Posted on 06/03/2018 3:38:35 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
De Blasio wants to scrap admissions testing for elite high schools
Mayor de Blasio unveiled a plan Saturday to boost black and Latino enrollment at the city’s eight specialized high schools — and he wants to scrap admissions tests outright.
In an op-ed for education-news site Chalkbeat, de Blasio announced that 20 percent of seats at those eight schools would be reserved for low-income applicants.
Kids in the Department of Education’s Discovery Program who score just below the admissions cut-off would be given one of those saved seats, according to the plan.
De Blasio said he will fight to eventually replace the single-test system with new admissions criteria based on middle-school class rank and state test scores.
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You know, I always wanted to be a brain surgeon but the testing standards and study requirements are too hard. Obviously this is racist.
Eggz-actly. Heck, the fact that “elite” schools exist is racis’ on it’s own merit.
I hate this whole city, city government, state, and state government.
What does he not understand about the word “elite”?
Oh, I know, it’s like the air traffic controllers.
Liberals ruin everything they touch.
I want to see Schumer weigh in on this since his daughter went to one of NYC’s elite high schools, in act, the elitest of them all!! (Maybe diBlasio’s kid wasn’t admitted).
I piss in your Cheerios! - DeBlasio
Marxism. It just sucks.
Why not the bottom 20% of those that passed? Better yet, how about applying all that energy to improving the public schools?
They don’t need no steenkin’ test scores.
ML/NJ
The results of that are that the elite schools stop being elite after a few years. I saw that in my Adventures in Substituting.
LOL!
Yep, liberalism truly is a mental disease.
Will they still call them “elite” when the crud demolish them, bring horrible violence to the schools, and hound all the teachers into quitting? What will they debase after that happens?
Will four years of college be enough “remedial” education to get them up to a high school graduate level?
All this crap for a small fraction of the population.
Please notice that this is NOT the teachers lowering the standards. It has NEVER been the teachers.
In short, he eants to end elite high schools in the NYC public schools.
Oh, I get it!
Instead of doing the HARD WORK of improving the CR@PPY PUBLIK SKROOLS in NYC, May-yor De Blasio would rather bring the Top-Notch Schools down to the Publik Skrool level!
Makes total sense - if you’re a dumb@ss Commie. *SPIT*
Of course, when he gets old and sick and needs life saving surgery, he has no intention going to one of the affirmative action surgeons these schools will be pumping out. Only truly elite surgeons will do for the elite such as him.
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