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SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2018

Interlude—The New York Times does it again:
We've all heard about high school kids who are "working on third grade level."

What happens when a nation's most famous newspaper seems to function that way?

This question arose as we read the latest report by Harris and Hu about Mayor de Blasio's heroic attempt to "desegregate" New York City's eight high-powered "specialized high schools."

In print editions, this latest report consumes the whole of this morning's page A18—the first page of the Times' "New York" section.

As usual, this full-page report asks us to be shocked, shocked about what the Times is reporting. For itself, the Times seemed to be shocked to learn this less-than-shocking fact:

High achievement is taking place in the schools with the highest achievers!

Beyond that, the report continues a standard practice by the Times. Once again, we're asked to believe a subjective account from a school official even as the Times fails to present the relevant data—data which strongly tend to contradict the impression the official conveys.

In its constant failure to report basic data, the New York Times keeps choosing to work on grade school level. At best, it's pretending to cover Mayor de Blasio's peculiar new proposal.

In this morning's report, Harris and Hu are shocked to learn that lots of kids from the city's "highly selective" middle schools are gaining admission to the city's eight specialized high schools.

How silly is this stance? If we assume the scribes are sincere, we'd place their analytical skills on something like second grade level. Let's start with a basic review:

At the end of fifth grade, New York City assigns many of its highest achievers to "highly selective" middle schools, where they, quite correctly, pursue an advanced course of study.

Please understand! In any sensible public school system, these same higher-achieving kids would pursue an advanced course of study, even if they attended a large, academically diverse, "neighborhood school."

Instead, New York City sends many such kids to certain "highly selective" schools. Three years later, lot of kids in these high-powered schools gain admission to the city's eight high-powered high schools.

The New York Times, along with the mayor, seems to be shocked by this result. Why would schools which are full of high achievers turn out high achievers? The Times is bollixed by that!

You'd think a newspaper couldn't get dumber than that. Today, the Times has made its latest attempt.

At issue is the Rafael Hernandez Dual Language Magnet School in the Bronx, a school which hasn't seen a lot of its kids gain admission to the eight "specialized high schools."

In two separate passages, Harris and Hu quote the principal of this school. He seems to feel that his students are getting shortchanged by current admission procedures.

His assessment of his school and his students is completely subjective. Later, we'll show you the basic data, which seem to diverge from his view:
HU AND HARRIS (6/30/18): For the Rafael Hernandez Dual Language Magnet School in the Bronx, the change would be equally profound [under the mayor's proposed plan]. This year, 63 students at the school took the SHSAT. None scored high enough to be admitted. The year before, just three made the cut, and two the year before that. Under the new plan, the school would send six students to the specialized schools every year. “What they want to do, it’s going to open the door for a lot of my students,” said Sergio Caceres, the school’s principal.

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Dr. Caceres, the Bronx principal, said that half of his eighth-grade students already take advanced math and science classes, and have the ability and work ethic to thrive in a challenging school like Bronx Science. His students do not do well on the SHSAT, he said, in part because most of their families cannot afford tutoring. When the results came back this spring, some of the students were so disappointed they cried.

“Don’t you think it’s embarrassing that Bronx Science is in the Bronx and only a handful of students are from the Bronx?” he asked. “People might think we don’t have the students, but we do have the students.”
Caceres believes that more of his students should be gaining admission to the eight high-powered high schools, including his own borough's prestigious Bronx High School of Science.

According to Caceres, half his eighth-grade students are taking "advanced math and science classes." He says they have what it takes to succeed at a high-powered school like Bronx Science.

"We have the students," he says. He says they don't get admitted to the specialized schools because their parents "can't afford tutoring." Presumably, this is a reference to SHSAT test prep.

He says it's embarrassing that his kids don't get admitted to the specialized schools. In one respect, that's certainly true. But let's take a look at the record!

For the record, Caceres could always be right in his basic assessment. That said, his basic assessment is completely subjective. For example:

Just exactly how "advanced" are those "advanced classes?" Harris and Hu don't ask. Routinely, professional skepticism heads for the door when the Times hands you moments like this.

In today's dose of bathos, Times readers are left with the subjective assessment of a middle school principal who's an interested party. Incomparably, we decided to take a look at the statistical record.

Under the mayor's peculiar proposal, admission to these eight high-powered high schools would be based on two factors—a student's grade point average, and his or her scores on New York State's annual statewide tests. (The current SHSAT admission test would cease to exist.)

Luckily, a school's performance on the statewide tests is a matter of public record. We decided to compare the performance at Hernandez to the performance at Booker T. Washington Middle School, one of the "highly selective" middle schools which gets kicked around, for the ten millionth time, in today's report.

How well do the kids at Hernandez perform as compared to the kids at Booker T. Washington? Caceres says his kids have the tools. The data seem to say something different.

Remember—scores on these New York State tests would be one of the mayor's chosen metrics. We aren't vouching for the utility of these data. Mayor de Blasio is!

Below, you see the basic data the Times withheld in favor of a subjective assessment from an interested party. We'll explain the data below:
New York State math test, Grade 8
2016-2017 school year

Booker T. Washington Middle School:

Average student proficiency rating: 3.88 (of maximum 4.5)
Percentage of students achieving proficiency: 86.2%

Rafael Hernandez Magnet School:
Average student proficiency rating: 2.61 (of maximum 4.5)
Percentage of students achieving proficiency: 30.4%
Do you want to know the difference between a "performance level" and a "proficiency rating" in the complex lexicon of the New York City schools?

We're assuming you don't! At any rate, Booker T. Washington's average proficiency rating was much higher than that achieved at Hernandez.

Meanwhile, a student is rated "proficient" in math if he or she achieves a "performance level" of 3 or 4 on the statewide test (as opposed to a 1 or a 2). At Booker T. Washington, 86% of the kids scored proficient. At Hernandez, the number was thirty percent.

This doesn't mean that Hernandez doesn't have kids who would benefit from the high-powered programs of a school like Bronx Science. Indeed, in the school year under review, three kids from Hernandez gained admission to specialized high schools through their performance on the SHSAT.

That said, how does the principal's glowing assessment seem once you've seen the data? Does it still seem weird to learn that Booker T. Washington has been sending many more kids to the specialized high schools, as opposed to the school in the Bronx?

Does that principal's subjective assessment seem to jibe with those data? Of one thing you can be certain—you will never be told about such data by the New York Times.

With great persistence, the Times provides subjective assessments from parents and principals while hiding key data away. They disappear New York City's enormous achievement gaps. Today, they slid past basic test scores as they fed you the story they like.

In its reporting on de Blasio's plan, the Times has been working on second-grade level. This is why we say that:

The first objection is obvious. The Times never identifies the obvious, bewildering question raised by the mayor's proposal.

If Gotham has as many high-achieving kids as the mayor claims, why would the city continue to run just eight high-powered high schools? Why wouldn't the mayor open four additional high-powered schools? Why not add eight more?

De Blasio's failure to address that question is the most gobsmacking part of his ugly "race war" proposal. The Times refuses, again and again, to identify this puzzling aspect of his peculiar proposal.

Beyond that, the Times keeps pretending to be surprised when middle schools which enroll the city's highest performers end up graduating large numbers of high performers.

You'd have to be extremely dumb to be puzzled or shocked by that. To drown its readers in propaganda and bathos, the Times keeps offering subjective assessments from interested parties while locking key data away.

Educationally, we're in favor of challenging every one of New York City's great kids to the maximum extent that makes sense. Journalistically, we're opposed to childish dissembling and to brain-dead propaganda.

Journalistically, do you ever get tired of being played by a newspaper like the Times? For ourselves, we tired of that in the 1990s.

In its coverage of the "desegregation plans," the New York Times has been working on second-grade level. Except in the realm of propagandistic melodrama, it'a barely performing that well.

The Rafael Hernandez Magnet School is full of superlative kids. The data suggest that it isn't full of Gotham's highest performing students—rather, that this onrushing state of affairs hasn't come to pass just yet.

Where do numbers come from: To peruse the data, just click here. After that, follow these simple steps:

Select "NYC School Survey." Enter the name of the school in question, then click "Find."

Click on "Student Achievement Outcomes." Scroll down to "State Test Metrics."

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  1. "Journalistically, do you ever get tired of being played by a newspaper like the Times?"

    "Journalistically"'s got nothing to do with it. You're a member of a cult, Bob; a zombie death-cult. And as in any cult, the leaders always know all the right answers, and "propagandistic melodrama" is exactly what they do to motivate the flock. You must obey, Bob, and never question the authority, your "most famous newspaper"...

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  2. Minority gifted kids are not always well-identified using test scores. Somerby's derision of the principals "anecdotal" claims shows Somerby's ignorance. Then he compares mean scores at the schools, as if they meant anything at all about the individuals who are the highest performers.

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    1. Certainly some kids are not good test-takers, and so may indeed not be well measured by the SHSAT. Are you saying that is particularly true for minority kids? If so, What is your basis for believing that? Presumably "minority" does not include Asian kids here?

      More generally, proponents of the change owe us some basis for asserting that the change will be an improvement over the existing admissions process. What are the metrics by which that improvement can be measured? So far, that seems to be lacking. In my view Somerby's complaint that the arguments we have seen so far are, at best, "anecdotal" seems to be, if anything, generous.

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    2. Yes, Claude Steele studied what is called stereotype threat. It occurs when kids know they are expected to do poorly and thus worry about their performance. That distracts cognitive resources from the task at hand and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It also occurs with respect to women and math and white males compared to Asians and math. So the stereotype threat goes the opposite direction for whites and Asians. You can google him -- he is a psychology professor at Stanford and has published a great deal on this topic.

      Fairness is an important goal, not just performance metrics.

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    3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat

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    4. You have to be careful with Steele’s results on stereotype threat. It’s often interpreted as saying that on average, black and white students score the same when there is no threat, but that the usual gap appears when a threat is introduced. (A “threat” would be telling test takers that the test is an intelligence test and asking the test takers to identify their race. The threat is removed when test takers are told the test is a problem-solving exercise invented by the researchers.)

      In fact, absent a threat, the black/white gap was the standard one, what one expect based on previous SAT scores. Introducing the threat, made the gap larger. Go here

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    5. I am not interpreting Steele's findings that way. I am suggesting that a student's normal performance may be decreased when threat is introduced. I am not suggesting that average students are average because of threat. I am suggesting that gifted minority students (who are outstanding in the classroom and obviously gifted in their teachers' estimations) might not do their best work on a test due to threat, especially if they understand that it is a selection test. It is accepted among educators of gifted children that additional measures should be considered when selecting gifted students because tests alone tend to disadvantage minority gifted students. I am not suggesting that average students would be gifted if testing weren't involved -- although Somerby seems to think that is being suggested by de Blasio. I am suggesting that it is hard to identify minority gifted students using testing alone.

      The distribution of scores for black students is a normal curve, just as it is for white students, with a lower mean. There will still be some students in the tails of that distribution who will qualify as gifted, if not as many. Some will gain admittance on scores alone. Others may be borderline and might meet the selection criterion if factors such as threat were taken into consideration. That justifies a lower cutoff for such students and that is what de Blasio is suggesting. This is routine in many school districts. It is not lowering the bar for black students. It is understanding the impact of lower expectations and bias on their test performance and adjusting appropriately. No one wants to put average students into gifted classes.

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    6. Anonymous on July 1, 2018 at 4:08 PM,

      I’m not suggesting that you’re interpreting Steele’s findings in any particular way. If indeed, you’re the same Anonymous. I can’t tell since none of you has the common courtesy to use a nym. Steele’s findings, however, are commonly interpreted in the way you eschew. All I said, was be careful with Steele’s research.

      TDH isn’t imputing to de Blasio the view that average students would be gifted absent testing. He’s saying that claims that gifted black and Hispanic students are eliminated by testing is based on subjective claims of interested parties. And that once you’ve instituted ostensibly objective numeric criteria for admission to coveted programs, you risk a firestorm by changing those criteria to take race into account. (Put scare quotes around the word race if you wish.)

      I’m not opposed in principle to “adjusting appropriately” the entrance criteria to elite schools just because I don’t know how to do that. I’ll ask you the question I asked at 2:32P: what do you suggest as a better way to find out which students will do well in the calculus classes at the Bronx High School of Science than by asking applicants to solve problems in precalculus? If you think asking applicants to solve such problems is fine, what is a fairer and safer way to judge the applicants other than rank order of success in solving those problems?

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    7. I have a PhD in psychology and have published a book on gifted children. I have worked in education since the 1980s. But you go ahead being the know-it-all who cannot listen to what anyone else says. Calculus isn't all there is to science so why should a calculus test determine who goes to a science high school? You can tell me what's common in my field when you get some god damned credentials.

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    8. Anonymous on July 1, 2018 at 9:13 PM

      On the intertubes, anybody can play a PhD in psychology or claim to write a book on gifted children. So I don’t give a goddam about your claimed credentials.

      I’m not the one who can’t listen to what anyone else says. In fact, I’m the one saying I’m open to appropriate adjustments to entrance criteria even when I don’t know how to do that.

      I’m also not the one making shit up about what TDH says.

      The SHSAT isn’t a calculus test because none of the students taking the test has studied calculus. The mathematics tested by SHSAT is the prerequisite for studying calculus, which yes, isn’t all there is to science. But if you don’t think calculus is critically important for understanding science, then you don’t know fuck-all about science.

      Which, come to think of it, is supporting evidence for your having an advanced degree in psychology. So I may have been too hasty in my first sentence.

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    9. The article does not express shock about the students that currently attend SHS and offers no analysis on that subject beyond noting that they are "disproportionately Asian and white." It discusses who would win and who would lose under the new proposal.

      Calculus is only important for understanding a few subsets of science. High School science classes do not use calculus. Colleges teach calculus better than high schools. A new study that examined the impact of high school math on college found that:

      "Mastery of the mathematics considered preparatory for calculus was found to have more than double the impact of taking a high school calculus course on students’ later performance in college calculus, on average. However, students with weaker mathematics preparation gained the most from taking high school calculus."

      Bronx High School of Science is 22% white and 63% asian.

      Science and engineering workforce in the US is 69% white and 28% asian.

      Of the 40,000 students that have graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in the last 40 years, they claim about 50 currently in the science and engineering workforce. Their list of graduates who have won Nobel Prizes, all graduated in the 1940's-60s, all white men.

      https://www.nctm.org/Publications/Journal-for-Research-in-Mathematics-Education/2018/Vol49/Issue3/The-Path-to-College-Calculus_-The-Impact-of-High-School-Mathematics-Coursework/

      https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/diversity-in-science-where-are-the-data/

      https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/List_of_Bronx_High_School_of_Science_alumni.html

      Mayor de Blasio claims to have a comprehensive plan to improve education in NYC, dealing with issues like achievement gaps through ideas such as building 100 new community schools. His office offers various information:

      https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/281-18/mayor-de-blasio-chancellor-carranza-plan-improve-diversity-specialized-high/#/0

      https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/communityschools/downloads/pdf/community-schools-strategic-plan.pdf

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  3. "The Rafael Hernandez Magnet School is full of superlative kids. The data suggest that it isn't full of Gotham's highest performing students—rather, that this onrushing state of affairs hasn't come to pass just yet."

    Does the school have to be "full of" high performers to fill 6 seats?

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  5. My complaint about NYC's system is pretty basic.

    I find standardized tests to be ridiculously vulgar, a kind of burlesquing of education. Same with excessive reliance upon grades, and grade grubbing. It must be my Paul Goodman/John Holt/Edgar Friedenberg background.

    Related to this, I don't think that the best and highest score on standardized tests = the "best" students.

    I think De Blasio's basically correct here (he's a 60s guy on this too), and if Asian kids are truly good students then they'll excel with the new criteria. Let's get away from grade grubbing and performance art.

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    3. How are you going to determine which students will do well in the calculus classes at the Bronx High School of Science if you don't ask the applicants to solve problems in precalculus?

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  7. Usually the author is very interested in discussing race, class and education. Today the NY Times actually does and he throws a tantrum about it.

    Since the author of this blog is pretending to not know what segregation is, here's segregation in his own words:

    "If Gotham has as many high-achieving kids as the mayor claims, why would the city continue to run just eight high-powered high schools? Why wouldn't the mayor open four additional high-powered schools? Why not add eight more?"

    Here's the description of the students he showers with praise that would make up one of these high-powered schools:
    "the Booker T. Washington Middle School in Manhattan, where 150 students did. All of them, like the specialized high schools, have enrollments that are disproportionately Asian and white."

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      Actually, dear Zombie, it's you and your bosses who are "pretending to not know what segregation is".

      Because when you say 'segregation', you're alluding to a certain legal concept of the past (the so-called Jim Crow laws), that has nothing to do with the current situation.

      And you and your bosses are deliberately alluding to that legal concept, in order to stir 'racial' animosity.

      And the author voices his objection to your chicanery.

      Comprende?

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  8. My name is Handford Ann,i base in canada.i want to share my wonderful testimony on how i got back my ex-lover of my life back, he left me for another woman for no reason and i try to make things work for both of us yet things where getting worse and i love him so much and there is nothing i could do to get my ex back until i met a testimony share by Maria from USA on the internet talking about a powerful spell caster who brought his ex lover back within 48hours and i decide to give it a try and to my greatest surprise he also did it for me just as he did for Maria and i have a lot of people complaining of fake spell caster but this one i met was a real spell caster who help me to solve my problem i have no solution to,i introduce many of my best friends that have a similar problems,and their problem were solve with the great help of Dr.Trust. They get back their ex within 48 hours. I am so happy that my ex is back to me again,and the most surprise,is that our love is very strong,every day is happiness and joy. and there is nothing like been with the man you love.i am so happy my love is back to me with the help of Dr.Trust. If you have any problem in your relationship i will advice you to contact him now (Ultimatespellcast@yahoo.com or Ultimatespellcast@gmail.com) Call or Text him now +1(317) 762-7416

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  9. I NEVER BELIEVED BUT NOW I BELIEVE EVERY WORD THAT DR ADEOLA SAYS AND EVERY BODY NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT HIM. I am here to give my testimony about Dr ADEOLA who helped me.. i want to inform the public how i was cured from (HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS) by Dr ADEOLA, i visited different hospital but they gave me list of drugs like Famvir, Zovirax, and Valtrex which is very expensive to treat the symptoms and never cured me. I was browsing through the Internet searching for remedy on HERPES and i saw comment of people talking about how Dr ADEOLA cured them. when i contacted him he gave me hope and send a Herbal medicine to me that i took for just 2 weeks and it seriously worked for me, my HERPES result came out negative. I am so happy as i am sharing this testimony. My advice to you all who thinks that there is no cure for herpes that is not true just contact him and get cure from DR ADEOLA healing cure of all kinds of sickness you may have. Remember delay in treatment leads to death.. whatsapp: +2349027752454 OR EMAIL dradeolaherbalhome@gmail.com.

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  10. REAL SPELL CASTER (LORD JUMA) THAT CAN HELP YOU GET YOUR LOVER BACK add him up on whatsApp @ +1 (859)-203-2241.

    Hi everyone, I was going crazy when my husband breakup with me and left me for another woman!! All thanks to LORD JUMA the best love spell caster online that helped me to bring back my husband today and restore happiness in my marriage.. I'm DIANA DIVEN by name i lives in England. My husband breakup with me and left me to be with another woman, and i wanted him back. I was so frustrated and i could not know what next to do again, I love my husband so much but he was cheating on me with another woman and this makes him break up with me so that he can be able to get married to the other lady and this lady i think use witchcraft on my husband to make him hate me and my kids and this was so critical and uncalled-for, I cry all day and night for God to send me a helper to get back my husband!! I was really upset and i needed help, so i searched for help online and I came across a website that suggested that LORD JUMA can help get ex back fast. So, I felt I should give him a try. I contacted him and he told me what to do and i did it then he did a spell for me. 28 hours later, my husband really called me and told me that he miss me so much, Oh My God! i was so happy, and today i am happy with my man again and we are joyfully living together as one big family and i thank the powerful spell caster LORD JUMA, he is so powerful and i decided to share my story on the internet that LORD JUMA is best spell caster online who i will always pray to live long to help his children in the time of trouble, if you are here and your lover is turning you down, or your husband moved to another woman, do not cry anymore, contact this powerful spell caster LORD JUMA on his email at: mercyfullsolutionhome@yahoo.com or mercyfullsolutionhome@gmail.com you can visit his Website Via> https://mercyfullsolutionhome.blogspot.com add him up on whatsApp @ +1 (859)-203-2241 .

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  11. best on-line help to save your marriage and relationship from breakup or divorce , he can also cure you from you illness contact dr COVENANT today on or +2349078040531 add him on watsapp on +2349057353987 or contact him on his email covenantsolutiontemple@gmail.com

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  12. Good things are not easy to come by. Hi, everyone, I'm here to share my testimony all around the globe in respect to the help that Doctor Zakuza did for me. I was devastated and confused when I got divorced by my husband 2 years ago because he wanted to go back to his mistress. I searched for help from those that i knew but all was to no avail not until i was directed to Doctor Zakuza the spell caster. I contacted Doctor Zakuza and told him everything that I've been going through and he gave me full assurance that he will help me. I did everything he told me to do and I put my trust and hope on him. Could you believe that my husband came back to me pleading within 12 to 16 hours just as Doctor Zakuza told me after i contacted him and now, my husband is back home and we are living together again. I will recommend anyone in need of help to reach him now for he's also specialized in money spells, lottery spells, pregnancy spells, sickness spells E.T.C. Email: doctorzakuzaspelltemple@yahoo.com & Whats-app on +1 (845) 400-7115 or call/text +1 (516) 277-6702.

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  13. Am here to appreciate Dr.Zack Balo for using his herbal medicine to cure my Herpes virus. since 2016 now I have been living with this virus and it has been giving me challenges, I was so perplexed cause i have been taking several drugs to be cured but all of my effort was in vain,one evening i was browsing through the internet then i saw several testimonies about Dr.Zack Balo curing people from Herpes virus and immediately i contacted Dr.Zack Balo on his website: wiseindividualspell.webnode.com/, i told him about my sickness and he told me that i will be cured within 14 days, gave me some instructions and which i rightly followed. so he prepared a herbal medicine for me and sent it to me which i used for 2 weeks and everything was like a dream to me and my Herpes virus was totally gone, why don't you contact him today and be free from your diseases because he is very good and honest Doctor. contact him via email address; wiseindividualspell@gmail.com or call or text him on his phone number +13203967742.

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  14. Am here to appreciate Dr.Zack Balo for using his herbal medicine to cure my Herpes virus. since 2016 now I have been living with this virus and it has been giving me challenges, I was so perplexed cause i have been taking several drugs to be cured but all of my effort was in vain,one evening i was browsing through the internet then i saw several testimonies about Dr.Zack Balo curing people from Herpes virus and immediately i contacted Dr.Zack Balo on his website: wiseindividualspell.webnode.com/, i told him about my sickness and he told me that i will be cured within 14 days, gave me some instructions and which i rightly followed. so he prepared a herbal medicine for me and sent it to me which i used for 2 weeks and everything was like a dream to me and my Herpes virus was totally gone, why don't you contact him today and be free from your diseases because he is very good and honest Doctor. contact him via email address; wiseindividualspell@gmail.com or call or text him on his phone number +13203967742.

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  15. Am here to appreciate Dr.Zack Balo for using his herbal medicine to cure my Herpes virus. since 2016 now I have been living with this virus and it has been giving me challenges, I was so perplexed cause i have been taking several drugs to be cured but all of my effort was in vain,one evening i was browsing through the internet then i saw several testimonies about Dr.Zack Balo curing people from Herpes virus and immediately i contacted Dr.Zack Balo on his website: wiseindividualspell.webnode.com/, i told him about my sickness and he told me that i will be cured within 14 days, gave me some instructions and which i rightly followed. so he prepared a herbal medicine for me and sent it to me which i used for 2 weeks and everything was like a dream to me and my Herpes virus was totally gone, why don't you contact him today and be free from your diseases because he is very good and honest Doctor. contact him via email address; wiseindividualspell@gmail.com or call or text him on his phone number +13203967742.

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  16. OMG!! This is certainly a shocking and a genuine Testimony..I visited a forum here on the internet on the 20TH OF SEPTEMBER 2016, And I saw a marvelous testimony of this powerful and great spell caster called dr bante on the forum..I never believed it, because I never heard nor learnt anything about magic before.. Not a soul would have been able to influence me about magical spells, not until dr bante did it for me and restored my marriage of 8 years back to me and brought my spouse back to me in the same 48hours just as I have read on the internet..I was truly astonished and shocked when my husband knelt down begging for forgiveness and for me to accept him back.. I am really short of expressions, and I don't know how much to convey my appreciation to you dr bante , you are a God sent to me and my entire family.. Here is ..... His Email: bantespelltemple@gmail.com or call him or whatsapp him +2347059073543

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  17. My Name is Oscar, From USA. I wish to share my testimonies with the general public about this man called Dr (Dr OSUKO) has just done for me , this man has just brought back my lost Ex HUSBAND to me with his great spell POWER, I was married to to HARRIS my husband we were together for a long time and we loved our selves but when I was unable to get pregnant for him, he left me and told me he can’t continue anymore, i was heartbroken, after 1 week my husband moved in with another woman, then I was looking for ways to get my Ex HUSBAND back until a friend of mine told me about (Dr OSUKO) and gave me his contact email: osukospelltemple@gmail.com then you won't believe this when I contacted this man, within 3days Dr OSUKO bring back my Husband and also cast a pregnancy spell for me that help me get pregnant with my first child after 10 years of marriage. Dr OSUKO did a thing of surprise in my life within 3day by bringing back my husband. Am the most happiest woman on earth, All thanks and appreciations to HERBAL DOCTOR for putting a smile on my face. My friends out there contact; osukospelltemple@gmail.com. Dr OSUKO CAN AS WELL CURE THE FOLLOWING DISEASES: 1. HIV/AIDS 2. HERPES 3. CANCER 4. AUCER 5. DIABETES 6. HE ALSO HAVE SPELL TO BRING BACK YOUR EX Email; osukospelltemple@gmail.com. Thank you very much for your great work..

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  18. Thanks to great Dr.JEKWU that i met on this site. i am Laura Ben from California. i was an HIV victim. i had it for over four years i do visit hospital always before. I was just at the point of death with shame after i have lost everything in life even my love one until my close relative direct me to this site to look for great Dr.JEKWU. It so amazing to see my self back to my feet with every thing i have lost. i am very happy because Dr.JEKWU did not only cure my sickness but he restructure my life by bringing back my ex and every thing i lost to the course of this sickness(HIV). i do not really know where to start from in appreciating you Dr.JEKWU . please my people out there do not play with your problem go out and seeks for the help of great Dr.JEKWU herbal healing, he healed me without future problem or hidden charges. now i am free from HPV and My husband, my joy and happiness are back. please with out a second choice go contact great Dr.JEKWU for the betterment of your life. CONTACT HIM VIA EMAIL;jekwulovespelltemple@gmail.com;or whatsapp number +1(320) 313-2035.

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  19. HELLO EVERYONE.. FEW MUNINETS TO REDY THIS INFOR ON HERPES CURE 2018..
    2017 MY MOTHER WAS DIAGNOSED OF HERPES/ KNOWN AS GENITAL WARTS ,I SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON HER MEDICATION TILL A POINT I EVEN LOST HOPE,BECAUSE MY MOTHER WAS GRADUALLY DYING AND LOST HER MEMORY TOO, I WAS SO DESPERATE TO GET MY MOTHER BACK TO NORMAL, ONE DAY MY UNCLE WHO LIVES IN LONDON UNITED KINGDOM TOLD ME ABOUT DR OLIHA ,WHO HELPED HIM GET RID OF HERPES /GENITAL WART WITH HERBAL MEDICINE AND HIS HERBAL SOAP ,I WAS SO SHOCKED WHEN HE TOLD ME ABOUT THIS ,ALTHOUGH I NEVER BELIEVE IN HERB BUT, I KEEP TO BELIEVE BECAUSE MY UNCLE CAN'T TELL ME LIES WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH CONDITION I CONTACTED DR OLIHA VIA HIS EMAIL; OLIHA.MIRACLEMEDICINE@GMAIL.COM , YOU CAN TALK TO HIM VIA CALL OR WHATSAPP MESSENGER ON +2349038382931 , HE REPLIED AND ASK ME TO SEND MY HOME ADDRESS AND MY MOTHER'S DETAIL AND THEN I PURCHASED THE HERBAL MEDICINE,SENT ME THE HERBAL MEDICINE THROUGH COURIER SERVICE, WHEN I RECEIVED THIS HERBAL MEDICINE USED IT FOR 2 WEEKS, AND 4 DAYS OF USAGE THE WARTS FELL OFF, MY MOTHER I NOW TOTALLY CURED AND MY MOTHER IS LIVING FREE AND HAPPY AGAIN. YOU CAN TALK TO DR VIA HIS MOBILE NUMBER OR WHATS APP HIM ON +2349038382931.ALL THANKS TO DOCTOR DR OLIHA

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  20. my partner and I have been trying for a baby for over two years now, We were going to a fertility clinic for about 5 months before somebody at baby center told us to contact this spell caster who is so powerful, We contacted him at this email; babaka.wolf@gmail.com or Facebook at priest.babaka , for him to help us, then we told him our problem, he told us that we will conceive once we follow his instructions ,but after two years of trying we were at a point where we were willing to try anything. And I'm glad we came to Priest Babaka, Because his pregnancy spell cast and herbal remedy help us, and I honestly believe him, and his gods really helped us as well, I am thankful for all he has done. contact him via email: babaka.wolf@gmail.com or Facebook at priest.babaka if you are trying to have a baby or want your lover back. he has powers to do it, he has done mine



























    my partner and I have been trying for a baby for over two years now, We were going to a fertility clinic for about 5 months before somebody at baby center told us to contact this spell caster who is so powerful, We contacted him at this email; babaka.wolf@gmail.com or Facebook at priest.babaka , for him to help us, then we told him our problem, he told us that we will conceive once we follow his instructions ,but after two years of trying we were at a point where we were willing to try anything. And I'm glad we came to Priest Babaka, Because his pregnancy spell cast and herbal remedy help us, and I honestly believe him, and his gods really helped us as well, I am thankful for all he has done. contact him via email: babaka.wolf@gmail.com or Facebook at priest.babaka if you are trying to have a baby or want your lover back. he has powers to do it, he has done mine

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  21. Never give up in life they all say no cure to HSV 2 which is a big lie I have pass through many process also i never believe there is really cure to HERPES until I meet Dr.Ehiaguna the doctor that have been helping many people for many years, I come across this doctor online when I was searching for cure online I found out about this man, and to my greatest surprise this man have the herbal medicine which I have been looking for years I explain my problem to him through the email I found on someone who testify about him also, Dr.Ehiaguna write me a reply and explain how the process work so after ordering for the medicine I got it within 4 days and I took it according to the way Dr.Ehiaguna instructed, I was so happy after two week I took the medicine there was very big change in my health when I was done with the process I go for test, I found out I am negative that was the day I have the tears of joy you can also get in contact with my doctor through his email now drehiaguna@gmail.com or you can also WhatsApp him +2348073908953. And He also have herbs medicine to cured the following diseases; eczema,urethra wart,chronic problems.Herpes, Cancer, Als,Hepatitis, Diabetes, HPV,Infections,ulcer  ETC

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  22. Never give up in life they all say no cure to HSV 2 which is a big lie I have pass through many process also i never believe there is really cure to HERPES until I meet Dr.Ehiaguna the doctor that have been helping many people for many years, I come across this doctor online when I was searching for cure online I found out about this man, and to my greatest surprise this man have the herbal medicine which I have been looking for years I explain my problem to him through the email I found on someone who testify about him also, Dr.Ehiaguna write me a reply and explain how the process work so after ordering for the medicine I got it within 4 days and I took it according to the way Dr.Ehiaguna instructed, I was so happy after two week I took the medicine there was very big change in my health when I was done with the process I go for test, I found out I am negative that was the day I have the tears of joy you can also get in contact with my doctor through his email now drehiaguna@gmail.com or you can also WhatsApp him +2348073908953. And He also have herbs medicine to cured the following diseases; eczema,urethra wart,chronic problems.Herpes, Cancer, Als,Hepatitis, Diabetes, HPV,Infections,ulcer  ETC

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  23. How I Got My Ex Husband Back...........

    I am Shannon by name. Greetings to every one that is reading this testimony. I have been rejected by my husband after three(3) years of marriage just because another woman had a spell on him and he left me and the kid to suffer. one day when i was reading through the web, i saw a post on how this spell caster on this address Makospelltemple@yahoo.com , have help a woman to get back her husband and i gave him a reply to his address and he told me that a woman had a spell on my husband and he told me that he will help me and after 2 days that i will have my husband back. i believed him and today i am glad to let you all know that this spell caster have the power to bring lovers back. because i am now happy with my husband. Thanks for Dr.Mako. His email: Makospelltemple@yahoo.com OR.His WhatsApp Number:+2347054263874.

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  24. I lost my 2 years relationship 4 months ago. My Husband left me with so many pains and since then I have been heart broken and shattered. I have emailed so many sites online looking for a good spell caster till i was directed by one Mrs Wendy Dustin from a forum to email this email address: drkabakaspiritualtemple@gmail.com At first I never believed him, it took him some time to convince me and something occurred to me and I said let me give him a trial. I was very shocked when my Husband called me 5 days after Dr Kabaka were done with the spell casting . My Husband was crawling on his knees for what he has done wrong and i am very happy that we are together today because now he love and care for me and my kids like never before..I will advise you to contact Dr Kabaka because he has done wonders in my life and i believe he can help you out. email: drkabakaspiritualtemple@gmail.com call or whatsapp him +2349015857861.

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  25. How I Got My Ex Husband Back...........

    I am Shannon by name. Greetings to every one that is reading this testimony. I have been rejected by my husband after three(3) years of marriage just because another woman had a spell on him and he left me and the kid to suffer. one day when i was reading through the web, i saw a post on how this spell caster on this address Makospelltemple@yahoo.com , have help a woman to get back her husband and i gave him a reply to his address and he told me that a woman had a spell on my husband and he told me that he will help me and after 2 days that i will have my husband back. i believed him and today i am glad to let you all know that this spell caster have the power to bring lovers back. because i am now happy with my husband. Thanks for Dr.Mako. His email: Makospelltemple@yahoo.com OR.His WhatsApp Number:+2347054263874.

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  26. How I Got My Ex Husband Back...........

    I am Shannon by name. Greetings to every one that is reading this testimony. I have been rejected by my husband after three(3) years of marriage just because another woman had a spell on him and he left me and the kid to suffer. one day when i was reading through the web, i saw a post on how this spell caster on this address Makospelltemple@yahoo.com , have help a woman to get back her husband and i gave him a reply to his address and he told me that a woman had a spell on my husband and he told me that he will help me and after 2 days that i will have my husband back. i believed him and today i am glad to let you all know that this spell caster have the power to bring lovers back. because i am now happy with my husband. Thanks for Dr.Mako. His email: Makospelltemple@yahoo.com OR.His WhatsApp Number:+2347054263874.

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  27. DR ISIKOLO is simply the best spell caster and helper. My name is Loreta Emilio, Out of respect for you and your spells I must make this testimony know to all. I've been to other spell casters without seeing any result.I just wished I came to you earlier, i got the best from you. My ex husband was gone for a year and I went everywhere and other spell casters for help but no result until my friend introduce me to Dr Isikolo After the Love Spell was done, I finally got a calls from him in 48 hours like DR ISIKOLO assured me. His spells worked wonders and my husband is back with full of love. It's a miracle! He suddenly came back with flowers saying that i should forgive him, i was truly flabbergasted and shocked when my husband kneel down begging for forgiveness and for me to accept him back. I'm really short of words and joyful, you are a God sent to me and my entire family. And now i am a joyful woman once again. Thank you so much Dr IsikoloTo everyone who is looking for a real spell caster should contact DR ISIKOLO On: isikolosolutionhome@gmail.com You can also Whatsapp him on +2348133261196. webpage: https://isikololovetemple.com

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  28. I’m here to share my own view to the world about how I was helped by DR.KABAKA with his powerful spells for bringing back my boyfriend who neglected and broke up with me for the past 2 and half years. I can’t say much because I really don’t know how to express myself right now for I’m overwhelmed but I really want to appreciate and thank DR.KABAKA for his honesty and gracious work in my life. Thank you xoxo much. Anyone reading this that needs his service can get in touch with him through his WhatsApp number on +2349015857861 or via Email on: drkabakaspiritualtemple@gmail.com https://drkabakaspiritualt.wixsite.com/dr-kabaka

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  29. I saw a marvelous testimony of this powerful and great spell caster called DR.KABAKA on the forum..I never believed it, because I never heard nor learnt anything about magic before.. Not a soul would have been able to influence me about magical spells, not until DR.KABAKA S did it for me and restored my marriage of 8 years back to me and brought my spouse back to me in the same 48hours just as I have read on the internet..I was truly astonished and shocked when my husband knelt down begging for forgiveness and for me to accept him back.. I am really short of expressions, and I don't know how much to convey my appreciation to you DR.KABAKA, you are a God sent to me and my entire family.. Here is his website: His Email:drkabakaspiritualtemple@gmail.com call or
    whatsapp him +2349015857861. https://drkabakaspiritualtemple.blogspot.com/

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