NYC starves schools of resources then closes them for failing.

[erodriguez]

Run time: 10:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ngMFxhk-sc   Posted on YouTube: November 09, 2010 By YouTube Member: GEMNYC1 Views on YouTube: 74   Posted on DU: November 10, 2010 By DU Member: erodriguez Views on DU: 671

 
The new NYC Schools Chancellor wants to open 100 charter schools. That means closing other schools.

The Bloomberg administration short changes the students and parents of NYC by letting many schools deteriorate. Then it labels them failures and closes them.

Many of these "failing" schools are overcrowded, lack the basic tools of learning such as libraries and textbooks. Students learn in stairwells and closets. Some schools are infested with vermin.

It's a huge scam that in the end will hand over control of public education to private corporations. Watch the video.

[Tippy]

1. I will never believe they are failures this is all part of the master plan

One day it will only the rich who can afford to will send their kids to school If we are not able to stop this madness, God only knows where we will end up.

[Crowman1979]

2. Someone in the NYC school board is being bribed by these private charter school companies.

[BrownieGman]

13. What??

Wait a minute ,,,I worked to help N.Y. pass Legislation allowing Charters..!

The movie (Waiting for Superman)--may give you a look at a few..

[thereismore]

3. ...then gives the money to charter schools who may or may not raise anti-government individuals. nt

[nyc 4 Biden]

4. k&r

[katty]

5. yup, it's part of the plan - and it is happening everywhere

[Cassandra]

6. I attended a NYC private school in the 60s and 70s...

but it was and is NON-PROFIT (as are all of the elite private schools in NYC).

[erodriguez]

10. Huh? What does this have to do with private schools?

[Cassandra]

12. I think Bloomberg...

and those in the voucher and charter school movements point to non-profit private schools as the sort of excellence they aim for but private schools are not there to turn a profit on their students (and they cost a shitload) and they can be selective about their student body. Bloomberg is all about breaking the teachers' union and making a profit off of education and to hell with the children.
Question: are the teachers' pensions properly funded?

[stray cat]

7. Sounds like almost anything else in this economy

no one is going to keep me from closing my business if it isn't successful and if I whine the economy is bad tax payers should bail me out or protect my job it won't happen

[erodriguez]

9. Your point makes little sense

Bloomberg has been in charge of these schools for 8 years. In most of those years, NYC has had a good economy.

This is the systematic withdrawal of support from poor and minority communities in order to pave the way for corporate take over of public assets.

[indimuse]

8. well...even I knew that!!

of course they are!

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, erodriguez.