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Mother of all white flight to hit NY schools and De Blasio pretends he had nothing to do with it
American Thinker ^ | 12/08/2018 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 12/10/2018 8:57:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind

New York is facing an educational disaster. Mayor Bill De Blasio's socialist plan to end meritocratic entry to New York's famed specialty schools - in performing arts, hard sciences, engineering, academic achievement - in the name of racial equality, is about to trigger a huge white flight. And not just white flight, Asian flight. Here's an excellent report from New York Post columnist Karol Markowitz:

In a push to improve diversity at District 15 middle schools in Brooklyn, Mayor de Blasio last week approved a plan to remove admission standards at all of them.

and

The announcement of the changes featured some blatant doublespeak. “The District 15 middle-school diversity plan will remove screens from all middle schools and will prioritize 52 percent of sixth-grade seats for students from low-income families, English-language learners and students in temporary housing.” Got that? They will remove screens and replace them with other screens.

The removal of standards won’t just be academic. Schools that previously focused on music or the arts will no longer be able to audition students. Students who have dedicated their lives to learning to play the cello will be in classes alongside kids who have no interest in the arts at all.

Does that sound revolting or what?

Imagine being an Asian student or a parent out in some place like Queens and working hard as heck to get into one of these good schools as the kid's ticket out of Archie Bunker land and being told the kid is not good enough, solely owing to his inability to 'contribute' to the racial balance. For him, it's back to the crappy public schools with the mold and the tumbledown bricks,


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: akadeblasio; billdeblasio; bluezones; corruptions; deblasio; education; embezzlement; liar; misappropriation; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc
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To: Ancesthntr

That about sums up the masses of the American people.


21 posted on 12/10/2018 9:38:42 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a funny convergence on my radar: Just yesterday, I read the latest N. Arizona U. alumni magazine and there was this slick cover and large article about a ‘96 grad, Carranza, as the Chancellor of NYC school system.

So, I spun off the article we all saw here on FReep and found Carranza, from NAU, one of several schools of which I also am an alum, saying: “Why are we screening children? I don’t get it.” Thereby admitting that he will supervise the demise of any remaining excellence in those schools.

Heck, he might even play mariachi music while it burns.


22 posted on 12/10/2018 9:39:59 AM PST by Migraine
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To: SeekAndFind

New Yorkers enjoy their metropolitan gulag.


23 posted on 12/10/2018 10:02:32 AM PST by Gritty (How much blood is Swallwell prepared to shed for his goal of disarming Normal Americans?-K Schlicter)
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To: SeekAndFind

New York will become Baltimore.......... soon


24 posted on 12/10/2018 10:04:44 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: SeekAndFind

I aspire
to something higher.

Ha! We’ve removed it -
See the smoke from the pyre?

Now come and join us
in the muck and the mire.


25 posted on 12/10/2018 10:05:38 AM PST by Drawsing (Fools show their annoyance at once, the prudent man overlooks an insult. Proverbs 12:16)
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To: SeekAndFind
Cherish the Diversity™
26 posted on 12/10/2018 10:07:00 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: SeekAndFind

The attempt to destroy our entire culture continues.

When will they outlaw breathing?


27 posted on 12/10/2018 10:07:23 AM PST by firebrand
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To: bboop

There’s a name for it.

Google “magic dirt” theory.

There are ppl out there who believe if you just swap out middle class kids in intact families (and their values), with poor kids with broken, single parent families (and their values), that everything will be just dandy.

For the record, they ruined the all midwestern big cities with this nonsense. It caused, did not end, discrimination.


28 posted on 12/10/2018 10:10:24 AM PST by Dana1960 (families)
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To: Sans-Culotte

When the jungl bunnie were bussed into my Jr High in 1973 all freaking hell burst loose. We call the little cultural spats Riots, and one day all the non colored students left and went home based on the rumors of a impending riot.

These artzy schoolz will never be the same.


29 posted on 12/10/2018 10:12:01 AM PST by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: SeekAndFind
In 2016 Brooklyn voted 80% for Hillary. In 2017 they voted 73% for DiBlasio.

I guess they get what they deserve.

30 posted on 12/10/2018 10:13:21 AM PST by Gritty (How much blood is Swallwell prepared to shed for his goal of disarming Normal Americans?-K Schlicter)
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To: SeekAndFind

He learned nothing from the white flight in Dallas, TX back in the ‘70s. I drove through my old neighborhood with the doors locked in the middle of the day and did not stop. One fast run past my old house and schools and was outta there.


31 posted on 12/10/2018 10:17:26 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bboop

Let me guess - despite the closures taxes have continued to rise.


32 posted on 12/10/2018 11:18:44 AM PST by reed13k
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To: gaijin

Japan also has no requirement to attend high school, has plenty of trade schools and apprenticeships, and is an intensive meritocracy based on test scores.

Plus since they rooted out a lot of those who didn’t want to go to HS anyway those scores aren’t included in the “national average” that the US is always compared to.

Of course there is still a way to “buy” your way into a lot of the more select schools.


33 posted on 12/10/2018 11:23:09 AM PST by reed13k
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To: reed13k
...despite the closures...

There was an article a week or two ago about the Chicago system losing students.

The school committee redefined the funding needs, so the budget is not changing.

That is to say, no "fewer students educational dividend" going back to the taxpayers.

34 posted on 12/10/2018 11:48:53 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: SeekAndFind

When this happened to Washington, DC in the 50s, white flight was a torrent to the suburbs, and long-established working class neighborhoods (for people other than high-turnover politicians) collapsed. Beautiful churches emptied out and now sit in ruins. Recovery is still slow, after almost 70 years. DC has been “gentrifying” for the past 15 years, but there are still pockets of severe underprivilege among adults of color and underperformance in those neighborhoods’ schools.


35 posted on 12/10/2018 11:58:07 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("The word 'racist' is used to describe 'every Republican that's winning'" --Donald Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

Excellent news. Why were taxpayers ever dunned in the first place to teach cello? Do brilliant Asians need taxpayer funded socialist propaganda camps to learn math and science.

This village needed burning. Perhaps a free market oriented solution will fill the void.


36 posted on 12/10/2018 11:59:39 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s easy. Tell them your child is an Muslim African American trans.


37 posted on 12/10/2018 12:00:55 PM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: gaijin
If you swapped the populations of Haiti and Switzerland I submit that in 5 years the Matterhorn could be covered in trash and chicken heads and Port au Prince would be swaying with palms and humming with cuckoo clock assembly.

What brilliant turn of phrase, gaijin! I truly laughed out loud!

38 posted on 12/10/2018 12:02:15 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("The word 'racist' is used to describe 'every Republican that's winning'" --Donald Trump)
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To: firebrand
The attempt to destroy our entire culture continues. When will they outlaw breathing?

As usual, FreeRepublic.com is right on top of every issue. Posted this morning:

The Many Things that Democrats Want to Ban (Running List)

39 posted on 12/10/2018 12:05:32 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("The word 'racist' is used to describe 'every Republican that's winning'" --Donald Trump)
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To: Albion Wilde

Wow


40 posted on 12/10/2018 12:19:54 PM PST by firebrand
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