{"id":176620,"date":"2020-05-03T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/03\/not-a-surprise-4\/"},"modified":"2020-05-03T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:44:00","slug":"not-a-surprise-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/03\/not-a-surprise-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Harlem Success Academy, featured prominently in the pro-charter film <i>Waiting for Superman<\/i> is <a href=\"https:\/\/garyrubinstein.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/02\/98-success-academy-students-accepted-to-college\/\">lying about all of its students going to college<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they are kicking out students before they fail, a classic scam of the charter school types:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/garyrubinstein.wordpress.com\/2020\/05\/02\/98-success-academy-students-accepted-to-college\/\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%;\">98 Success Academy Students Accepted To College<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span> <br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But is that a lot? <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The New York Post seems to think so.  Three times <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/01\/entire-success-academy-senior-class-accepted-to-college\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\">in a recent article<\/a> they suggest that this is 100% of the seniors.  The title \u201cEntire Success Academy senior class accepted to college\u201d certainly implies it.  The first sentence \u201cEvery senior in one of the city\u2019s largest charter school networks has been accepted to a college this year, officials said.\u201d reinforces it.  And the second sentence \u201cAll 98 of the 12th graders at Success Academy\u2019s HS of the Liberal Arts in Manhattan earned admission to universities \u2014 including Yale, Penn, Duke and Georgetown.\u201d further drives the point home. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But a responsible reporter would ask the logical follow up question.  Is 98 really all the students in the class of 2020?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer is, &#8220;No&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There were 16 more students 6 months ago, and there were 48 fewer students the year before, and this is a school which purports to take the students from elementary school through&nbsp; graduation from high school.<\/p>\n<p>They cull the weak to juice their numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that Harlem Success Academy, featured prominently in the pro-charter film Waiting for Superman is lying about all of its students going to college. Instead, they are kicking out students before they fail, a classic scam of the charter school types: 98 Success Academy Students Accepted To College But is that a lot? &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[673,575],"class_list":["post-176620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-charter-schools","tag-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}