PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
1. NYC has a handful of specialized high schools, for which children are tested, and selected on the basis of merit.
Not skin color, not immigration status, not language spoken....merit. Test score.
it is the raison d'être of specialized high schools.
Not according to Liberals.
2. No longer are teachers "teachers;" today, they are apparatchiks of the education commissariat. This is the editorial from the newspaper of the NYC teacher's union:
"Seven. That’s how many African-American students are among the 895 students who have been offered admission next fall to Stuyvesant HS, one of the city’s most prestigious specialized high schools.
It’s an astonishing number, given that black students make up 26 percent of the 1.1 million students in New York City public schools. Among students who identify as Hispanic, 33 were invited to join Stuyvesant’s class of 2023, even though Hispanic students make up 40 percent of public school enrollment.
3. Complicit in those figures is another number: One. One multiple-choice test called the SHSAT determines who is admitted to Stuyvesant and the city’s seven other specialized high schools.
In the five years since the UFT’s Specialized High School Task Force recommended overhauling the admission policy, these schools have become even less diverse.
The UFT task force also advocated revising the admissions test...
It will take political will, since these schools have impassioned constituencies who wish to maintain the status quo.
The specialized high schools enroll only a few thousand new students each year, but they are symptomatic of a larger issue: New York City has the most segregated high schools in the country, not just by race but by academic achievement."
Stuy High and beyond
Why not hold out this educational 'plum' to those who have worked hardest, and whose achievements benefit this city and this nation?
Where is the sense in mandating benefits on political benefit to the Democrats.
Not skin color, not immigration status, not language spoken....merit. Test score.
it is the raison d'être of specialized high schools.
Not according to Liberals.
2. No longer are teachers "teachers;" today, they are apparatchiks of the education commissariat. This is the editorial from the newspaper of the NYC teacher's union:
"Seven. That’s how many African-American students are among the 895 students who have been offered admission next fall to Stuyvesant HS, one of the city’s most prestigious specialized high schools.
It’s an astonishing number, given that black students make up 26 percent of the 1.1 million students in New York City public schools. Among students who identify as Hispanic, 33 were invited to join Stuyvesant’s class of 2023, even though Hispanic students make up 40 percent of public school enrollment.
3. Complicit in those figures is another number: One. One multiple-choice test called the SHSAT determines who is admitted to Stuyvesant and the city’s seven other specialized high schools.
In the five years since the UFT’s Specialized High School Task Force recommended overhauling the admission policy, these schools have become even less diverse.
The UFT task force also advocated revising the admissions test...
It will take political will, since these schools have impassioned constituencies who wish to maintain the status quo.
The specialized high schools enroll only a few thousand new students each year, but they are symptomatic of a larger issue: New York City has the most segregated high schools in the country, not just by race but by academic achievement."
Stuy High and beyond
Why not hold out this educational 'plum' to those who have worked hardest, and whose achievements benefit this city and this nation?
Where is the sense in mandating benefits on political benefit to the Democrats.