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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know you believe it is mediocre, but what should we do about the applicant pool? McKinley Tech does seem reasonably aligned with the student body that it is likely to get. It feels like the "it should be Bronx Science" people wouldn't send their kids there anyway, since it's not close enough to Ward 3 anyway.[/quote]

I think parents actually would send them for the “Bronx Science” equivalent…but you have to start from scratch.

You can’t transition the current McKinley to that type of school because you won’t get the first Bronx Science class filled if there is still 3 years of the old McKinley.

So…how you actually make it happen is quite tricky. [/quote]

Hear me out, what if little by little more high performing students start attending, pulled by the excellent teaching and atmosphere, and pushed by the fact that it's getting harder and harder to get into J.R., SWW and Banneker.  The percentage of high performing students goes from 5% to 10% to 15%, etc. over the course of say, 10 years and then within a decade you have school with 50% high performing students.  I think that would be a good outcome, don't you?

That's what the Magnet high school I attended did.  We never had more than a cohort of, say 50% high performing kids.  It may even have been 30%.  And it was plenty to serve as a critical mass and it even served as a pressure cooker environment.  Which, from my perspective, isn't a great thing but it did push me to perform to get a higher rank.  To me, this kind of school would serve our school and our city well.  And it's quite possible that this is where McKinley is headed if it keeps attracting good leadership, teachers and students.[/quote]

Good luck with that. People have been making the same argument for the last 25 years or longer. And here we are—[/quote]

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