Posted on 11/18/2020 6:17:15 AM PST by blueplum
New York City’s system of “screening” applicants to elite public high schools based on their grades, test scores, attendance records and other criteria violates federal law by disproportionately keeping Black and Latino students out of the coveted schools, a new federal complaint alleges.
Student advocacy group Teens Take Charge argues in a complaint set to be filed Monday to the U.S. Education Department that the lower admissions rates for Black and Latino students to the selective high schools show the selection rules have a discriminatory effect — even if the rules appear neutral on the surface...
...The complaint asks the federal agency to bar the city from using admissions criteria like grades and attendance records, and instead require every public high school to accept a range of low- and high-scoring students.
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Everyone gets free college
Heck just give them a degree ....... medieval French literature should open appropriate doors
President Xi and Putin are smiling...
Complete BS. So quotas are what matter.
De Blasio has been trying to get rid of the special high schools for a long time. This is his latest tack.
“...in a complaint set to be filed Monday to the U.S. Education Department that the lower admissions rates for Black and Latino students to the selective high schools show the selection rules have a discriminatory effect — even if the rules appear neutral on the surface.”
This is EXACTLY why this crap (laws like this) needs to be PREVENTED...the country was promised over and over again that there would NOT be quotas, only equal access. Sorry, but judges can and do reinterpret laws any way they want.
So they’re saying blacks and Latinos are too stupid to meet standards?
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
Hurts them, doesn’t help them. As with most all progressive actions.
Feel free to go after discriminatory intent. However, if you want certain groups to do better on objective selection criteria, prepare them better. Don't lower the standards of American education.
School choice apparently was not of interest to inner city voters because they voted for anti-choice Biden. Reap what you sow.
No problem, get rid of selective entrance standards and nobody will be able to attend an “elite” public high school because there won’t be any after the first cohort of “diversely studious” students gets shoved in. Everyone gets dragged down to the lowest common denominator because personal achievement is racist.
Each student is assessed as an individual, not as a member of a group. The idea of group discrimination can only come after these individuals are assigned to a group. Who makes that assignment and decides what the groups are?
Mayor DumblASSio's main constituents are the ghetto thugs and the illegals. He views the rest of NYers as ATMs for these 2 groups, nothing more. NYC schools are full of undisciplined students who are several K-12 cycles downstream of the idiotic Commie Core and libtard policies of Bloomberg and DumblASSio. It is now school culture that students are not expected to do classwork or even attend class, and yet their teachers will be pressured to pass them anyway. They are free to use cellphones in class and indeed, spend much more time texting, watching movies, or even actually making phone calls in class than they do paying the slightest attention to the lesson. They are free to call the teacher filthy names, throw stuff at them, threaten them with assault, etc. without penalty. They are also free to write statements falsely claiming the teacher said or did things that they never did, effectively threatening the teacher with termination after a kangaroo-court hearing. This is the chaos of the typical NYC school now, a sham diploma factory turning out illiterates with an inability to handle authority figures, utterly unfit for college or a higher level job.
Then, you have a half dozen schools where there are signs in the halls asking for complete silence, as learning is taking place in the classrooms. You don't have a single student seen in the halls, going from classroom door to classroom door looking in the window to distract students, or vandalizing student work hung on the walls. The students are mature beyond their years, polite, and highly motivated to succeed. They are more like college than high school students. Their achievement stats keep the rest of the abysmal NYC schools' head above water, lest they sink at last below the sewage water. These are the schools DumblASSio is determined to destroy, whether by fiat or by lawsuit. The commie way, you see--there can be no highs or lows, everything and everyone must be the same grey, mediocre worker bee. So these extraordinary schools must be opened to his beloved thugs, that their desks may be covered in graffiti, that the college level classes may be dumbed down to the typical NYC fare, that the classes may be constantly disrupted with students acting out, using their phones, talking, walking in and out of the classroom at will, etc.--leaving the original students in these schools with absolutely nowhere to go to be in a highly academic environment. Everything DumblASSio touches turns to excrement, yet the lazy apathetic morons in NYC couldn't be bothered to get off their rear ends to vote. Only 21% of eligible voters voted in the last 2 mayoral elections, making the election of a commie moron like this possible--TWICE.
If my last years as a teacher there were pure hell, I shudder to think of what it's like now. Seriously mentally ill people in charge of those kids' entire future is a scary thought indeed.
In education what is based on merit and what is based on race?
Sounds like a re-boot of “Affirmative Action” of the 60s and 70s. That moved a whole lot of unqualified people into leadership positions. I remember the dean of education addressing students of a Teacher Training course. He said they would need a 2.5 grade point average to become a teacher. He followed with the statement that they could be granted a waiver if they didn’t meet that requirement. Consider how much damage they could do to in classrooms. Since they couldn’t be fired they were promoted. Some were advanced the Department of Education.
There they became the policy makers of the systems.
Over the decades subjects on math, American history, science, etc have revised or replaced by social subjects.
There are cases where it is found in pre-kindergarten. Higher education has gives us students who are confused
about their biological sex, political systems, career goals and personal responsibility. Those who graduate find little or no jobs for their “specialties”. What they do get is a big student loan that MUST be repaid. No wonder they view socialism as a way out of personal responsibility. The early pilgrims started out with that concept. Some members found they could get food from the common pool without working for it. The system was changed. “You don’t work, you don’t eat”.
Forgive me for being long-winded. I’m pushing 90. Guess it’s time for more coffee.
show the selection rules have a discriminatory effect
I discriminate in a great many things, like eating Frosted Flakes instead of a mixture of grass, dirt, and motor oil.
Proper discrimination is good.
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