{"id":296158,"date":"2021-07-11T04:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T01:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-department-of-education-dysfunction\/"},"modified":"2021-07-11T04:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T01:13:58","slug":"nyc-department-of-education-dysfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-department-of-education-dysfunction\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC Department of Education Dysfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC Department of Education Dysfunction<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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We start with the good news<\/a>. In an agency notorious for a lack of consequences, it\u2019s heartening that the Department of Education has moved to terminate Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir, a principal who fixed grades at his former school, Maspeth HS in Queens.<\/p>\n

Now, the bad news: What took so long?<\/p>\n

Why did it take a group of whistleblowers and a front-page story in The Post for the DOE to investigate what students and teachers sneeringly called \u201cthe Maspeth minimum\u201d? Why did it take two years to conduct that inquiry and decide to fire him?<\/p>\n

Abdul-Mutakabbir was reporting graduation rates of 99 percent \u2014 a figure so out of the norm that it should have raised alarms, or at least some eyebrows.<\/p>\n

The answer, of course, is that they didn\u2019t want to know.<\/p>\n

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The front page of the New York Post on Sunday September 15, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Post reporters Susan Edelman and Carl Campanile have done a phenomenal job for years documenting the \u201cjust pass \u2019em\u201d culture in New York City schools.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Edelman wrote how students at Manhattan\u2019s Murry Bergtraum HS could skip classes all year, watch a video, answer a couple questions online and still pass.<\/p>\n

The next year, Campanile exposed the \u201cEasy Pass\u201d program at Dewey HS in Brooklyn, where kids got a science<\/a> credit for watching \u201cJurassic Park.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also in 2015, a graduate of William Cullen Bryant HS in Queens confessed to Edelman that she skipped almost all her early morning classes, yet they \u201cgave me a \u00addiploma I didn\u2019t deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her teacher\u2019s response? \u201cIt was not an ideal situation. If we don\u2019t meet our academic goals, we are deemed failures as teachers. There is a tremendous amount of pressure on us as teachers. I thought it was in her best interest and the school\u2019s best interest to pass her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Post\u2019s reporting six years ago exposed issues at John Dewey HS.<\/figcaption>
Gregory P. Mango<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In almost all these cases, the city did nothing. The difference with Abdul-Mutakabbir, perhaps, is he was so blatant about it. Test answers were erased and corrected. Grades were changed across the board. And his teachers had finally had enough.<\/p>\n

But make no mistake: These sort of shenanigans are happ<\/a>ening all over. Rather than holding\u00a0a child back to learn, too many students are ushered along. Some argue that it isn\u2019t fair to fail them. They\u2019ve already been failed by the system.<\/p>\n

Mayor de Blasio\u2019s administration has been more preoccupied with the racial makeup of the city\u2019s top schools, rather than the problems of the struggling ones. His response to The Post\u2019s stories has been a shrug, a disparagement of our reporters, and a boast about his \u201ctransformative\u201d leadership.<\/p>\n

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Susan Edelman\u2019s reporting also tackled issues at William Cullen Bryant HS.<\/figcaption>
J.C. Rice<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Department of Education illegally blocks our freedom of information requests, then slanders us as racists for pointing out the problems.<\/p>\n

Parents are fed up. When she worried about the education her African-American son was getting at PS 147 in Cambria Heights, Queens, mom Keisha Ellis was told by one teacher to change schools.<\/p>\n

Many have. A record number of students left the system this year for charter, religious, private schools \u2014 or Florida. Others in the same district as Ellis\u2019 son in Queens are suing for change, demanding the DOE do more.<\/p>\n

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Keisha Ellis poses Wednesday in front of P.S. 147.<\/figcaption>
Georgette Roberts\/N.Y. Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The response so far has been to lower yardsticks for all students, figuring that if not enough kids are passing tests or classes, that the problem must be the standards \u2014 not the teaching. It\u2019s a scandal.<\/p>\n

Even in the pandemic year, with its patchwork of remote and hybrid, get ready for the city to announce that graduation levels hit another record high. De Blasio will call a press conference to brag about it. And it\u2019ll all be a lie.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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