Here is the best part. These are the 80% that actually thought they were smart enough to go to college. Imagine how stupid the morons who aren’t even trying to get into college must be. With this disgraceful performance, you’d think Bloomie wouldn’t have so much time to focus on soda and salt content. Do you really think the $1 trillion of student loan debt will be repaid? Really?
Approximately 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read well enough for community college
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.
All told, approximately 11,000 would-be students are required to take remedial courses each year.
“They get lost sometimes in the classroom and in CUNY Start we give them a lot more one-on-one attention, small group work,” Sherry Mason, a teacher in the program, told CBS Local. “It helps them achieve more in a short amount of time and so they’re able to get on with their credit classes.”
A student in the remedial skills program told CBS Local he was very happy with it.
“I knew I needed to take remedial,” said Nicholas Gonzalez, who graduated from Brooklyn’s New Utrecht High School. “If I started right away with credit classes it wasn’t going to be so well, so it’s better off starting somewhere.”
The New York City Department of Education noted that the percentage of students requiring remedial courses used to be even higher, and has only slightly decreased in recent years.
While nearly 80 percent of students who graduate from New York Public Schools can’t read well enough to attend community college, they can at least frolic in all the unprotected sex they want without fretting over the natural consequences.
The Bloomberg administration used 40 individual “school-based health centers” to lavish nearly 13,000 free doses of Plan B — the “morning-after pill” — on students during the 2011-12 school year.
Steve Hogan says:
I’m about 60% of my way through Gatto’s book on public “education.” It reveals a good deal about the motivations behind the bureaucracy pushing government-run schools.
Read this and you will no longer be surprised about the abysmal performance of Bloomberg’s schools and thousands of others across the country.
The silver lining: when the education bubble pops, we might have an opportunity to reclaim the lives and minds of our youth who are presently little more than prisoners in today’s putrid educational system.
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9th March 2013 at 8:37 pm
KaD says:
“The Bloomberg administration used 40 individual “school-based health centers” to lavish nearly 13,000 free doses of Plan B — the “morning-after pill” — on students during the 2011-12 school year.”
And this is a bad thing? Do we really want this many stupid people breeding MORE stupid people?
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9th March 2013 at 8:52 pm
AWD says:
What if they did require students to pass basic math and reading in order to graduate? Most of the students wouldn’t graduate high school. I wonder how much NYC union teachers make every year. We’re doomed.
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9th March 2013 at 8:58 pm
youcanthavemyglock says:
As long as they don’t own guns Bloomberg will sleep well
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9th March 2013 at 10:17 pm
flash says:
And that’s why New Yorkers can’t be trusted with Styrofoam. To NYkerds, Do not Litter signs are just strange looking posters with covered all in funny looking squiggly signs.
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9th March 2013 at 8:32 am
fool on the hill says:
Yup,
Lots of FSA kids cannot read, write , add, or subtract.
But ………..the sure know how to MULTIPLY!!
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9th March 2013 at 1:57 pm
Pirate Jo says:
It is the fault of the parents. The parents not only chose this system, they completely dropped the ball when it came to ensuring the system worked. It’s YOUR school system, people. YOU put YOUR kids in there and then entrusted their performance to “everyone else,” which is your own damn fault.
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9th March 2013 at 12:16 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
Our local university suffers from a similar issue, though not nearly as bad as the NYC system.
We’ve had to triple the number of remedial classes offered each semester since the early 2000s.
Slightly off-topic:
I’m a pretty decent chemistry instructor. I won’t win any prizes, but I’m certainly better than your average professor.
I find myself having to step further and further back in time to provide my students with the most basic of skills so that they can complete Chem 101 (its on par with most highschool chemistry courses).
These skills include, FOIL, order of operations, how to divide, how to multiply, and what happens when you subtract a negative.
Most of them are also completely incapable of writing in a legible hand.
Its gotten so bad that I just accept that our first two class periods will be me covering the aforementioned topics for the 2/3 or so of the class that just started blankly during lecture.
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9th March 2013 at 1:07 pm
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Judge Halts Bloomberg’s Sugar Drink Ban, Calls It Illegal
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/11/2013 15:17 -0400
Just hitting the tape ahead of tomorrow’s scheduled hit of Bloomberg’s ban on “large sugary drinks”:
•Judge invalidates New York City’s ban on large sugary drinks; ban had been scheduled to take effect tomorrow.
•Judge says sugar drink limit “illegal”
•Judge finds ban to be arbitrary and capricious.
Has the time come to ban independently thinking judicial authorities who don’t agree with multi-term Spanish-speaking authoritarians?
From the WSJ:
A state judge on Monday stopped Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration from banning New York City restaurants and other venues from selling large sugary drinks, a major defeat for the mayor who has made public a health initiatives a cornerstone of his tenure at city Hall.
The city is “enjoined and permanently restrained from implementing or enforcing the new regulations,” New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling decided Monday.
The regulations are “fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences,” the judge wrote. “The simple reading of the rule leads to the earlier acknowledged uneven enforcement even within a particular city block, much less the city as a whole….the loopholes in this rule effectively defeat the state purpose of the rule.”
We pray Judge Tingling didn’t miss a comma or two in his New York State bar exam or else Holder will have a drone on permament patrol above his home.
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9th March 2013 at 3:33 pm
AWD says:
Judge Milton Tingling
Looks like a nice guy. A couple of extra chins, enjoys Mt. Dew.
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