High School in NYC, Cradle of Civilization... (New York, York: 2014, apartment)
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The place has been a disaster for many years.Should have been closed a long time ago.It's a hell hole where no learning goes on.There was a time not too long ago when this was what most high schools in the city looked like.Thankfully,things are much better now and this type of place is an exception rather than the norm.
Yep. Bergtraum has long been the pits. I remember years ago when mine were in middle school it was one of a handful of schools guidance prohibited any kids from applying to. I recall Graphic Arts and Washington Irving were two others. They've closed. Bergtraum should follow.
The place has been a disaster for many years.Should have been closed a long time ago.It's a hell hole where no learning goes on.There was a time not too long ago when this was what most high schools in the city looked like.Thankfully,things are much better now and this type of place is an exception rather than the norm.
The Queens high school I graduated from in 1997 now has police officers working in it. The amount of scum I went to high school with is astonishing: fourteen year old women having sex with multiple men (some at the same time), graffiti writers, drug addicts, and do-nothings. Perhaps the degree of incompetence and degeneracy of MB students is an exception, but aside for that degree, many public high schools are far from a picnic and many middle class parents I know don't know where they will send their kids to school, or choose to leave NYC altogether.
I was just wondering, why if NYC, often being called on here the Cradle of Civilization would even have this sort of place.
Yep. Bergtraum has long been the pits. I remember years ago when mine were in middle school it was one of a handful of schools guidance prohibited any kids from applying to. I recall Graphic Arts and Washington Irving were two others. They've closed. Bergtraum should follow.
I can't figure out how that place has remained untouched while many schools ,not nearly as bad ,were closed.
It's weird.Someone with a lot of influence must be protecting that place.
When I was in high school (late 1990s), the majority of Manhattan high schools didn't have that good of a reputation overall. I just found this out recently and was a little surprised. Maybe me just being naive assumed that they were better than schools in the outer boros because they were in Manhattan.
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Here's what I think people don't get: when they speak of Cradle of Civilization, they are referring to much of Manhattan (parts of Manhattan are poor) and small affluent areas of the outer boroughs while ignoring ALL the other areas that make up NYC. Yes, with all the huge skyscrapers and apartment buildings and all the social and financial power that runs through it, NYC would cease to exist if the police presence and welfare assistance were removed for a short time. That says something.
Here's what I think people don't get: when they speak of Cradle of Civilization, they are referring to much of Manhattan (parts of Manhattan are poor) and small affluent areas of the outer boroughs while ignoring ALL the other areas that make up NYC. Yes, with all the huge skyscrapers and apartment buildings and all the social and financial power that runs through it, NYC would cease to exist if the police presence and welfare assistance were removed for a short time. That says something.
Who is calling Manhattan the "Cradle of Civilization" and why do you keep mentioning this on different threads? Did one poster on here say it one time and it irks you enough to keep making posts referring to it? Or are many posters referring to Manhattan this way every day and I just failed to notice it?
Who is calling Manhattan the "Cradle of Civilization" and why do you keep mentioning this on different threads? Did one poster on here say it one time and it irks you enough to keep making posts referring to it? Or are many posters referring to Manhattan this way every day and I just failed to notice it?
A history of people calling NYC the "cradle of civilization" of City-Data if you will. Not much, as you correctly determined:
I was just wondering, why if NYC, often being called on here the Cradle of Civilization would even have this sort of place.
Obviously because NYC produces the caliber of high school graduate that would claim that NYC is "the cradle of civilization".
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