Someone get paper a copy editor

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To the editor,

I am dismayed by the careless scholarship/research evident in the article, “PS 24 Administrator Sues Dept of Ed,” which appears in the May 5th edition of The Riverdale Press, written by Shant Shahrigian.

In citing the composition of the student body, the article uses the following percentages: white, 45.7 percent; Latino, 3.6 percent; black, 7.1 percent; and Asian, 7.1 percent.

Even the most cursory glance would indicate that these percentages don’t begin to approach 100 percent. And anyone even remotely familiar with the school would immediately realize that the percentage of Latino students is far higher.

Statistics from the NYCDOE website for the school show the following percentages: white, 41 percent; Latino, 41 percent; black, 7 percent; Asian, 8 percent; and others, 3 percent,

Where are the fact-checkers/editors? Perhaps they are channeling Donald Trump’s campaign, where the accuracy of facts is irrelevant?

Norman M. Wechsler

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