If an Education Is the Way Out of Poverty, NYC Wants a Lot of Poor People

Lies, Damn Lies, and NYC Student Grades. A NYC school diploma isn’t worth the paper it’s written on

Recently, teachers at William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens complained that administrators forced them to pass failing students. Last year, a long-stalled investigation revealed that Maspeth High School in Queens repeatedly faked passing grades. In 2020, at Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill High School where more than 70% of the students were failing, the principal was secretly recorded instructing teachers to just pass kids. This happens not just at isolated failing schools; data on middle schools show widespread grade fraud in New York City public schools, and the worst often occur in predominantly black communities.

One such school is the Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem, where in 8th grade, 95% of students failed Math proficiency according to New York State standardized testing, but the school passed 93.9% of them in that subject. The founder and former head of the Eagle Academy network, David Banks, is now Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education. He quickly banished standardized tests from large swathes of NYC’s education landscape.

Merit is BAD, according the schools in NYC. Actually requiring people to learn enough to pass a standardized test is bad. It is probably racist to the teacher's union.

Besides, they don't want people to get an education and get out of poverty. They want people dependent on handouts from the state.