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80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« on: March 08, 2013, 08:44:52 PM »
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has built quite a legacy for himself cracking down on soda, salt and, just the other day, loud ear buds.

Nevertheless, as CBS New York reports, Bloomberg might want to spare a few minutes to focus on this shocking statistic: Almost 80 percent of all New York City high school graduates who want to enroll in the City University’s community college system must first relearn basic reading, writing and math.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/08/about-80-percent-of-nyc-high-school-grads-cant-read-well-enough-for-community-college/#ixzz2N0yATdi8

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2013, 08:56:05 PM »
Read this yesterday. Pathetic. Ever notice all the cities and states with liberal leadership fail?

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2013, 08:57:47 PM »
Read this yesterday. Pathetic. Ever notice all the cities and states with liberal leadership fail?

NYC is an Obama Stronghold right?

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2013, 09:03:24 PM »
this is due to an urban culture which celebrates athletic achievement, fashion, musical ability, celebrity and money.


not due to a poor public school system.


it will  be solved by parents and individuals who lead by example, can demonstrate to the youth that education and intelligence need not be associated with social awkwardness, unattractiveness, nerdiness, inability to dance, etc.  

it will be solved when the Valedictorian has higher social status than the Quarterback, Pointguard, and drug dealing rapper.

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2013, 09:14:07 PM »
this is due to an urban culture which celebrates athletic achievement, fashion, musical ability, celebrity and money.


not due to a poor public school system.


it will  be solved by parents and individuals who lead by example, can demonstrate to the youth that education and intelligence need not be associated with social awkwardness, unattractiveness, nerdiness, inability to dance, etc.  

it will be solved when the Valedictorian has higher social status than the Quarterback, Pointguard, and drug dealing rapper.
partially true. This is also NYC as well. Which covers a vast area, and many of the folk are poor, then there is lack of parenting, lack of parental participation in the PTA, and an severe "I don't give a damn" by kids, faculty and parents...

This is also seen in well to do areas as well, but in a bizarro format---grades are GIVEN...
It's funny how almost every parent's child is a "A" child and gets straight As and is above average or gifted, eve though they don't know the material.
That's because the parents run the school, and demand that the kids receive As, while playing baseball, football, lacrosse, field hockey, volleyball, orchestra, band, etc.
And never having time to finish reports or research.

I remember one time in the library a mother was looking up a book review so her young child could write that up as her book report...
And the. When these same people go to college, they too must take remedial courses.

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2013, 09:17:38 PM »
partially true. This is also NYC as well. Which covers a vast area, and many of the folk are poor, then there is lack of parenting, lack of parental participation in the PTA, and an severe "I don't give a damn" by kids, faculty and parents...

This is also seen in well to do areas as well, but in a bizarro format---grades are GIVEN...
It's funny how almost every parent's child is a "A" child and gets straight As and is above average or gifted, eve though they don't know the material.
That's because the parents run the school, and demand that the kids receive As, while playing baseball, football, lacrosse, field hockey, volleyball, orchestra, band, etc.
And never having time to finish reports or research.

I remember one time in the library a mother was looking up a book review so her young child could write that up as her book report...
And the. When these same people go to college, they too must take remedial courses.
the best athletes in NYC high schools get preferntial treatment and grades they didnt earn as well.

when a parent takes an active role enocuraging their childs education, it usually leads to good things.  its sad that not enough minority parents dont do more to encourage studying other than a very mild effort at asking about homework during the first few years of school.

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2013, 09:33:07 PM »
Done on purpose. It's impossible to have this kind of retard rate without somebody making sure it happens.

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« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2013, 09:38:25 PM »
Done on purpose. It's impossible to have this kind of retard rate without somebody making sure it happens.
  the abdominal snowman poster is part of a conspiracy to keep people thinking that the world is fucked and controlled by evil elite in order to keep people from voting and taking an active role in public life so that the evil elite can keep control of the govment and keep people from changing the social structures.

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« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2013, 11:04:26 PM »
  the abdominal snowman poster is part of a conspiracy to keep people thinking that the world is fucked and controlled by evil elite in order to keep people from voting and taking an active role in public life so that the evil elite can keep control of the govment and keep people from changing the social structures.

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2013, 11:30:40 PM »
as long as those graduates know it's not appropriate to take photos of your dirty ass and put it on the web

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2013, 02:20:18 AM »
You and the author of the article desperately need to take such remedial courses: the NYC high school graduates who attempt to enroll in the community college system of the state aren't a representative sample of NYC high school graduates simpliciter, and thus one can't assert anything about the latter from results about the former.

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2013, 02:24:52 AM »
You and the author of the article desperately need to take such remedial courses: the NYC high school graduates who attempt to enroll in the community college system of the state aren't a representative sample of NYC high school graduates simpliciter, and thus one can't assert anything about the latter from results about the former.


Good point, but that said...  the percentage could theoretically be even higher.

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2013, 03:35:50 AM »
Academic achievement as a whole is tied directly to state and federal funding.  Once students within a school begin to fail and suffer from lower grades, that school often receives a detrimental letter grade that would lead to some of its funding being cut........sometimes, the schools are even shut down. What is the solution to Making better students and ultimately productive citizens?  Certainly it is not adjusting the curriculum to match that of private or wealthier schools where students are adequately challenged.

The solution is obviously to simplify and trivialize the course content, making it where even Bubba and Lil' Leroy can get A's because they could read Bernstein Bears in 12th grade.  They then move on to college where there is no choice but to keep the curriculum difficult due to its proximity to the very real labor market......and our esteemed students quickly flunk out.

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2013, 04:10:03 AM »
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this is due to an urban culture which celebrates athletic achievement, fashion, musical ability, celebrity and money.


not due to a poor public school system.


it will  be solved by parents and individuals who lead by example, can demonstrate to the youth that education and intelligence need not be associated with social awkwardness, unattractiveness, nerdiness, inability to dance, etc. 

it will be solved when the Valedictorian has higher social status than the Quarterback, Pointguard, and drug dealing rapper.

And some high school grads cant use capital letters.


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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #16 on: March 09, 2013, 05:17:30 AM »
The school unions are very powerful in NYC. They make over 100K for 9 months of work that includes vacation weeks off for Christmas and Easter. Excuse me to be politically correct winter and spring break. When a teacher gets suspended for anything they can go years getting full pay without teaching. They just report to a building for suspended teachers. Teachers in NY make more than the  NYC cops and firemen.

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #17 on: March 09, 2013, 05:20:08 AM »
none of the teachers i had until i got to college was worth a damn.  wastes of oxygen.

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #18 on: March 09, 2013, 05:46:18 AM »
The school unions are very powerful in NYC. They make over 100K for 9 months of work that includes vacation weeks off for Christmas and Easter. Excuse me to be politically correct winter and spring break. When a teacher gets suspended for anything they can go years getting full pay without teaching. They just report to a building for suspended teachers. Teachers in NY make more than the  NYC cops and firemen.
very few teachers make 100k, even in NYC, those are mostly administrators and guidance counselors and school shrinks.

And think about this, 9 mos with kids of today, that is a tour of duty. Many of the kids would laugh at Arce and Chaos, albeit out of ignorance...

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #19 on: March 09, 2013, 07:05:22 AM »
The school unions are very powerful in NYC. They make over 100K for 9 months of work that includes vacation weeks off for Christmas and Easter. Excuse me to be politically correct winter and spring break. When a teacher gets suspended for anything they can go years getting full pay without teaching. They just report to a building for suspended teachers. Teachers in NY make more than the  NYC cops and firemen.

SUSPENDED? Last time I checked, getting a full day's/week's/month's/year's pay without working was called A VACATION!!

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #20 on: March 09, 2013, 07:12:31 AM »
Glad I was part of the 20% then, despite my consistent C grades.

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #21 on: March 09, 2013, 12:02:34 PM »
they are online, they can read enough for the real world

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #22 on: March 09, 2013, 12:21:49 PM »
very few teachers make 100k, even in NYC, those are mostly administrators and guidance counselors and school shrinks.

And think about this, 9 mos with kids of today, that is a tour of duty. Many of the kids would laugh at Arce and Chaos, albeit out of ignorance...

Had a niece that was a school teacher and she made a 100k. She was a teacher and not an administrator, counselor or shrink. She didn't start making that. Max salary for a teacher is over 100K in NYC. http://www.schoolbook.org/2011/09/20/do-teachers-have-it-made-hardly-a-new-film-says

http://schools.nyc.gov/TeachNYC/salary/default.htm

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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
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Re: 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read
« Reply #24 on: March 09, 2013, 01:29:33 PM »
This new generation sucks.
Time to start taxing states for drop outs and failures.
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