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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Or did a lawsuit force NYC to open it to straight types, too?
Can't do that. Too much money to be made off of licensing fees, government loans for schooling/certifications, etc.
Those stats actually qualify you to play on the Knicks.
Why not scrap attendance and just give them degrees?
New York schools used to produce some stellar graduates. One was Richard Feynmann. With the current dumbing down of standards I don’t think the schools will produce another future Feynmann. Instead the administration would ensure he becomes a drugged out zombie.
Some of them can even ruin things from thousands of miles away.
Back when I was in HS in NYC, there were 4 elite schools and I was accepted to all of them, based on test scores.
Holder went to Stuyvesant,I was at Brooklyn Tech in the same class as Wiener (Carlos Danger).
Warren Wilhems kid went to Brooklyn Tech as well.
Even back then there were set aside slots for local thugs, these were the guys that held people up in the stairways at Knifepoint for their lunch money.
Making these schools suck irreparably is Wilhelms top priority.
As we've seen of late, graduation rate doesn't mean squat. High schools graduate anything, and colleges graduate "studies" majors that are, uh, limited.
Way more interested in what people can DO, not what diploma someone gave them.
De Blashit is running a diversion.
well its up to the parents to get their kids out of those schools and send them to private/parachial school, with standards...
IIRC Warren only one his election because so few voters turned out....
Yep. Instead of the top high schools graduating 95% of students, that rate will fall to maybe 80%.
...What does the NYC Mayor consider to be the low income level that this 20% of students’ parents earn?
You're being discriminated against by the ageists in the NBA? #MeToo!
If he were truly concerned about increasing black, Hispanic and low income attendees, he would role out free or reduced tutoring for the entrance exams to promising 7th and 8th graders. OF course, if the kids minority didn’t show up, that would be racist, too. But poor Asian would be there for the opportunity
There is a prima facie case of age discrimination in the NBA. And NFL/MLB/NHL. If I have a company with no Blacks or women, the plaintiff does not need to prove discrimination, just point to the results.
Lets get a lawyer and file a class action.
There go the “elite” high schools in New York City.
Most of them were only “elite” academically, and not by income or anything else.
I have nephew who attended Stuyvesant High School, when it was still one of the “elite” NYC public high schools. He had to pass special exams to get in. His families income then would have been considered lower middle class - certainly not rich and not the poorest.
By abandoning the academic criteria for acceptance that made the special NYC public schools “elite”, the schools will be dragged down by the lower standards they are forced to accept, and forced to accept lower standards they will be, if they are not to flunk many of those De Blasio wants to admit without the present academic requirements for admission.
There is ALREADY plenty of free tutoring available in the NYC public schools. And, in addition to formal tutoring sessions, any teacher would be happy to give extra help, if asked, to their students during a free or lunch period. But extremely few students ever ask for extra help or show up for official tutoring sessions in your average NYC public school. Nothing racist about it, it's just a lack of interest in doing well in their studies. Why improve your miserable, less than grade level math or reading skills when you can hang out with your friends or feel up a girl in a stairwell? This is not conjecture, this is my own personal experience after 25 years teaching in NYC high schools.
Boston did that decades ago. The results speak — or babble — for themselves.
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