Comments on: To serve on new Board of Ed, deputy mayors needed waivers http://gothamschools.org/2009/07/09/to-serve-on-new-board-of-ed-deputy-mayors-needed-waivers/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: canwetalk http://gothamschools.org/2009/07/09/to-serve-on-new-board-of-ed-deputy-mayors-needed-waivers/comment-page-1/#comment-150980 canwetalk Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:30:44 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=18481#comment-150980 It goes without saying that "Justice is blind". But, justice here is also mute! Why aren't the stakeholders and politicians confronting this abusive mayor who has used his unchecked power of breaking or twisting state education laws to his constant convenience? Everyone is complaining, but no one coming up with a solution to stop this Castro-type of stronghold on the unions and politicians, social-policy manipulation of the truth, double-talk guises of the charter laws where citizens must abide by the city's laws except the mayor and the chancellor. This disgrace of the mayor and the chancellor misleading the people, the citizens, the children, and those who have a great deal of stake in this city should be chronicled in the annals as the Boss Tweed's reincarnation. Corruption and deceit in any form is corruption and deceit at its best! If we do nothing about this historical travesty, the children of NY will reap what the mayor has insidiously sown - every child used for his political gains! It goes without saying that “Justice is blind”. But, justice here is also mute! Why aren’t the stakeholders and politicians confronting this abusive mayor who has used his unchecked power of breaking or twisting state education laws to his constant convenience? Everyone is complaining, but no one coming up with a solution to stop this Castro-type of stronghold on the unions and politicians, social-policy manipulation of the truth, double-talk guises of the charter laws where citizens must abide by the city’s laws except the mayor and the chancellor. This disgrace of the mayor and the chancellor misleading the people, the citizens, the children, and those who have a great deal of stake in this city should be chronicled in the annals as the Boss Tweed’s reincarnation. Corruption and deceit in any form is corruption and deceit at its best! If we do nothing about this historical travesty, the children of NY will reap what the mayor has insidiously sown – every child used for his political gains!

]]> By: Michael M. http://gothamschools.org/2009/07/09/to-serve-on-new-board-of-ed-deputy-mayors-needed-waivers/comment-page-1/#comment-150497 Michael M. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:34:10 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=18481#comment-150497 "Hey Moe, can I have a waiver? Can I can I pleeeeze? I heard Larry say we'd only meet for 15 minutes. Curly bid 12. If you sign mine, I'll make it 10, and no more meetings till September." As if... the conflict of interest is about whether Bored of Ed members get paid. Given their 10 minutes of work, I say give them each a gold watch. It's only fair. After all, it only took them 10 minutes to make the PEP look like a bunch of activists, while banking on SOME kind of Albany settlement before the nominal September meeting. Last, irony strikes again. Klein gets rubber-stamped (with effectively additional financial power, given the abdication of the Bored of Ed), but refuses to extend the same favor to the CEC's. Sheesh. Then again, this is the same guy who tried to ban SLT members from serving on CEC's. And those parents don't get paid for EITHER job. “Hey Moe, can I have a waiver? Can I can I pleeeeze? I heard Larry say we’d only meet for 15 minutes. Curly bid 12. If you sign mine, I’ll make it 10, and no more meetings till September.”

As if… the conflict of interest is about whether Bored of Ed members get paid. Given their 10 minutes of work, I say give them each a gold watch. It’s only fair. After all, it only took them 10 minutes to make the PEP look like a bunch of activists, while banking on SOME kind of Albany settlement before the nominal September meeting.

Last, irony strikes again. Klein gets rubber-stamped (with effectively additional financial power, given the abdication of the Bored of Ed), but refuses to extend the same favor to the CEC’s. Sheesh.

Then again, this is the same guy who tried to ban SLT members from serving on CEC’s. And those parents don’t get paid for EITHER job.

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