Current Events > White parents wait in front NYC HS showcasing the segregation of school system.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/nyregion/beacon-high-school-admissions-nyc.html

On a recent Tuesday, there were about a hundred mostly white parents queued up at 2:30 p.m. in the spitting rain outside of Beacon High School, some toting snacks and even a few folding chairs for the long wait. The doors of the highly selective, extremely popular school would not open for another two hours for the tour. Parents and students who arrived at the actual start time were in for a surprise. The line of several thousand people had wrapped around itself, stretching for three midtown Manhattan blocks. Tens of thousands of eligible families were not there at all. Many New Yorkers cannot leave work in the middle of the afternoon, and some students surely did not know that the open house or even the school existed in the first place. Beacons admissions rate is roughly akin to Yales: there were over 5,800 applicants for 360 ninth-grade seats last year. The lines that surround Beacon and other elite high schools are a living symbol of the anxiety, competition and inequality that define New Yorks segregated public school system. High school admissions are seen as perhaps the most egregious example of how city policies end up dividing privileged parents from vulnerable families. That dynamic was on display outside of Beacons two fall open houses.

Though New Yorks school system is mostly black and Hispanic, its highest-performing schools are largely white and Asian. Beacons student population was half white last year, and about a quarter of its students were low-income, compared to about three-quarters of the district as a whole. A debate over how to make the citys top schools more representative of the city itself has reached a fever pitch over the last year. In March, a tiny number of black students got into the ultra-selective Stuyvesant High School, which has more low-income students than Beacon but a much smaller percentage of black and Hispanic students. In August, a panel commissioned by Mayor Bill de Blasio to study desegregation recommended that the city eliminate its mostly white and Asian elementary school gifted-and-talented classes. Interviews with three dozen parents, students and educators revealed how high the stakes of the high school admissions process in particular feel to many families and how easy it is for some children to get left behind. You only get one chance to figure out four years of your kids education, said Alisa Kriegel, who joined Beacons line early after reading Ms. Steins newsletter. She waited with three other white mothers who met at their childrens TriBeCa middle school.
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Um what's stopping non-white parents from queuing?
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

Um what's stopping non-white parents from queuing?

MelbuFrahma4 posted...

Many New Yorkers cannot leave work in the middle of the afternoon

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Translation: We need more DiVerSitY, even at the expense of academic achievement.

MelbuFrahma4 posted...

RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk posted...

Um what's stopping non-white parents from queuing?

MelbuFrahma4 posted...

Many New Yorkers cannot leave work in the middle of the afternoon

So annual leave isn't a thing in NY?
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This is going to be good...


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HiddenRoar posted...

Translation: We need more DiVerSitY, even at the expense of academic achievement.

Translation of your idiotic post; "Only kids whose parents who can afford to leave work in the middle of the day should be allowed a quality education"
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MelbuFrahma4 posted...

In August, a panel commissioned by Mayor Bill de Blasio to study desegregation recommended that the city eliminate its mostly white and Asian elementary school gifted-and-talented classes.

that's an ass backwards recommendation.
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If you can't find some excuse to spare one day from your job for your child's education, then it shows how much you actually care (which is to say, you don't).

I guess if their child was dying and required the parent to come to the hospital, they'd drop whatever they were doing to do so. So the lack of such initiative is telling enough.

HiddenRoar posted...

If you can't find some excuse to spare one day from your job for your child's education, then it shows how much you actually care (which is to say, you don't).

I guess if their child was dying and required the parent to come to the hospital, they'd drop whatever they were doing to do so. So the lack of such initiative is telling enough.

talk about being sheltered and out of touch lol

many parents in nyc are living in poverty and from paycheck to paycheck and absolutely cannot afford to take time but ok you keep thinking parents dont care about their children