Are NYC Public School Teachers ‘Radioactive Sharks’?

   

     Hope everyone is enjoying the spectacular weather as Mother Nature plays dice over Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. I’ve been hiking all over lately - yesterday, I was bewitched by the Cary Institute’s nature preserve in Millbrook, NY. I haven’t kept up with anything in the papers until my buddy Boca Harry called me to invite me down to Florida. Harry’s hunkering down with a case of Dom and a bottle of 714’s he’s saved for his end of the world party. I begged Harry not to retire to Florida. Everyone I know that’s moved to Florida comes to the realization that they are waiting to die, but enough of that. I opened the NY Post app on my phone and read its opinion section. It contained a  hemorrhoid busting hit piece on NYC Public Schools, teachers, deBlasio, Carranza and the UFT by Kyle Smith. I’ve never heard of Kyle Smith, but I enjoyed his creative use of metaphors. https://nypost.com/2019/08/31/de-blasio-is-out-to-destroy-nycs-public-schools/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=pasteboard_app

     Kyle likens our public school system to this scenic tapestry :
Picture the Pacific Ocean after an underwater nuclear catastrophe, and you’ll have some idea of what Bill de Blasio’s public-school system is like. There would be a few safe islands scattered around, but they would be separated by thousands of square miles of radioactive seawater — patrolled by mutant sharks, fire-breathing giant squids and unnecessarily rude sea turtles. And what does de Blasio think when he surveys this immense realm of inequality? “Hey, why not blow up the islands? That way everyone is equal. Problem solved!” 

    Well that was interesting, but it gets even better - Kyle waxes onto the oft used and abused :  The city has a lot of underperforming high schools, these schools are filled with black children, and de Blasio is doing zilch to help them. That’s because the teachers union won’t allow any solution that even whispers a hint of a rumor about the main problem at these schools, which is the large number of radioactive sharks: the lousy teachers who work there.

     Kyle, I’m shocked and appalled at the offensive name calling! This sounds like a nightmarish SpongeBob Squarepants episode that we have all been thrust into! Where is Kyle going with this and what are his motives? He becomes quite transparent at the end of his fishy diatribe : More than nine out of 10 kids at the Success Academy charter network, the best of the lot, are students of color. But is de Blasio fighting to allow Success Academy to expand and build more islands? Of course not. Although the DOE’s own figures show vast amounts of unused space within existing schools — there is room for thousands of children in Brooklyn alone — he does everything he can to thwart the charters’ expansion. Ah, charter school shill, thy name is Kyle Smith. They must be getting desperate - no new expansion and Christmas will be here before you know it and everyone wants a new Jag. A short time ago the Post inferred female teachers are greedy whores  https://atradventures.blogspot.com/2019/07/are-female-nyc-teachers-greedy-whores.html?m=1, now this! I suppose Kyle and the folks at the Post assume the public is very gullible (hey, Trump was voted in) and if they keep  hitting teachers with these character assignations and assassinations everyone may turn against us. Then again, they may just laugh their heads off and put that paper where it belongs - in the trash.