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There Are Way Too Many Fake High Schools In New York City.

The statistic that almost half of all urban public graduates of high school need to take remedial coursework upon enrolling at CUNY community colleges, as reported in an exclusive Post investigation published on Sunday, is further proof that the city educational department is failing to meet its goals.

Due to years of decreased standards, grade inflation, grade-fixing, bogus credit-bearing make-up classes, and open cheating on exit exams, many public school graduates need to enrol in remedial programmes just to get through their first semester.

The situation deteriorated during the pandemic as many unqualified students were awarded diplomas due to the use of alternative methods of education such as distance learning, chronic absenteeism, and the elimination of customary graduation requirements.

Former mayor Bill de Bergoglio and his school chancellors bragged shamelessly about increased graduation rates.

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StudentsFirstNY published a research in 2017 that found more than 21,000 underprepared public school graduates paid an annual average of $3,000 on remedial programmes, amounting to a yearly “tax” of nearly $63 million to learn what they should have studied in high school.

It’s evident that a high school certificate from a city does not indicate readiness for further education or employment.

At the same time as they are rushing to invest billions more into a system that is only growing worse, state lawmakers are preventing the expansion of grades k-12 that actually do teach.

No matter what happens in Albany, Mayor Adams and Chancellor Banks must right the ship at the Department of Education.

The first step is to get rid of any and all administrators who had anything to do with the decline in quality.

We need to get rid of all the people that got promoted during the de Blasio administration. Teenagers and their families in the city should have better opportunities.

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Consider The Issue Of The Shsat Debate

The specialised high schools in New York City are an example of equality of access. Academically, they are at the top of the class, and financially, anyone can attend because they are public.

As a rule, their grads progress to highly regarded universities and professional fields. The schools have a combined enrollment of about 18,000 students annually, and in eight of both the nine institutions, pupils are admitted based on their performance on a standardised test taken in middle school.

During the past two decades, the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) has served as the single criterion for admission to eight of the nine specialised high schools in the area.

Nine of these schools require SAT or ACT scores for entrance; the other one, LaGuardia, is for the visual and performing arts. And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed something quite extreme earlier this month: Do away with the exam.

He along with many others view an issue of fairness as at the root of the problem. Black and Latino pupils are underrepresented at selective high schools.

Even while minorities make up 70% of NYC public school enrollment, only 4%, 9%, and 13% of students at the city’s three most competitive colleges, Bronx Sciences, and Brooklyn Tech—are black or Latino.

So, what would the SHSAT’s successor look like? The top 7 per cent of pupils from each fully understanding school in the area would be admitted into the specialised high schools, which the mayor estimates would make up about 45 percent of the student body overall.

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You’re About To Find Out The Brutal Truth That Will Astound You

Some people are unhappy with the plan. The assessment is an objective metric, so it is not possible to game it like interviews or grades, which can reward youngsters who are wealthy and/or whiter, in their opinion.

Specifically, many Asian parents have voiced their displeasure with de Blasio’s idea, as have a large number of graduates and current students (albeit not all).

According to information provided for us by the city’s Department of Education, 30% of Asian students in 2018 earned offers to a specialised school, which represents over half of all offers.

This may explain why Asian parents are opposed to abolishing the test. (Yet the poverty rate among Asians is higher than any other minority group in the city.)

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Many of those who are against doing away with the test believe, probably not incorrectly, that the prestige of New York’s specialised high schools is due in large part to the difficulty of the admissions process.

There are many prestigious public high schools in the United States, but none of them require students to take the test in order to gain admission.

Having over a million children in a system with not enough — and not widely disseminated enough -resources for the smartest ones is likely to have unintended consequences, such as the ongoing dispute over admittance to these premium schools.

The competition arises because there aren’t enough good schools and not enough spots at the finest ones, but kids (and their parents) know that attending a good specialised high school can make a huge difference in their future success.

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Conclusion

Students from low-income families and minorities see academic improvement, whereas those from high-income white families see no drop in performance and benefit from exposure to a more diverse group of peers. Fixing the system as a whole, to put it another way.

Chandan Panda
Chandan Panda
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