Posted on 06/02/2023 9:09:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
"Follow the Science"....
LIFE “results in an achievable gap”. Deal with it; try harder.
“This life’s hard, man, but it’s harder if you’re stupid”
These high schools won’t last long. Too conspicuously embarrassing to blacks and they are not in sync with general progressive trend of the country. Progressives will find a way to destroy them or at least reform them
It might be hard for some people to accept, but different groups now have, on the average, different abilities.
I believe that these differences are not at all inherited physically by the people who have them, but are 100% cultural.
Nevertheless, they exist. If we want a better, smarter world, we have to accept this, and instead of blindly trying to “even everything out,” and in the process destroying programs for the gifted, we simply need to study what makes kids smart and do it for everyone.
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Proud Pegleg (Stuyvesant) here!
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Why is it my problem that other people’s children don’t achieve?
These high schools have been a part of the New York landscape for quite some time. If you remember Fame the movie it was about LaGuadia HS which is one of the 8 specialized schools in the system which only admit based on the test. There are also magnet schools which do admissions based on grades and are a tier below the specialized high schools. NYC public high schools run the gambit from some of the best in the country to some of the worst.
My child attended one of the specialized schools. All his classmates have done very well and most are overachievers. The issue is the politicians constantly want to open the system up to the underachievers because of demographics. Once they do this NYC will lose many of their top rated schools positions. They are cauch between a rock and a hard place so to speak.
“Remember, San Francisco has already tried this experiment, suspending competitive admissions to the city’s top high school only to find newly admitted students struggling and the school as a whole dropping off the list of the top 100 high schools. Lowell has since returned to competitive admissions.”
I can’t believe they actually had to try this to prove it wouldn’t work.
Here’s another experiment they can try. Have one group of kids play tennis for 8 hours a day for a year, and another group study science and math for that time. Which would do better on an SAT test?
According to the article, they tried to destroy them but didn’t work in New York or San Francisco so they went back to original intent.
Make everyone stupid so the stupid don’t have their feelings hurt.
Like it or not, we do have to gave Mayor Adams credit for cleaning up DelBlasio’s near-disaster regarding those schools.
Now if he would act more like the cop he was, rather than the Democrat he is, he could get a lot more good things done.
children can not thrive in chaotic homes...
What makes selective schools good, 8s they teach at the pace that a HIGH-LOW student can absorb.
If you bring in lower-IQ students, they will either flunk out because they can’t keep up, or will drag the pace down to their level, thus defeating the purpose of having the selective school.
Also likely is that frustrated minority kids will be so disruptive that nobody learns.
...they teach at the pace that a high IQ student can absorb...
I hate spell check
Genetics probably plays a role in extreme differences, but most of the time it does not.
A lot of people don’t like the “almost all cultural” explanation because it means the case falls on the parents. It’s going to be a parent-education change if it ever occurs.
Another backwards headline. An existing achievement gap is revealed in admissions to the select high schools.
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