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Yes, I thought this was the whole point for proliferating charter schools in the first place - so that qualified minorities of color don't have to settle for ghetto schools and hence receive a "fair chance" in aiming for future academic opportunities. What gives with the NAACP now?
Probably because they realized that any fixes that have to do with merit won't work. The racial education achievement gap isn't just this one test to get into specialized high schools. On average it's impossible for blacks and Hispanics to do better than whites or Asians on this single test when they don't do as well in every other test up to that point in their lives. The demographics of those schools are representative of not only the result of this one test but all tests.
Also even if their efforts fail it doesn't hurt to make some noise. Somewhere out there a college administrator will pick this up and cut some black or Hispanic kid some slack. As they say the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
More reason to chase the middle class out of the city. No matter what race you are.
Yep, it's bad enough that unzoning destroyed all the non-specialized schools, if the NAACP ever gets their way the gems of the city will also be destroyed. That would definitely do it for me, I'll be taking my duo six figure incomes outta here cause I can't afford private school. Feel sorry for the Chinese food delivery guy whose kids will get quota out over the kids of some middle class and up black or Hispanic family.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: It's not the responsibility of the city's school system to educate your kid. The school systems are there to assist *you* with your child in his or her education. As a parent, you're supposed to read to your child, discipline your child to stay home on school nights, help him or her do his/her homework, and to understand and help your child with everything that your child has been assigned at school.
If as a parent, you have an, "I don't give a sh*t" attitude, it'll show up on your child's standardized test scores - period, end of story.
Exactly and it comes as no surprise. The more the standards are lowered, the worst it will be.
The worse it will be.
Confusing worst with worse is common amongst those with low standards of grammar. Trying to pass it off as a typo is like those who confuse advice and advise, or then and than, and then try to claim that's a typo also.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: It's not the responsibility of the city's school system to educate your kid. The school systems are there to assist *you* with your child in his or her education. As a parent, you're supposed to read to your child, discipline your child to stay home on school nights, help him or her do his/her homework, and to understand and help your child with everything that your child has been assigned at school.
If as a parent, you have an, "I don't give a sh*t" attitude, it'll show up on your child's standardized test scores - period, end of story.
From having kids in the public system, I can tell you with 100% certainty that what separates good schools from bad schools is the level of parent involvement and child preparation. Even in schools with bad teachers, when parents are involved they make sure those teachers get replaced. It's the kids who show up expecting they can do whatever they want that ruin it for all the other kids in the class by distracting and sucking up attention. Some parents never bother reading to their kids or explaining everything to them. Instead of a couple hours a week of sesame street it's 50 hours a week of Dora the brain dead retard or yo gabba "please teach me ADD" gabba . When the parents are responsible and involved, they hold everyone accountable at every level.
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