Mayor Bloomberg: English - FAIL History - FAIL Geography - FAIL Reading - FAIL Math - FAIL

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
3/8/2013
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

How about educating the kids?

According to the City University community college system and the City University of New York (CUNY), 80 percent of New York high school graduates need to re-learn basic and remedial skills before entering college. Those skills include reading, math, and other basics.

Kids can't read, you can't have a soda, and you'd better turn that music down, but Mayor Bloomberg has his popcorn.

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NEW YORK, NY (Catholic Online) - The astounding statistic demonstrates how much of a persistent failure the Bloomberg administration is when it comes to education. Any educational system which requires a remediation rate of 80 percent is a fundamental failure.

Why this is the case is subject to discussion, however it suggests that Bloomberg needs to readjust his focus. There is nothing more fundamental to the well-being of a society than education. Education is the most fundamental form of infrastructure, equally as important as serviceable roads, potable water, and reliable electricity. Without education, everything else is difficult to maintain.

Instead of declaring an emergency in the schools and taking aggressive action to empower teachers and schools to better serve students, Bloomberg is much more interested in selling smaller cups of sugary drinks to full-grown adults and banning earbuds.

Yes, earbuds are the mayor's latest crusade.

In a city of millions where 80- percent of the children are not getting the mental nourishment they require, Mayor Bloomberg is interested in how loud the music is.

It's difficult to argue with Mayor Bloomberg's sincerity, but only a morally bankrupt administration places a higher premium on headphones over education. Indeed, with proper education, citizens can be left alone to make their own intelligent, informed decisions about soda size and music volume.

What is the city of New York producing then, if 80 percent of its graduates require remediation of reading, writing, and math? It is producing an uneducated strata of people who will struggle mightily to break away from poverty, crime, and dependency. This is a most fundamental failure, for if Bloomberg cannot empower the city's youth, then what's he really doing with his tenure?

Understand the children of the city are the workers and servants of the next generation and stewards of the former. How can these people provide for their children and care for their elderly if they cannot master basic educational skills? What work will they be able to do and what earnings will they enjoy in one of the world's most expensive cities?

It's time for the people of New York to call out Mayor Bloomberg for what he is. Bloomberg is a savior of none. Instead, he is a morally bankrupt political opportunist, a professional billionaire, and a complete failure as a public servant.

Then again, he could just be a genius. With an increasingly uneducated electorate, he can expect a very long and lucrative career as soda-jerk-in-chief.

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robertburford
3 months ago
Barb I agree. But ousting God not just from the public domain but in the homes as well. Few homes have the ten commandments displayed and few children know what they are or where to find them.
Barb
3 months ago
Robert, I believe it was ousting God from the public and now private sphere that began all of this.
robertburford
3 months ago
Give the Mayor a break. Our children are overweight because of lack of exercise. They are mentally not sitmulated because the sit in front of a TV or Xbox . They are rude because the society around us is full of rage and are only interested in themselves (narcicissm). I believe that all this came from standardized testing. The date teachers taught to pass the tests. I do not live in New York but any leader gives direction. It is up to the worker bees to accomplish the mission.One of our beloved politicians was caught saying that Paul Revere rode to warn the British. Well let's give that person a break. She was on the campaign trail and tired. It is a shame that only a few would notice. Do not blame the mayor. We have to make learning interesting to inspire the young. I had wonderful teachers but to a large degree was not interested in what they taught, but once I became interested my thirst for knowledge grew. That is not the mayor's fault.
Tom
3 months ago
Nanny Bloomberg strikes again. When are the people of this country going to wake up
peacebwu12
3 months ago
Dear Editor,
Here is what I'm seeing at my work desk as I go to my beloved Catholic.org website: Sensationalized videos slandering politicians without even linking to the actual content of articles and advertisements with women wearing almost nothing (like a very tiny bikini). This is not Catholic content. I'm a devoted Catholic, I don't need to see bikini-clad girls on your website...is there any place left on the web for us to go??? I suggest you change your content or you change your name.
Paul-Emile Leray
3 months ago
'Education' (educare) and (or versus, in this age of post-modernism) 'instruction'. Mr. Andrew Greenwell wrote an excellent article on this subject matter highlighting 'faith and reason'; and he explains how 'reason' goes along 2 broad lines: 'ratio' and 'intellectus'. He shows the benefits of both, yet clearly explains the limitations of 'ratio'. I recommend that article to anyone interested.
Paul-Emile Leray
Jade Riani
3 months ago
You forgot his disgusting sex ed program and pushing free contraceptives to teens as young as 14.

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