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Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read
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Posted on 03/07/2013 3:11:25 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: hal ogen
That’s a rhetorical question I presume. If you have any doubt, just recall the teacher organized mass cheating on competency tests in Atlanta a few years back.
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posted on
03/07/2013 4:43:03 PM PST
by
Track9
(hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
To: SMGFan
“80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read”
Of the 20% that can read, what % are white or asian?
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posted on
03/07/2013 4:48:05 PM PST
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
To: PUGACHEV
I was taught phonics as a child, but I forgot most of what I’d learned over the years. As an adult, when I began homeschooling my own children, I relearned phonics and my own spelling, grammar and reading improved.
Go back, young man! Go through first grade phonics again. It’ll take you 30 minutes a day for a few months to see it again. Your world will open up.
Use Saxon. You’ll be amazed at how much sense there is in the English language.
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posted on
03/07/2013 4:48:05 PM PST
by
Marie
("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
To: SMGFan
As of 2012, the NYC school district spent $18,750 per student. In a class of 30 students, the total take is $562,500. What happens to all that money? It certainly isn’t producing much in the way of education, but the free baby-sitting and free food does come in handy.
To: SMGFan
New York is thinking about a longer school day and a longer school year. Yeah, like that’s going to do a lot of good.
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posted on
03/07/2013 4:52:22 PM PST
by
goldi
To: BilLies
You have pointed out a huge disconnect in the stats.
I understand most children born are non-white, but it’s still perplexing.
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posted on
03/07/2013 4:53:02 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: Marie
However, AVOID Saxon Math. It is merely rote learning - no THINKING involved. I cannot tell you how many parents say to me, “My child has ALWAYS made A’s in Math.” These students can apply the algorithms, but they cannot apply that knowledge to solve real-life problems.
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posted on
03/07/2013 4:53:15 PM PST
by
lyby
("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
To: SMGFan
Public schools are perpetrating intellectual genocide.
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posted on
03/07/2013 4:54:23 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Universal Background Check -> Registration -> Confiscation -> Oppression -> Extermination)
To: hal ogen
You would not believe the pressure put on teachers to pass students who really should not pass. It can range from a "friendly word" from an administrator to a letter in your file. If your passing rate is too low, because the students are excessively absent, just don't do any work despite chats, letters home, etc., you are often targeted for harassment. You have been pulling out all the stops, staying up late nights to try and design great lessons, tutoring kids on your free periods, etc. but guess what? Very very few kids show up for tutoring sessions, generally. They often don't turn in projects. They openly admit they don't study for tests. They make the same studying mistakes over and over again, despite your telling them correct practices. They spend more time during class trying to sneak texts on their cell phones than paying attention to the lesson and asking intelligent questions.
The new "Bloomberg-bred" student knows that they basically don't have to do anything, and their teacher will be pressured to pass them. And if they DO receive their just grade, they openly threaten the teacher ("I'm a gonna get you fired, b__tch!") rather than amend their academic practices. Oh, HELL no!
They don't BELONG in college, clogging up the classrooms there and taking remedial courses which simply repeat their failed high school work at a much higher cost to the taxpayers.
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posted on
03/07/2013 4:54:35 PM PST
by
EinNYC
To: SMGFan
Cannot read at a 12th-grade level? I'd believe it.
Cannot read? 80%? No. Simply not the case.
There's a definite point to be made and concerns to be addressed, but that headline is misleading, dishonest or just bogus. Pick one. But only if you read this far.
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posted on
03/07/2013 4:57:33 PM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: txrefugee
"As of 2012, the NYC school district spent $18,750 per student. In a class of 30 students, the total take is $562,500. What happens to all that money? It certainly isnt producing much in the way of education, but the free baby-sitting and free food does come in handy." I have an idea where the money ends up.
Recently my local news did a segment on some kind of consultant who was making the rounds of all the schools, to talk to teachers and find out what issues they had concerns with. He said the number one concern was EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION, followed by supplies.
It's all about the children, see. /s
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posted on
03/07/2013 4:58:24 PM PST
by
CatherineofAragon
(Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization)
To: SMGFan
Education was where Bloomturd wanted to make a difference!
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posted on
03/07/2013 5:01:57 PM PST
by
neverdem
( Xin loi min oi)
To: ilovesarah2012
Remember when you had to be smart to get into college, even a community college?That was before colleges became teacher-employment programs. Now, we have to get as many kids as we can in there so more "professors" can have jobs. Helps the economy, don'cha know [wink, wink].
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posted on
03/07/2013 5:04:42 PM PST
by
BfloGuy
(The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. -Ludwig von Mises)
To: SMGFan
Report: "Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read"
Response: One glance explains why.
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posted on
03/07/2013 5:04:49 PM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: Marie
I was taught phonics a child and to this day I hear the word when I look at it.
Worse, I have gotten so old that I can’t remember what it was like to not be able to read...
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posted on
03/07/2013 5:05:28 PM PST
by
Little Ray
(Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
To: SMGFan
Libs want to keep them dumb as possible so they will keep x-ing the rat box every November.
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posted on
03/07/2013 5:08:29 PM PST
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: BfloGuy
Actually the reason for having lots of high paid profs and admins is because they are excellent Democrat contributors.
Funneling borrowed money to them from student loans is what I call the “Big Education” cycle.
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posted on
03/07/2013 5:10:00 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: Talisker
Where else they could get low information voters?
To: SMGFan
What’s reading have to do with public schools?
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posted on
03/07/2013 5:16:06 PM PST
by
mykroar
(Sig is pending a Conservative party.)
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