Deep blue NY failing to educate public school children

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you read project 2025 or The Heritage Foundations plan for education????

Screw off the US is about to make kids work for pennies in factories with zero protections and girls will not be educated at all.

Yeah you are a complete moron

Project 2025’s plan for all women is to revoke their credit cards; only men will be allowed to have a credit card soon.

That is pure disinformation and has been debunked by fact-checks

https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-check-project-2025-women-financial-rights/

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Anyone who makes this about politics instead of about kids is a jerk or just a troll.

We should want all kids to do as well as they can.

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Anonymous wrote:The percentage of English language learners in New York State is over 10% and growing. In Mississippi it’s 3%. The “declining performance” in public schools is due to increased immigration, period. I work at a school with high numbers of language learners and this accounts for nearly all of our students below grade level. We are tossing kids into the system at age 5 with little English and little background in school and then somehow expecting it to even out.

This problem also gets worse in a non-linear fashion. I have a friend who started K in the early 90s speaking zero English and in a year she was fluent. Since she was the only non-English speaker, she had no choice but to learn and learn quickly. But if there had been 10 other kids who spoke her native language in the class, she surely would have stuck close to them and English would have taken a back seat.

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Our district just publicized a 53% 8th grade algebra passage rate. Is that impressive?

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I assumed it was because Mississippi never adopted 1:1 Chromebooks for learning and other states did. Maybe they couldn’t afford them, who knows. But it’s the Chromebook learning that led to falling literacy rates.

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Anonymous wrote:The percentage of English language learners in New York State is over 10% and growing. In Mississippi it’s 3%. The “declining performance” in public schools is due to increased immigration, period. I work at a school with high numbers of language learners and this accounts for nearly all of our students below grade level. We are tossing kids into the system at age 5 with little English and little background in school and then somehow expecting it to even out.

Yup this is it. If you can speak and understand English- we can teach you to read. If you have zero knowledge of English AND your parents dont’ know how to read AND are trying to speak to you in Spanglish it is a VERY different.

Mississippi is pulling ahead because it is too poor to attract support immigrant labor. Most states ahve laws mandating phonics now, but Mississippi is different because it has a very small ESL population.

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Anonymous wrote:Our district just publicized a 53% 8th grade algebra passage rate. Is that impressive?

It depends if 53% of 8th graders were enrolled in Algebra 1 and passed it because the other 47% had taken and passed Algebra 1 in 7th grade and were taking Geometry in 8th then yes impressive.

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Anonymous wrote:I assumed it was because Mississippi never adopted 1:1 Chromebooks for learning and other states did. Maybe they couldn’t afford them, who knows. But it’s the Chromebook learning that led to falling literacy rates.

Why do you believe that Mississippi never adopted Chromebooks? 90% of Mississippi teachers use 1:1 computers in the classroom (https://mdek12.org/otss/msconnects/).

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Anonymous wrote:https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/us-news/nearly-half-of-students-across-ny-state-fail-to-make-the-grade-on-math-english-tests-data/

Nearly half the public school kids are below proficiency in math and English. NY spends a massive amount per pupil and still fails at providing a basic education.

NY’s model is not working.

No Red states have failed look at the US red states are always at the bottom

Historically, yes. But the Mississippi Miracle of fixing reading by fixing the curriculum has caused many states (red, blue, and purple) to also fix their literacy curricula. Virginia is following by requiring Science of Reading in its public schools and using most of the Mississippi approach to reading.

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Don’t single out NY. This is a nation problem. Are national averages are terrible below grade level. It isn’t a money issue- it is 100% culture and expectations that start in the home. Every city has a free library. I take my kids often. There’s about 10 computers in the kids section and more in the teen section. After school and on weekends these are all occupied by kids (and some are quite young) just sitting there watching trashy YouTube videos. There is no want to learn anything at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Our district just publicized a 53% 8th grade algebra passage rate. Is that impressive?

Actually, yes. Only 26% of 8th graders are graders nationally are grade level proficient or above in math- meaning pre-algebra level

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I have an elementary age child in nyc public schools. The problem is they refuse to different students because it’s not equity in their view. Someone will have hurt feelings if they are in the slower math group. As a result you have these classes with very disparate levels. The higher level kids are bored and if you are lucky they keep themselves busy with reading. The lower level kids get some help but not enough because the teacher has to deal with the rest of the class. The mid level kids get lost in the shuffle and many of them are probably just barely failing these state tests.

This is just my theory of course. They even tout this “ict” class which has two teachers but half special ed and have general ed. Even with two teachers someone is getting lost in the shuffle here.

Our approach is to supplement at home with ELA and doing Russian math class. We are moving before middle school.

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*differentiate

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Red states have voted red against their own interests because they are racist and dumb did the last 50 years

Their schools suck and you are worried about the place that elected Zohan and rejected Trump??

Red states have more participants on Snap does that sound bright to you?
Red states can not pay their ie. Way have high unemployment and their population can not tell a fact from a lie? Hell they don’t even understand the first Amendment!

Red states want a dictator does that sound bright?

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Anonymous wrote:I have an elementary age child in nyc public schools. The problem is they refuse to different students because it’s not equity in their view. Someone will have hurt feelings if they are in the slower math group. As a result you have these classes with very disparate levels. The higher level kids are bored and if you are lucky they keep themselves busy with reading. The lower level kids get some help but not enough because the teacher has to deal with the rest of the class. The mid level kids get lost in the shuffle and many of them are probably just barely failing these state tests.

This is just my theory of course. They even tout this “ict” class which has two teachers but half special ed and have general ed. Even with two teachers someone is getting lost in the shuffle here.

Our approach is to supplement at home with ELA and doing Russian math class. We are moving before middle school.

My child's FCPS elementary just started the co-taught classes. Of course the mamas with the special ed kids LOVE it, and most everyone else with NT kids hates it.