A NYC school diploma isn’t worth the paper it’s written on

[Kamaji]

A NYC school diploma isn’t worth the paper it’s written on

By Wai Wah Chin
August 6, 2022

When renowned economist and education innovator Roland Fryer served at the School Board of Massachusetts and attended a public meeting to close a failing school, a black mother walked up to him and told him that the school was a good school.

“No, ma’am,” said Fryer, who is also black, “it’s not.”

The mother pulled out her child’s report card from her purse; it was all A’s.

The mother insisted, “This is a good school!”

Fryer had to tell her: “Ma’am….They have lied to you.”

“Potemkin villages” refer to the magnificent facades that Crimean governor Grigory Potemkin supposedly built in front of decrepit villages to impress Catherine the Great on her grand tour of the region. Today, there’s no better term than “Potemkin schools” to describe how educrats run public education in New York City.

Recently, teachers at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens complained that administrators forced them to pass failing students. Last year, a long-stalled investigation revealed that Maspeth High School in Queens repeatedly faked passing grades. In 2020, at Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill High School where more than 70% of the students were failing, the principal was secretly recorded instructing teachers to just pass kids. This happens not just at isolated failing schools; data on middle schools show widespread grade fraud in New York City public schools, and the worst often occur in predominantly black communities.

One such school is the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem, where in 8th grade, 95% of students failed Math proficiency according to New York State standardized testing, but the school passed 93.9% of them in that subject. The founder and former head of the Eagle Academy network, David Banks, is now Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education. He quickly banished standardized tests from large swathes of NYC’s education landscape.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/06/a-nyc-school-diploma-isnt-worth-the-paper-its-written-on/

[Kamaji]

So glad we left NYC when we did.

[Wingnut]

In NYC Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.
-Pat Paulson

[PeteS in CA]

Sadly, this is increasingly true of public high schools in general. Educates get $$, social program bureaucrats get $$, and ordinary people and employers get bleeped.

[Fishrrman]

The only path forward to restore the education of the young in America is to...

... abolish the American public school system (and the college/university system as well), and go on from there...