Liberals Punishing Achievement

Leave it to Liberals to find ways to slowly chip away at American society, this time by rewarding failure and punishing success. Wait a second; they have been doing that for years.

In Liberal New York City the school system has a plan that would  give bottom-scoring elementary-school students “priority” for admission to most middle schools. The district’s schools are sharply divided along racial and socioeconomic lines.

 High-performing middle schools, usually with a white, middle- or upper-class majority would have to reserve up to 25 percent of their seats for students who score at the lowest 2 of 4 levels on state math and English tests. That means some students with high test scores would be shut out of their preferred schools and possibly steered to lower-performing schools which enroll more blacks and Hispanics.

 Let’s see if we can understand this; a kid studies hard probably missing  out on a lot of play time, maybe even has a parent who helps him with his homework and pays attention in school and what does he get in return? Sorry you can’t get in to the school you wanted because we’re giving your spot to a kid who didn’t study or pay attention at school and who was a truant to boot. How does the Liberal mind come up with this stuff?

At a recent community meeting, when one mother at high-ranked school angrily asked what she should tell an 11-year-old who “worked their butt off” but was shut out of the best school. “Life sucks!”

Mona Davids, president of the NYC Parents Union said, It’s racism because they know the students who are doing poorly and condemned to failing schools are black and Latino. They don’t want those students in their lily-white schools.”  Ah Liberals always fall back on their one size fits all answer, racism.

One parent with common sense, I’m assuming not a Liberal said:  “You tell your kid that he needs to do his best on the test to get into a good school and it turns out he’d better get a 2, and he might get into a better school. The system is motivating kids the wrong way.”

“Because there’s a fixed number of seats in the best schools, somebody has to lose,” said Aaron Pallas, an education professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Yea, but why does it have to be the kids that work the hardest?

This is one man’s opinion.