City Plan to Diversity and Fill Selective High Schools Not Controversial like NYC's

[Anonymous]

Actually they are mostly white and Asian students, many of whom attended expensive prep classes to get into the selective MS.

And in turn the selective MS send the most to the high schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually they are mostly white and Asian students, many of whom attended expensive prep classes to get into the selective MS.

And in turn the selective MS send the most to the high schools.

The city provides free prep classes which is what these kids use. They are immigrants without a lot of money.

[Anonymous]

What is your basis for arguing this? You attended NYC public schools?

I grew up in Queens. Like most of my ABC friends, I attended prep classes from 5th or 6th grade. The classes weren't expensive - they were offered at a local ethnic community center. It's very common for Asian immigrant families in NYC across the socioeconomic spectrum to send their children to prep classes. Some are even offered in the backrooms of local businesses, e.g. Chinese laundromats. Working-class families commonly scrape together the dough to pay for these classes.

There aren't many selective middle schools in the NYC public system, e.g. Hunter College. Middle schools in NYC generally fill spots via open lotteries. Some require that applicants meet basic academic standards.

To my knowledge, few of my Asian and ABC classmates at a magnet HS were from wealthy or upper middle-class backgrounds. More are today, but not the majority. I'm calling your post BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually they are mostly white and Asian students, many of whom attended expensive prep classes to get into the selective MS.

And in turn the selective MS send the most to the high schools.

The city provides free prep classes which is what these kids use. They are immigrants without a lot of money.

The City prep classes aren't as popular with Asian immigrant families as private classes. The City classes aren't as rigorous and start too late in the game. Asian immigrants usually start prepping the kids in the upper elementary grades. City prep classes don't start until 6th or 7th grades. 13:04 has no clue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually they are mostly white and Asian students, many of whom attended expensive prep classes to get into the selective MS.

And in turn the selective MS send the most to the high schools.

The city provides free prep classes which is what these kids use. They are immigrants without a lot of money.

The City prep classes aren't as popular with Asian immigrant families as private classes. The City classes aren't as rigorous and start too late in the game. Asian immigrants usually start prepping the kids in the upper elementary grades. City prep classes don't start until 6th or 7th grades. 13:04 has no clue.

I went to Stuy as did all my siblings and cousins. We are immigrants but back then, 70s and 80s, kids did not prep to get into these schools. The city just started offering prep classes by the time I graduated. So much more work nowadays! My parents would be pleased. lol!

[Anonymous]

DCPS has trouble getting kids to show up for high school. Doubt these kids will show up for any prep classes for anything even the SATs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listen, the PARCC isn't a hard test. Every kid should get a 4. It's completely egregious that DCPS can't get any (or a single digit worth of) kids at some schools to this level.... DCPS feel good while they're systematically failing kids.

I teach for DCPS. I used to teach college full time at the University of Virginia and part time at another unnamed Virginia institution. The UVA kids had an A average on the exams I'd give them. The kids at the other university would have grades all over the place. I used the same book, same lessons and same exams at both universities. I'd give the exam on a Tuesday, let's say, at UVA and on a Wednesday at the other university. Same professor. Same curriculum. The UVA students would say how much they loved me in their evaluations of my teaching. One student went so far as to say that I had been her favorite teacher of all time, including kindergarten! The other students, some of whom were absent more than 10 times in one semester, were all over the place in their assessments of me. I figured out that year that professors/teachers didn't really matter that much as long as you had motivated students who were or who had been supported in their studies. Maybe I wasn't the best professor ever and maybe I wasn't the worst either.

My son is at one of the top middle schools at FCPS in Northern Virginia. If his school were to swap out all the teachers for those from DCPS's lowest-performing middle school, his school WOULD NOT go to hell. Similarly, the DCPS students would not suddenly be the best and brightest in the city.

Stop blaming the teachers.

I taught in another area district last year. I had a bunch of kids that wouldn't do anything. I had a quick conversation with one of my go-getters after class. I said, "You're parents read to you when you were a kid, right?" She said, "Yes, they did. Why?" I replied, "I can just tell."

Fix the problems at home first.

[Anonymous]

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