Billionaire Dan Loeb has raised many millions for Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy charter chain. He has also donated generously to the chain, to Cuomo, to the breakaway Democrats who enable Republicans to control the State Senate (and block tax increases for billionaires), and to Congressional Republicans (who want to remove health care from millions of Americans and give tax breaks to billionaires).
Loeb said something bad. He compared the leading Democrat, a black woman, to the Ku Klux Klan and said she was worse.
So Eva had to say something about the chair of her board. She said his vile, racist rant was “insensitive.”
But she said he has done many wonderful things, which apparently overshadow the one time he let his true feelings show in public.
So, don’t judge this man, says Eva, for his one racist comment. Offensive as it was, he must be allowed to raise more millions for Eva, Cuomo, Congressional Republicans, and the charter industry.
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At times such as this, it’s good to revisit how Eva herself engages in discrimination.
Indeed, whenever any parent of a diagnosed special ed. child (i.e. one who has an I.E.P.) shows up at her door — after winning the Success Academy lottery — Eva or one of her underlings turns away both the parent and child.
“We can’t accommodate your child.” or in other words, “Get lost!”
For example, this video from a parent describing such an experience is telling:
JAYBEE SMALLEY: “My name is Jaybee Smalley. I’m a parent, yes. I have two children with special needs. I have one child who I applied to the Harlem Success Academy through the lottery process to see if she could be… would be accepted.
“When she WAS accepted through the lottery, I reached out to them (Harlem Success Academy) before I attended any sort of a orientation to see if they would be able to accommodate her I.E.P. She has a 12-to-1-to-1 I.E.P. for a year-round program, with four different related services.
“They didn’t respond to me through email at all.. and finally, after the second meeting had come, I called them —- I had a very difficult time getting through to them —- Before I could get the words ’12-to-1-to-1′ out of my mouth, they immediately told me that they would absolutely not be able to accommodate that sort of child in their school.”
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Seems like a bigger issue than just Success. Why does the mother say she is still going through the motions with the DOE to find a placement? Why isn’t her zoned school appropriate?
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Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
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Sorry, Dan, I have to give you a slap on the wrist so that it looks like I’m punishing you for doing a bad, bad thing. I’ll make sure you keep your job, because I like what you do and how much money you bring into our organization. Just hang low for a while and this will all blow over once the school year starts and everyone is busy getting their precious snowflakes adjusted. We’re good….you and me… wink wink. DEPLORABLE!
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I don’t even know how parents send their children to her schools anymore.
She convenient forgot to mention all of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Loeb has contributed to Republican PACs who elected all the Republicans in Congress who are enabling Trump. I guess that slipped her mind.
And the letter she sent to parents in which she justified her “silence” about Trump was a work of breathtaking deception in which she conveniently forgot how hard she fought to legitimize Trump (just give him a chance, I’m sure all the nasty racist things he said and his non-stop lies aren’t how he plans to govern and look I will write op eds and give interviews in which I stake my reputation endorsing Betsy DeVos as the Secretary of Education who will be wonderful for the kids in my school and all schools.)
The people who were SILENT were the parents and faculty in her school who knew not to rock the boat and risk the wrath of Eva Moskowitz. Just like Ivanka Trump, we are supposed to believe those parents and faculty were really fighting for the right things as they allowed their silence to signal tacit support for all Eva Moskowitz stands for.
Eva Moskowitz was not silent at all. But the parents and faculty in her charters were.
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In my opinion, the practices of Success Academy where the children, almost all of whom are children of color, have always seemed racist. The children are disciplined for not keeping their eyes where they are told to, for asking a question when not invited to speak. The level of discipline seems geared to quiet any self motivation or creativity. It seems like a school bent on keeping these children in the places.
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I don’t think Eva Moskowitz is racist. But I do think she uses racist innuendoes to get away with her most corrupt practices.
It is obvious that she doesn’t care what race a child is as long as the child will be a credit to Success Academy and keep their passing rates impossibly high. However, in NYC her first schools opened in Harlem and had almost no white children. Moskowitz was quoted in the NY Times as telling a group of parent if you cannot do all that we ask, this school is not for you and that was how she ran the school. Children who could not do all that was asked were ceremoniously shown the door or treated in the most humiliating and despicable manner to get them to leave “voluntarily”. Or flunked many times (a big secret is how many kids get flunked at Success Academy). However, the ones who could do all that was asked of them — or learned to do it very quickly under Success Academy’s harsh tactics — were showered with love which is why the parents of students who do remain are quite happy.
Success Academy now has a growing number of white affluent parents there who are among Eva’s staunchest defenders. They have special schools especially for them which were established — just coincidentally I’m sure — exactly when SA dropped priority for at-risk kids in favor of priority for kids who lived in the district. So if you go to any of the 3 elementary Success Academy schools in wealthy district 2 — yes that rich district just got its third school — you will find large concentrations of the white middle class children who are not present in schools where large numbers of students are suspended and treated like prisoners. And the non-white children are far more likely to come from college educated families and not at-risk ones. There are a shockingly low number of economically disadvantaged children of any race in those schools.
If Success Academy was suspending as may as 25% of their white middle class Kindergarten students there is no way that the SUNY Charter Institute would ignore the middle class white parents who were complaining. But because the children who are suspended are almost never the white middle class ones — or even the non-white middle class ones — Joseph Belluck and the SUNY Charter Institute’s 4 white businessmen/lawyers demonstrate their own racism when they absolutely accept Eva’s word that those non-white children are violent. If Joseph Belluck wasn’t a racist, he would question anyone who made such a ridiculous claim about a group of 5 year old children who all have parents who care very much about their education. He believes it must be true and we all understand why.
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Eva knows to not bite the hand that feeds her bank account.
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