@Anonymous Agree. BUT, the DOE will not do tracking because they say it leads to segregation within the school itself. It all goes back to improving K-5 education and making sure kids have a strong academic foundation. All ideas being pitched take resources that the city or state will not provide.
We would need to go back to the large HS we had in the boros before Bloomberg broke them up. You still have some like Midwood, Murrow, etc. 4000 kids - honors, tons of APs, sports, etc. Honors and tracking in the school. Similar to suburban HS (but less resources).
It may work in some areas but right now its lopsided. Overcrowded schools in some parts of same boro, and under-enrolled schools in the other part of Boro. Take Brooklyn - Midwood, Murrow, Fort Hamilton are extremely overcrowded. No one is going to send their kid across Brooklyn to East New York for HS.
@Anonymous Agreed. I was actually responding to the question above, but it posted as a separate entry. I think it's time for some of the Bloomberg era "reforms" to be dismantled. I would bet that high school consolidations are in the future anyway as the school age population continues to decline, which was a trend well underway before Covid.
The whole framework of screened schools is really unnecessary. Top suburban school districts do fine with just one MS and one HS. Every kid in NYC should be going to a local zoned school. But every school should have honors classes in every subject for high-performing students.
@MidtownMom There are high schools that don't even offer the bare minimum ,forget honors or AP classes . One local school comes to mind - no regents science classes for Chem or Physics.
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@Anon, because "high-achieving"is morally condemnable. When it comes to academics only.
@Anonymous It's a DOE mandate that schools reserve a certain percentage of seats for students with IEPs and provide services for those kids. It's a common stereotype to assume that kids with IEPs are not very bright. Many are very smart. Those are the ones Anderson and NEST accept.
@Anonymous Beats getting sent to a terrible school altogether, which is probably what will happen to my poor 5th grader. Citywide schools usually only take a handful of kids in MS; they'll stick all the new kids in an ICT class and have a single teacher deal with the remedial academics
People will be unhappy, but I honestly don't know how else they could handle admissions. It would be very unfair to take elementary school grades or attendance into account this year, and there are no standardized test scores. And it's about time they opened up District 2.
Top suburban school districts don't have a heterogeneous student population of 1 M students.
The whole framework of screened schools is really unnecessary. Top suburban school districts do fine with just one MS and one HS. Every kid in NYC should be going to a local zoned school. But every school should have honors classes in every subject for high-performing students.
And here comes the end of testing for schools and G&T. NJ And LI are about to be inundated with smart white Kids.
So ESMS and Lab MS will now just be pure lottery?
I guess I’ll see how this goes but this will probably tip us over the edge to going private
Sounds like I should be happy being in a K-8 school?
People will be unhappy, but I honestly don't know how else they could handle admissions. It would be very unfair to take elementary school grades or attendance into account this year, and there are no standardized test scores. And it's about time they opened up District 2.