Tiffany Schley is comforted by New York City Councilman Charles Barron, right, at a City Hall news conference in New York on Monday (6/28/04).
Posted on 06/30/2004 8:35:04 AM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
Tiffany Schley won the sympathy of most New Yorkers when officials at the High School of Legal Studies in Bushwick overreacted to her withering Graduation Day criticism of the school and refused to give her a diploma. Mayor Bloomberg rightly called it a "bonehead thing to do."
Finding themselves in an unwelcome media spotlight, the educrats quickly retreated and agreed to give the straight-A student and class valedictorian her certificate.
But Tiffany, who's headed to Smith College on a full scholarship, is undoing much of the good will she's accumulated.
She and her mother apparently aren't content with the diploma she earned.
Flanked by always-incendiary City Councilman Charles Barron and two dozen supporters Monday, they demanded that Chancellor Joel Klein hand over the certificate personally — and that he do it at a public ceremony to be held at the predictably inflammatory Rev. Herbert Daughtry's Brooklyn church.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Someone I know heard her speak, and said that I should be more than a little embarrassed that she's going to be attending my alma mater...
Charles Barron
*** That gives me (((((((chills))))))
We in the city call him "Slappy," thanks to the time he said that he wanted to slap a white person, just for his (alleged) mental health.
Curtis Sliwa played an audio clip from Tiffany Schley's 'speech' on the Curtis & Kuby program.
Her English is completely unintelligible.
The mentor this young woman needs is not Charles Barron nor Herbert Daughtry, but Bill Cosby.
Look at the cast characters of mayhem... it's a victicrat-litigation hootnany. Let me guess. She's going to be a lawyer.
If I was Mr. Klein I'd deflate her little publicity stunt and just drop it in the mail.
Sounds like Tiff's surrounding herself with Race Pimps.
This story reminds me of another one a year or so ago -- of the Über-litigious girl who gamed her NY school so as to be able to receive in-home tutoring and graduate valedictorian.
She got everything she wanted, but alienated her entire hometown and graduating class.
AAHHHH....she criticized a Government run school.....cannot DO THAT!!!
Tiffany Schley is comforted by New York City Councilman Charles Barron, right, at a City Hall news conference in New York on Monday (6/28/04).
:sigh:
That smile on his face is unnerving.
Smith is heady, nervy, intellecually exciting.
"I am Smith" --- NYC GOP Chick
(meant only in the most complimentary way)
Ah, but she got her 15 minutes. Wonder if she's happy about that.
He's just smiling for the photo op.
I've seen him on the Sean show often enough. I would like to know his tailor. Every fashionable gentleman should have at least one Dr. Evil ensemble.
Tiffany just blew off most of her cheering section by playing the victim card, however.
I think so ;-)
I agree... I thought taking away her diploma was crazy because a lot of the public schools in NYC are hell. However, the minute I heard Charles Barron I went HMMMMMMMM
I'm a Washingtonian not a Noo Yawker but from where I'm sitting it looks like Barron has largely stepped into Al Sharpton's old shoes.
So far as I know, unlike Rev. Al, he hasn't gotten anyone killed (yet).
I think because he's worse than Al, no one takes him seriously. Charles Barron is truly truly a disgusting man, more than Al Sharpton I'm willing to say.
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