We described the issues facing our schools: too little resources to provide a quality education; overcrowded schools; disgraceful school conditions; budget cuts; co-locations; THE LIST GOES ON!
With each, Dennis Walcott got up and...spouted the party line:
"The reality is that in this economy there will be mid-year budget cuts."
"With shrinking budgets, leaders must be creative."
"By creating school choice we are allowing the market place to drive the issues."
"I respect Joel Klein tremendously. I think the world of Joel Klein."
"There are no plans in our capital budget for a new facility for Mott Hall" [the only program for gifted D6 IS students and a national model].
And then something along the lines of: "your D6 schools are so bad that we will not replicate or grow them; we will simply bring in [charters] that really know how to educate your D6 children."
What to say?
OCCUPY EDUCATION. IT IS THE ONLY WAY.
-- Victoria (Tory) Frye, CEC 6 member.
1 comment:
No one should be surprised to realize that Dennis Walcott is nothing more than a Bloomberg clone.He constantly follows the Bloomberg line which cares little about the education of public school children and whose main objective is to close public schools to provide more space for his friends profit making charters. His record as our educational mayor is a disaster.
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