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NYC schools will get extra $12M in funding for migrant students — but protesters say aid isn’t enough
New York City public schools seeing an influx of migrant students will receive an extra $12 million in funding, education officials announced Monday — minutes before a protest over the agency’s handling of the crisis.
Under the policy, schools who have at least six or more new students in temporary housing — an indicator of migrant kids in shelters — will receive $2,000 per head, the Department of Education said.
Advocates and local pols, including City Council Education Committee Chair Rita Joseph and Comptroller Brad Lander, had been set to call on the DOE to provide more resources for the asylum seekers at the protest, before the boost in funding was announced.
The demonstrators maintained the just-announced added cash doesn’t go far enough to fully support the estimated 7,200 migrant kids who’ve entered the system this school year.
“We need more treats and fewer tricks for all our students this Halloween — most certainly including those that are in families who have come here seeking asylum,” said Lander, who earlier this month called on the DOE to shell out at least another $34 million.
Lander also asked for more transparency from the city agency, which doesn’t publicly provide or update a number of asylum-seeking students on a weekly basis or the schools they’re enrolling in across the five boroughs.
In addition to the extra cash, the protesters want the department to make sure Spanish-speaking students are placed in schools that meet their needs, such as by having enough bilingual teachers.
Schools across the city have reported not having the resources necessary to hire bilingual teachers and social workers — including PS 33 where The Post reported only one teacher was certified for that purpose.
The new dollars can be spent on a handful of issues, including language access staff and programs.
“Each one of our kids, whether born in the boroughs or just arrived, deserves every resource we can provide, which is why I am thrilled to be announcing this additional funding today,” said Schools Chancellor David Banks in a statement.
“Schools are the centers of our communities, and through these funds, we will ensure that our schools are fully equipped to provide the academic, emotional, and social needs of our newest New Yorkers,” he added.
The money can also be used on extracurricular activities or support for student well-being, according to a press release. Some schools may choose to fund partnerships with community-based groups, outsourcing those responsibilities to local organizations.
The announcement comes after the DOE earlier this month said it had allocated $25 million to schools in response to overall enrollment increases, regardless of student immigration status.
Enrollment across the city was being audited on Monday. School budgets are typically adjusted in the fall after enrollment is finalized on Oct. 31 — giving additional dollars to schools serving more kids than expected, and taking money away from those enrolling fewer, usually by the winter.
Councilmember Joseph, who previously worked in the city schools as an English as a new language coordinator, said that schools should be held harmless for enrollment changes as students continue to arrive from the border.
“We have to move it a little faster. Our students cannot wait,” she said.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/31/nyc-to-give-schools-extra-12-million-in-funding-for-migrant-students/
******************************************************'Parents need to stop coddling their kids': Renowned educator who raised TWO CEOs and a doctor reveals the 'unpopular' parenting rule that helped her daughters achieve success
A renowned educator has revealed the 'unpopular' parenting rule she followed as a young mother that helped her raise two CEOs and a doctor.
Esther Wojcicki, 81, is known as the 'Godmother of Silicon Valley' because of how many of her students went on to become entrepreneurs — including her own incredibly successful children.
The journalist and best-selling author of the parenting book 'How to Raise Successful People' is mom to Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube; Janet Wojcicki, a doctor and professor of pediatrics; and Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe.
'Don't do anything for your kids that they can do for themselves,' Wojcicki advised in an op-ed she penned for CNBC in which she argued against helicopter parenting.
She explained that removing any and all obstacles that arise in children's lives can be detrimental to their future success, insisting that 'parents need to stop coddling their kids.'
Instead, she believes children should be held responsible for any daily tasks that they can handle on their own, including setting their own alarms, picking out their school clothes, helping with meals, and checking their own homework.
'Chores are especially important,' she said. 'Washing dishes was a big one in our house. All my daughters stood on a little stool at the sink and washed the dishes after dinner.'
She also used to have her daughters make their beds every morning even though they didn't always do the best job.
'A bed made by a kid can look like she’s still asleep in it,' she admitted. 'But I didn’t fight them. As long as they did it, I was happy.'
Wojcicki noted she had 'many unpopular parenting rules,' but this is the one that she believes is the most important.
'The more you trust your children to do things on their own, the more empowered they'll be,' she said. 'The key is to begin with guided practice: It's the "I do, we do, you do" method.'
Wojcicki taught journalism at Palo Alto High School for more than three decades and founded the school's Media Arts Program. She also served as a mentor to a number of students, including Steve Jobs' daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
As a teacher, she rewarded her students for 'learning and the hard work' they put in and 'not getting it right the first time.'
'Mastery means doing something as many times as it takes to get it right,' she said. 'Being a writing teacher taught me this. In the 80s and 90s, one of the supposed characteristics of a good teacher was that your class was so hard that many students failed.
'But the kids who got a D on their first paper found it impossible to recover and lost the motivation to improve, since they were starting out so far behind.'
Wojcicki explained that she gave her students 'the opportunity to revise their work as many times as they wanted,' and 'their grade was based on the final product.'
Parents should also be focusing on mastery and not perfection, according to the longtime teacher.
'The idea is to teach them how to cope with what life throws at them,' she said. 'One of the most important lessons I taught my daughters is that the only thing you can control is how you react to things.'
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Greenie fanaticism in the schools is hurting kids
The Age of Anxiety has dawned. While this may be easy to dismiss as a natural corollary of the recent pandemic, when one looks a little closer, it’s not hard to see where this phenomenon manifested and where it is sustained.
In 2021, The Lancet published a global survey of responses from 10,000 young people, aged 16–25 years from Australia, Brazil, Finland, France, India, Nigeria, Philippines, Portugal, the UK, and America.
The survey found that 84 per cent of young people aged between 16-25 were ‘moderately to extremely worried’ about climate change. More than 50 per cent of respondents reported feeling sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and guilty.
Over 75 per cent said that they think the future is ‘frightening’. Climate anxiety and distress were correlated with perceived inadequate government response and associated feelings of betrayal.
Yet despite decades of technological and medical advances and the raising of hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, the natural question that arises is, where did this anxiety come from?
You need look no further than our education system and what is being taught to students of all ages on a daily basis.
For years the University of Sydney’s Environment Institute (SEI) has been at the forefront of Woke ideology and radical climate activism. According to the SEI’s worldview, radical climate activism is an antidote to falling education standards and eco-related mental health problems.
Ultimately, activism-driven anxiety is a product of the left-wing vanity project to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050.
It’s a dream being fuelled by Australia’s oldest and most prestigious sandstone university and its treatment of the climate debate.
Who cares about numeracy and literacy? We have a global apocalypse on our hands! This is the mantra repeated by the Greta Thunbergs of the world and supported by SEI research.
The upshot: schools should be replaced with climate activism camps.
According to SEI Postdoctoral Fellow Blanche Verlie and Melbourne University’s Alicia Flynn, ‘ecocidal global socio-economic systems’ can be blamed for most problems in the modern world.
Verlie and Flynn ask, ‘What if education is not the solution, but part of the problem?’
They question whether education has ‘young people’s best interests at heart’ and claim schools constrain ‘cultural and political agency and effect’.
‘The transformative response is to reorient educational structures, practices, and relations towards those that sustain life on Earth. It is time for education to reckon with its role in the climate crisis and its entanglement within colonial-capitalist extractivism.’
In other words, the likes of Verlie and Flynn believe schools should be turned into centres where future social justice warriors can be trained the transform the ‘ecocidal’ structures from within.
Verlie and Flynn also remain stubbornly attached to the notion that there is ‘insufficient climate change education in schools’.
Perhaps they have not read the latest version of the National Curriculum, which is liberally littered with environmental content, thanks to the presence of ideologically driven cross-curriculum priorities like ‘sustainability’.
The criticism doesn’t just stop at schools, it extends to universities as well.
‘Our ecocidal global socio-economic systems (namely colonial-capitalism) are largely the result of work by people with BAs, BSs, LLBs, MBAs, and PhDs,’ Verlie and Flynn claim. ‘The transformative response is to reorient educational structures, practices, and relations towards those that sustain life on Earth.’
Well then, out with the old and in with the new!
Such extreme rejection of the Western intellectual tradition also undermines the SEI’s role as a department of research, but we cannot be surprised. After all, it was the University of Sydney that promoted the Unlearn campaign encouraging students to ‘demolish social norms and rebuild new ones in their place’.
To promote research and innovation, the University of Sydney said that preconceived ideas about ‘truth’, ‘love’, ‘medicine’, and ‘criminal’ must be questioned. Calling for students to ‘unlearn’ basic fundamental ideas of knowledge will leave young and impressionable Australians unaware of the basic principles which built our way of knowing and way of life.
Similarly, advising students – terrified that the end of the world is nigh – to attend climate rallies, is a recipe for disaster.
More activism is the last thing that Australian children need at school right now. The most recent report from the OECD Program for International Student Assessment confirmed that Australia has continued its 20-year decline in education standards.
Throwing education out the window entirely and replacing it with more climate activism is not the answer. Neither is it the answer to the growing mental health crisis among younger generations.
The educated SEI elite, living in a world of ideas, rather than reality, must start to present real solutions to the problems they identify.
Obliterating the entire ‘ecocidal’ system which includes Western literature, culture, education, morals, values, institutions – to make way for a green new world – is a fine example of Einstein’s observation of infinite ‘human stupidity’, not progress.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/11/the-kids-arent-alright-2/ ?
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