{"id":138208,"date":"2020-12-21T02:56:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T23:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-carranza-strike-a-deadly-blow-to-nyc-school-standards\/"},"modified":"2020-12-21T02:56:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T23:56:33","slug":"de-blasio-carranza-strike-a-deadly-blow-to-nyc-school-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-carranza-strike-a-deadly-blow-to-nyc-school-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio, Carranza strike a deadly blow to NYC school standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio, Carranza strike a deadly blow to NYC school standards<\/strong>”
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It\u2019s beyond disgraceful that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza are exploiting the pandemic to forward their war on standards in the public schools.<\/p>\n

On Friday, they announced they\u2019re scrapp<\/a>ing academic-based screening for middle schools this year, substituting an admissions lottery. Carranza claims this is \u201csimpler and fairer,\u201d because remote learning was a particular challenge to lower-income families.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s more about axing the standards at the 196 screened middle schools, which will now have to handle students who aren\u2019t prepared for their curricula. Do the schools dumb everything down? Or add special classes for kids who aren\u2019t ready \u2014 or simply flunk children misassigned thanks to this nonsense?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not actually boosting opportunity for the underprivileged: It\u2019s a step toward removing the opportunity for a challenging middle-school education for children who are prepared for it.<\/p>\n

Fine: The pandemic made it harder to use the normal screening procedures, but it was still possible to salvage some of them. The mayor and chancellor are instead seizing on the crisis to indulge their dubious ideology.<\/p>\n

The real way to add opportunity for less-privileged kids is to improve the schools that now fail to teach them enough to make it into a screened school \u2014 or to open new selective middle schools designed to help them catch up.<\/p>\n

The de Blasio-Carranza approach, as Matt Welch noted in Saturday\u2019s Post, will simply drive middle-class kids out of the public system. Indeed, it gives these families one more reason to move out of the city altogether.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t boosting equity: It\u2019s an attack on excellence.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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