destroy us.
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