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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ex New Yorker and Dem here who would happily base my vote on G & T. Not just because I went through the program and hugely benefited and I believe testing early makes sense on many levels (kids can’t really prep and don’t know what’s going on).

But because the people who want to tear down these programs never build anything new. It’s been shown time and again in cities across the country. The only step they take toward the holy grail of equity is to dismantle things that are working. That’s not a mindset that does anything but virtue signal. 
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People absolutely prep their kids for these tests  :lol:  There is a whole prep industry and tests content isn't necessarily a secret to anyone.  Because prep is so widespread, Hunter ES (which has super competitive admission standards) requires parents to pay for the child psychologist eval to weed out prepped kids and to provide more individual assessments through interview/play/puzzles, etc. Even this is subject to prep, because people always find a way around to get their kids into these programs.  :lol: [/quote]

People who care about their children prep for tests. Those that don’t care about their children can fail to prepare them and go to Gen Ed schools where they can have a kid at age 12 [/quote]

Thank you for confirming that the whole point of this system and K entry into it is to provide segregation and self-selection of parent community, the same purpose people have in mind when moving to the suburbs zoned for "good schools".  Not because their kids are really in need of special accelerated education in first few grades.[/quote]

They are accelerated because they have parents who care. Yep, self-selection is the name of the game. Same with suburban publics and urban privates. No one wants to be around feral ghetto kids who don’t know their daddy (unless they went on Jerry Springer, then they may know the father after all…)[/quote]

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