Rochester, N.Y.: As the 2018 national election season is now upon us, I want to inform my fellow Americans about how the 2018 national Republican Party is different from the one that I grew up knowing in the 1950s and 1960s. Michael Weiss Former teacher, alumnus and founder, Brooklyn Tech Alumni Association Instead of embarking on a concerted effort to provide significant support to these “underresourced” schools, the mayor would like us to think that doing away with the SHSAT will improve education. Murray Fix the other schoolsīrooklyn: The renewed effort by the mayor to reduce the use of or abolish the entrance examination for the specialized high schools is a diversion that he is using to take attention away from the real problem, which is the lack of rigorous, high-quality education and preparation in the primary and middle schools in neighborhoods with a high concentration of low-income residents. The time is now, because the children are waiting for an education which will ensure a brighter future.
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Leaders came to Albany with parents, teachers and children to address the need for equity and fairness in education for the poor. Scarsdale, N.Y.: It was 1988 when former Schools Chancellor Richard Green stated: “In the final analysis, we must remember that we will be judged by only one standard - the extent to which we have improved achievement scores for all students.” This quest holds even today. Michael Meyers, president New York Civil Rights Coalition I urge readers not to drink from the Clinton-Banks cup of academic malpractice and racialist nonsense. This separatist treatise is rooted in racism and sexism, premised on the theory that minority boys in particular are troublesome and headed to prison and a lowlife existence because they lack males in their homes. Absent is the complexity of families today, including single-parent and same-sex parentage. Presented are the usual bromides about dysfunctional black families and how black boys (but not girls) especially need father figures in the home.
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Manhattan: What does Hillary Clinton know about teaching black boys that she pens an Op-Ed (with David Banks, CEO of the Eagle Academy Foundation), “How to help young black men” (June 4)? Other than anecdotes and claptrap about “race,” she and Banks offer nothing but racial stereotypes and sociological jargon regarding cultural and skin color differences to support their conventional ideas that black and Latino boys must be schooled and mentored separately from whites and Asians, and all girls, for that matter, including the girls from the same households as their brothers. Who did you vote for? Marion Gargano Pernicious stereotypes Manalapan, N.J.: Hitler separated children from their moms. James Neimeister Throwing in the towelsīronx: Are Donald and Melania coming to the Puerto Rican Day Parade this Sunday with their paper towels? Rose Mary Lancaster I hope by then we succeed in dragging Heritage of Pride out of its provincial ways.
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Next year the 50th anniversary of Stonewall brings WorldPride to NYC. There are other ways of ensuring public safety. We don’t need every square inch of the parade route to be lined in barricades. Back home, Heritage of Pride, which organizes the Manhattan parade, had nothing to say in response to the Reclaim Pride Coalition’s demands about the NYPD’s overbearing policing each year. It all made NYC Pride of just a few thousand seem rather quaint. But the political message of the day was clear: This year’s parade theme was “Our Voice, Our Vote,” to help boost LGBTQ turnout in the runup to Brazil’s general election in October. Of the thousands of marchers weaving in and out of the streets between floats that hammered the city with bass, I saw few police or corporate sponsors. New York - Ridgewood: On Sunday, I had the distinct pleasure of participating in the 22nd São Paulo LGBT Pride Parade along with millions of other revelers, and the only barricades I saw were strategically placed around a first-aid tent.