a new report by UCLA I and the Civil
Rights Project
in UCLA at says that New York is
actually the most segregated
states with states when it comes to
their public education system
so that's not a surprising because a lot
of people would make the assumption that
it's actually in the south but their
data
proof otherwise let me tell you exactly
what they found in New York City
the largest school system in the US with
1.1 million pupils the study notes that
many in the charter schools
created over the last dozen years are
among the leave
divers the wall with less than one
percent white enrollment at
seventy-three percent
up the charter schools which is in Thane
now the charter schools are supposed to
get us a better system
I am I'm not sure that succeeded now
dismiss studies showing the charter
schools there was one
in the recent past has said that you do
worse on average than public school so
that didn't help very much now there was
a
1 it's even more reason they said in
that case they felt something a little
better
so it's a mixed results there right
obviously I'm not very good at on
integration so all these republicans
like charter schools charter schools
and then what do we get right okay but
put aside for a second here
a when you look at it it's not
altogether that surprisingly upor New
York City super liberal
ride liberal mobile right i mean
II I know people that live in New York
City in a beautiful woman I'm
LA et cetera yeah they get their kids in
a private schools
quickly as they possibly can that is the
reality I think New York City
for the most part is socially liberal
but when it comes to
anything related to finances they can be
pretty freakin conservative yes of
course you have like his long claims and
you have these all areas where people do
segregate they not only south segregate
but it has more to do with socioeconomic
status so here Latino or black you know
you're much more likely to be at a lower
socioeconomic status for a number of
different reasons institutional racism
what have you
%uh and white people they're gonna live
in wealthier neighborhoods and you're
gonna go to schools in those
neighborhoods
especially in New York where there's a
lot I really wealthy people living next
to a lot of poor people
and a and so and I get him and I mean
it's one thing to me silly re-air
literal tree-hugging you know school
hungry for whatever
it's another thing to say I wouldn't be
so minute kid to school but I know is
not that good
wooden so I mean to socio-economic
conditions that affect the quality of
the school
and and i cant home in good conscious
know you do have this
summer school what I would do instead is
our group in one model
Brighton and I would say no no everybody
goes to public schools
okay and then when you do that I know
that seems radical but film one is
actually
consistently scores in the top three
usually
number one in achievement in all in
these news test scores
and that's what that's the system that
they use because if you have
rich people mixed in with middle-class
port cetera they're gonna make sure all
those public schools
archtop not so here's the thing that I
worry about though I would argue that
our diverse city actually a goes
against the Fenland model and the reason
why I say that is because when you're
coming from a lower socioeconomic status
you're having some serious issues when
it comes to education
because your parents simply do not have
the resources the same resources as
wealthier kids
to sit there and and do homework with
you they just don't they have to work
two jobs are trying to make ends meet so
that's totally understandable
so you kinda group all the students
together and yes
%uh the parents from the wealthier kids
are gonna try to invest more in the
public education to ensure that their
kids are gonna do better
but there's a fear and I think there's a
legitimate fear
that kids who who come from a higher
socioeconomic status and have
a better educational background are
gonna be held down by students who don't
have the same
I don't agree I get it it's perfectly
legitimate concern
but partly cuz I experience something
different we had a mini Finland system
where I grew up in East Brunswick New
Jersey I went to a public school and
there was a lot of you know
upper-middle-class I guess there were
some
seen a really rich people there too and
there was a lot of people who are middle
class was a lot of people who are poor
rate overall it was a fairly wealthy
suburb on average compared to other
places
%uh but there is definitely October poor
kids
in the school and yeah I'll some love
them because the
you know those shows the parent to send
whatever I don't know the reasons
didn't study is hard so what yeah
okay to smoke outside yet whatever they
do drugs the parties that I would've
liked it that
but K whatever right it in somehow keep
you don't know why God although they are
such a bad role model I cannot study
never know hired by I'm and there's a
lot of people would tremendous success
from that school I know but that's not
that's not what I'm referring to a lot
of times teachers will have to adjust to
the abilities that their students shower
when I was just don't know it bothers
taxes
if they're okay so I guess that's the
way an addy passes you could you could
ations you right
and I know cuz I start in los reading
class cuz when I first came here I did
not speak English
and even when I had learned it well I
wasn't very good at it so it was in los
three and I worked my way up to the
highest reading class
so I you know I have that experience
that maybe not a lot of people have
and I know that it can work n those kids
that I went to high school with and I'm
not like being
you know all liberal here or anything
like that look to the gay guys that were
in alanis cuz they were all returning
like up a little more
immigrants whose parents were engineers
doctor so little more per mil classes
cetera
but those kids were smarter than any
kids are ever gone to college with
a it and you know down the line so
I know that it can work and by the way
since we're all going to the public
school
hmm of topple I mean a portal those
care parents put in at heart Toyota not
just time
and but money as well yeah so we wind up
having better resources
you know good teachers and lights in our
football field
right so I they can work but this model
and even in the most liberal
so-called City only already and makes a
great point about how concerned they are
when it comes to finances
I'm it is broken it's broken and we've
gotta find a different model for this
model doesn't work
yeah
