[EinNYC]

Ever hear the phrase "Throwing good money after bad"? I just posted an article about 6 black girls beating up a NYC subway rider. I pointed out in my comment that the vast majority of students I had acting out in my classroom were black students. The AP (Advanced Placement) classes are available to all NYC students, culminating in an exam. More than 14,000 white and Asian students passed their AP final exams vs. 7,000 black and Hispanic students. This totally demonstrates the point that I made in my previous post of today, that one sees black students acting out in far great numbers than white or Asian students. If they were paying attention to their studies, these numbers would be more equal. NYC classrooms are very under budgeted, and common classroom supplies are lacking much of the time. Teachers have to spend their own money to buy copy paper, pencils, pens, etc. or send out letters to parents asking them to sponsor stuff like that. But, mayor DeDumDum has $1.6 MILLION to try and equalize what natural winnowing out has dictated: the students who pay attention and work hard pass their AP exams, while the students who fool around and disrupt what classes they actually attend don't. Oh no, we can't accept that, he says, we have to spend lots of taxpayer money denying reality and artificially setting it up so that students who have no business taking up space in those classes do. How is that fair to the kids in other classes who don't have sufficient books or classroom supplies, so that he can cover for kids who don't merit being in AP classes, which are college-level?

[who knows what evil?]

More of life’s losers...

[dfwgator]

You can’t address the Achievement Gap until you address the Ambition Gap.

All the money in the world won’t motivate someone who doesn’t want to be motivated.

[oblomov]

It costs that much to water down the courses?

[madball]

Obviously we need to lower the standard so that more of them pass. Problem solved./s

[LydiaLong]

Their next project surely will be spending millions on trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

[grania]

Drop the AP classes. It would be far better to have enrichment and tutoring opportunities for students who excel. AP is just an excuse to control the curriculum. For things like high-level science projects, achieve it through clubs. There’s no point in AP if it’s watered down for affirmative action considerations.

[CriticalJ]

I have a better plan. End all remaining remnants of the great society, which splintered the minority nuclear family. Then time will fix the issue by the reemergence of the minority family.

[livius]

It’s called “charter schools,” which Mayor Dum Dum has been trying to kill since day one.

[Intolerant in NJ]

We WILL prove that everyone is equal in every way - no matter what it takes......

[SkyDancer]

It’s not about education but diversity, infiltration. And just what is Advanced Placement anyway? Some sort of feel good stuff?

[stylin19a]

Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said the program will help shrink the achievement gap faced by black and Hispanic students, who enroll in AP classes and pass AP exams at lower rates than their white and Asian peers.

huh ? looks like the AP program is about to be destroyed.

[Delta 21]

Why cant these blacks and hispanics make the grade with out millions of dollars of help that others dont get? And why would anyone want to hire them knowing they are dependent on being propped up to be on the same level as the rest of the field?

Beuller ??!

[Bruce Kurtz]

Reminds me of the Kansas City experiment of the 80s. A federal judge took partial control over the Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) on the grounds that it was an unconstitutionally segregated district with inferior facilities and the students were performing badly. The judge ordered the state and the district to spend billions of dollars over 12 years. The goal was to build new facilities , integrate the classrooms and bring up test scores. After 12 years the test scores for the blacks did not increase.

[Navy Patriot]

NYC launches $1.6M plan to bring more black, Hispanic students into Advanced Placement courses

It costs a million six to set quotas?

Lord, what a racket.

[PGR88]

First - manufacture a problem, or cherry pick some existing issue. Next - spend money, distributed through your cronies, to “solve” the problem.

Its the leftist way.

[jeannineinsd]

Good input. Thank you for posting about your experience.

[Pollster1]

Let’s also take small kids and put them in the NFL. What could go wrong when you put someone in that sort of position?

[Daffynition]

Dumb it down....give out HS *participation* diplomas, Yo.

[drypowder]

lipstick on an under enthusiactic pig scenario

[bgill]

Save the money. Lower the standards for AP courses. Teaching to the lowest common denominator seems to have graduated more of them for years.