<p>Sybbie said,</p>
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<blockquote> <p>they must have heard you in NYC because on the news this morning they were talking about how the city spends $14 billion and there are bathrooms with no doors on the stalls and no toilet paper <<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Hey, Sybbie, Mini also said, "One can receive a superior education under a tree". I say that you can still receive a superior education under a tree or in a poor school WITHOUT SPENDING $14 BILLION. Good schools are not all about money, but about the culture and respect for learning from the students and their teachers. Washinfton DC spends the most on their schools and ranks at the BOTTOM in student academic achievement. Putting more money in this sink hole solves nothing.</p>
<p>Regarding NYC schools;</p>
<p>In fact, the poorest Asian Americans living in the poorest neighborhoods with blacks and latinos, attending the same deficient ghetto k-12 schools, outperform many whites in more affluent neighborhoods. Asian Americans outperform blacks and latinos attending the very same ghetto schools. One can verify this on the web by reviewing the NYC Public Schools' Report Card, which breaks down academic performance, graduation rates and test scores for each racial and ethnic group in every public k-12 school in NYC, including the ones in the black and latino ghettos where Asian Americans also live and attend the poorest schools in these very same ghettos with blacks and latinos as neighbors and classmates. Facts don't lie. </p>
<p>That's the dark secret along with the facts, that the politically correct and flaming liberals who make a living wasting money by infusing it into these sink holes, refuse to acknowledge.</p>
<p>Good schools are not all about money, but about the culture and respect for learning of the students and their teachers. Certain students may have to change their culture in order to be successful. No amount of money will do this. </p>
<p>The crown jewels of the NYC public school system are the magnet exam schools, such as Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, Hunter College HS and Townsend Harris in Queens, NY. They are unparalleled in the academic achievements and the success of its students. They are world renowned and the most diverse in the country with whites in the minority and Asian Americans as much as 51% of the students with 5% latino and 4% black. They used to be 90% Jewish, who were immigrants or children of immigrants from Europe who were discriminated against, because they were Jews pre WW II to the 1960s. These magnet schools in NYC are under the same budgetary constraints as the rest of NYC's schools, but there are the differences. First and mainly, it is the students whom they admit. They are the ones with the culture and the respect for learning, along with their teachers. These students are as much as 51% Asian American, mainly from the lower and middle classes of NYC who are the first in their families to attend college and children of immigrants or immigrants themselves, not unlike the previous majority group in these schools, the Jews. This did not occur by accident, but it is a result of hard work, perserverance, self-sacrifice and the overcoming of obstacles of economic disadvantage, cultural and language differences by these student who all attended the NYC public school system from k-8. These are the success stories that ALL New Yorkers and Americans of all races should be proud of and use as ROLE MODELS.</p>
<p>The most highly ranked public high school in the nation is the public magnet school, Hunter College High School, in NYC. This school graduates less than 200 students a year, and has over 60% of its class as National Merit Semi-Finalists. No other school, public or private, comes close with NMSFs in percentages. It also has a senior SAT I average of close to 1450, similar to the private Brearley School and the Collegiate School in NYC. These schools have the profile of an Ivy college. No other school, public or private, comes close. Hunter College High School is the most stellar academic public high school in America. It is also 40% Asian American. It ranks higher than the prestigious public NYC magnet, Stuyvesant HS which is 51% Asian American.</p>