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No great loss…he was another Klein appointee who believed that the biggest problems with the schools is the quality of the teachers or the lack thereof and made it very clear his attitude about due process. He won’t be missed.

Never even heard of him. Sounds like a made up name.

As Freddie Mercury would say, “Another One Bites the Dust.” See ya!!!! Poor Laura Rodriguez. That ________ will rot in Tweed as nobody is picking her up. What a team with Cathie Black at the helm. Letterman should do a top 10 on “Things Cathie Black should do as a Chancellor.” This is a disgraceful saga in NYC right now. How PATHETIC!

Talk about rats jumping from a sinking ship. Black will start hearing crickets soon (if she doesn’t already!). Our sincerest condolences to New orleans. Can we interest you in a Compact Sized Mayor, with some mileage, and a very slightly used Chancellor???

The Tweed Roman Empire is slowly falling. Although it took 320 years for their collapse, I give tweed and Byzantine educraps 320 days. Then we shall hopefully see a complete transformation. Ahh, body made of stone, but feet made of clay.

What is it with these TFA/Broad Academy/Tweedbots?

Are they really all cyborgs with genetically inbred operating systems, or is it all something out of Melville?

“… all my means are sane, my motive and object mad.” (Ahab in “Moby Dick”)

You must be his personal friend and you probably have nothing to do with the NYC public education system.

You’re dismissed.

@FirpoM, I see anyone who doesn’t agree with you is an ignoramus. You must work at Tweed. As a parent John White offended me. I remember him sitting at the hearings to close Jamaica High School and treating parents with complete contempt and disrespect. Playing with his cell phone while parents worried about the impact of school closure. Yep, he’s a gem. I know – he needed to do that because the rest of us are just so darn stupid. I’m sorry for NOLA. I just came back from there on Monday and the city is looking better than ever. I hope it can withstand the contemptuous Mr. White. We’re lucky to be rid of him.

Yes, like a modern day plague, just more dangerous.

FirpoM, let me explain why I am so angry with John White and the other “experts” at Tweed. I’d like to know why, I spent over a million dollars to buy an apartment in my Hells Kitchen neighborhood only to be shut out of the best school in the neighborhood, Midtown West. Midtown West is a “choice” school taking kids from all over Manhattan by application. Since when do public school kids have to fill out an application to get into a school? Since the Tweed Revolution. For Midtown West, kids are chosen in a completely nontransparent fashion – basically based on who the principal likes and who is recommended through preschool. So it’s okay for me to buy a home, invest in the neighborhood, and pay taxes, but my kids get the shaft when it comes to the local public school. Kids from all over District 2 get to come to school in my neighborhood and my kid gets to go to a school in the middle of a construction zone for 3 years. Good riddance to John White, Cathie Black, and I can’t wait until we get rid of the mayor too.