Comments on: Mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson says he would fire Joel Klein

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[...] Mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson says he would fire Joel Klein … [...]

By: bw2nyc

bw2nyc — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:50:21 +0000

Avella is too unknown to beat Bloomberg. Thompson has my vote. Bloomberg only cares about the wealthy. Thats why he backed Bush in 2004 and didn’t endorse Obama in 2008!

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:46:59 +0000

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By: Brooklyn Mom

Brooklyn Mom — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:50:16 +0000

Wow, three years after Tony Avella has been saying he would dump Joel Klein and put in a qualified educator, Thompson decides he should steal another idea from Avella. If you want someone who will stand up to Bloomberg and not be a limp towel, vote for Avella and give Bloomberg someone who is honest and not another machine hack.

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:38:51 +0000

Re NYC Democratic candidates in the Mayoral race, here’s what Congressman Anthony Weiner had to say on the subject in May, two weeks before officially declaring his non-candidacy:

“Mr. Weiner said that despite backing away from plans to run for mayor this year, he remains the target of a well-orchestrated smear campaign that can be traced to the re-election bid of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

The mayor, he said, is running “the most consistently and relentlessly negative campaign that I and many people I know have seen.”

Mr. Weiner characterized the research behind critical news articles about him as “daily Dumpster diving.””
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/nyregion/12weiner.html

And let’s not even pretend that Bloomberg isn’t buying his way to a third term.

By: Albert

Albert — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:54:09 +0000

As a student in high school and the son of a New York City Public School teacher, I experience first-hand the changes that are made by the DOE. Thomson is right to criticize Bloomberg’s education policy. Standardized tests do not help a student or prepare them for life outside of school, but rather takes valuable time away from teachers and requires an hour or two of prep a day for most of elementary school and middle school. The grades do not reflect actual knowledge, but rather how much time the student devoted to studying pointless information that they will never use after they leave school. Some tests are so easy that, in order to maintain a curve, students receive a four, rather than a five, for missing one question. The difference of that one question can drastically change the schools that they have a chance of moving up to.

Bill Thomson will change the direction and the focus of our school system, making it more productive and more worthwhile for the students.

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:55:07 +0000

D,
If you decry “more of the same,” then voting for Kleinberg is the height of irony.

By: Dissenter

Dissenter — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:20:31 +0000

Oh God, Bill Thompson is a union-boot-licking windbag. There’s no way I’d ever vote for him and I didn’t vote for him for Comptroller either. I saw him on Good Day New York this morning “defending” his record as President of the Board of Education. Actually, what it appears is that he’d just love it if everyone forgot he led that cesspool for years, but I haven’t. Why is it that Democrats in New York City can’t come up with one single solitary condidate that has fresh ideas to run for Mayor? It’s always just more of the same, and that’s why I’m voting for Bloomberg.

By: k

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:54:07 +0000

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By: mollymanhattan

mollymanhattan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:33:42 +0000

It’s interesting to me that Tony Avella say through the devestation that Joel Klein and the mayor created in the city school system – months and months ago. Avella has used this line often. I guess Thompson sees the reaction and wants to capitalize on it.

Avella would be the best mayor for education. He know that a good education system needs parents and teachers to make it work — not people like Klein.

By: canwetalk

canwetalk — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:28:04 +0000

If you look at all the grade changes done on HSST, you will see the bold truth! Years ago when you had the old system of putting in grades, UAPC, only the programmer was allowed to change grades. Before the programmer can make any grade changes, teachers had to fill out a form. The form had to receive the principal’s approval. If approved, a copy of the grade change form was given to the programmer and to the teacher. Then the grade was changed. Additionally, code changes of a course was done by the programmer, not the principal. Now principals learned how to access HSST and make the necessary changes without the teachers being aware of those changes. Of course, there are those programmers who are at the mercy of their principals and do not want to lose that position and to receive unnecessary, excessive observations and will make those unethical grade/code changes. It is time to expose the mayor because of these inflations (remember the many warnings the public received about Enron, the unchecked oversight of subprime mortgages, and the lack of the SEC’s monitoring of Madoff) and to fire principals who were involved in these unscrupulous, unethical “credit-recovery” programs, changing of grades and giving of credits to students who did not earn them. Or is everyone going to wait until it’s too late and the damage is so great to the future economic prosperity of our country because everyone believed a billionaire who is not interested in the true future of our children!

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:13:26 +0000

I continue to be struck by the conflation of Tweed’s spin machine — paid for with our tax dollars — and the Mike Bloomberg for Mayor campaign.

There outta be a law.

By: Mr. A. Talk

Mr. A. Talk — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:58:25 +0000

That alone gets him my vote!