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conulyApparently, 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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When does a boy become a man? Medieval millennials were just as hard to define as those of today.
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China increasingly challenges American dominance of science
In Danish 'ghettos', immigrants feel stigmatized and shut out
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Date: 2018-06-06 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-06-07 10:07 pm (UTC)While that may be true, if you look at sheer numbers in China and India, their top 1% of collage graduates are more than all the college graduates in the USA
Those are the two most populous nations in the world, so....
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Date: 2018-06-06 10:06 pm (UTC)Hear, hear.
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Date: 2018-06-06 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-06-07 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-06-07 05:24 pm (UTC)Lay the foundations in a standardized way.
My $0.002 worth. But it won't happen because our nationwide system is in such a horrible state.
Here, because we currently have a Luftwaffe group at our local Air Force Base, we have a German School because if a German family goes back to Germany, the kid is going to be totally behind grade if they went to American schools. Local families here scramble to try to get their kids in to that school because of the higher standards. And that detachment is going to be completely shut down in another 18 months or less, I don't know what will happen to the Deutsche Schule over time when their Air Force is gone.
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Date: 2018-06-07 10:08 pm (UTC)This is the nation of local control, or did you forget?
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Date: 2018-06-07 10:34 pm (UTC)It's also the nation of 'local incubators of democracy' and 50 experiments. I remember, and I think it's also a failure. I think we should standardize education. We have a standardized road system, we are standardizing drivers licenses through the RealID Act, we have a standardized electrical grid, we have standardized telecommunications, we have standardized food product safety inspections. And in my local community college we have math and English tests for every incoming applicant to take to make sure they're up to minimal standards, and remedial classes for most of the new incoming high school graduates to take. We have horrible standards for what it means to be a high school graduate, and that trickles down throughout the K-12 system. There's too much corruption and nepotism, too little pay for teachers, and I think the best way to do it is to overhaul it from the national level. And even that has inherent risks from getting Texas Fundamentalists that refuse to allow discussions of SexEd and Evolution in. If rich people want better districts in their area, then they have to accept that they're going to help poor people in the next area. If every school taught the same content from the same book and were held to the same standard, then the best school would be the one closest and you wouldn't have to monitor school evaluation publications and zip code maps to try and find what may or may not be best for your kid. Give them excellent fundamentals, give them the tools they need to learn and encourage curiosity, then turn them loose in college or trade school. It'll never happen here. That's why I read fiction and fantasize about living in other countries because I have serious concerns that this one will only get worse. There's too much money concentrated in too few hands and it's continuing to get worse.