Aziza Marulanda, a Bronx homemaker whose son, Gabriel, was in fifth grade when St . Josephs closed, questioned the value of a school that would cater to better-off families.
After all, the requirements of business are to do with the financial value of a school-leaver and not with his or her full range of abilities.
This clip not only shows off her amazing vocals, but also the lack of budget for the first season, which has the feel and production values of a high school talent show.
But, you have to look at the values of an elementary school education being eroded by the sports programs.
Schools must be made to understand the value of creating a school culture free from sexual harassment, sexual violence, and gender based-discrimination. Until schools step up to the plate, students, parents, and organizations must demand Title IX compliance.
Mohamed Mansour, a distance-learning MBA student at IE Business School in Spain, wonders about the value of a business school's brand I WAS never interested in leaving my job to join a full-time MBA programme.
But proponents say that with the decline in manufacturing and the growth of the information economy, higher educational standards are needed to reinforce the value of a high school diploma.
Dr. Tisch has questioned the value of a high school diploma from the city and the reliability of test-score increases among students in grades three through eight, telling the audience at a forum in August, "I think the city has an obligation to show the public that what they've done here is real".
But in the end, the real value of a prep school education is more than just getting into Harvard.
It is the same disillusionment many students presently face in a climate where high stakes testing and cuts to funding for music and the arts, not to mention vocational training, erode the value of a high school diploma.
