Should student be free to attend any school that they want? Yes. Should there be huge obstacles that they have to over come and get through in order to attend the school that they think is best for them? No. I really think that students should be able to go to any school that they want and get the best education that they can get. A while ago in New York City New Yorkers where given as choice as to where their children can attend school. They are now able to try to get their child in to any school that they like and think is best for their child. This is all very good in theory but most parents want there children to go to the best schools and so there for everyone wants to go to the same school and this makes getting into these wonderful school very competitive.
An example . . . “Forget the mad scrum over elite colleges. Liam Walsh, age 10, is in a frenzied battle for a sixth-grade seat in a Manhattan public school Since September, he has attended a dozen open houses, taken two admissions exams and skipped a third. He has written an essay, sat for a group interview and, he said, laughed quietly on a tour of a school in Greenwich Village that he considered not quite up to snuff. But Liam’s mother, Elana Seaman, a psychotherapist, said she found little funny about middle school admissions. “It has just been incredibly stressful and confusing,” she said. “I have seen a couple of mothers break down crying.”
I think rather than having only these few good schools that everyone wants there child to go to, New York should focus on making all their schools top notch and so there for students and parents would want to go to the school in their area, because it would be just as good as any other school around. If New York would stop letting this school of choice go on and start working on making each and every school in their district better than all students would be able to go to and get into a good school that could give them a great education.
On the other hand I think that having different schools that specialize in different things is good because maybe if that school just focuses on one thing they can really be the very best school to teach children that way. Like having an art school that is the best at teaching art and the very art inclined children get into and go there. This might also be a good way to go about things.
All and all I think that the whole thing is a toss up. Good schools are good and having standards that children have to achieve in order to attend these schools isn’t wrong but the whole acceptance thing is brutal and some parents just don’t have the time and money to put into having their children go through this rigmarole. What would you do if you had a choice to send your child or attend a better school? Would you jump through the hoops? Would you go that extra mile? Think about it!
The article . . .Admissions Jockeying Starts Earlier in New York
