90 percent of high school students in five Bronx neighborhoods not ready for college-level work, new analysis finds
nydailynews.com
If you’re a kid in the South Bronx, you may graduate from high school — but, odds are, you’ll flunk out of college.
For example, just 8% of students were ready for college in Mott Haven, where virtually all the residents are black or Latino and more than half are poor.
“Everybody wants their children to go to college,” said Theresa Agyeman, 30, of Mott Haven, whose has three kids at the neighborhood’s Public School 43. “If you don’t have a good job, you have to stay in a poor neighborhood … in a drug-infested neighborhood.”
Ghetto Tour
So that tour bus rolling around the Bronx is actually a “Ghetto Tour”
Rich folks observing the less fortunate for laughs at $45 per person
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz slammed the guide as “the biggest fool on the planet.”
“They should tell people about The Bronx that we all know, and that’s The Bronx that’s had the lowest crime rate since 1963 last year,” he said.
“To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that and to view them as they are some sort of entertainment is pretty disgusting.”
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