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Trashing the schools, Mayor de Blasio will drive more New Yorkers out of the city
American Thinker ^ | 09/03/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 09/03/2019 7:54:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

It's never a good sign for a city when starts to see its population contracting.

But that seems to be New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan, trashing the few little islands of good public school education in the great city, in the name of socialized outcomes. He set up a commission of cronies and those cronies recommended what he wanted them to recommend - that New York's charter and competitive schools be shut down in the name of "equality." Now, every school is set to be equally bad. But the custodians will continue to draw $100,000 salaries.

Kyle Smith at the New York Post reports how bad it is:

When I first moved to New York City, in 1992, any time a middle- or upper-middle-class couple had a kid, you’d ask when they were moving to the suburbs because virtually none of the public schools were tolerable and only Wall Streeters can afford most private schools.

Today, dedicated New Yorkers have helped create solid DOE schools in certain well-off neighborhoods. Robust G&T programs, selective schools and charter schools — the privately run public schools which enroll more than 100,000 students, or 10 percent of the 1.1 million attendees of the country’s largest public school system — have created many islands of possibility for parents who think their city kids should be educated as well as they would be in the suburbs.

More than nine out of 10 kids at the Success Academy charter network, the best of the lot, are students of color. But is de Blasio fighting to allow Success Academy to expand and build more islands? Of course not.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: akadeblasio; arth; billdeblasio; bluezones; deblasio; flee; leftismoncampus; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; radicalleft; schools; urban

1 posted on 09/03/2019 7:54:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Everyone has to be on the same page for socialism to work (except for the cultural elitists and the crowned heads of government). And it still doesn’t work.

Alternatives to public schooling will be among the first things progressives eliminate if given a chance.


2 posted on 09/03/2019 8:00:42 AM PDT by GSWarrior (I am a victim of racism every time I am called a racist because of my race.)
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“Alternatives to public schooling will be among the first things progressives eliminate if given a chance.”

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It has already started

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3775089/posts


3 posted on 09/03/2019 8:09:38 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: SeekAndFind

which will erode the tax base, which will further cause the schools to collapse, which will drive more people pout of NYC, which will further erode the tax base . . .

they call this a death spiral.


4 posted on 09/03/2019 8:30:40 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: SeekAndFind
More than nine out of 10 kids at the Success Academy charter network, the best of the lot, are students of color

Which means they are highly unlikely to stay on the Democrat Plantation, Shut these Schools down, the last thing we need is Educated Minorities succeeding on their own.
5 posted on 09/03/2019 9:10:21 AM PDT by eyeamok
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Democrats like their voters stupid and obedient.


6 posted on 09/03/2019 9:27:22 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm pretty sure that prior to WWII, NYC schools were considered the best in the country, not just Stuyvesant, Science, et al., but all of them.

LaGuardia was a Republican.

ML/NJ

7 posted on 09/03/2019 9:40:33 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: SeekAndFind

This story serves to back up what I’ve been posting for some time now. This guy is a total corrupt BUM. He should be called to account for the misery, waste of taxpayer money, rise in crime and acceleration of the decay of a once great city-—but of course, he won’t. Dummocraps are too stupid to identify a social pathogen and eliminate it.


8 posted on 09/03/2019 10:41:41 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: SeekAndFind

Like termites, they’ll move and infest new places.


9 posted on 09/03/2019 10:42:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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