Posted on 09/13/2023 11:26:37 AM PDT by lowbridge
Student math scores at The Math & Science Exploratory School in Brooklyn have tanked 26% since 2018.
The system’s “solution”?
Change the name to The Exploratory School.
That’s right: District 15’s Community Education Council unanimously voted to eliminate MS 447’s STEM-focused moniker, rather than address the reasons why it was failing at its mission.
Because the drop was a direct result of the CEC’s 2018 decision, engineered by the de Blasio administration, to scrap selective middle-school admissions across the district in the name of “equity.”
So a school that once served higher-achievers suddenly faced admission by lottery, and a large influx of kids unprepared for more challenging work.
And the whole district saw an exodus of families from the regular public-school system — to charters and Catholic and other private schools — or out of the district or even the city itself.
Bottom line: Where 95% of MS 447 seventh-graders scored a passing math grade on end-of-year tests in 2018, only 69% did last year.
By the way, teachers and other school staff have moved on, too — or learned to mouth the new regime’s line.
Thus, MS 447 Principal Arin Rusch now contends that the Math & Science identifier is narrow-minded, as the “curriculum has evolved and expanded.”
Oh, Rusch also claims the old name scares off girls.
Apparently sexist stereotypes are OK in the service of woke.
Creating new, high-quality public schools, especially middle and high schools, was a major achievement of Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein, a huge step forward in making New York City again attractive for middle-class families.
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Sounds like LeBraun’s school for monkeys
Same result
And racist?.................
Kind of like when “The United Negro College Fund”, became “The College Fund”.
Math is definitely racist—particularly when used to measure intelligence....
;-)
Yeah. Donate money and suddenly the term “negro” is okie dokey.
The racism of low expectations.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
The school is 55% nlavk and Hispanic. (That’s like, almost a third. /s) 9:1 student/teacher ratio. Incredible.
So it's like a prep school, for a career in crime.
If they drop math and science classes, they will have more time to “explore” systemic racism, sexism and homophobia and to learn about the imminent demise of the human race because of manmade climate change.
I watched ‘Idiocracy’ recently after not seeing it since it was released back in 2006. I seem to remember it being a lot funnier back then.
The good results before were due to the school being academically selective, the drop off is because they now have to take anyone the lottery gives them.
The teachers are probably not doing much differently than they were before.
“You know what the worst thing about n____s? N____s love to NOT know. Nothing make a n____ happier than not knowin the answer to your question.
Just ask a n____ a question. Any n____! “Hey, n____, what’s the capitol of Zaire?”
“I don’t know that s___! Keepin’ it real!” N____s love to keep it real... Real dumb!
N_____s hate knowledge. S__t. N___s break into your house; you want to save your money? Put it in your books. ‘Cause n_____s don’t read. Just put the money in the books. S__t, books are like Kryptonite to a n_____. “Here’s a book!” “AAHHH! NO! NOT A BOOK! NO! NOOOO!”
-Chris Rock
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