Cherries
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- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 2 days ago:
Yeah, the NYC specialized high schools require middle school students to get a certain score on a standardized test, the SHSAT (Specialized High School Admissions Test), for admission. These specialized high schools get prioirty funding from the city, on account of their high college admissions rate, but I can tell you as someone who went to Stuyvesant that it being a better school is a crock of bullshit.
Most of what I learned at Stuy was how to take tests really well. It is true that Stuyvesant students have a better acceptance rate to colleges and such, but that is not on account of the higher quality education, but instead because of the brand name of Stuy and specialized high schools like it. It’s a nonsensical ouroboros. Colleges accept specialized high school alumni because they are better than average. These alumni are better than average because colleges accept them at higher rates.
The way Stuyvesant or Bronx Science or Brooklyn Tech accomplish this is by teaching students how to take tests really well. Tests every week for every subject. Test taking strategies discussed in every class. Test answer analysis based on previous tests in all the AP classes. When I was in high school, it was common sentiment that an SAT score under 2000/2400 was worthless. Nobody cared what you were learning, only what the results were because those results got you into college. High school was seen just as a path to college, which was a path to financial enrichment.
And again, the way you got into these schools was theough a test. Well to do families like mine paid for after school programs that drilled test taking startigies and practice relentlessly. My university educated parents spent all their free time and money teaching me how to test well. As a middle school student, I spent 4 hours a day after school with test prep. This time only increased as a high school student. Again, not really learning the subject matter, but simply test preperation. My background gave me an unbelievable advantage in getting accepted to one of these schools, of which Stuyvesant has the highest score requirement. So yes, one can get into these schools based on merit alone, but background plays an much larger role in the acceptance rates. It is an extension of how the elite private colleges work in the USA.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
You could just go to therapy instead of advertising your mental issues publicly.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 months ago:
In our society, if you don’t have a job, you die. A shit job is better than no job and standing up for your rights could lose you your job. The solution is unionizing, but unionizing is very difficult and dangerous because 1. Unions have been heavily propaganized against and 2. Bosses will do a bunch of illegal stuff to prevent unions.
Unions are becoming more popular as conditions worsen, but the capitalist owners are fighting harder than ever to prevent the growing unionization.
- Comment on [title] 2 months ago:
Mickey wants you to fight nihilism.
- Comment on Nier Automata 4 months ago:
In the prequel, the songwriter was told, “Imagine it’s been 10,000 years. What does French sound like?” And then she was asked fto do that for multiple other languages and it’s awesome.
- Comment on Yeah, right 6 months ago:
