Posted on 02/17/2020 4:27:46 PM PST by Bulwinkle
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s a jaw-dropping prescription for fixing city schools.
“Professor” Michael Bloomberg said Thursday he would accomplish more with less by slashing the teaching staff in half — and that’s just the beginning, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer...
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
Well, he’s not wrong.
The state of New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites, 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed on the first try.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html
80% of NY City HS grads can’t read at grade level
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/03/80_of_ny_city_hs_grads_cant_read_at_grade_level.html
That’s one thing I would agree with the Mayor
This and stop and frisk. Early on as mayor he actually had some pretty grounded positions and the longer he was in office the further left he went.
Opinions like these however he tries to spin them now will prevent him from ever being nominated though.
Mini Mike has point. But the gutless midget won’t say why. BTW, it is because most teachers in NY are a product of their own environment. They were taught by illiterates and are now teaching the next generation of illiterates, who also will become teachers, government employees and nearly all Democrats.
Man, the Demonrats are in such a pickle. You wouldn’t think that someone like Bloomberg with all of the video and quotes in contemporaneous articles of what he has said over the years could get very far in the primaries, but with his money...
Yeah, I know, I know, Jeb had a lot more money compared to his primary competitors, but Bloomberg has SO MUCH MORE and is willing to burn through it. He has something like half of the available population of Demonrat professional campaign staff all to himself.
I’d go further. I’d sell the schools to the highest bidder, on the condition that it stays a school. Then I’d get Government out of the teaching business.
These “attacks” are making Bloomberg look good ... to everyone but the Democrat primary voters.
To show how clueless Michael Bloomberg is politically, how doe this obvious statement of truth gain him *any* votes?
They can read enough to apply for their EBT card.
It’s not the staff...it’s the administration.
It’s always easy to blame the guy at the bottom, but when the top offers not support or guidance, failure is inevitable.
Why not cut school administration in half?
Okay, fire 2/3 of the administration and 1/3 of the teachers.
I disagree with him on this, only in that the number is probably closer to 90% knowing that bunch, but this won’t go over well with the Teacher’s Commune. er.. Union.
There goes that NEA endorsement.
There goes that NEA endorsement.
Cracks me up..when new grads get out..and find out the pay isn't up to what they thought.
Like you didn't look INTO THAT BEFORE you chose your path???
That actually IS the answer.
I don’t know about you, but I started college before the explosion of the internet, before LinkedIn and GlassDoor and all that. One actually had to do hard work then to find out what jobs paid; the guidance counselors sure weren’t willing to lift a finger to point you to the resources.
There really is no excuse now for someone not to have a clue as to starting salaries in their field.
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