Posted on 04/18/2006 1:01:27 PM PDT by neverdem
That's incredible!
Bloomberg is the king of the RINOs. What a worthless POS.
The teacher's unions are happy - increased salaries, no increases in the learning of public school children and finally decreased competition...
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.
It's time to get the band back together.
Consider cost of living up there and it's really not that much money for someone at the top of the pay scale.
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!!
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?
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.
Well, since New York has a homosexual high school, you can't criticize them. Why doesn't San Francisco have a homosexual high school?
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..
Do you find something wrong with the city paying to lease closed Catholic schools for public schooling?
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.
Yes, because I do not want drugs and guns in my 'hood, thank you! and bumbleberg wanted the buildings for the PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
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.
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.
They are probably more "enlightened" in San Francisco, haha!
There's the entire reason: the Catholic schools' success is an embarrassment to the supporters of government education monopolies.
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.
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