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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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To: EinNYC

She lies...


41 posted on 03/17/2019 3:58:28 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: EinNYC

An up and coming Democrat attacks teachers... one of the groups most closed aligned with the Democrat Party. How stupid is she?


42 posted on 03/17/2019 4:02:10 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: EinNYC

Since people can vote in Spanish in Estados Stupidos, it’s the school’s fault for not offering her the texts, homework, and tests also in Spanish.

< /s >


43 posted on 03/17/2019 4:03:54 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: EinNYC
Well, she does need remedial eduacation and probably serious mental health treatment, but the Left never lets facts get in the way of bombast and demagoguery.
44 posted on 03/17/2019 4:04:05 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: qaz123

>>Her aides say that she and her partner struggled to pay $1000 a month to live in the condo she got from her dad

$1000 a month in NYC sounds like a sweet deal. Does her dad offer any of his other rental properties at that fair rate? Or does he discriminate? What does the new tenant pay there?


45 posted on 03/17/2019 4:07:07 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: skr

Nonsense, I grew up speaking three languages.
If anything the early proficiency in more than one language leads to better brain function.

The more difficult language is, the more intelligent the group as a whole.

English is very difficult conceptually.

But its clock is being cleaned by Mandarin


46 posted on 03/17/2019 4:09:55 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Cowboy Bob

It means if she is telling the truth ( doubtful) she was offered ESL
Probably such remedial assistance is federally mandated to people who claim the language spoken in their home is not English
Its not “ special ed’ as this lying kook is implying
It’s free tutoring


47 posted on 03/17/2019 4:14:20 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: EinNYC

This is a transparent lie. These teachers are probably still teaching. I wonder if we will hear from them?


48 posted on 03/17/2019 4:20:07 AM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)
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To: EinNYC

Most likely made up by this soon-to-be-indicted campaign fraud idiot!


49 posted on 03/17/2019 4:22:15 AM PDT by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Apparently, the dad died. Mortgage was paid. All she and her partner had to come up with was HOA fees and property taxes. Estimated by aides to come to around $1000/month. Toss in some utility bills and that’s a deal ANYWHERE in NYC.

And then, when the news came out that she didn’t really live there, she said she moved to another, bigger place a few streets over. So, she walks away from a place with no mortgage and a very affordable monthly bill, to someplace bigger, more expensive having to pay rent and utilities. She’s an idiot.


50 posted on 03/17/2019 4:23:01 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: EinNYC

Spanish, or English...and idiot is an idiot.


51 posted on 03/17/2019 4:33:32 AM PDT by FrankR (How to get a one-armed SOCIALIST out of a tree...wave to him.)
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To: skr

“...but has to use every opportunity to play her race card.”


Bingo, and we have a winner!


52 posted on 03/17/2019 4:35:33 AM PDT by FrankR (How to get a one-armed SOCIALIST out of a tree...wave to him.)
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To: EinNYC

She’s like so intelligent, you know. She coulda been a contender.


53 posted on 03/17/2019 4:41:54 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: EinNYC

AOC still needs remedial education!


54 posted on 03/17/2019 4:42:06 AM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left (Hoax hate crimes are hate crimes against the people smeared and slandered by the false accusations)
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To: EinNYC

chip on shoulder?


55 posted on 03/17/2019 4:49:51 AM PDT by shalom aleichem (Fire Rod and Mueller and any other rat or snake. Shutter the press room.)
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To: EinNYC

Yorktown Heights high school is not in NYC.


56 posted on 03/17/2019 4:51:48 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Cowboy Bob
A bazillion kids spoke two languages.

In 1922, at the age of 5, my mom started school. She didn't speak a word of English. She learned with the other children and graduated from High School at the top of her class.

Why does AOC thinbk she's so special? She's a nut case.

57 posted on 03/17/2019 4:56:22 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: PghBaldy

The Democratic Party is the political arm of the teachers’ unions - the solid leftist core of this country, with commissars in every state, funded by taxes wrung from those they would rule. She’s done if they fund a primary opponent against her.


58 posted on 03/17/2019 5:00:34 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: qaz123

I thought that, too.

She went to a school where no one looked like her???

In an immigrant/Puerto Rican district of NYC???

Yeah, right. The poor baby!

What school would have anyone that looked like her, a place where they break horses?


59 posted on 03/17/2019 5:02:37 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: zeestephen

Her parents lived by bourgeois values. They moved her to a white neighborhood because the schools are better. Sandy acted white.

Professor Amy Wax was castigated as a racist for suggesting that minorities adopt bourgeois values.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/bourgeois-values-scandal-tars-law-prof-amy-wax-racism-charge/


60 posted on 03/17/2019 5:04:12 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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