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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not really, NYC runs around 10 big elite test-in high schools with a city-wide catchment area.  These schools cream off the top 15% of students.

The great majority of UMC NYC families in public schools who can't afford private and whose children fail to test into one of the magnet programs bail for strong suburban schools.

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It is sort of like DC, except the kids are forced into very high stakes testing, and if you don't ace it, your whole family's life is turned upside down because there is no back up. You and all the kids who end up in your school with you are screwed and made to travel very far by subway for the privilege of attending a bad school no one else wanted, passing other kids along the way who also are traveling very far to the school in your neighborhood that no one else wanted either, but neither of you had the right to choose the bad school in your own neighborhood because the school was selected for you by lottery and you both lost. Completely stupid system.[/quote]

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