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More than 66,000 New York City fifth graders found out Tuesday where they got into middle school after going through an admissions process unlike any year.
For the first time, the city dropped academic screens at all middle schools. Integration advocates had long called for such changes, but Mayor Bill de Blasio hesitated until the pandemic forced his hand. He paused academic admissions screens at middle schools this year, as some of the measures used — including grades, test scores, attendance, student interviews, and auditions for performing arts programs — were upended since the coronavirus swept through the city last March.
Removing screens moved the needle a bit when it came to economically disadvantaged students going to highly selective school programs, according to the admissions data.
Of the 66,516 fifth-graders who applied for middle school, 89% percent of them received one of their top three choices, compared to 87% last year, according to education department figures.
Changes could be in store again. Just over 60% of students are still learning remotely full-time. Not only were these students not required to go into school buildings to take state tests this year, but also in-person students had to opt in to the exams. That may mean significantly fewer children are taking this year’s tests.
I wonder how strongly tied to location / ease of getting to school these top 3 selections are. I know a few people who went to Stuyvesant High School mostly in the 00s who took some pretty long commutes in high school, but maybe those were fairly abnormal cases for a very singular school--plus it was high school where perhaps people are more comfortable with their kids commuting on their own.
What’s increasingly gonna happen is you’ll get 6th grade kids scoring in the 98th percentile on math tests sitting in the same class as kids who can’t add single digits in their head and don’t understand how to write a full sentence. Things are gonna get a lil awkward...
What’s increasingly gonna happen is you’ll get 6th grade kids scoring in the 98th percentile on math tests sitting in the same class as kids who can’t add single digits in their head and don’t understand how to write a full sentence. Things are gonna get a lil awkward...
Can't get worse than the current brainwashing kids receive so the way I see it is bring on the change.
No matter how hard you dump African American and Hispanic students on majority Asian/White or bi racial schools, never gonna make a damn difference in short or long term performance.
Sorry to say folks, genetics is a real thing. Ya hear? There be a reason most brain surgeons be of one background while most NFL/NBA players be of another background. And why Messi, Pele and Maradona were of a given background vs. the top students at MIT.
No matter how hard you dump African American and Hispanic students on majority Asian/White or bi racial schools, never gonna make a damn difference in short or long term performance.
Sorry to say folks, genetics is a real thing. Ya hear? There be a reason most brain surgeons be of one background while most NFL/NBA players be of another background. And why Messi, Pele and Maradona were of a given background vs. the top students at MIT.
Let's stop the nonsense ya'll.
So I guess if you ever have to go to the ER you're going to request on the stretcher for a certain genetic make-up to attend to you
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So I guess if you ever have to go to the ER you're going to request on the stretcher for a certain genetic make-up to attend to you
I normally don't respond to idiotic questions but I will entertain this one.
ER? No. There's no time.
Surgery and/or when choosing doctors? Hell yea! And I have and will always continue to do so. Ya'll crazy if ya'll arent. But hey, don't ask me...just ask a doctor if your friends with any. I am.
I normally don't respond to idiotic questions but I will entertain this one.
ER? No. There's no time.
Surgery and/or when choosing doctors? Hell yea! And I have and will always continue to do so. Ya'll crazy if ya'll arent. But hey, don't ask me...just ask a doctor if your friends with any. I am.
Exactly, there's no time
So, what would you do? Sue the hospital when you found out?
I don't understand why people who think like this just don't go find a more homogenous place to exist
Your energy is so negative on here
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So, what would you do? Sue the hospital when you found out?
I don't understand why people who think like this just don't go find a more homogenous place to exist
Your energy is so negative on here
My energy? I'm some dude that is giving his honest opinion behind a computer. We're not working in some office together. I gave a candid response, shared by many, to the OP. Sorry you don't like it or agree. Or if it doesn't support some liberal agenda you have.
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