Comments on: Remainders: Tough years for the city’s large high schools http://gothamschools.org/2010/01/25/remainders-tough-years-for-the-citys-large-high-schools/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nancy http://gothamschools.org/2010/01/25/remainders-tough-years-for-the-citys-large-high-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-252849 Nancy Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:08:37 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=31573#comment-252849 If anyone is interested in the New Yorker piece, I have a PDF of it. (You can only read it online if you have a subscription or you pay the OTO fee.)  If anyone is interested in the New Yorker piece, I have a PDF of it. (You can only read it online if you have a subscription or you pay the OTO fee.) 

]]> By: EB http://gothamschools.org/2010/01/25/remainders-tough-years-for-the-citys-large-high-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-252815 EB Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:00:03 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=31573#comment-252815 On a lighter note...the first article is worth $6 just to see the photo of Dunkadunk trying to dunk on the President, imho. The successful attempt would leave Mr. Obama presidunked, I believe. On a lighter note…the first article is worth $6 just to see the photo of Dunkadunk trying to dunk on the President, imho. The successful attempt would leave Mr. Obama presidunked, I believe.

]]> By: Pogue http://gothamschools.org/2010/01/25/remainders-tough-years-for-the-citys-large-high-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-252769 Pogue Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:33:42 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=31573#comment-252769 Wow, between Arthur Goldstein and Pissed Off Teacher's pieces about the attack and destruction upon neighborhood schools, it does become evident that Obama, Bloomberg, and Klein's policies do aim to weaken and destroy communities...all in the name of "choice".  Yeah, choice for kids to have to get up at the crack of dawn to travel to their far away school, choice to return at supper-time even though their school offers no afterschool sports teams or music clubs, choice for small high schools not big enough to offer AP classes that the suburbs are chockfull of, choice of padded grade and State test scores that are hideously exposed on SAT tests, choice of remedial classes for predominant numbers of city high school graduates... Oh, this depressing list could go on forever.   In essence, it's fail the big high schools and break them up into small high schools, then fail the small high schools and turn them into charters.  For-profit charters.  That's the game plan.  Screw the kids.  Screw the parents.  Screw the teachers.  Screw the communities. Wow, between Arthur Goldstein and Pissed Off Teacher’s pieces about the attack and destruction upon neighborhood schools, it does become evident that Obama, Bloomberg, and Klein’s policies do aim to weaken and destroy communities…all in the name of “choice”.  Yeah, choice for kids to have to get up at the crack of dawn to travel to their far away school, choice to return at supper-time even though their school offers no afterschool sports teams or music clubs, choice for small high schools not big enough to offer AP classes that the suburbs are chockfull of, choice of padded grade and State test scores that are hideously exposed on SAT tests, choice of remedial classes for predominant numbers of city high school graduates…

Oh, this depressing list could go on forever.  

In essence, it’s fail the big high schools and break them up into small high schools, then fail the small high schools and turn them into charters.  For-profit charters.  That’s the game plan.  Screw the kids.  Screw the parents.  Screw the teachers.  Screw the communities.

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