The NYC Dept of Education has put kids through the ringer already. Today they announced that instead of doing their high school applications using their 7th grade grades, which the kids were told they'd use, they'll use 8th grade grades instead, the ones the kids were told ...
2/ wouldn't count. No explanation. No warning. All the time those kids spent trying to stay focused when they had to do all of 7th grade remote? All tossed in the garbage. The casual cruelty and indifference of the brass that runs the NYC public schools really knows no limit.
3/ Little backstory in case yr wondering, why do they have to apply to high school? NYC has a ridiculously complicated, high stakes application process for all kids going to high school. Basically like forcing 13 yr olds to go through the equivalent of a college apps process.
4/ The middle schools are of course in charge of prepping these pandemic scarred tweens for this ridiculous apps process. So I reached out to one of the admins at one of them and apparently they hadn't heard about the switch until they got emailed announcement today.
5/ So no warning at all. They had already delayed announcing how the apps wld work this year basically up to when they were due. The delays seem tied at least in significant part to the transition to the new mayor and new head of DOE.
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