Ever hear the phrase "Throwing good money after bad"? I just posted an article about 6 black girls beating up a NYC subway rider. I pointed out in my comment that the vast majority of students I had acting out in my classroom were black students. The AP (Advanced Placement) classes are available to all NYC students, culminating in an exam. More than 14,000 white and Asian students passed their AP final exams vs. 7,000 black and Hispanic students. This totally demonstrates the point that I made in my previous post of today, that one sees black students acting out in far great numbers than white or Asian students. If they were paying attention to their studies, these numbers would be more equal. NYC classrooms are very under budgeted, and common classroom supplies are lacking much of the time. Teachers have to spend their own money to buy copy paper, pencils, pens, etc. or send out letters to parents asking them to sponsor stuff like that. But, mayor DeDumDum has $1.6 MILLION to try and equalize what natural winnowing out has dictated: the students who pay attention and work hard pass their AP exams, while the students who fool around and disrupt what classes they actually attend don't. Oh no, we can't accept that, he says, we have to spend lots of taxpayer money denying reality and artificially setting it up so that students who have no business taking up space in those classes do. How is that fair to the kids in other classes who don't have sufficient books or classroom supplies, so that he can cover for kids who don't merit being in AP classes, which are college-level?
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01/16/2017 12:21:38 PM PST by
EinNYC
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To: EinNYC
2 posted on
01/16/2017 12:22:32 PM PST by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: EinNYC
You can’t address the Achievement Gap until you address the Ambition Gap.
All the money in the world won’t motivate someone who doesn’t want to be motivated.
3 posted on
01/16/2017 12:24:07 PM PST by
dfwgator
To: EinNYC
It costs that much to water down the courses?
4 posted on
01/16/2017 12:25:10 PM PST by
oblomov
(We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
To: EinNYC
Obviously we need to lower the standard so that more of them pass. Problem solved./s
5 posted on
01/16/2017 12:25:28 PM PST by
madball
To: EinNYC
Their next project surely will be spending millions on trying to fit square pegs into round holes.
6 posted on
01/16/2017 12:27:02 PM PST by
LydiaLong
To: EinNYC
Drop the AP classes. It would be far better to have enrichment and tutoring opportunities for students who excel. AP is just an excuse to control the curriculum. For things like high-level science projects, achieve it through clubs. There’s no point in AP if it’s watered down for affirmative action considerations.
7 posted on
01/16/2017 12:28:28 PM PST by
grania
To: EinNYC
I have a better plan. End all remaining remnants of the great society, which splintered the minority nuclear family. Then time will fix the issue by the reemergence of the minority family.
9 posted on
01/16/2017 12:30:46 PM PST by
CriticalJ
(Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
To: EinNYC
It’s called “charter schools,” which Mayor Dum Dum has been trying to kill since day one.
10 posted on
01/16/2017 12:32:07 PM PST by
livius
To: EinNYC
We WILL prove that everyone is equal in every way - no matter what it takes......
To: EinNYC
It’s not about education but diversity, infiltration. And just what is Advanced Placement anyway? Some sort of feel good stuff?
14 posted on
01/16/2017 12:39:44 PM PST by
SkyDancer
(Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
To: EinNYC
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said the program will help shrink the achievement gap faced by black and Hispanic students, who enroll in AP classes and pass AP exams at lower rates than their white and Asian peers.
huh ? looks like the AP program is about to be destroyed.
15 posted on
01/16/2017 12:40:06 PM PST by
stylin19a
(Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
To: EinNYC
Why cant these blacks and hispanics make the grade with out millions of dollars of help that others dont get? And why would anyone want to hire them knowing they are dependent on being propped up to be on the same level as the rest of the field?
Beuller ??!
17 posted on
01/16/2017 12:49:39 PM PST by
Delta 21
(The minority demands NOTHING !)
To: EinNYC
Reminds me of the Kansas City experiment of the 80s. A federal judge took partial control over the Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) on the grounds that it was an unconstitutionally segregated district with inferior facilities and the students were performing badly. The judge ordered the state and the district to spend billions of dollars over 12 years. The goal was to build new facilities , integrate the classrooms and bring up test scores. After 12 years the test scores for the blacks did not increase.
To: EinNYC
NYC launches $1.6M plan to bring more black, Hispanic students into Advanced Placement coursesIt costs a million six to set quotas?
Lord, what a racket.
24 posted on
01/16/2017 12:55:01 PM PST by
Navy Patriot
(America, a Rule of Mob nation)
To: EinNYC
First - manufacture a problem, or cherry pick some existing issue. Next - spend money, distributed through your cronies, to “solve” the problem.
Its the leftist way.
26 posted on
01/16/2017 1:02:22 PM PST by
PGR88
To: EinNYC
Good input. Thank you for posting about your experience.
To: EinNYC
Let’s also take small kids and put them in the NFL. What could go wrong when you put someone in that sort of position?
31 posted on
01/16/2017 1:24:48 PM PST by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: EinNYC
Dumb it down....give out HS *participation* diplomas, Yo.
33 posted on
01/16/2017 1:30:50 PM PST by
Daffynition
( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder" - The MLN didn't make Trump, so they can't break Trump.)
To: EinNYC
lipstick on an under enthusiactic pig scenario
To: EinNYC
Save the money. Lower the standards for AP courses. Teaching to the lowest common denominator seems to have graduated more of them for years.
37 posted on
01/16/2017 1:46:36 PM PST by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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