Ex-Mayor Invoice de Blasio orchestrated the lottery for high-school admissions.
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In a last-one-we-hope stinkbomb from the de Blasio period, public-school households throughout town simply received burned by the unfair lottery for high-school admissions — a travesty that’s certain to drive extra college students out of the system.
The cockamamie system imposed over the past mayor’s final days in workplace not put a premium on good grades; it lowered the bar for entry into many aggressive excessive faculties and combined children with a spread of educational achievement into varied bingo baskets.
In consequence, a number of the metropolis’s finest college students opened their admission letters Thursday solely to study they didn’t get into any of their high decisions.
Excessive-achievers of all backgrounds are asking: “What’s the purpose of striving for all As and ideal attendance? There’s no reward for excellence, and half-stepping can nonetheless get you into the perfect college.”
It’s not simply that the nation’s largest — and fast-shrinking — college district is telling children and fogeys: “Good grades don’t matter.” Households that care about training will now look outdoors the DOE system for a highschool that can problem their children. Many will be part of the offended mother who advised The Put up she and her household are actually leaving town solely.
We warned Chancellor David Banks about this months in the past; now he’s caught with this mess. At a naked minimal, he must make it plain that future admissions shall be way more like the standard course of Blas blew up.
If the system not strongly rewards benefit, the flight from DOE faculties — and from town itself — will grow to be a flood.
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