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one week into my 15-week busy period, 14 to go! i say 15 because that gets me to christmas - i always take christmas to new year’s off, not that people usually want tutoring that week anyway - but in reality some of my current 11 students will drop as early as late october (the SHSAT only kid) or early november (the younger kid whose parents are hoping to get it over with), and once december hits the load will lighten week by week. i am very busy due to my unfortunate sudden pressing need to start digitizing my materials, which tragically really does make everything so much better although also has made me realize i probably should invest in an ipad without a cracked screen sooner rather than later, and also because my other freelance gig is in the last legs of its current project and i’m not quite sure when it will start up again, so i’m trying to get a few more hours on that while i can in the remaining time available. including time spent highlighting pdfs on my ipad while catching up on industry, i worked a little over 42 hours this week, which i recognize is normal as a workload but is a lot for me at this stage of my life, lmao (and also, in fairness to me, does not include things like time spent commuting from session to session excluding any time spent working on the train, even though if i had a workday for a Job that started in one place and ended somewhere else i would consider that all part of how much i worked).

i’m a lot less stressed than i was this time last year, partly because i’ve figured out my workflow better, partly because last year i was really trying to second-gig myself out of a tight financial spot which is not the case this year (unless i have really miscalculated things tax-wise… but like i’m pretty sure. lol). in theory i really want to get to being like a week ahead in terms of prep work (the dream is to prep for the next session with a kid the day after i meet them), but in practice it is sunday night and i am going to bed not prepped for monday’s sessions, so… we’ll see. i am sort of cheerfully ignoring most things that are not work but i did have a nice lunch with a friend this week & a nice afternoon at home yesterday & i did work out 5x this week. (i decided to try out a schedule where my fitfluencer of choice’s programmed rest days fall on fridays and sundays and so far it works psychologically very well for me…) a while ago i cleaned my room when it seemed very messy and it only took me about a half hour and i was heartened by that since it seemed like i have enough of a System for stuff now that even the messiest option is really not so bad and thought i might use that as motivation to clean my room more often since it probably won’t really take that long but instead i have mostly used it to feel more peaceful with how messy my room is lol.

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Yes, New York City’s Public Schools are Still Segregated

By Paloma Castillo, Columbia University Class of 2021

June 16, 2020

Brown v. Board of Ed (1954), the Supreme Court ruling that essentially overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine espoused in Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), was a landmark case for the Civil Rights Movement [1]. In it, the Court argued that segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which states that “no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” [2]. As a result of this ruling, integration efforts began throughout the country, with the intent to equalize academic opportunities for minority students and diversify school settings. Unfortunately, 66 years later, the legacy of segregation in schools continues to plague cities and school districts across the country.

It may come as a surprise that New York, which is generally considered liberal and progressive, is the state with the greatest number of segregated schools in the country [3].

In 2009, Black and Latino students in New York “had the highest concentration in intensely-segregated public schools (less than 10% white enrollment) ... and the most uneven distribution with white students across schools” [3].

New York City largely contributes to this reality: though Black and Hispanic students make up 70% of its public-school system, they only make up about 10% of the student population at the city’s nine specialized high schools [4].

Last year, only seven of the 895 spots at Stuyvesant, the most selective public school in the city, were offered to Black students (down from 10 offers the previous year, and 13 the year before)[5].

Perhaps most concerning is that this form of educational segregation has significantly worsened in recent decades: in 1982, 51% of the students at Brooklyn Tech (one of the 9 specialized schools) were black, a number that drastically reduced to 6% by 2016 [4].

Feb. 3, 1964. Eddie Hausner/The New York Times   

This stark reality in New York is partially due to a long history of resistance to reform. Protests and school boycotts led by civil rights activists in the 1960s in response to the lack of implementation of the Brown v Board of Ed ruling were met with significant opposition from (mostly white) parents who favored segregation [6]. Then, in 1971, lawmakers in Albany passed the Hecht-Calandra Act, mandating that admissions to Specialized High Schools rely solely on a singular admissions test [7]. While some defend the Act and the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) as a means to maintain the academic rigor of these schools, there is great debate as to whether or not it has harmed communities of color in NYC [6]. As test preparation for the SHSAT has created an industry of test prep centers that offer tutoring costing thousands of dollars, reformers argue that Black and Hispanic students that are often low-income are at a disadvantage, and less likely to be able to join these elite schools [4]. Mayor de Blasio developed a plan to repeal the Hecht-Calandra Act, but recently changed course, after having received much backlash from specialized high school alumni groups, parents, and others [8].

Even if the SHSAT were replaced by more holistic indicators of achievement and intelligence, much would still have to change. Many supporters of the SHSAT have suggested that the problem minority students face in the NYC public school system is not the SHSAT, but rather, the lack of “high quality education in Black and Latino communities,” and the elimination of enrichment schools in these neighborhoods [9]. The reality of the situation is that even if the SHSAT does perpetuate racism, it is only

the tip of the iceberg. Black and Latino students in NYC face educational barriers that result in academic segregation much earlier on than high school. Public elementary and middle schools in wealthier, white neighborhoods have better resources and opportunities (both academic and extracurricular) for their mostly white students, but the opposite is generally true of the schools that children in minority neighborhoods are zoned to. This type of zoning contributes to the segregation of students, as minorities that are zoned to attend lower-performing schools in their earlier years are less likely to be prepared for and admitted into highly selective, high-performing schools in their later years than their white counterparts.

Thus, while eliminating the SHSAT is a useful way to allow a more diverse population to access elite public schools in NYC, reform at earlier levels of public education would be more efficient. This should involve both removal of screening for younger students but also increased allocation of funds to poor-performing schools. While there is currently no singular, city-wide plan for integration, some school districts have implemented policies that could guide the way for the rest of New York. Brooklyn Community District 15, which includes the wealthy neighborhoods of Park Slope and Carroll Gardens (but also immigrant-dense, low-income neighborhoods), has made some of the most sweeping changes for integration in all of New York [10]. Its new program, called the D15 Diversity Plan, eliminates selective admissions criteria from all of the district’s middle schools, including those that are very “sought-after” [10]. Replacing previous admissions systems will be a “choice-based district-wide lottery,” that gives “extra weight to students who come from low-income families, are learning English as a new language, or are homeless” [11,10].

The plan adopted by District 15 is hailed as inclusive and considered one of the best attempts at equalizing access to public schools. However, many districts remain segregated. To address this issue, de Blasio has adopted some of the recommendations made by the Student Diversity advisory Group he created, including the provision of additional funding for five districts throughout the boroughs to implement integration plans similar to Brooklyn’s District 15 [12].

So far, it seems that these patchwork efforts at integration have frustrated reformers calling for larger-scale change. Surprisingly, the COVID-19 Pandemic might have created the conditions for wide-spread reform, as the quarantine and distance-learning have led to the collapse of some of the most important metrics of achievement and performance that highly selective screening admissions processes rely on, such as attendance and standardized tests [13]. The need to create a new admissions system for a post-COVID New York City may perhaps be a one-of-a-kind “blank slate” opportunity to champion integration in the largest public school system in the nation. I hope that the de Blasio administration will react effectively and contribute to the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight against systemic racism by eliminating systems that have maintained public school segregation. Perhaps 2020 will be the year that Brown v. Board of Ed will come to fruition - we must not let the opportunity pass.

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“Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1).” Oyez, 17 May 1954, www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/347us483.

“14th Amendment.” Legal     Information Institute, Cornell Law School, www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv.

Kucsera, John, and Gary Orfield. “New York State's     Extreme School Segregation: Inequality, Inaction and a Damaged Future.” UCLA: The Civil Rights Project, UC     Regents, 26 Mar. 2014, www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/ny-norflet-report-placeholder.

Shapiro, Eliza, and K.K. Rebecca Lai. “How New York's     Elite Public Schools Lost Their Black and Hispanic Students.” The New York Times, The New York     Times, 3 June 2019, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/03/nyregion/nyc-public-schools-black-hispanic-students.html.

Norwood, Candice. “Of 895 Freshmen Spots, Only 7     Black Students Got Into an Elite New York Public High School.” Governing: The Future of States and     Localities, 22 Mar. 2019, www.governing.com/topics/education/Of-895-Freshmen-Spots-Only-7-Black-Students-Got-Into-an-Elite-New-York-Public-High-School.html.

Shapiro, Eliza. “Segregation Has Been the Story of     New York City's Schools for 50 Years.” The     New York Times, The New York Times, 26 Mar. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/nyregion/school-segregation-new-york.html.

“Decision No. 17,748.” New York State Education Department: Office of Counsel, 29     Aug. 2019,www.counsel.nysed.gov/Decisions/volume59/d17748.

“'Our Plan Didn't Work': De Blasio Indicates Openness     to Keeping the SHSAT.” Spectrum     News: NY1, Charter Communications, 25 Sept. 2019, www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2019/09/26/shsat-bill-de-blasio-says-plan-to-scrap-specialized-high-school-exam-did-not-work.

Cary, Larry. “The SHSAT Isn't Racist: A Careful Look     at the Hecht-Calandra Law Shows It Was Not Motivated by Bigotry, nor Did     It Initially Harm Blacks and Hispanics.” Nydailynews.com, New York Daily News, 3 Sept. 2019, www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-the-shsat-isnt-racist-20190903-ihtrstrombhd7lveugv2xr6shy-story.html.

Veiga, Christina. “Brooklyn Middle Schools Eliminate     'Screening' as New York City Expands Integration Efforts.” Chalkbeat New York, Chalkbeat New     York, 20 Sept. 2018, https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2018/9/20/21105759/brooklyn-middle-schools-eliminate-screening-as-new-york-city-expands-integration-efforts.

“D15 Diversity Plan: Final Report 2018.” D15 Diversity Plan, http://d15diversityplan.com.

Gould, Jessica. “Mayor De Blasio Finally Rolls Out     First Part Of His School Integration Plan.” Gothamist, Gothamist, 11 June 2019, https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-de-blasio-finally-rolls-out-first-part-of-his-school-integration-plan.

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The Hunter students are also raising a more immediate concern, about the harm that could be caused by convening thousands of teenagers from across the city to sit for a three-hour exam in the middle of a pandemic. “We really don’t want the Hunter test to turn into a super-spreader event,” said Aruna Das, 15, who attends Hunter.

Hunter officials didn’t immediately have any comment on Friday. City officials said the specialized high school exam will be administered in each test-taker’s middle school to reduce travel and to allow more distance between applicants during the test.

Eliminating Hunter’s test could add needed momentum to efforts to overturn the state law requiring New York’s eight specialized high schools to use an exam as the sole criterion for admission. That elite group of public schools, which includes Stuyvesant High School, is 11 percent Black and Latino while the city’s schools are 70 percent Black and Latino overall.

New York is the only large district in the country to use a single exam for admissions to its top public high schools. But efforts to eliminate the specialized high school exam, known as the SHSAT, have been met with fierce resistance from many white and Asian parents, whose children make up a majority of students at the schools.

Other powerful opposition has come from high-profile alumni of the specialized schools, like the cosmetics heir Ron Lauder and the city’s public advocate, Jumaane Williams. Mr. Lauder has supported tutoring efforts aimed at helping Black and Hispanic students succeed on the test, while also funding a lobbying campaign to preserve the exam. Mr. Williams, who attended Brooklyn Technical High School, one of the specialized schools, has called for the expansion of gifted and talented programs in lower grades to help better prepare Black and Hispanic students for the test. “I got that acceptance because of the SHSAT. If left to grades alone, it is unlikely I would’ve been admitted, or that I would have been able to accomplish all that I have,” he told a New York State Assembly committee last year.

Clementine Roach, a senior at Hunter College High School, said the attachment of some alumni to the exams was mystifying. “We don’t think that’s what makes us special,” said Ms. Roach, 17.

Instead of allowing the pandemic to worsen longstanding inequities, New York could seize on the disruption to fix its broken high school admissions practices at all its schools. Several promising proposals have emerged in recent years. Instead of a single exam, Albany could allow the city to use state test scores, class rank and other measures. These important reforms will require the State Legislature to overturn Hecht-Calandra, the 1971 law that requires three of the specialized high schools — Stuyvesant, Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Technical High School — to use an exam as the only point of entry.

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