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Remember my school rant?
Oct. 24th, 2003 07:54 pm
Read this from the NY Times. No link because 1. you have to be registered and 2. all stories disappear in a week.
The most common misperception among parents and school officials, which was repeated in The Spectator's editorial, is that students who list a school as their top choice will have priority over others who list the school as a lower preference, regardless of who scores higher on the test.
Elizabeth Sciabarra, the chief executive of the Education Department's Office of Student Enrollment Planning and Operations, said that is not so.
Simply put, the higher a student's score on the test, the more likely that student is to get one of his or her top choices.
The schools will also have to change their ways. In the past, Stuyvesant, now generally regarded as the most-coveted specialized school, could pursue the top 800 scorers on the entrance exam to fill its seats for incoming ninth graders. Now, it must be content to admit the top 800 scorers who also rank Stuyvesant as their first choice.
Okay. Now put the first and last paragraphs together. Stuy only gets to pick from students who list it first. But they don't get priority when being told which school they get in to?
The most common misperception among parents and school officials, which was repeated in The Spectator's editorial, is that students who list a school as their top choice will have priority over others who list the school as a lower preference, regardless of who scores higher on the test.
Elizabeth Sciabarra, the chief executive of the Education Department's Office of Student Enrollment Planning and Operations, said that is not so.
Simply put, the higher a student's score on the test, the more likely that student is to get one of his or her top choices.
The schools will also have to change their ways. In the past, Stuyvesant, now generally regarded as the most-coveted specialized school, could pursue the top 800 scorers on the entrance exam to fill its seats for incoming ninth graders. Now, it must be content to admit the top 800 scorers who also rank Stuyvesant as their first choice.
Okay. Now put the first and last paragraphs together. Stuy only gets to pick from students who list it first. But they don't get priority when being told which school they get in to?
