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06.11.20, 15:17 PM General Topics
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NY Times article talks about how the DOE is using Coronavirus to eliminate screening/testing. Oldest DD is at Anderson which apparently will shut down. We have 2 more kids 2 and 3 years old. I think this is the final straw for us leaving the city for good. If we owned a place I could see us staying but we are paying astronomical rent and child care, and I'm not going to let my kids rot with substandard education. [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
General Topics 06.11.20, 03:17 PM Flag
 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-schools-admissions.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:18 PM Flag
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Are you looking for validation to your feelings? Just do what's right for your family-- no other opinions needed. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:20 PM Flag
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This! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:22 PM Flag
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op - Sorry, I know this topic has been beaten to death. Just voicing my view which is that eliminating screening will cause irreparable harm to our communities by incentivizing families to flee. I think the DOE is about to conduct a social experiment that will have significant negative impacts on the city itself. It just seems insane that the DOE would shut the best performing schools in a city that desperately needs more good schools. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:24 PM Flag
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Cool. Thanks for making your view known on an anonymous message forum. Are your real friends tired of the topic, too? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:44 PM Flag
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So go. Many people want diversity. I want less segregation so I am fine with the changes/. Do what you want. It seems that some UMC white women act like they are doing us a favor by staying in NYC [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:45 PM Flag
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Seriously. We would not miss a couple hundred Anderson families. Bye-bye! Enjoy Scarsdale! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:15 PM Flag
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They are. They are the tax base for all the broke people [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:22 PM Flag
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You think Anderson families are the tax base? The tax base is much more significantly composed of corporate tax paying entities and billionaires who have their kids in private school. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.12.20, 11:09 AM Flag
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She has posted this before (unless there is more than one person on this board with three kids, an oldest at Anderson , and who keeps insisting that is closing down). I'm sorry, OP, but if you're not happy, agree - just go an do what you feel is right. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:52 PM Flag
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Haha I am not OP but also have oldest of 3 DC at A. Just want to put that out there, in case anyone thinks it’s me... [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:21 PM Flag
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LOL - that's the worst when you get "outed" for someone else's psycho post just because you fit the profile [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:24 PM Flag
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It will not shut down but become a gen ed school. I think the suburbs may relieve a lot of stress for you. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:24 PM Flag
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op - I think most families in my school will also leave the city. Makes me sad. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:27 PM Flag
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Nothing in this article says A is going to close. The DoE recently approved A’s plan to try to increase diversity for the current admission cycle. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:35 PM Flag
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This OP either has some kind of agenda or is a the-sky-is-falling type. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:03 PM Flag
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She has posted that over and over on here (and other online forums as well). It's clear it is the same person using the closing of Anderson as hyperbole. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:04 PM Flag
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Why don't they put money into the so called underperforming schools. Invest in teachers, invest in after school programs, invest in reading and math programs... the type of help that the so called rich kids are getting? It is also ridiculous that you need all this help to get into and stay in school. Then what's the point of school? Certainly not teaching. It's just a marker for resources. Why should you have to already know the material before school? I think there is a problem with the whole education and testing culture that does serve to segregate. But this solution is not helpful either for the kids they are trying to help. It will lead to white flight and a downgrade in the quality of the magnet schools when all the resources leave the schools with the white flight. It is helpful for no one. The system is just perpetuating itself. You really have to look out for yourself. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 03:48 PM Flag
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They did that with the Renewal program. 1 billion dollars in wrap around services. While there were non academic benefits to the children served, there were no academic improvements. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:21 PM Flag
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They really like to bring everyone down to a lower level. It’s sad [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:23 PM Flag
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White flight is real , you are spot on. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:23 PM Flag
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shut down charters for a start. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 09:00 PM Flag
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why do you think anderson is closing down? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:20 PM Flag
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They will use this as excuse to scrap screening, learn from home, sell school buildings and fire half the teachers. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:21 PM Flag
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We've already decided to keep our youngest in her private all the way, and believe me, that would not be our first choice--we love our older DC's public high school. But no screening, no thanks. Why won't they do the actual hard work of lifting all the schools across the board? Reinstate honors classes in middle school--when they existed (until the 90s), the student profiles of the top high schools showed way more diversity. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:27 PM Flag
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Because they don't know how to fix the elementary schools. Education starts at home and you need families who are motivated and have the resources and time to support their kids in their education. School can only do so much. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:30 PM Flag
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Underfunded schools can't do much at all. Intervention and opportunity in the middle schools would at least help. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:31 PM Flag
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Why can't we have opportunity and intervention in ES? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:36 PM Flag
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Ask the DOE. This was a great article about the elite high schools and how they ended up so segregated, in case anybody is interested: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/06/new-york-high-schools-stuyvesant-brooklyn-bronx/562772/ [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:41 PM Flag
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Older dc when to top g&t. Younger going local gen ed- was tired of commute. Gen ed really really is fine! Lots nice families and not type AAA parents who prep few days a week for everything. Most of g &t kids are really not much brother just prepped and prepped!! Been there done that and have seen it. Plus testing 4 yr olds not reliable especially when only 200 spots at top schools when over 1000 get nothing with the same score. It’s really a lottery and not based on who should get it [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:29 PM Flag
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ES is a whole different ball of wax compared to MS and certainly HS. I agree, mine went to our local gen ed es, were fine, but for MS and HS we would have never sent to gen ed. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:46 PM Flag
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+1 [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 04:58 PM Flag
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this is so depressing. we pay a LOT in nyc taxes and for the schools to be such a mess is a shame. our kids are still young but we had hoped that the screened schools would be a good solution. it seems there is a big push to do away with them. i dont know why anyone would keep their kids in the public schools then who can afford private. only other option is to leave. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 06:07 PM Flag
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omg - this is nuts. schools will not be a mess. screened schools just perpetuate segregation and are not better. get over your self. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 09:01 PM Flag
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you're equating elimination of screened schools with substandard education and that's just untrue. really, you're in a bubble. there are plenty of great schools that aren't screened. I have a teen and know tons of families with dc's in many different schools. the kids are doing well. you're just talking nonsense. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.11.20, 08:59 PM Flag
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