De Blasio has been trying to get rid of the special high schools for a long time. This is his latest tack.
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.