Posted on 02/14/2014 4:52:38 AM PST by jimbo123
Faced with a blizzard of criticism from angry parents forced to trudge with their kids to school through a nor’easter that dumped up to three inches of snow an hour on the Big Apple, a seemingly out-of-touch Chancellor Carmen Fariña defended the call to keep classes open Thursday — blindly declaring it “a beautiful day out there” as wet flakes and freezing rain continued to pelt New Yorkers.
Fariña and her head-in-a-snowdrift boss, Mayor de Blasio, scrambled to explain why school buses were rolling and kids sliding through the blinding storm, with Hizzoner trying to pin the blame on the National Weather Service for not providing a more precise inch count the night before, and insinuating the agency had low-balled its forecast.
“It has totally stopped snowing. It’s absolutely a beautiful day out there right now,” Fariña said during a Thursday-morning news conference with de Blasio, a mere 45 minutes after Gov. Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the city and its suburbs.
“It’s getting warmer, which means that, theoretically, the snow will start melting,” Fariña said as the jaws of reporters in attendance and parents across the city collectively dropped.
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What’d he promise, anyway? More “hope and change”?
I know he ran openly as a socialist. I suppose the people that think that’s a good thing will now simply write this off not as a failure of socialism, but a failure of implementation.
Hey idiots, just keep the kids home if the administration is too stupid to close the schools.
Me too...until I realize that they will all be moving to my neck of the woods and I’d have to deal with those arrogant backwards SOBs.
Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?
Most NYC kids take the subway to school or walk. It is not like they are out there waiting for the school bus. Therefore, many times the city schools will be open when the suburb schools on LI, NJ, CT and Westchester County are closed.
ELEVEN TIMES!
Now go back and plot how many severe snowstorms have hit NYC since 1978 to see if your observation has merit. Besides, the idiot in charge of the schools cancelled after-school activities and her own Town Hall meeting citing "inclement weather". Duh.
I feel sorry for the 25% who voted for the GOP candidate for mayor.
For those who voted for the communist De Blasio, I’m with you. I have no sympathy for them either.
I grew up here (a dozen miles to the west of NYC); I can safely say we average two snow days per year. They are averaging one every three years...
“But from what I hear about the schools in New York ... what’s another zero?”
So true — and so sad. In the ‘60s when I was in high school in NY State, their system was excellent. School was difficult and challenging.
I figure the Gov didn’t cancel for two reasons: (1) he wanted to receive the dollars connected to each attending student, and (2) every day the kids aren’t in school they aren’t being indoctrinated by liberal teachers and staff.
Dear New Yorkers:
You voted for this.
Signed,
Sane people
I detest DeBlasio but in this situation I feel he’s getting a bum wrap.
If he cancels school they bitch about childcare and what to do with the kids.
They were not “forced to trudge” the kids to school. They could have kept them home.
Much ado about nothing.
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Most of the kids did stay home. Attendance averaged about 40%, and was as low as 11% in some places.
The teachers also had to come in, of course, and it took them hours to get there - to nearly empty classrooms.
Not to mention that having all these extra people out driving or even driving empty schoolbuses around was dangerous and also made it even more difficult to keep clear the streets.
I don’t know why De Blasio did this. It’s not a common event in NYC, but the winter this year has been unusually harsh and snowy.
THE BLEEDING HEART, TWISTED PROGRESSIVE MIND AT WORK------keeping schools open shows Blabio's animosity for well-to-do parents........in favor of those who use schools as baby-sitters.
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NOT YET READY FOR PRIMETIME NYC Schools (gag) Chancellor Carmen Fariña's sap-happy remark at a news conference was supposed to allay criticism WRT the Mayor's stupid decision to keep schools open. The clueless Farina's response to the blinding snowstorm: “It’s absolutely a beautiful day out there,” she beamed...flashing a sap-happy smile to the cameras.
Within minutes of wrapping up the Mayor's presser, Fariña bailed out of the bldg. A short time later, Fariña’s office announced that her town hall meeting in Brownsville, Brooklyn, was canceled “due to inclement weather.”
CONCLUSION: D-U-H-VERSITY-OBSESSED BLABIO PROMOTED FARINA TO CHANCELLOR B/C HE LIKED THE WAY SHE CLEANED SCHOOL TOILETS
Here's what she told the City Council on Tuesday. Testifying in favor of universal pre-K, Fariña, gave a truly bizarre statement: “The grade at which we look at incarceration in the future is third grade. Third-grade reading scores nationally are the grade by which jails are chosen to be built.”
This information stunned the chamber, but apparently for the wrong reason — the members plainly took it as face value, when it’s self-evidently absurd: Few if any governments across the country do anything like that kind of long-term planning when it comes to prisons, which after all don’t take that long to build.
It’s hard to say whether or not the ditz knew she was peddling a myth — or which would be worse.
By keeping the schools open the school does not have to make up the day at the end of the year and it keeps the unions satisfied.
Also people can make up their minds whether they send their kids to school.
have the pundits or experts said why the turnout has been low for past few yrs? Does not make sense to me ie leaving the decision of voting to someone else.
Now go back and plot how many severe snowstorms have hit NYC since 1978 to see if your observation has merit. Besides, the idiot in charge of the schools cancelled after-school activities and her own Town Hall meeting citing “inclement weather”. Duh.
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This is about unions.
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