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IMHO, public schools should have three tiers: the regular one, the underachiever, and the overachiever. The overachievers should have advanced curriculum and intense tutoring at the advanced level. The underachievers should have the regular curriculum and intense tutoring. If they are not ready to follow the regular curriculum without tutoring after two years of intense tutoring, they should be dropped out of school, and sent to work in low-level jobs (there should be a contract arrangement between the service sector and schools to locate potential low-level workforce, and facilitate linking these jobs with job candidates). I am not in favor of minority quotas, ie, everybody should be treated equally, in school and everywhere - anything else is unfair to some people and demeaning to the others.
Sent to low level jobs? That sounds very communist to me
Aren't they (Success Academy) also feuding with DeBlasio?
They are which is why they remain silent on the topic.
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The charter school leaders, who technically have much to gain from the plan, have declined to throw their weight behind a mayor they feel does not have their back. Under de Blasio’s plan, the mostly black and Latino students who populate charter middle schools, some of which are among the highest-performing middle schools in the city, would have a direct funnel to the specialized high schools. Currently, few charter middle school students gain entry into the schools, despite the fact that they outperform most of their peers across the state on standardized exams. Charter advocates and principals have privately acknowledged that their students would have an easier path to the specialized schools, but said they were not interested in involving themselves in a thorny political debate with de Blasio, with whom they have feuded for years.
Sent to low level jobs? That sounds very communist to me
Well, I lived under communism, and my recollection is that a lot of incapable people had HIGH level jobs :-). Where would you send incapable kids, in capitalism, except into low level jobs? The objective of capitalism is to get profitable results. If somebody is incapable of complex/hard work, the only way he/she can generate profitable results is by doing easy/low level work.
Well, I lived under communism, and my recollection is that a lot of incapable people had HIGH level jobs :-). Where would you send incapable kids, in capitalism, except into low level jobs? The objective of capitalism is to get profitable results. If somebody is incapable of complex/hard work, the only way he/she can generate profitable results is by doing easy/low level work.
The government has no authority to send anyone to any job, nor does the educational system. Who employers hire is left up to them. David Karp, high school drop out, founded Tumblr and sold it to Yahoo! for millions.
The problem with people who do have credentials in education is that they majored in education.
So they know a lot about education itself, which is important. Did you even atte d any university for a degree in the states or did you just come here for post graduate or post doctoral work?
Dude, I limit what I say about myself on this forum; you make your own inferences from it, based on I would say not much knowledge of the world :-). I do not live in Parkchester, I own a condo (not a co-op) there because it is NOT a ghetto, and because I am considering using that condo for myself in retirement (that will not be my only place of residence, plus I intend to travel widely, so I don't WANT to spend too much on my NYC home base - it is not that I cannot afford anything other than Parkchester, but I generally don't want stuff I don't need). For your info, I live in two condos, in the prime areas of Boston and San Francisco. I bought all of these three properties for cash, never had mortgage or other debt in my life. I will keep the place in SF in retirement, will sell Boston. If Parkchester reaches my criteria of safety (it already satisfies the criteria of architectural quality and proximity to Manhattan), I'll live in Parkchester as well; otherwise, I'll likely swap the Parkchester condo for either Kew Gardens in Queens (close to airport) or Tudor City in Manhattan.
I did my postgraduate training at an Ivy League institution in one of the cities where I still live. My friend from Ghana did it at the same institution.
Then name the institution. Be very specific and back up what you say. Or otherwise you might be done Russian troll who just makes up lies on the internet,
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