Reply to Things some other person should sue DCPS for

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Things some other person should sue DCPS for "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Removing all objective measures within selective high school admissions to hide that discrimination is taking place on the basis of race.[/quote]

Hyperbolic much? Racist a lot? [/quote]

Pipe down.  If you grew up in a city with at least one bona fide magnet high school that admits mainly via a tough entrance exam--Chicago, Boston, New York, Dallas, San Fran etc.-- you know what BS the chaotic, unstable and highly discretionary admission systems to Walls is.

Signed  - Stuyvesant grad from low-income Asian family where parents spoke lousy English[/quote]

You may be right…but you do know times have changed, yes?  TJ has overhauled their admissions…Lowell in San Fran…I believe even NYC schools while bringing back the test, are still far more discretionary.

I don’t care about having a more objective admissions criteria, but any school supported by the entire city has to accept a certain %age of kids in each ward based on student populations.

Of course, the Wards that are most convenient to Walls will still benefit because there will be kids that are three bus rides away with 90 minute commutes that won’t accept their slots.[/quote]

If you changed your comments to say that a school supported by the city should accept a certain percentage of the kids meeting a reasonable threshold from each ward, I could agree with you. I do believe that it's ok to take out the kids scoring below grade level before applying the percentage to the remaining in a ward-conscious system (though my preference would be a test other than PARCC and I'm ok with an in person writing sample). If there are more eligible kids than slots, a lottery or mildly weighted teacher reqs (that are more pass/fail than rankings) are fine with me. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics