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Apparently, they've decided to scrap limited unscreened - schools that don't look at grades or tests but give preference to kids who went to an open house. Probably they did this because everybody bitched and moaned about having to go to a billion open houses, and some people (poor people, mostly) either never realized they had to or never were able to.
The good news is that next year we don't have to go to a billion open houses. The bad news, of course, is that neither does everybody else and our odds of getting Eva into the schools we want most just went down.
I suppose I support this decision in theory, but in practice I wish they'd waited a year or, I don't know, did it in stages - have half the seats "limited unscreened" and the rest just unscreened for the first year, something like that.
Also, all the selective science high schools that aren't required to be selective by state law have become normal screened schools. De Blasio is the newest mayor tilting at that windmill of eliminating or at least severely limiting the use of the SHSAT. Good luck to him, but it's not gonna go anywhere.
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The good news is that next year we don't have to go to a billion open houses. The bad news, of course, is that neither does everybody else and our odds of getting Eva into the schools we want most just went down.
I suppose I support this decision in theory, but in practice I wish they'd waited a year or, I don't know, did it in stages - have half the seats "limited unscreened" and the rest just unscreened for the first year, something like that.
Also, all the selective science high schools that aren't required to be selective by state law have become normal screened schools. De Blasio is the newest mayor tilting at that windmill of eliminating or at least severely limiting the use of the SHSAT. Good luck to him, but it's not gonna go anywhere.
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Revisiting the Heyday of California’s ‘Crazy’ Novelty Architecture
When does a boy become a man? Medieval millennials were just as hard to define as those of today.
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Why New York City May Pay You to Pretend to be Homeless
All the volcano eruptions
Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test
How much screen time is too much for kids? It's complicated
China increasingly challenges American dominance of science
In Danish 'ghettos', immigrants feel stigmatized and shut out
The District Attorney Says The NYPD Isn’t Telling Prosecutors Which Cops Have A History Of Lying
Gun safes work. But most gun owners don’t use them.
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