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Here’s a enjoyable truth for anybody questioning why so many New York City public colleges are so terrible, in the wake of New York Times scribe Nikole Hannah-Jones’ review of how the ones she selected for her daughter fell so horrible short: The District 13 superintendent who presided over these rotten Brooklyn colleges was Kamar Samuels, who nonetheless now oversees the total Department of Education.
Oh, and Stephanie Carroll, then the incompetent principal at PS 307, has risen to develop into the DOE’s chief of literacy.
Their failure will get rewarded as a result of such directors serve the curiosity of the system’s true grasp, the United Federation of Teachers, whose baneful position Hannah-Jones completely ignores.
Failure prospers inside the DOE; that, not the (imaginary) racism and (supposed) lack of assets that Hannah-Jones insists on faulting, is why the identical colleges fall down on the job technology after technology, solely to be rewarded with ever-higher funding.
Look back at Hannah-Jones’ smug brag a decade in the past: “A New York Times reporter in a high-poverty school f—ing changes the school,” insisting: “I can go to that school and say there is a problem and it gets fixed immediately.”
Hah! NHJ’s essay is full of issues she noticed that by no means received fixed — as a result of this system is designed to disregard all criticism, even from high-and-mighty Times reporters.
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Maybe she might’ve made some distinction if she hadn’t waited years to write down about insanely chaotic lunchrooms, lecturers’ failure to right her daughter’s homework and so forth.
But Hannah-Jones as an alternative spent her vitality denouncing issues she had theoretical gripes with — Gifted & Talented applications, constitution colleges, standardized checks — “problems” that had nothing to do what she really noticed going unsuitable.
(Indeed, ideologues like NHJ are guilty for these lunchrooms: They, not the unions, are who kneecapped faculty self-discipline.)
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Above all, she nonetheless retains repeating her most popular, false narrative that systemic racism perpetrated by whites is inflicting inequity in predominantly black neighborhoods.
Hmm: A progressive, black-led state Legislature dominates state schooling coverage, together with the legal guidelines on native governance and state funding; these lawmakers additionally select the Regents who control the State Education Department (and are steadily destroying all significant requirements).
The City Council is majority-minority; the DOE hasn’t had a white Anglo chancellor since early 2011.
Heck, NHJ’s husband Faraji is contracts-committee chief on the Panel for Educational Policy, which oversees Samuels and the total DOE system.
These are the people who preside over the metropolis’s dysfunctional faculty system, and none of them put the youngsters’ precise wants first.
Nikole Hannah-Jones received’t admit it as a result of that’s true of her agenda, too.
