Posted on 02/05/2022 1:51:05 PM PST by karpov
The city’s high school application process is now a crapshoot — and top grades barely matter.
One month before the application deadline, the Department of Education unveiled its long-awaited new admission system, lowering the bar for entry into many competitive high schools — and tossing kids with a range of academic achievement into a random hopper.
“It’s now essentially a lottery system masquerading as a selective process,” said Effie Zakry, a vice-president of the Citywide Council on High Schools, a DOE parental advisory body.
Eighth graders have until March 1 to submit an application listing up to 12 high schools or special programs of their choice in order of preference.
When Principal Nancy Harris at Manhattan’s Spruce Street School explained the new selection system to eighth-graders last week, “The auditorium went nuts,” said Liv Olsen, 13. “A lot of kids were really angry: ‘What about kids who have better grades? What about everyone in this room? What the hell?’”
Amy Nicolas, a straight-A Catholic school eighth-grader, is aiming for Townsend Harris HS in Queens or another top-ranked public school.
“I’m definitely worried about my chances. It’s pretty much a lottery,” she said. “My friends are very smart – their grades are 90 and above – but they’re actually pretty scared of being rejected.”
The DOE’s bewildering new system, an effort to boost equity in nearly 400 high schools, is based on a complex mathematical formula.
For each student, it will take the single top mark in four core subjects – English, math, social studies and science – in seventh or eighth grade. A point value is assigned to each of those marks. The points are then averaged to determine which of four lottery groups the student falls into.
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I feel bad for today’s kids. All those woke annoying teachers.
Why don’t we randomly assign careers by student in first grade? That way it would be really fair.
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The ASIANS there had their chance to SPEAK UP and end this crap.
They chose not to.
Now their kids pay.
I feel bad for the remaining “good” schools, like Bronx Science. I wonder how long the teachers there will put up with the new status quo? Probably not very long. They will retire or jump ship to community colleges. And then that will be that.
Can’t wait for the equity MDs.
Oh, wait!
They’re here!
The ASIANS there had their chance to SPEAK UP and end this crap.
Or, is the purpose to mask their continued failures?
When none of us are educated, no one will be stupider.
While countries around the world are promoting kids based on ability the US the basing promotions on diversity, inclusion and (equity whatever that is). We are condemning our future leaders to come in last place when it comes to standings in world competition.
All that matters now is Race and whatever other oppressed intersectionality’s group you can glom onto.
I’d be okay with this — if they sorted the kids by academic ability and not age.
All schools should, actually, bc grouping kids by age has little meaning outside of physical and emotional maturity, and even that has much variance within age groups.
Just another day of equity at Harrison Bergeron High School.
They shouldn’t worry about kids grades. The first priority is to get rid of all the illiterate teachers. That’s about 95% of them. Did you ever hear a NYC teacher form a complete sentence that expressed a cogent thought?
Most Asians believe the Democrat narrative that white men are out to oppress them. With the Democrats screwing them out of their educational opportunities, you'd think they would wise up, but they don't.
“Why don’t we randomly assign careers by student in first grade? That way it would be really fair.”
Why even bother going to school for that matter?
Marko
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