To "choice into"

[Dan Goncharoff]

I went to Stuy. It and other schools were officially designated
'specialized' high schools in 1972. It was never called 'choice'. I am
fairly confident of that, as my father, uncle and older sister attended
Stuy. (My mother would have liked to go to Stuy, but girls were not allowed
then.)

DanG


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Another possible origin?  Going back a long time in the New York City
> public school system --apparently to the 1930s -- there have been a
> few high schools (early ones were Bronx Science; Music and Art;
> Stuyvesant) that students could choose to attend outside their
> district -- provided they were selected (accepted) by those
> schools.  I don't recall whether these schools were actually called
> "choice schools", but it seems possible.
>
> For today's system, see Wikipedia, "Specialized high schools in New York
> City".
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> Joel
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> At 5/8/2014 10:45 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> >I think the concept of "school choice" led to proponents being called
> >"choicers", which recently has led to the verb form "to choice" for the
> act
> >of choosing a school other than the geographically-assigned public school.
> >
> >AFAIK, "school choice" today refers to the wide variety of alternative
> >schools, from voucher systems to magnet schools to home schooling. It will
> >mean different things in different states.
> >
> >DanG
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> >On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Lisa Galvin <lisagal23 at hotmail.com>
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> > > I came across this today while transcribing an interview with a
> parent=2C
> > > w=
> > > hen asked where their child attended elementary school:  "We have
> choiced
> > > i=
> > > nto (name of school)."=20
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> > > I knew we had what are known as "choice schools" (the exact definition
> > > stil=
> > > l eludes me but I think they are schools  in the public school system
> here
> > > =
> > > in the US that have specific programs or offerings)=2C but I wasn't
> clear
> > > f=
> > > rom the context of the interview if this term referred to the act of
> > > gettin=
> > > g your child to attend an official "choice school"=2C or if this is
> now a
> > > g=
> > > eneral term (among parents and educators?) for getting your child into
> any
> > > =
> > > public school you wish them to attend.=20
> > > =20
> > > Has anyone heard or read this? So far Google isn't revealing much. I
> came
> > > a=
> > > cross a few online discussion threads that contained the usage=2C but
> > > that'=
> > > s about it.
> > > =20
> > > Lisa Galvin
> > > Shoreline=2C WA USA
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