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
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.
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.
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!
Thinking is racist?
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Socialism = making all kids as ignorant as the most ignorant kids.
Improving certain under performing middle schools in poorer neighborhoods, by turning them into charter schools and giving vouchers to parents in those districts, will do massively more to improving the demographics of who enters the elite public high schools, than any bureaucratic policy trying to merely dictate forced changes in those demographics.
The current demographics are 100% NOT about the exams to enter the elite public schools. They are 100% about which groups of students do not obtain the education they need BEFORE high school that would put them in better stead to pass those exams. Some % of that is about (a) the middle schools they attend, and some of it is about (b) their family & home life and the degree of their own academic dedication. The split between the two would vary with each student.
For Whom the Bell Curves.
Standards be rayciss, man.
More evidence, once again, vindicating that Herrnstein & Murray’s “The Bell Curve” was correct all along.
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