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Re: Sunset Park school district

Posted by Dan on Sat Sep 22 15:23:45 2018, in response to Sunset Park school district, posted by BILLBKLYN on Fri Sep 21 22:14:13 2018.

IT gets even worse. A PERFORMING ARTS school can no longer audition prospective students. WTF! WTF! Unfuckingbelievable!! Unfuckingbelievable!

https://nypost.com/2018/09/21/diversity-plan-mayhem-arts-school-cant-audition-applicants-anymore/

Parents and even teachers at a Brooklyn performing arts school were shocked to learn Friday that the school can no longer audition prospective students under the district’s new diversity plan.

Families at the New Voices School of Academic and Creative Arts in Sunset Park were blindsided by the news a day after Mayor Bill de Blasio approved a scheme to scrap admissions standards at all middle schools in District 15.

“I had no idea this was happening. I’m going to have to go to a meeting, call someone,” said longtime district resident Eddie Rosario, 57, who has a seventh-grader at the school and another daughter hoping to attend next year.

“My other daughter wants to go here, too. If they’re doing away with auditions … I’m going to have to talk to someone. What’s next? Are they changing the process at the arts high schools, too?”

Until now, New Voices — the only performing arts middle school in the Park Slope-to-Sunset Park district — has selected students through auditions and interviews.

But entry will now be based on a lottery — and half the seats will be reserved for low-income, homeless and English-language-learning applicants.

That was news to many parents who spoke to The Post outside the school Friday morning — and several teachers also said they had no idea......................

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