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Won’t Someone Stop This Tragedy?
City Journal ^ | 18 April 2006 | Sol Stern

Posted on 04/18/2006 1:01:27 PM PDT by neverdem

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The city’s Department of Education budget now tops $17 billion, or about $15,000 per pupil. This spending growth has allowed Mayor Bloomberg to raise teacher’s salaries by 33 percent. The top public school salary of $93,000 is now double that of the highest paid Catholic schoolteacher.

That's incredible!

1 posted on 04/18/2006 1:01:29 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Bloomberg is the king of the RINOs. What a worthless POS.


2 posted on 04/18/2006 1:06:59 PM PDT by lesser_satan
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To: neverdem

The teacher's unions are happy - increased salaries, no increases in the learning of public school children and finally decreased competition...


3 posted on 04/18/2006 1:08:44 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: neverdem

No Democrat (and that's what Bloomberg is, deep in his soul) will ever do anything that would be seen as assisting religious-based education.


4 posted on 04/18/2006 1:10:11 PM PDT by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: neverdem

It's time to get the band back together.


5 posted on 04/18/2006 1:12:27 PM PDT by RichInOC ("They can't stop us. We're on a mission from God.")
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To: neverdem

Consider cost of living up there and it's really not that much money for someone at the top of the pay scale.


6 posted on 04/18/2006 1:14:51 PM PDT by misterrob (Teach a Liberal to think for himself and he'll vote Conservative for the rest of his life.)
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To: 2banana

The Catholic schools support illegal aliens kids and others who can't or won't pay, so now the Catholic Church who claims they will support the poor are kicking the kids out and putting them in public schools where the taxpayers pick up the tab and they overcrowd yet more schools?

Cardinal Mahoney speaks with "forked tongue"?
he fought to have amnesty for the illegals than he needs to keep the kids in their Catholic schools and support them and quit pushing them on taxpayers, You all want and demand amnesty for illegals YOU all support them!!


7 posted on 04/18/2006 1:14:53 PM PDT by stopem (We'll call you if we need a guest worker.... if the phone doesn't ring it's me!)
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To: neverdem
Nonstop lawsuits are the only thing corrupt politicians respect.

Closing Catholic schools is his goal. Keep the city tied up in class action suits.
8 posted on 04/18/2006 1:16:03 PM PDT by iluvlucy (swim the Tiber, the water is fine)
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To: lesser_satan

Bloomberg is heartless. His comment when nearly 24 Queens/Brooklyn schools were closed ("I would like to use those buildings for the public schools".) The man is a pig who also forced the medical students to train in abortion. What can you expect from such a man?


9 posted on 04/18/2006 1:20:35 PM PDT by juliej (juliej)
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Lawsuits based on what? I attended Catholic schools, and have nothing in particular against them (other than that many are now becoming ultra-liberal), but I don't see how Bloomberg has done anything illegal.


10 posted on 04/18/2006 1:22:20 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: iluvlucy

Well, since New York has a homosexual high school, you can't criticize them. Why doesn't San Francisco have a homosexual high school?


11 posted on 04/18/2006 1:22:58 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: neverdem
Faithful Catholics, or for the issue, anyone of any faith whatsoever, should abandon all Northeastern urban areas.

Pagans rule here, your boys will aspire to be pimps and your daughters will end up as wanabe bitches or whoes when the schools are done with them.

Unless they teach them to be queers or junkies first..

12 posted on 04/18/2006 1:23:58 PM PDT by mmercier (so it goes)
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Do you find something wrong with the city paying to lease closed Catholic schools for public schooling?


13 posted on 04/18/2006 1:26:08 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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Many of the predominantly minority children in those closed schools will now have to attend failing public schools.

Many of the "predominantly minority children" in those closed schools weren't even Catholic to begin with, so I see the closure of these schools as little more than a formal acknowledgement that the Catholic Church simply doesn't have a reason to be in these neighborhoods right now.

This scene is being repeated in older urban areas all over the country.

14 posted on 04/18/2006 1:29:32 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: OldFriend

Yes, because I do not want drugs and guns in my 'hood, thank you! and bumbleberg wanted the buildings for the PUBLIC SCHOOLS.


15 posted on 04/18/2006 1:30:58 PM PDT by juliej (juliej)
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To: OldFriend

Well, it's sad that the Catholic schools are closing. Better to have the city lease the buildings for public schools than for them to be vacant. But would be better if the Catholic schools were better able to compete.


16 posted on 04/18/2006 1:31:07 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Alberta's Child

My child is not Catholic but is in a Catholic school - I would not do it any other way - and we fundraise like the other parents. As I see it , many of the "new immigrants" will not send their kids to Catholic schools even if they have the money.


17 posted on 04/18/2006 1:32:27 PM PDT by juliej (juliej)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They are probably more "enlightened" in San Francisco, haha!


18 posted on 04/18/2006 1:33:52 PM PDT by juliej (juliej)
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And the Catholic high school graduation rate is nearly double that of the public high schools. Moreover, Catholic schools deliver these stellar results with per-pupil expenditures remaining about a fourth of the costs of the public schools.

There's the entire reason: the Catholic schools' success is an embarrassment to the supporters of government education monopolies.

19 posted on 04/18/2006 1:33:58 PM PDT by FormerLib ("...the past ten years in Kosovo will be replayed here in what some call Aztlan.")
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To: stopem

PLease notice. Cardinal Mahoney is in LA. This article is about New York. That is Cardinal Egan's jurisdiction. Regardless, the Catholic school system has reached out for years to the poor to help in education. I really don't see why this tragedy has to be turn into a thread on illegal immigration. Isn't there enough of those threads on here anyway.


20 posted on 04/18/2006 1:38:00 PM PDT by catholicfreeper
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