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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This podcast just confirmed for me that most people who have spent their lives living in NYC are naval gazing and narcissistic. 
 This system of submitting applications to public middle schools based on elementary school performance and the overall competitiveness is by no means universal.  I really like the reporter on This American Life, but the fact that she feels that her experience here is somehow generalizable to the entire US public school system is ridiculous.  [/quote]

The NYC system is wonderful. It weeds out all the lazy kids who don't want to do anything. I grew up in a poor immigrant family in NYC (my family actually lived in immigration limbo for 10 years before we obtained green cards and my parents couldn't even get a chance to have normal jobs until after getting green cards) and was given the chance to have an amazing public school education thanks to studying and applying myself. I went to an excellent college and now I'm firmly in the upper middle class. All public school systems should be separated by ability. At some point folks have to take responsibility for themselves. [/quote]

Lol...you aren’t narcissistic and navel gazing at all, are you?  Can you give me an example of another school system in the US outside of NYC where you think they did some things right and some wrong?  
I hate to stereotype millions of people, but New Yorkers just keep proving it true over and over again.  [/quote]

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