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A Rat-Infested "Shithole" - This Is New York City's Worst School (And The Reason Why)
In Europe, "it is all austerity's fault" or so the conventional, and very wrong, wisdom goes. Or rather, fauxterity, because as we showed months ago, with European debt and spending soaring, tax revenues plunging, and zero actual reforms since Draghi's "whatever it takes" speech made any actual attempt to fix the economy through fiscal policy irrelevant (after all the Goldmanite at the head of the ECB will fix any runaway bond yields), the main thing that actually ails Europe is sheer political incompetence and unbridled corruption (and the hangover of record debt, but as every Keynesian knows, even more debt will easily fix that).
As it turns out, the same applies for the US: because in a country in which the lack of economic "growth" and prosperity are attributed to the occasional sequester, and a stingy congress that refuses to unleash the spending floodgates, the money is perfectly sufficient - the problem is that quite often it ends up in the hands of people who one may call criminals, if one were so inclined (although legally is prohibited at least until they end up convicted in a court of law).
Take the case of public school PS 106, located in Far Rockaway, Queens - the school is allocated $2.9 million to serve a low-income population with 98 percent of its students eligible for free lunches. As a Title 1 school, it gets extra federal funds. There is one problem: none of that state money actually makes its way to the students, and with no class, or books, and a rat infestation, PS 106 has officially earned the title of New York's worst school.
The Post details the educational process at one of New York's public schools:
Students at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum, whistleblowers say. The 234 kids get no gym or art classes. Instead, they watch movies every day. “The kids have seen more movies than Siskel and Ebert,” a source said.
The school nurse has no office equipped with a sink, refrigerator or cot. The library is a mess: “Nothing’s in order,” said a source. “It’s a junk room.”
No substitutes are hired when a teacher is absent — students are divvied up among other classes. A classroom that includes learning-disabled kids doesn’t have the required special-ed co-teacher.
About 40 kindergartners have no room in the three-story brick building. They sit all day in dilapidated trailers that reek of “animal urine,” a parent said; rats and squirrels noisily scamper in the walls and ceiling.
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But five months into the school year, PS 106 classes still don’t have the books or teacher’s guides.
“They have no reading program, no math program,” a source said, adding Sills blames outside administrators for not sending materials. Teachers muddle through by printing out worksheets they find online, buying their own copy paper.
The DOE gave no explanation for the missing curricula but said it’s “working with the school to provide students with physical education.”
Surely, all of the above is the result of some evil, cheap legislator who refuses to release another million or two to satisfy the school's pressing budgetary needs. Actually, no. It turns out it is all the principal's fault:
The principal — Marcella Sills, who joined PS 106 nine years ago — is a frequent no-show, sources say.
Sills did not come to school last Monday. On Tuesday, she showed up at 3:30 p.m.
On Wednesday, The Post found her at home in Westbury, LI, all day before emerging at 2:50 p.m. — school dismissal time. Wearing a fur coat, she took her BMW for a spin. She showed up at school Thursday, but not Friday.
When Sills, 48, does go to work, it’s rarely before 11 a.m. — and often hours later, say sources familiar with her schedule. “She strolls in whenever she wants,” one said.
The school hasn’t had a payroll secretary in years.
Not only that, but the school's community members also state that they have never seen a budget tracking the income and spending. Well, the income is clear: generous taxpayers. As for spending: it's quite clear where the funds are being embezzled.
When [Marcella Sills] is out, an assistant principal is left in charge. Yet Sills, who gets a $128,207 salary, also pockets overtime pay — $2,900 for 83 hours in 2011, the latest available records show.
Unfortunately, it all goes downhill from there, because any attempts to rectify the situation are halted before they will even begin.
Staffers won’t speak up or even file a grievance with their union because Sills will retaliate, a source said. Parents wonder if higher-ups know what’s going on.
“Why don’t they get on them? I don’t understand that,” said Michael Moore, father of a second-grader.
Another father, Roland Legions, added. “They’re not doing right by the kids.”
One mom said she couldn’t get a meeting with Sills to discuss concerns. Another said Sills is “just not professional.” “She should be here,” the mom said. “How is she going to run the school if she’s not here?”
She won't. But she will gladly collect her paycheck while the student spend time watching movies with the rats. Actually, scratch that: "A spokesman denied the trailers are rat-infested."
In conclusion:
“This school is a complete shithole, but nobody in a position of power comes to investigate. No one cares,” a community member said.
That's ok - nobody cares, which means one can once more fall back to the traditional bullshit excuse and again blame those evil stingy legislators who refuse to give Ms. Sills a few more million to collect for doing... nothing.
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Making it go away will allow you to forget who you're going to vote for in 2016; Mrs. Criminal herself.
No shit Freddie. My company sells to come colleges, and we had to submit property/SSN/crazy records to prove we're straight up. The kick in the balls is anything that says "anti-corruption" and asks for $150 filing fee. The affirmative action paperwork was even better. As for the Clinton Foundation ads, they are following you, did you visit Hillary 2016 in secret? ;)
I sorta thought rand "worth the effort" for awhile. Now, not so much. I do see a shift in the prevailing winds here, though. Less edgy, more mainstream. On a long enough timeline...
I think the Tylers are quick to point out how the system is rotten to the core. This is a street level example about how GOVT policy trickles down to results the common man can see. I work in educational services, and there are good, bad, and ugly setups. LTER, Big Bank, Big ED, Big Med, the corruption has spread everywhere. Clickbait is Simon Black with "Sketchy Man"
It's a worthy post in the newfound land of de Blasio
Let's see how the populist handles an obvious snub of 'the people'
Failure, which would be highlighted by the right-leaning Post, or conflict with the teachers union will be good TV.
Nothing will sadly change... But you can still "hope" for it
Robilla,
I agree that this school and future results would be a great way to judge DiBasio but the only scorecard he'll care about is the votes he gets for free rent and food.
I propose we start using these peoples' real names, not their stage names.
Bill DeBlasio = Warren Wilhelm II
John Kerry = John Kohn
Barack Hussein Obama = ???
1-This is a perfect example of taxpayer money wasted on a scale small enough to clearly see the problem and fix it without a "new" state or federal "assistance". 2-Where are the higher ups within the school system? 3-If there's "no teaching" going on, just "movie watching", why didn't the "teachers" who are members of the teachers union (for the children) bring this failure to educate to the attention of someone in enough authority to stop this criminal abdication of responsibility? 4-This sad experience illustrates how indifference to standards of behavior in pursuit of personal gain is so toxic to the minds of the small children whom the government mandates must be educated in such shithole. That is what you smell, the stench of Education by Government.
You've been drinking tonight haven't you Rand?
You've been drinking tonight haven't you Rand?
Not enough. Hopefully he will drink himself into a coma or at least a stupor. Based on his posts - he lives in a stupor.
LTER is in full tilt "You didn't build that!" mode.
Cept for, the government operated school system being pristine & sacrosanct and absolving all predators for their actions while wearing high dollar Jordan Nike's...or sumpin.
Its really something to behold ;-)
Rand cracks me up, because you never know who you're going to get. One day it's the whole system is corrupt to the core LTER, and the next day it's the .gov is good and we need moar of it LTER.
A definite case study on bipolarism
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
For the record, I consistently say that .gov is a necessary evil. I never say moar is better. That's the ideologue in you.
We've all seen how destructive "necessary evils" are.
I'm not clear on what your point is, but rather than insult TD, you can be true to the inspiration of your moniker, vote with your feet, and perhaps the smell here would improve a bit. What would Ayn do? I think she might consider the sum of Tyler's efforts, the fruits of the labor he has cultivated over these years, the enlightenment he has brought a very wide audience, and say he's a fine capitalist. I doubt she would be snarky and insult our prolific host. Simply wasn't her style.
I'm not insulting the guy(s) who started this site. I'm questioning whether they are still here.
I tend to agree with you LTER.
(Has Hell now officially frozen over?)
The overall level of sensationalistic (as opposed to serious and/or pertinent) articles here has definitely been increasing over the past year or so, regrettably. One such article every once in a while adds spice; a regular diet of it, though, leaves one hungy.
"(Has Hell now officially frozen over?)"
It's the polar vortex.
It's seemingly increasingly clear that the original Tylers cashed out. I don't blame them, but really sad because this is one of the few sites left that I enjoy reading.
Every fucking day akak the troll is posting on this site and now complains that the articles aren't pertimnent enough? What a fucking pompous, arrogant, obnoxious fucking troll akak is! If you don't like ZH, then get your lazy fat troll ass off the bankrupt democrat entitlement plantation and start your own fucking website!
say what you will, but that is a really good observation
I remember when weekends here were filled with electronica music spun by Marla, and Tyler posted open forums for talking about whatever was on your mind, simply to entertain the folks here and build community. Had nothing to do with economics or government or the fed. Was that a travesty? Hell no, it was awesome. I'd say The Hedge has matured admirably, the audience has grown astoundingly, and the economic results for Tyler are witnessed by the type and abundance of ads found here. I click on ads here all the time, just to keep Mr. Durden in the chips. (I hope TD is socking it away in gold and bitcoins.)
Perhaps a slight variation of the question you pose is one you also could benefit from pondering: Why are you still here? (The answer may surprise you.)
I'm visiting here less. I was all but addicted to it until recently. It was one of the rare sites where the articles were thoughtful and not just intended to speak to an audience in order to cause a debate between ideological extremes. I don't begrudge the founders for taking the millions the site is worth if that's what happened. But I find my addiction waning.
there's not many other watering holes out there. Assuming you are hanging in there in life, maybe it's just easier to eat the juicy steak. or try to anyway.
Hanging in there, man. Hope you are too. I still enjoy the fake steak and I'm sure I will for some time just as I still click on Drudge and Huffington to see what "they" are saying, but I miss the guy telling me it's fake!
Here LTER, check this flick out when you have a chance. I found it almost theraputic. I'm jealous of these people (kind of). They are the real ZH'ers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1pOjj49d9Y
I love it. Saw that on Netflix streaming a couple of months ago.
good stuff dude. there were a lot of lessons in there.
No doubt, but it's sad to me that as a society of invention and innovation that could be used to better ourselves we need to look back to frontier days to see what contentment means. I don't think it needs to be so.
You are going to love the US, Randy. Yes, you will carry the flag bitch, I already know you.
Spoken like a true freedom loving patriot, as always. You are one thing I shall not miss about this site. Funny how you appeared around the time the site went the way of ....
On your way out, may the bathhouse door slam hard on your fat worn out ass!
It is a dystopia already. No one said any of us have to like it my friend. We'll either keep coming here until the information turns into {dis,mis}information or quit when we've had enough. I agree that the substantial increase in sensationalism, change in tone, red meat pieces - they take away from the crux of what ZH is, to provide truthful and fine (this word being why I came here in the first place) analysis on the happenings of the financial/economic/political world. We just have to see what happens.
I've jumped from forum to forum (and IRC channel to channel at one point) since the mid 90s and participated in cultures that thrived. If ZH goes under the bus, so be it, but it'll be a shame to see it fully compromised.
Just a theory, but I'm guessing that as part of the buyout the original(s) had to continue participating until recently, thus the relatively slow burn followed by a seemingly sudden change of tone. I'll keep this site on my radar and I'll be the first to tell you if I find a new good alternative. Or maybe I'm just completely wrong and this site will come roaring back and the original Tylers are just busy counting some money in the short-term. Sure seems like some of the regulars here like you see the same thing I do, though.
Zerohedge used to be one stop shopping. Where are you visitng now if you care to share? I am looking elsewhere as well for cutting edge financial and political commentary. Seeking Alpha maybe?
We used to get articles like:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/was-morgan-stanley-compromised-project-mayhem
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/worst-case-scenario
We can no longer get to some old links:
http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/market-outlook-0
What did Grand Supercycle get banned for? ... associating with Trav777?
No. Seeking Alpha is how I found ZH.
Where are you visitng now if you care to share?...
I kinda liked SA too, but FINVIZ provides a decent, quick, down and dirty glance at market info that still allows for drilling down enough for my purposes.
jmo.
I blame Fonestar
Fucker probably gets a .001 bitcoin for every response to his posts. Certainly the new "improved" ZH posts a lot of articles about it, like other MSM as of late.
If he was, I'd be all over his ass. Ever hear of Occam's razor? The simplest answer is usually correct. Simplest answer is that the MSM is losing it's grip on the illusion.
Fonestar is MDB, on another comedy bit. I think Forestar/MDB/Tra777 are all the same, and on top of it, are or were one of the Durdens. I think they got so amped by all the shit talking, they had to jump in and stir the pot. Whoever it is, they work hard to push the line, and they REALLY get off on conflict and downvotes.
No, Fonestar is a real person, he responds like any zealot, but I can reason with him.
> I'm questioning whether they are still here.
Francis_Bacon (sp?) was tolerated here ... until he wasn't. His banning sent a chill thru ZH. Want a timeframe for the change over?
See also: Liberty Forum
Frances Sawyer. His name was Frances Sawyer.
another example of ''American Exceptionlism''......
makes me want to max-out another credit card
Most Americans have nothing in common with the underclass parasites responsible for this crap.
The Americans I associate with, are clearly exceptional to the likes of ignorant, broken records, such as your smugly condescending self.
Admit it, you breathlessly wait all day for any news stories that show America in a bad light.
There are far too many of you clueless punks on this site.
Im sure I'll feel better after we start another war and print some more fake money to pay for it and bail out some bankers.....
Sounds like the perfect school to "buss" they new a Mayor's kids to...
just fucking depressing......on so many levels.
Its broken that's for sure. Someone should strap that bitch to the bumper of a car and take her for a few laps around the block.
Yet Sills, who gets a $128,207 salary, also pockets overtime pay — $2,900 for 83 hours in 2011, the latest available records show.
It's a great gig if you can get it. But you got to ask yourself, 'I wonder who's she blowing'.
No fellatio necessary.
Simply tenure in the completely non-demanding, unaccountable field of "education"
Protected racial class and gender merely accelerates the easy glide path.
Can you imagin if they returned to the GI bill days:
Vouchers for everyone: educators competing for kids.
Wanna learn chinese? we'll do it for a hundre bucks!
Wanna turn a wrench? We'll teach you and get you into an
apprentice program...
Wanna trade options...
Oh, wait...
Competition would solve a lot of problems with state-enabled parasites.
End the rackets!!!
Off topic but NYC related.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368234/voter-fraud-weve-got-proof-...
Liberals who oppose efforts to prevent voter fraud claim that there is no fraud — or at least not any that involves voting in person at the polls.
But New York City’s watchdog Department of Investigations has just provided the latest evidence of how easy it is to commit voter fraud that is almost undetectable. DOI undercover agents showed up at 63 polling places last fall and pretended to be voters who should have been turned away by election officials; the agents assumed the names of individuals who had died or moved out of town, or who were sitting in jail. In 61 instances, or 97 percent of the time, the testers were allowed to vote. Those who did vote cast only a write-in vote for a “John Test” so as to not affect the outcome of any contest. DOI published its findings two weeks ago in a searing 70-page report accusing the city’s Board of Elections of incompetence, waste, nepotism, and lax procedures.
The Board of Elections, which has a $750 million annual budget and a work force of 350 people, reacted in classic bureaucratic fashion, which prompted one city paper to deride it as “a 21st-century survivor of Boss Tweed–style politics.” The Board approved a resolution referring the DOI’s investigators for prosecution. It also asked the state’s attorney general to determine whether DOI had violated the civil rights of voters who had moved or are felons, and it sent a letter of complaint to Mayor Bill de Blasio. Normally, I wouldn’t think de Blasio would give the BOE the time of day, but New York’s new mayor has long been a close ally of former leaders of ACORN, the now-disgraced “community organizing” group that saw its employees convicted of voter-registration fraud all over the country during and after the 2008 election.
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Just a reminder about DeCommunist and how he has no conflicts of interest here in making sure this gets investigated.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2592
In the mid-nineties, he served as executive director of the New York branch of the New Party, a pro-socialist, ACORN-affiliated entity to which Barack Obama likewise belonged.
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In September 2009, when the community organization ACORN was engulfed in several major scandals involving voter-registration-fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, and racketeering, de Blasio wrote a letter to ACORN's leaders reaffirming his support for the organization, though noting that he was “troubled” by the recent revelations.
...
Patrick Gaspard, a former New Party staffer and Obama administration official with significant ties to ACORN, is a close friend of de Blasio and played a key role in shaping the latter's mayoral campaign.
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After de Blasio's primary victory in September 2013, longtime ACORN leader Bertha Lewis, who said that her political and ideological ties to de Blasio “go back a long time,” predicted a comeback for ACORN’s successor group in New York—New York Communities for Change—under a de Blasio administration. According to a Democratic insider, “ACORN’s long-range plan since 2001 was to elect de Blasio mayor. De Blasio was a big ACORN project.”
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Got to love public sector unions.
Amen! Here in California, we got the SEIU. They are absolutely despicable in their purple shirts. Look it up and check out the 'images', you will be disgusted. The Public Sector Unions doubly suck, because in their labor negotiations with Government, neither side is accountable to the TAXPAYER. And why should they be? It's not THEIR fucking money!
Any parent who would accept that shit should be horse whipped.
I would have a quick drive past, and just keep accelerating.
No way would I let my kids go into what looks like a derilict insane asylum.
I guess the FSA just simply don't give a fuck and expect their care givers to fix it.
Watch Waiting for Superman, and you'll see the tip of the iceberg. People do fight against it, the EDU system is setup to keep the money in the wrong hands.
Free watch http://vimeo.com/20095459
Looks good, I'll watch that tonight. Thanks!
Good documentary. After 2 years of "teaching", everyone gets tenure and it is impossible to fire them. The teachers union is the problem.
Also, check out 2 charter schools that are changing the status quo.
http://www.kipp.org/
KIPP is in NYC. Great stuff.
http://www.rsed.org/
Rocketship Education. Adaptative learning to change outcomes for teachers and students. http://www.rsed.org/Blended-Learning.cfm
Do we really need schools any longer? It seems to me that with the internet schools, like many other institutions and the shitty product they provide, are pricing themselves into irrelevancy. Today's schools are nothing more than state funded indoctrination centers to babysit the kids while the parents serve as slaves to the system.
Be an autodidact!
.
Isn't that we are all doing here? Teach your children the thrill of exploration so that they also become autodidacts.
Get them out of the Public School System.
ahem- Public Zoo System.
+1
Engali,
I work in selling to EDU, and I joke about how similar schools and prisons are in the USA. The lunch is the same, both are ATM's for the private sector, and if you don't complete your sentance, you get tracked down and thrown back in. Schools are geared to train kids to guess on a multiple choice "No Child Left Alone Act" testing. I'm pulling my kid at the end of the year to home-school him via the Internet. Charter schools are pioneers, check out Rocketship Education, or the KIPP schools, to see how EDU should be done. At least when I went to Catholic schools, the biggest fear was getting molested....
My sister taught for 2 years in an inner city school, and they had to take out the linoleum tile floors, and put in carpet. The kids would break off the flooring, and make shanks to stab each other. Extra credit - Not the worst school in the district.
Who downvoted that? Hater. Look at the data on "lunch." http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1105/lunch/flat.html
Also, "Beef. It's tainted for dinner." Eat up kids! http://blog.pe.com/government/2013/11/27/chino-feds-announce-155-million-settlement-in-downer-cattle-case/
(Insert VD follow up comment on veganism below.)
The saddest part is this is only the worst school in NEW YORK CITY, not in the state or the entire country.
keep government away from schools; they have nothing good to teach children; public schools exist to enrich unions and politicians and
poison the minds of our children
Wasn't always true. But it's true now. Like most of our public instutions it's too corrupt to reform and just needs a complete tear down.
Government runs schools just as swimmingly as it runs everything else.
Abolish government schools NOW.
What is the call options price that Marcela is black?
When [Marcella Sills] is out, an assistant principal is left in charge. Yet Sills, who gets a $128,207 salary, also pockets overtime pay — $2,900 for 83 hours in 2011, the latest available records show.
Here's her photo.
Edit: Link didn't work for just the photo, so here is the NY Post story with the photo.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/13/worst-principal-forced-poor-kids-to-pay-for-bizarre-bash/
Wow! I am in awe. It is so rare to see a living 3-d cartoon villain so one dimensionally evil, and dumber than her fat fur coat.
Rare?!
You evidently haven't been paying attention to politics, finance, or monetary matters lately.
Rare, as in so cartoon like of a villan. Think of 'Cruella Deville' in '101 Dalmations' simailar to Marcella Sills.
My fav part of the linked article was where School Sup Carmin Hispanic is sending her second-in-command Dorita Gibson to "investigate".Have to do something to head off a media stink.
Dorita? Is that the female variont of Doritos?
Doritos means "of little gold pieces" in Spanish.
Home Schooling Bitchez !
Sure, but with a FULL taxation opt out Bastids!
As a PARENT you are supposed to Home School your children...Taxation or no taxation.
So you don't believe that you are responsible to teach your own? You will only do that if you get a Taxation Opt Out?
So money is more important than your own flesh and blood. You are realy fucked up, pal.
FUCK THE MONEY.
To those that do give a damn about their own flesh and blood, unlike this piece of shit,
IF YOU TRULY LOVE YOUR CHILDREN YOU WILL REMOVE THEM FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLING TODAY.
Go fuck yourself moron. Who the hell do you think you are?
You are one screwed up, angry POS. Really.
Out here in the real world, most people do not have the time or fiscal resources to home school their children.
Removing the enormous government theft in the form of taxes to "support the schools" would help such people, immensely. We would see many more people opting for this route instead of the mere trickle of families who engage in home education currently. Along the same lines, by also allowing families to KEEP monies that would previously have been dumped into the Socialist public schools nightmare, would be individual choice among an array of competing schools.
How could this happen in a city where 80% of the registered voters are democrats. Democrats whose concern for the welfare of others knows no bounds
(Ha ha, small world. ~I~ attended PS106 in 54' - 56.')
No shit? What was it like then? What was the community like? The teachers?
It was a working class-trades neighborhood, mostly white. The school was a happy place. We put on Gilbert and Sullivan operas. We played softball against the teachers in on asphalt diamond. There's a basketball court on the roof, but mostly we played dodge-ball.
Times change.
(altho this is tmi, I went on to HLS'73.)
Always thought Far Rockaway was such a cool name for a town. I dunno why.
I went to Holy Family School across the street from ps 138 in the Bronx in the 60's. Even then, word was that school was rough (fights, knives, etc). You can actually look these places up. Most are still there in the same buildings that were old then. Now, as then though, most of the problem is the parents. They are either not there chemicaly, physicaly, psychologicaly, mentaly or spiritualy. Having seen it as a child, I understand how it is that these loser politicians are able to get elected over and over...
Bloomberg has done well for you right NYC? I am sure that the new guy with a black wife will help you out.
This gets repeated all over America. Public education is well-intentioned, but attracts sociopaths willing to fuck kids over to the administrative positions due to the unlimited gravy train it represents.
My local district (which is quite small) had a $3M bond election for school improvements. A year later, the money was gone with none of the improvements to the gym promised, no new equipment, pretty much nothing... but $2M of it was spent on the principal's office, including marble and custom art, and of course hundreds of thousands in the remaining balance was spent without documentation. There was no prosecution -- the principal simply moved to another district. They then asked for another bond to do the same improvments promised in the original offering and it (rightfully so) went down in flames. I spoke with a member of the school board that joined just a few years after the ordeal who whined about how hostile the voters were to bond offerings in the district, and she had no clue whatsoever that this had happened -- none of the remaining people in administrative positions she was responsible for oversight for felt it was important enough to fill her in.
If you look at education spending, it's well ahead of inflation, with no major improvements in the education level of the country. If you look at the spending in detail, you'll find it's all going to administrative positions and contractors building the schools -- virtually none of it goes to teachers or supplies and equipment. It's the same grift we see in banking. Until it all goes, there will be no improvements.
Happens in universities and also those crappy for-profit trade schools too.
Do it for the kids. Yeah nobody gives a shit about the kids when this crap goes on.
You don't even really know Freddie. Public schools and colleges are stifled in adminstration, plain and simple.
Seek (or New Seek)...The second sentence in your comment doesn't make sense.
Agreed.
Mostly a very good post, but that second sentence was really off key.
Except at the individual teacher level, I see very little "good intentions" in the entire self-serving BigEducation criminal enterprise.
I can't wait until next year to see what Denver Public School System does with their fresh round of $70+Million in tax money from MMJ sales. My guess :: No new teachers, no new music programs, no new programs what so ever. Tenured teachers will receive pay increase as well as all the board members.
Sorry, double posted.
Yeah, better send your kids to those Ivy League schools where they teach how to become a sociopath, a psycopath: a banker, a politician, a nuclear engineer and so on... The art to deceive and betray your own and the rest of the World, laughing at it as in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoJNSshqng (one hell of a minute).
You can also choose West Point, another opportunity to become a mass murderer or an officer for some USS Ronald Reagan carrier, some depleted uranium war scenario, some chem trail "strategist" or many other very bright futures...
It's the way specially the WEST and friends have shaped this wonderful World we have, now ready to poisen us all within a few years with radiation added to QE. They've managed to quantitive-easing radiation too, the ultimate achievement.
So sad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDrUA8F7Vn8
Really though, are these kids going to learn anything even if they did have books? Seems like the teachers can't or won't (and possibly are in no way able to) control them which is why they watch movies all day.
Totally understand the government graft, waste and corruption....but how can we keep funneling massive amounts of resources to kids who likely don't give a shit anyway?
Look on the bright side. Getting used to all those fences and window bars acclimates them for their likely future in prison. Then in prison they can finish their education with a useful crime skill, or they can run for a political office.
Sills is on the top 100 list of people who really, really need to go far, far away right now. And don't tell me that there aren't people in that neighborhood who could easily make that happen.
For what party do the parents of present students vote for? And for what party or candidates did parents of past students vote for?
The "no difference between red and blue" contingent, is sure to down vote your very truthful and factual comment.
Showing children movies all day is not the principal's fault. Those teachers are dogshit too.
But you have to buy a flat and/or house in NYC so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the enormous city tax controversy.
-Nancy Pelosi
Teachers unions......liberal indoctrination......democrats.....rat shit......roaches......
Seems pretty congruent to me.
When young illeterate women graduate from this school, what are their work options?
Mrs. degree to a retarted dude?
Do you mean public work by the hour in the evening?
Principal?
This story is a tip of a tip of a tip of the iceberg.
Yep.
Actually, an entire colony of dirty icebergs encompassing a number of dismal social, and fiscal trends.
Third World, here we come! And somehow that's Ok with a great many people.
Truly, just the nib of the crust of the mattering thing.
Alas, alas, three times alas, just the pinnacle of the roadside poo pingo.
All of Roman 'chinese' citizenism Gaul is divided by three sharts.
"I came, I saw, I squatted".
Veni, vidi, excreti.
Et tu, AnAnonymus?
"Oh what a shartist dies in me!"
Out on the Crappian Way...
... Sharticus and his fellow Roman 'chinese' slaves are revolting ... very revolting ...
Marcella Sills is going to retire in seven years with a six figure lifetime pension, guaranteed, then probably go work for a school district in a neighboring state and earn another six figure salary on top of that for a few years until she finally retires in Arizona or Tahiti. But, if you’re a laid off CFO, Division Manager, or Director of a major Corporation, don’t even think about applying for her job. You don’t have the proper certifications.
She'd probably make a good head (no pun intended) to the DoE. Fits right in line with the rest of DC.
She'd probably make an even better head on a spear point.
It would sure scare off demons, and alien tribes.
Teachers' Union has DESTROYED public education!!!!!
As a NYC teacher in the South Bronx I can tell you there are some schools with great teachers and great pricipals who break their ass to try to help our students break the cycle of poverty they are in. But with 1.1 million students to educate there are also schools like this one.
I commend you if you are a good teacher who cares, but you cannot break any cycle of poverty without parents who give a shit or a school administration who won't put education of the child over social or personal adgendas.
Find who SHOULD be ashamed and punish the shit out of them.
Tragic, glad the lid is off this.
Hey Tyler, why don't you go work there. Let me know how you make out, if you make it out.
Bring Al Sharpton in as the new Principal and Jesse Jackson as assistant, they can teach the kids how to play the race card.
"People that annoy you :: N_GGERS ...... Randy Marsh your answer please?"
That is a beautiful building. A little TLC and it would be awesome. It has big windows. Here in California the school boards have decided that windows are distracting so the new schools almost no windows or prison style windows. Just fluorescent lights. For some reason, those schools get all the ADHD kids, too.
It certainly is.
First thing I noticed.
Unfortunately in cities across America, the Free Shit Army savages are destroying thousands of these magnificent old structures.
My nephew lives in Arverne which is next to Far Rockaway. He had to get a safety transfer in elementary school because all the black kids (which is all the students) would beat him up and call him white devil. He is actually half Peruvian and definitely looks hispanic. I guess that's the closest thing to white those kids have actually seen close up. Now he goes to school across the bridge in Howard Beach and the school gave everyone an Ipad. So I guess the moral of the story is that the Board of Ed is going to waste your money no matter what, but if you're lucky, you might get some overpriced Icrap for your thousands of dollars of taxes.
There's so much that's all fucked up here that it's hard to know where to start.
All over America people that make ten or fifteen bucks an hour are paying taxes so that twisted fucks like this can take home $129,000 a year. Holy shit, that MUCH money for a principal of a school with 256 students?
Whenever power accumlates in any organization it will, over time, become more and more focused on the well being of it's members. At this point, government at all levels, exists solely to benefit government workers.
$2.9 million for 256 kids is still over $10,000 per kid a year. If you can't educate kids for $10,000 a year per kid then you have deeper problems than one thieving bitch.
True: the money is there at that school, but the kids, their parents and the taxpayer are being swindled. And no one in authority intervenes to do the right thing for the right reason, genuinely for the children on this occasion. Disgraceful.
" but the kids, their parents and the taxpayer are being swindled"
Two of these things are not related to the other.
Guess which.
It's free daycare that feeds the kids breakfast and lunch so as to free up the day for Mom.
That is why kids are still sent there.
Free the day for mom to do what? So she can collect welfare, watch Oprah, take drugs, and sleep with guys in da hood? Lord knows none of those kids has a father with a real job who lives with them.
No, the poor kids and the poor taxpayers are both being swindled.
Binko, you have touched the core of the problem. I wish I could offer a solution other than a revolt.
"One thieving bitch" is our phrase of the day!
Everything else is spot on as well.
Isn't it odd that we have more reporting of govt corruption than ever in human history (thanks to the internet), more guns in private hands than ever in human history, and there STILL hasn't been a revolution?
Why? Maybe because 98% of Ameicans would game the system if they could?
When 98% of people would game the system, the nation is hopeless and not worth saving.
If obama had a son, she would look like Marcella Sills
Barry and Rahm could still adopt her.
"If you want to keep your shithole, you can keep your shithole."