Posted on 03/02/2023 2:33:38 PM PST by lowbridge
Sunday’s Post exclusive revealing that nearly half of all city public high school graduates need remedial classes when they enroll at CUNY community colleges is fresh evidence that the city Department of Education isn’t getting the job done.
Public-school grads are forced into remedial classes to survive their first semester thanks to years of lowered standards, grade inflation, grade-fixing, fraudulent credit-bearing make-up classes and outright cheating on exit exams.
It got worse during the pandemic, as remote learning, chronic absenteeism and the suspension of normal graduation standards handed diplomas to countless ill-prepared students.
Shamelessly, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and his schools chancellors crowed about rising graduation rates.
But the damage started when Blas took office.
In 2017, StudentsFirstNY released a study showing that more than 21,000 unprepared public-school grads spent an average of $3,000 a year on remedial classes — a “tax” of roughly $63 million a year to learn material they should have learned in high school.
It’s obvious that a city diploma doesn’t signify being ready for college or a career.
Meanwhile, state lawmakers block expansion of the public charter schools that actually do teach — even as they rush to send billions more to the system that keeps getting worse.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
NYC?! Add Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, St Louis, Newark et al.
Fraudulent Schools
Politicized teachers
Corrupted Government
Lazy Parents
Entitled Students
The blame can be spread to everyone
Union teachers with no skills......that’s what Unions are for (protect the weak).
Ha! That's easy! Just graduate them whether they can read and write or not! Then they become SEP... Someone Else's Problem.
My sister and my BIL substitute in the Baltimore County system at the high school level. Many of the students they encounter are functionally illiterate.
same is true in Chicago
Entitled Students
The blame can be spread to everyone"
Except that "Parents", plural, does not include inner-city tribal parasites, who have no fathers in the home, or providing any support whatsoever.
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nearly half of all city public high school graduates need remedial classes when they enroll at CUNY community
or go to college but not community college?
ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN!
This is an article on NYC’s failing public high schools, yet it includes a photograph of Stuyvesant High School, one of the highest ranked public high schools in the nation.
from the comments at the article.
Far too many == all of them.
NY Post article May 2, 2022: “Less than half of all 3rd through 8th graders in New York City were proficient in reading in 2019, according to state test data cited in the report. National studies suggest the pandemic and school closures likely made matters worse for students already trailing literacy benchmarks.”
To empathize with people who sincerely want their children to be able to succeed someday, here is a part of an article:
“A grandfather said his granddaughter was among city students who fell behind in math, though she took it upon herself to go to summer school.
”She was very anxious,” he said. She wanted to gain that momentum.”
David Bloomfield is a professor of Education Leadership, Law & Policy at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center who said the math scores are concerning.
“Only a quarter of students in the 8th grade, which is the latest grade that we have test scores for, were able to be proficient in math,” Bloomed said. “That’s really worrisome.”
“No matter what the scores were five years ago, 65% of black and brown children were never to achieve reading proficiency in the system,” New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks said. “It’s a system that does not work well for far too many kids.”
Title: NYC state test scores show math proficiency for students dropped. Spectrum News,NY
By Nia Clark Queens
Sep. 28, 2022
I would have thought that one fraudulent school was too many.
The Democratic candidates then ensure more money for teacher's unions, and the cycle continues.
AS I PASS through my invocations with every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Marxist Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the God of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlasts them all.
We were living in trees when he met us. He showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found him lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left him to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. He never altered his pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Marxist Place,
But he always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its ricefield, or the lights had gone out in Phnom.
With the Hopes that our World is built on He was utterly out of touch,
He denied that the Moon was Stilton; He denied she was even Dutch;
He denied that Wishes were Horses; He denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Marxists Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the God of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the God of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the God of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Marxists tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the God of the Copybook Headings rose up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The God of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter returns!
Part of the problem may be racial quotas in teacher hiring. Hiring incompetent teachers is worse than hiring incompetents in other service jobs. Bad teachers destroy the futures of kids at a time when their charges are sponges for book learning.
“State lawmakers block expansion of the public charter schools.”
Same in Los Angeles. New Charter Schools are sued by LAUSD immediately and permanently.
And they got in to college how?
(I ask rhetorically.)
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