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Re: NYC charter fight pits mayor vs. poor kids 

By: clo in FFFT | Recommend this post (2)
Tue, 18 Mar 14 11:32 PM | 26 view(s)
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When first heard about this I thought oh no De Blasio is getting carried away with himself. Then I heard him address this on Morning Joe last week. (now I agree with him)

He explained they would be moved to another school space.
He said he is NOT opposed to 'charter schools' per se, but that children with special needs needed placement in this school.

The woman in charge & De Blasio appear to have some bad history. She is earning nearly 500,000 a year, while the man in charge of all of NYC schools makes about 200,000.
Big money funded a 500,000 TV ad campaign to bitch about losing the space. Seems that money could be better spent elsewhere.

I worry that some want to privatize education, and charter schools is the way to begin.

I attended parochial school thru 7th grade & transferred to public school.
There was no comparison in many regards.

Parochial was good for times tables, penmanship, spelling & religious instructions. We ate at our desks, had an art teacher that would visit once a month. 'Gym' was the parking lot. And the class size was between 48-56 students & you could hear a pin drop.
Public school had a library, a cafeteria, 4 gyms, one had a dirt floor, a science lab, electrical equipment, home economics, shop, 4 buildings. Felt like a college ;))

My youngest sister & niece are teachers in the public school system.
Lets improve the public school system, teach the kids to think, not just how to pass a test....




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NYC charter fight pits mayor vs. poor kids
By: wilful in FFFT
Tue, 18 Mar 14 8:08 PM 		Msg. 62031 of 65535

Hi Clo - What do you think about this?

BY GLORIA ROMERO / STAFF COLUMNIST
Published: March 17, 2014 Updated: 3:42 p.m.

It doesn’t quite rise to the level of David versus Goliath, but the battle pitting the recently elected Democratic mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, against some 200 mostly poor, minority kids from Harlem and their parents symbolizes a timeless battle of forces. You have the powerful, Mayor de Blasio, doing the bidding of a major campaign contributor, the New York teachers union, versus the powerless, children from Harlem and their supporters, who, via charter school enrollment, found a way to bypass educational stagnation.
I predict this fight will prove to be de Blasio’s Waterloo. Already, he is being unfavorably compared with George Wallace, the former Alabama governor who pledged 50 years ago to stand in the schoolhouse door to block racial integration. Today, Mayor de Blasio is being caricatured as blocking mostly black, brown and poor kids from entering some of the most successful schools in New York. Why? Because they are charter schools, which the teachers unions despise because charter teachers typically don’t belong to unions and don’t pay membership dues.
The battle began when New Yorkers in November elected de Blasio, an old-school liberal Democrat who was backed by New York’s branch of American Federation of Teachers. De Blasio campaigned on a platform of “taking on” New York’s charter schools and promising to shut them down. Egged on by the teachers union, he vowed he would kick out even the most promising, high-performing schools from space being shared with a


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