For those of us who have kids, but would never send their kids to AP schools, I
think it is wrong to assume that is based on any kind of "white fear." I would
not send my daughter to the AP schools bc they stink. Plain and simple. (The
Hope Academy is not ranked very well either.) If I stay here, I will send her
to the Ranney School bc I want her to go to an Ivy League school or MIT (if she
so chooses), not a local community college. I have talked with other parents
of all colors and no one with means will send their kids to the AP schools
whatever race, or will for early years and then they are out. I hope my
daughter is smart and I want her to be challenged, and I don't think she would
be in the public schools here where a huge percentage of the students do not
even test as proficient in core subjects!
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <dfsav...@...> wrote:
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> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, cbrianwatkins@ wrote:
> >
> >>
> > I know quite a few families who have passed on AP strictly because of the
> > schools (they were ok with the crime) but the schools were a deal sealer
>
>
> It is a chicken and egg thing like I said. Tommy DeSeno outlined it here a
> couple of years ago. AP schools became defacto segregated. If the grammar
> schools get turned around the high school will follow. But AP schools share
> the same socio-economic problems as most urban schools in poor neighborhoods.
> How do you fix it? Short of gentrification which really does not solve the
> problem for those who move out to another non-gentrifying area, no one has
> seem to come up to the answer. So I see AP for some years as not being a full
> time family place. Solve the school equation and you have it licked.
>
> But you know, as long as the schools are made safe, they would be okay. I
> assume there are a lot of dedicated teachers. My neice just started teaching
> at Hope and she is excellent and a former NYC teacher who taught in similar
> neighborhoods. My daughter teaches in Brooklyn (special ed) and her students
> are mainly immigrant children. I see the tide turning already with many
> immigrants going to AP schools in uniforms.
>
> And if we are honest with ourselves, a lot of it is just WHITE FEAR. And I am
> no one to talk because my kids went to catholic schools while even living in
> a white middle class neighborhood. But me and my wife went to catholic
> grammar and high schools and so did our kids.
>
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