As Chancellor,
I want the best for our kids. That's why I'm closing their schools, and allowing charters to take over. After all, charters are better than public schools
17% of the time, so it's crucial we give our kids the chance to enroll in a
grueling, dehumanizing lottery process in which they have a s
mall chance of getting into one of these schools. That way, if they do, they have a 17% chance of getting a superior education. Me, I sent my kids to
private schools until high school, because I don't take chances with my own kids.
In any case, I'd like to give the rest of you the opportunity to take that crapshot. I figure if 20% actually get into the charters, that 3.4% of your kids will have better schools. But consider this--if I can double the number of charters, 6.8% of your kids will have better schools. Perhaps one day I'll be remembered as the chancellor who managed to get 3.4% more kids better schools.
Let me tell you, I don't take this responsibility lightly. I want to close
all the public schools the failing public schools because it's very important to me to
raise the number of privately-run charters improve education for
that 3.4% all children.
We do meticulous research before taking the drastic step of closing a school, and we stand by our findings. We don't care how many people get up and protest at the hearings on closings, and we don't worry about what people say to us at the PEP meetings when we allow public comment. Mayor Bloomberg knows best, and we all know that he'd fire us if we disagreed with his findings.
Sure, 78% of public school parents
think we're going the wrong way. But I ask you, is that a reason to change horses mid-stream? If it means
my job? What are you, nuts? No one wants to have their jobs on the line. That's why that pain-in-the-ass union is always complaining. Sure, some Gloomy Guses ask why we want to
fire teachers, reducing the number of working teachers by 6,000, when we're sitting on a
3.2 billion dollar surplus.
That's simply because it's better to have kids in a class of 140 with a good teacher than a class of 25 with a mediocre one. And Mayor Bloomberg and I know what a good teacher is. A good teacher is a
low-paid, non-unionized, constantly terrified for her very livelihood trained professional who knows how to
look the other way when we commit outrageous violations train her students for a fuller and more rewarding life. And believe me, with the money we save on losing the 6,000 teachers this year, we will focus on expanding
our bad ideas opportunities for all our kids.
And remember, I've pledged never to say a bad word about teachers. I shall show the utmost respect while I
fire them based on deficits that don't exist usher them into a world of new opportunity and
outrageously raise the class sizes of those remaining create new challenges for our always-excellent working teachers.
Thank you, and be confident that together, we will achieve
whatever the hell Michael Bloomberg says great things.
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