{"id":276087,"date":"2021-06-16T02:30:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/black-parents-righteous-fury-at-nyc-public-school-failure\/"},"modified":"2021-06-16T02:30:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T23:30:35","slug":"black-parents-righteous-fury-at-nyc-public-school-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-parents-righteous-fury-at-nyc-public-school-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"#Black parents\u2019 righteous fury at NYC public school failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Black parents\u2019 righteous fury at NYC public school failure<\/strong>”
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In what could be the straw that breaks the camel\u2019s back, middle-class black families in Queens are mobilizing against the city Department of Education\u2019s routine acceptance of rotten public schools.<\/p>\n

As The Post\u2019s Georgett Roberts and Selim Algar report, these parents in District 29 aren\u2019t taking \u201cWe need more resources\u201d as an excuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people knew that it was bad,\u201d explains local activist Michael Duncan, \u201cbut they didn\u2019t know it was this bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

How<\/em> bad? District-wide, just 28 percent of black students in grades 3-8 passed their 2019 state math exams and just 37 percent passed English. At some schools, almost no one<\/em> passed: A whopping 94 percent of fifth-graders at PS 134 in Hollis, for example, flunked math; 83 percent bombed English.<\/p>\n

No wonder the district saw a 13 percent drop in enrollment over the past four years. These are the children, after all, of middle-class black homeowners, \u201csuccessful people,\u201d Duncan points out. \u201cThe results in our schools are not reflective of the community. Something is wrong here.\u201d <\/p>\n

Money\u2019s not the problem. PS 134 spent $27,000 per student in 2019, much more than double <\/em>the national average (New York state spends the most per pupil in the country). Catholic schools and small private schools in the area spend far less, with far better results.<\/p>\n

No, the problem, Duncan and others in the new Students Improvement Association say, is that the DOE\u2019s chief priority is making the adults <\/em>who run the schools happ<\/a>y, rather than ensuring kids get the best education.<\/p>\n

Failed superintendents, principals and teachers aren\u2019t fired; they\u2019re dumped <\/em>on majority-minority districts. Meanwhile, the de Blasio-era rollback of discipline has also fueled classroom disorder, as Queens state Sen. Leroy Comrie has warned.<\/p>\n

District 29 isn\u2019t unique: Gotham spent nearly $27,000 for every public school student across the city in 2018 \u2014 with dismal results. But the teachers union and other special interests do just fine.<\/p>\n

With the pandemic further exposing the DOE\u2019s priorities of serving the adults, not the kids, the rebellion in District 29 could force a sea change: If enough parents refuse to accept the system\u2019s indifference to learning, a change will have to come.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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