Looking back at my four years of high school, I can honestly say that I don't think I ever did anything productive. My classes were often interrupted by fights and disruptive and disrespectful students. I choose to go to Bayard Rustin H.S. becuase of a Creative Writing program that they had. Only to find out once I got there that the program lacked resources and was sooned closed. From my experience, I can say that had their been such a test as the one mentioned in Alex's article, I would've taken it without giving it thought! I do think that these would only benefit a small percentage of students and would give them preference over others.
This makes me wonder, isnt this just another way of giving priority to exams? If these were available, wouldnt it be the case that many teachers would be teaching towards the tests? Wouldn't many of the learning and life skills that students need before they go to college be completley disregarded?
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As bad as your experiences were during the time you attended the Bayard Rustin Educational High School for the Humanities I am sorry to say those were the "good old days". Today the Bayard Rustin Educational Complex is soon to be defunct. The fights continue, we have even more uncooperative and unprepared students and morale amongst the staff is non existent. I am also sorry to tell you that Ms. Catherine Dowling, English teacher died of cancer this past week.
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