There have been several forums for mayoral candidates in New York City. At the latest one, convened by charter supporters, Anthony Weiner and Christine Quinn pledged to continue giving free public space to charters. This was a practice initiated by the Bloomberg administration. John Liu said he would end the practice, a stand that showed his willingness to displease the audience. Liu’s position conforms to state law. Other candidates ducked the forums, thus not alienating either the teachers’ union or the charter lobby. Less than 10% of the city’s children attend charters.
So the guy who sends cell phone pics of his weiner is now involved with schools? What?!
Right???
I’m sure one or the other, Weiner or Quinn, has Eva Moskowitz throwing her weight behind ’em. She sure does thrive on that free public school space.
Are any of the most most selective NYC “public” schools which use the high school admissions test required to pay rent?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialized_high_schools_in_New_York_City
Or do they receive their buildings for free?
You know these schools – they screen out students with special needs who can’t score highly on the admissions tests. They screen out students who don’t read English well enough to score highly on the admissions test. They screen out students who can’t perform at a high enough level on an audition.
They don’t use a lottery because they’ve been allowed to screen out students for decades through use of tests or auditions.
Again, do any of these quasi private schools have to pay for space?
If they do use a lottery perhaps they will be notified by email, “You are a weiner!”
I’m sure most people would prefer not to receive emails or texts from Anthony Weiner.
Agreed, Alan!
That’s right, Joe, they do all of those things, but they do it openly.
They don’t falsely claim they are public schools open, to all, as charters do.
I keep hearing from some of you that one of the characteristics of public schools is that they are open to all. Apparently you don’t agree.
Do these elite schools that screen out the vast majority of students with their admissions tests have to pay rent for their buildings?
Perhaps they’ll cancel each other out and disappear. What do you suppose would happen to a teacher caught doing what Wiener did?
It would almost be worth electing Weiner as mayor just to watch him handle those situations.
Let’s not wish that upon children. . . . . But you have a point, FLERP.
We only arrest teachers and administrators for wrongdoing, and NEVER the lovley people who issued sub-prime mortgages and crashed our economy or invaded Iraq on a totally false basis and wasted thousands of lives and billions of dollars doing so. . . . .
Justice and democracy are only for the well to do. . . .
Oh, come, Robert, you know congresspeople can’t be arrested for the bills they pass, and they were the ones who insisted that banks create sub-prime mortgages so as to avoid being tagged as racist. The Wall Street folks who then bought the mortgages from FannyMae and FreddyMac and repackaged them couldn’t have committed the fraud without the U.S. government’s original policy. As for Iraq, again you know better. Saddam Hussein DID have chemical and biological WMD which he trucked to Syria before the U.S. invasion. Granted, we were foolish to think we could make barbarians into free people, but Bush acted in good faith. Bush also thought he was doing right when he partnered with Teddy Kennedy on NCLB. Please lay blame were it is due, on a bipartisan basis, with which the Democrats agreed (colluded I would say), rather than trying to depict those covered in the muck as Republicans alone. It becomes embarrassing to think it might have been better to leave Hussein in power, considering the continuing intratribal warfare between Shia and Sunni in Iraq. I believe the only honest politicians left are tea party. Pity though.
No. It wouldn’t.
Harlan,
WHAT are you talking about?
I agree with most everythning you said. I don’t know if your facts about sho did what first were correct, but cetainlty, no one in corporate america acts alone or without big corporate welfare local, state and federal government’s cooperation, incentivization, or encouragement.
Almost all of it is bi-partisan.
I was NEVER referring to the GOP alone.
Bush was a horrible person and president. Obama is worse for very specific reasons. .. . He posed as one thing and is governing as mostly the opposite. They are both quarelling brothers, but their father is still Satan. They’re cut from the same calico cloth.
For the record, Weiner and Quinn are democrats, and I despise them both.
Harlan, stick to the writing and make sure your inferences about the writer’s tone and intent can be backed up by the writing you just read.
You have the potential, even at your age, to be less one-dimensional.
Acumen in articulation is not the same think as acumen in critical thinking.
Good for John Liu. Enough is enough. Who is supporting him?
How anyone can stand for co-location and expanding chaterization is deplorable.
Who gives a crap about the “charter” lobby? The parents who want public schooling far outnumber those who want charters. In a democracy, the majority is supposed to prevail.
Anthony Weiner has certainly demonstrated that he is once again very eager and motivated to EXPOSE a part of himself that few of us approve of or care to be affected by.
Quinn and Weiner are NO good.
Hi Diane,
Here’s my thoughts on why Weiner may be cozying up to charter advocates.
http://mothercrusader.blogspot.com/2013/06/et-tu-anthony-weiner.html
I wish they would both disappear.