High schools with low college readiness rates are usually associated with schools that have a high percentage of Black and Hispanic student bodies and are located in high poverty areas. This appears to be true when it comes to the Queens high schools. Of the thirteen schools that have the lowest college readiness scores, all but one, Flushing high school, a Renewal School, are located in Southeast Queens. For the remaining twelve high schools the Black and Hispanic population is over 90% and diversity is simply a pipe dream under the current high school choice program.
School............................College Readiness
Fredrick Douglas Academy VI......13%
Rockaway Park...........................16%
Humanities and Arts...................19%
August Martin............................20%
Law Enforcement.......................20%
Flushing....................................22%
Rockaway Collegiate..................23%
QIRT.........................................25%
Excelsior Prep...........................25%
Pathways College......................26%
Science, Research, and Tech......26%
Cambria Heights Academy.........27%
Academy of Medical Tech...........27%
Basically, only one in every four students are academically proficient and this does not bode well for the remaining 75% of the students who must continue to struggle academically. Moreover, with the lack of proper academic skills and work habits, these students will;l have trouble finding and maintaining jobs, provide financially for a family, and establish a stable home environment for their children.
Unless we diversify these schools and attract academically proficient students, the above schools are simply awarding useless diplomas to students who are unwilling or unable to become academically proficient to become a successful adult. These schools are simply diploma mills and we are doing a disservice to these students by awarding them a useless diploma when they are unprepared for both higher education and the adult work world.
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The year that I left Richmond Hill High School, the graduation rate was 55% but the college readiness rate was only 15%. Almost one out of 5 student that were graduating were ready for college., and almost one out of every ten students in the building were ready for college. The following year it was 17% if my memory serves me well. It is strange to see such an increase from 15-17 percent to now 39%. Nevertheless it is still a piece of shit school.
The DOE has created a House of Cards that is now on fire! That is how bad it is! I am an ATR in Queens and I have to say that from what I have observed the DOE has to be purposely sabotaging nearly every school, setting each one up for failure! The reformy BS and Political correctness is sickening. This cookie cutter approach to teaching without any real discipline code for unruly students has created an environment of chaos and madness with very little REAL Teaching and Learning taking place. This facade, with all of the BS data that they come out with, creates nothing more then diploma mills, diplomas that really aren't worth the paper that they are printed on. The city doesn't give a rat's ass about education, they have proven it with what they have turned Public Education in NYC into. It is a shambles! My last day of teaching will be November 30th, thank goodness for 25/55! I see rookie teachers who are so overwhelmed, they wont make it more then a couple of years, just what the city wants! Lets not fool ourselves, what the NYC schools are, or should I say have turned into is by design! Very Sad, in fact tragic!
Chaz baby report on how only 1 in a hundred ATRs have been forced placed and how it was all a ploy to see if they could get ATRs to take the buyout. All with the UFT go ahead. Mulgrew is a prick.
Anon 7:17
I agree with you. Nothing has really changed for the ATRs. Very few have been offered permenent positions since October 16th.
The ATR assignments are longer now. Most assigned until Jan. Some remained in the Sept assignment.
Do you think they will offer a more attractive buyout this year?
Teachers might consider filing appeals with the Commissioner of Education regarding their school-related complaints.
If enough of them are filed, then there may be a chance of a win.
Unfortunately, the following appeal was dismissed by former Commissioner of Education David Steiner:
www.counsel.nysed.gov/Decisions/volume50/d16145
Here is some background information about Commissioner's appeals:
www.counsel.nysed.gov/appeals
www.counsel.nysed.gov/appeals/general
www.counsel.nysed.gov/appeals/instruction
www.counsel.nysed.gov/appeals/forms
www.counsel.nysed.gov/appeals/faqs
www.counsel.nysed.gov/appeals/ed-law-regs
Here are the Commissioner's decisions from July 1991 to the present:
www.counsel.nysed.gov/Decisions
@4:25, Since there's a shitload more ATRs than there was last year, I'd say yes. They are right out lying about the numbers to keep the media at bay. That's also the main reason almost no one has been forced placed into a teaching position, even provisionaly.
How is it that they come to school with phones, yet they can't for the life of them bring a pencil?
This is college-ready?
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