Posted on 06/24/2019 7:09:22 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Richard A. Carranza, the city schools chancellor, insisted last week that the plan to eliminate the entrance exam that dictates admission into Stuyvesant High School and the city’s other top public high schools was gaining traction.
“There’s some real momentum,” Mr. Carranza said at the State Capitol.
Two days later, the bill died. The Legislature adjourned, having taken no action on the specialized school exam.
The contentious bill divided many of New York’s families along racial lines: Black and Hispanic students have seen their numbers at the prized schools plummet over the last two decades, while some Asian families argued that the mayor’s plan discriminated against the low-income Asian students who are now a majority at the schools.
But the extent of the proposal’s radioactivity was unusual in Albany, particularly during a session that was marked by the newly Democrat-controlled body’s willingness to take up issues that had long been considered off-limits.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to scrap the entrance exam attracted national fanfare when it was announced, but it soon collided with stubborn realities.
The mayor, a Democrat, has few friends in Albany, and did not make new ones in his approach to the bill, which some lawmakers dismissed as grandstanding. It touched off the same racial divisions among black, Hispanic and Asian lawmakers as it had among parents in New York City. And a well-funded opposition effort led by a billionaire graduate of one of the specialized schools sent African-American parents to lawmakers’ doors, urging them to reject the bill.
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Now there’s a real honest-to-goodness case of racism. It’s completely contemptible. City leaders have an actionable belief that two groups of people are incapable of meeting reasonable academic expectations
If they eliminate the entrance exam then how does one determine the true level of ability. Grade inflation and other nefarious activities could give those unsuited for these schools entrance at the expense of other more qualified candidates.
The elephant in the room is that low-income Asians are producing smart productive kids while low-income blacks blame Asians for being smart and productive.
Isn’t that their goal?
Because why should smartness be the criteria for admission? Just look at Congress, or the national media...!
When you lower standard you just set up disappointed later in life for these kids. Not everyone wins, not everyone is a champion, there are no participation awards other than a paycheck on Friday. You’ve got to step up and do the hard work, that’s how success happens.
I seem to remember back in the 50s that the state basically didn’t ‘care’ what the schools did BUT there was a New York State Regents exam which ALL schools had to administer and that was the ‘grade’ that counted.
I went to Parochial school through 9th, Public 10/11 and my mother moved me to CA for 12 and CA wouldn’t accept a couple of credits I had received. (I skated in 10/11, taking the bare minimum including typing/home ec in 11th)
I believe I received a full credit for Religion in 9th and 1/2 for 10&11 and Latin was my ‘foreign’ language as I had a full year in 9th-Sister passed me (barely) if I promised to not take Latin II and ‘embarrass’ her...
They told me that with a ‘full load’ in Sr year I would still have to go to summer school to get diploma.
On my 17th BD, I showed ‘em, went down to join the Marines and ended up in the Navy.
School Choice would be championed by Democrats if the wanted better lives for the less fortunate city dwellers.
But they don’t, they want to keep these people ignorant and keep receiving union donations that protect a failed public school system.
Yep
Not to mention the failure rate once inside with the ‘elites”
It’s been happening in grad and professional skools for decades
Remove testing so we can flood the school with sh## and the aspiring schools that excel will be just like the rest of nyc schools, sh##. EQUALITY AT WORK! Speaking from experience I have been told that these special schools that are doing exceptionally well are the thorn in the fraudulent school system, the mayor and the racist blacks and latinos only because the asians are showing that it works because their students work. I also heard that the public school administrators and the system itself have flooded these special schools with unruley, problem students and also disabled students to ruin what they have been able to accomplish
How dare they!
Yeah, we never seen the Deans, Chancellors, et al give up Lil’ Darlin’s spot in the name of “diversity”
Thinking is racist?
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“...you just set up disappointed later in life...”
yes. The LSAT, the MCAT and the SAT (before all of the exceptions) separate the wheat from the chaff rather well.
That is when reality hits.
What a silly question, citizen. Your betters will decide who gets in and who doesn't using their own criteria. That is a much fairer system than using objective "tests", don't you agree?
And, if you don't agree, we have ways of making you more agreeable.
Socialism = making all kids as ignorant as the most ignorant kids.
Lucky to have gone to Stuy when it was boys only. Probably wouldn’t have made the cut if gals were in the pool.
Of course the “prom” was a downer.
Zig (1970)
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