** * So you are suggesting magnet elementary and middle school within each district that nurture competent, motivated students which, in turn, become feeder schools for the SHS. * **
Yes, @Theoden
However, to clarify, I think nearly every young student can be competent and motivated. KIPP schools prove that by sending 99% of their students to college. If the NYC public school system decides to create elementary and middle schools that provide the same level and quality of education as the honored High Schools, the NYC public school system will ensure fewer students are left out.
It is an all too obviously unfair system that admits it is not doing enough to educate young students, but promises to reward those poorly educated students with a top-shelf High School education ONLY IF those poorly educated students prove they have somehow overcome the limits of the poor k-8 education they were provided with by the NYC public school system.
I think a start to improving today’s system is to create feeder elementary and middle schools that mirror the quality of the best high schools.
- ** This is also, in some sense, saying what’s obivious - NYC has a terribly segregated, highly unequal public lower education system. * **
Yeah. As do many other school systems across America.