Posted on 03/17/2014 8:20:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
I wish my Irish eyes could be smilin’ on St. Patty’s Day. But New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has stoked my Irish temper. And that’s no blarney.
As an Irish lassie, I should be at the bar drinking green beer. Instead, I must be more austere. For Billy Boy is threatening to close New York’s charter schools by denying them the ability to “co-locate” or share real estate with public schools.
The New York State Legislature is in the midst of budget negotiations that will impact the future of charter schools in New York and could also set a negative precedent for the future of charter schools nationally.
De Blasio’s story is that he is all about the children. He doesn’t lose sleep over angry union bosses. He could care less about the next election. Oh no. He has a big heart. He cares.
Which is why, after Vanderbilt Peabody College/Peabody Research Institute released a study in August of 2013 indicating that publicly funded universal pre-K could set children back cognitively—de Blasio pushed harder for universal pre-K.
In February, De Blasio’s deep love for children also motivated him to order youngsters to trudge to school while snow fell at a rate of three inches an hour and busses swerved across slippery roads.
Likewise, his heartfelt interest in children prompted him to give Chancellor Carmen Fariña the thumbs up as she warned schoolchildren that they would be considered tardy if they missed class during the snowstorm—and then proceeded to cancel her own evening meeting due to “inclement weather.”
De Blasio let Fariña ditch work for her date with Netflix—while forcing schoolchildren to attend classes in which the New York Post reports they “spent the day watching movies.” Again, it’s impossible to overemphasize that he made this decision because of his fundamental concern for children.
So, there’s no doubt that de Blasio began attacking flourishing charter schools in late February and early March because he had the children in mind. With his own son safely enrolled in the plush and prestigious Brooklyn Tech, de Blasio had ample time on his hands to help poor children succeed.
De Blasio set his laser focus on one of New York’s most successful schools—aptly called “Success Academy Harlem 4”—and began to shake things up. Many students at Success Academy are outscoring the entire state in math and the majority is outperforming their peers at neighboring public schools in both math and English. The school’s forte is helping lower-income children of color (10 percent Hispanic and 90 percent black) excel academically.
The problem with Success Academy, from de Blasio’s perspective, was that Success Academy had become too successful. He could not bear to see children overwhelmed or corrupted by progress. So, out of the goodness of his heart, he attempted to shutter Success Academy by barring it from sharing public school space.
Some people say de Blasio has ulterior motives since charter schools like Success Academy are generally non-union. Plus, de Blasio is been pushing hard for what even the New York Times calls an “unusual,” “longest-ever” 9-year contract with teacher’s unions—making some New Yorkers wonder whether he’s in bed with Big Education. Some parents blame de Blasio for robbing their children of access to intellectual advancement. At least one mother feels like her only option is to home school her children. But how could such a caring man as de Blasio; such a lover of children; such a knight in shining armor put his own political career above the future of America’s youth?
By now, me dear reader, ye may fear that I have been drinking green beer! Don’t ye worry. Here is the point I intend to make: de Blasio is full of blarney.
You voted for him New York — enjoy the radical Marxist destruction.
Yep, they wanted him, they got him.
Elections have consequences.
Boycott Heineken, Guinness and Sam Adams. They’re siding with De Blasio over the Parade.
What — these narrow-minded New York Times reading, NPR-listening fools voted for the afro-wig worn by DeBlasio’s son and they are surpised they got a worthless, lazy socialist for mayor? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Stylish morons!
Everybody hates Bill de Blasio. In the movie APOCALYPSE NOW, Robert Duvall’s character says, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning, but I hate Bill de Blasio. What kind of man makes up his own name and puts a ‘de’ in it?”
DeBlasio is not full of blarney, he is full of something else that begins with a “b”.
Well I think that is what Katie Kieffer really meant
Just sitting back with my popcorn watching the comedy show called the mayor of New York.
New York voters must be so proud of their choice, for the rest of the country it’s entertaining as a comedy show.
A true Irish lassie would know it’s spelled “St. Paddy”, not “St. Patty”.
New Yorkers deserve what they get. But I do believe that more and more New Yorkers are “getting it” quite quickly.
Kaiser Bill, in my opinion, is more concerned that the children in these over performing charter schools, will learn (and in some cases, have learned) that he and his fraudulent ilk, are the enemy.
It is very apparent that academic success among less affluent constituents threatens the working philosophy of the communists.
This simply means, when the rabble becomes “enlightened” about the true agenda of their bolshevik masters, Kaiser Bill and his commissars will no longer be able to keep control.
Fortunately for them, I don’t see them being lined up against a wall. In other places in the world, it’s a viable option.
That is not all he is full of.
Note to author:
Mayflower would be glad to move you elsewhere.
When you continue to sit in a Hellhole & complain, the noise you are making gets quieter & quieter, IMO.
Get the hell out.
Isn’t it St Patrick and not St Padrick?
If you go back to the ancient Gaelic it may be “Padraig”, or something like that, but in the modern era the nickname for “Patrick” is “Paddy”.
As in “Paddy Wagon”.
(Though I can’t recall if Paddy Wagons were so named because of the Irish cops on the outside operating them, or the Irish drunks on the inside.)
“Boycott Heineken, Guinness and Sam Adams.”
Yep, changing over to Coors Light.
It is, after all, my middle name. ;-)
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