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Ocasio-Cortez scorches NYC schools at Queens town hall
NY Post ^ | March 16, 2019 | Georgett Roberts and Isabel Vincent

Posted on 03/16/2019 11:56:41 PM PDT by EinNYC

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recalled how her public-school teachers thought she needed “remedial education” because she had grown up speaking Spanish at home.

The freshman lawmaker, speaking Saturday at a packed town hall organized by the Jackson Heights People for Public Schools, said, “As a child I spoke Spanish first. … and I went to a school where no one looked like me. I went to a school where teachers thought I needed remedial education because I spoke two languages instead of one.”

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The article starts out by saying "Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recalled how her public-school teachers thought she needed “remedial education” because she had grown up speaking Spanish at home..." Honey, it wasn't because you grew up speaking Spanish at home. I think most people would agree it's because you're dumber than a bag of hammers, and then some. The really funny part is that you THINK you know everything about everything and can't stifle yourself expounding about matters of which you know jack.
1 posted on 03/16/2019 11:56:41 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

She knows so little, she doesn’t know what she doesn’t know.


2 posted on 03/17/2019 12:02:00 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: EinNYC

It is probable that her teachers were trying to HELP her learn English so she wouldn’t be handicapped by not speaking the language of the USA as she grew up. Problem is, she never grew up and exhibits the typical veil of perceived victimhood sought after by most leftards.


3 posted on 03/17/2019 12:09:36 AM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: EinNYC
I went to a school where teachers thought I needed remedial education because I spoke two languages instead of one.

What does this even mean?

4 posted on 03/17/2019 12:15:09 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: EinNYC

Thats what happens when you elect a pole stripper/NYC bartender...same thing /whatever.


5 posted on 03/17/2019 12:16:13 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: 43north

And she’s a malignant narcissist and sociopath.


6 posted on 03/17/2019 12:19:09 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: EinNYC

“AOC, who ran partly on a platform of free higher education, owes between $15,000 and $50,000 in student loan debt, her Congressional disclosures show.”

PLUS $850,000 her campaign syphoned off then an additional $1850 in New York taxes for her failed business.


7 posted on 03/17/2019 12:20:21 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: Mogger

And she is still ignorant as to how our government works.


8 posted on 03/17/2019 12:20:45 AM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: EinNYC

As a rule, teachers DO NOT tell a slow child that they are genetically handicapped. They come up with some polite fiction, like speaking Spanish as a primary language, that enables a Stupid to be blissfully unaware that Gaia and their parents f%&ked them over.


9 posted on 03/17/2019 12:21:55 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: EinNYC

I suspect she didn’t speak English proficiently, which is understandable when another language is spoken at home, but has to use every opportunity to play her race card. Being put into remedial courses is meant to help, not insult.


10 posted on 03/17/2019 12:25:22 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recalled how her public-school teachers thought she needed “remedial education” because she had grown up speaking Spanish at home.

I'd say she needs remedial education because she obviously does not understand how banks work. Or how tax breaks for businesses work. Or how socialism works, for that matter. The education she did receive in college was obviously not very good.
11 posted on 03/17/2019 12:25:46 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: EinNYC

She went to public schools....govt run schools. Now she wants more govt??? She does need remedial education


12 posted on 03/17/2019 12:33:20 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: EinNYC

When she stole tips from her co-workers at the bar, she demonstrated a working knowledge of socialism and government.

It was like an unofficial internship that prepared her well for her current job.


13 posted on 03/17/2019 12:33:49 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: Mogger

Exactly. And, once again, she provides information that is easily researched and more likely, proven wrong. At her age, given the timeline she provided, it’s going to be rather easy to research the demographics of the school(s) she attended. If/when the research proves her wrong, she’ll play the victim but also give more credibility to her being chosen in a “casting call”.

However, she and the other three are creations of the Dr. Frankensteins of the Democratic Party, not anything else.


14 posted on 03/17/2019 12:37:01 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

It was written that she went through $50k in savings during her campaign and that is why she had to start taking a paycheck from it. Which is legal. But.........

Her aides say that she and her partner struggled to pay $1000 a month to live in the condo she got from her dad, which was mortgage free.

She was a bartender. If she did burn through $50k in savings, how did she save all of that and did she pay all the appropriate taxes on that money?

So....to go along with your comment....Where’s the money? How was she able to live?

Typical hypocrite, as are 100% of the liberal, hipster, socialist Left.


15 posted on 03/17/2019 12:40:54 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: EinNYC
“It wasn’t until she took a “high stakes” test in which she scored in the 99th percentile across the board, she said, that educators realized that she did not need extra help.” ---

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"she scored in the 99th percentile"

That must have been one brain-dead school.

16 posted on 03/17/2019 12:46:21 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: Cowboy Bob

She spoke in “tongues”, “forked tongues.

Hell, my grandfather, as an immigrant child, spoke 4-5 languages before he came to America and learned perfect English. (He spoke Russian, Yiddish, German, Herbrew and perhaps some Polish).

Occasionally Conscious Cortex is the Al Sharpton con-artist of the political world, the “Mrs. Ed” of today’s TV only not as smart.

She should be known as the modern “Talking Tower of Babbling”. She’s so incompetent at speaking “sense” that my old English teacher from the 50’s jumped up out of her grave and shot herself because she couldn’t stand to hear a supposed “American”, college-educated (how did she get a degree in Economics from Boston Un?) woman speak so incoherently and get away with it.

My Thesaurus, upon hearing AOC speak, burst into flames to put itself out of the misery of hearing her mangle the English language.

And all of this from a privileged NY Puerto Rican-heritage wackjob.

New York is the laughing stock of the country re supposedly educated people, esp. politicians. Forget California. Nothing can salvage that insane asylum bowl of cereal - full of nuts, flakes, and fruits.

However, since DeBlasio wants a “meatless Monday”, let’s ask his wife is she endured one? /sarc, snarky and DGAS.


17 posted on 03/17/2019 12:53:47 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
#5: "Thats what happens when you elect a pole stripper/NYC bartender...same thing /whatever."

You can be sure she did some hooking on the side. It comes with the turf.
 

18 posted on 03/17/2019 12:57:25 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Well looks like she learned how to dance anyway.


19 posted on 03/17/2019 1:12:13 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: EinNYC

After talking to some millennials, I found out why I think that she’s she’s a complete idiot. It’s from “paying attention to Republican scaremongering.” It seems that I’m too stupid to form that opinion from listening to her own words. They ignored my response and still claim that I’m being influenced by the right.


20 posted on 03/17/2019 1:17:47 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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