Parents in Brooklyn’s ultra liberal Boerum Hill are pushing to drop the “math and science” portion of MS 447’s name — which in recent years has seen math proficiency plummet…
Instead of selecting students for the middle school seats based on academic records, kids are now picked based on a lottery system, with 52 percent of seats reserved for poor students, English-language learners, and children without stable homes.
“If you bring in students that need more support, you also need targeted support for those students,” he added. “You can’t throw them in a classroom with students that are high achieving now and expect them to achieve at the same level.” “For years it has caused us to have more boys than girls applying and enrolling, which is sad and wrong, but nonetheless was a pattern that we, year over year, have had trouble breaking,” Rusch said, without providing any data.That was not nearly as skewed as MS442, which was 39% female and 60% male, or the New Voices School of Academic & Creative Arts, which was 63% female and 37% male, according to city Department of Education data.
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