According to this article, Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech students are chosen in "a blind application process" that takes into consideration "attendance, grades, discipline and guidance counselor recommendations."
Here's my question. How can it be "a blind application process" if the school takes into consideration attendance, grades, discipline and guidance counselor recommendations?
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"Voc-tech schools are selective in the students they admit," said state Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester. "That allows them to limit their enrollment to students who are better prepared."
Translation: New Bedford Voc-Tech get to choose which students it wants.
"We're an admissions school," said Bob Dutch, principal at Upper Cape Voc-Tech in Bourne, "Students apply because they want to be here, and they generally work a little harder. They see the relevance of math and science to what they're doing in their technical area. They get it."
"When our students are unsuccessful and fail more than two subjects, there is no summer school. They have to go back and repeat the entire preparatory program. We find they're more likely to go back to their town schools and that doesn't count as a retention for us."
Translation: They get rid of kids that can't cut it and send back to the districts they came from.
Superintendent-Director Linda Enos said students are chosen in "a blind application process" that takes into consideration "attendance, grades, discipline and guidance counselor recommendations."
Translation: The application process is not as blind as Linda Enos wants you think it is.
You can lie about facts but facts don't lie.
Given the information provided in the posts above, how can the Department of Education be so critical of New Bedford Public Schools?
Regarding the previous post: More importantly, since these facts are being reported by the standard times, why does the newspaper continue to bash oor schools and teachers?
There are none so blind as those who will not see
Always seems to be between the haves and the have nots - and I was silly enough to believe that separate was NOT equal after Brown vs. BOE.
It always seems to be between the haves and the have nots. I was silly enough to think that, after Brown vs. BOE, separate was NOT equal.
Move the date from October 1st to May 1st when schools receive their per pupil allocations and Voke will be keeping alot more kids.
We all know they select their students. I worked at Roosevelt for 5 years and saw first hand how kids would try to scramble so they could qualify to get into Voke.
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