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New York recently passed a law requiring prospective school teachers to take a literacy test to get their license, but repealed it the following year because 36 percent of whites, 54 percent of Hispanics and 59 percent of blacks failed on the first try.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
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?
Why not cut school administration in half?
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.
Oops, there’s about a million Democrats the will be staying home on Election Day.
Is this supposed to make me dislike the Bloomer?
Why on earth would any sane person want to teach in a NYC school under a moron superintendent like Carranza is beyond me.
I’d vote for that.
If I had my way, I’d dump half the teachers, too. And replace them with conservatives.
He was right - get rid of the worst and support what’s left and education improves...