He has turned my life and those of thousands of city employees into sheer hell. I can now fully sympathize with innocent Chinese or Russian citizens who have had their liberties capriciously taken away from them, their "rug pulled out from under them" without a second thought. You never think it can happen to you, a U.S. citizen, but Bloombutt has done just that to us, turning education into edu-biz. His zillionaire buddies are now raking in millions of dollars from edu-biz enterprises while NYC schools suffer and fail, robbed of resources or deliberately set up to fail. I know right now of a very small high school, consisting of a single hallway, where Bloombutt edu-minions want to take FOUR of their classrooms over to co-locate a middle school. Ridiculous! And this is commonly done now to set up schools to fail.
You are no longer in charge of your class; the students have been empowered, just as the Nazi youth were similarly empowered, indeed encouraged, to submit utterly false charges against you if you fail them. They don't study for exams (and proudly tell you so), they don't turn in homework or projects, but will tell you to your face, "You betta pass me bitch or I gonna get you fired." Passing statistics and the acts of fraud to get them, from students who refuse to do any work or even come to class, are the new religion in schools. As is informing on your fellow teachers. It used to be a rarity for a teacher to inform on a colleague. People would be mature and work out any conflicts between themselves by themselves. With the influx of very young, extremely self-absorbed new teachers (after forcing out the veterans by whatever means available), you don't see the comradery or solidarity which has been in place for generations and which has resulted in a very productive sharing of ideas and information. You see "everyone for themselves", especially if it leads to a pat on the head by administration, translating into better classes or plum assignments.
No wonder 82% of these kids are NOT college-ready. Not in a million years, thanks to Bloombutt policies over the last 12 years.
I believe both his parents were Jewish. So he is a Jew in name only (JINO). His attitude toward Israel is negatively influenced by his company's financial interests in the Arab world.
Speaking of the NYC public school system, I'm no Bloombutt fan, but there are other factors involved in the schools aside from him and his lackeys. The pupils are in large percentage uneducable, because of the destruction of the American family unit that has been getting ever worse since the onset of LBJ's Great Society in the 1960s. It's going on just about everywhere in public schools, especially in big cities where so-called "minorities" and immigrants tend to form the bulk of the kids in attendance. New York public schools are probably no worse than, maybe even better than those in cities like Washington, Detroit, Newark, and Chicago, to name a few. Kids raised in dysfunctional families will not have any desire to get anything out of their schools until and unless some mentoring figure gets tough with them and lays down the proper approach to learning. Public school teachers can only do so much in that regard without help from others who can be positive influences on the kids.
Of course, liberals like Bloomberg can be legitimately blamed for the public school mess in the sense that they brought about massive social programs which helped to debase the culture in which the kids are living.