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Welcome to chocolate city. When the highest goal for your kids is getting a city job and milking it for all it’s worth , who really cares about merit based academics?
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Four published books, debate trophies, perfect attendance and a 100 GPA weren’t enough to get a Queens eighth-grader into her dream high school.
Kristina Raevsky, 14, found out on March 7 she wasn’t accepted to Townsend Harris High School in Flushing because of a lottery system that grouped her perfect test scores with kids who scored over a 94.
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Absolutely Nothing but having it as a goal for your kids is a low standard. Hence, the low standards in NYC schools.
I see plenty of fools in this city driving $100K cars and sending their kids to atrocious schools. Why? Because they don’t have high expectations for their kids. Graduate with a C, get a nonesense degree from a CUNY with first year remedial coursework, and apply for a city job.
You think most Chinese or Jewish parents goals for their kids is to work for the city?
Absolutely Nothing but having it as a goal for your kids is a low standard. Hence, the low standards in NYC schools.
I see plenty of fools in this city driving $100K cars and sending their kids to atrocious schools. Why? Because they don’t have high expectations for their kids. Graduate with a C, get a nonesense degree from a CUNY with first year remedial coursework, and apply for a city job.
You think most Chinese or Jewish parents goals for their kids is to work for the city?
That's a pretty disrespectful thing to say. Why the disdain towards city jobs?
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That's a pretty disrespectful thing to say. Why the disdain towards city jobs?
Not at all. It’s the truth in that city jobs don’t have high standards. Will anyone argue that city jobs have high standards? Therefore, if your ultimate goal is for your child to get a city job, you don’t belive your child is capable of more. If your child is capable of more but happens to get a city job, there’s nothing wrong with that.
Not at all. It’s the truth in that city jobs don’t have high standards. Will anyone argue that city jobs have high standards? Therefore, if your ultimate goal is for your child to get a city job, you don’t belive your child is capable of more. If your child is capable of more but happens to get a city job, there’s nothing wrong with that.
You're painting with a very broad brush when you say a city job
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You're painting with a very broad brush when you say a city job
No I’m not. Everybody knows we’re not talking about being the mayor or a commissioner or a Dr. working for a city hospital. We’re talking about the 99% of regular city jobs.
If your kid goes to Harvard and then decides to get a city job, ain’t nothing wrong with that. If your goal from the beginning is for your kid to get a city job and that’s why you don’t really care if they excel academically you either believe your kid isn’t capable of more or you’re holding your own kid back due to personal issues.
If you thought your kid could play pro ball, would your highest goal for them be to play Division III or JuCo?
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