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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: RoosterRedux
I agree....She lies profusely. And her speeches amount to diarrhea of the mouth.
61 posted on 03/17/2019 5:05:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Jim Noble

She said when she “first” went to school.

That would be kindergarten or first grade, no?

Five or six years old.

So she was still in NYC then.


62 posted on 03/17/2019 5:05:56 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: EinNYC
Let's be real. The teachers spoke to her in English and she spoke back to them in English. Looking at her parents, I'd say Spanish was her SECOND language.

I'd like to hear her speak Spanish. Why hasn't she spoken Spanish at any of her "campaign" meets? Or has she??

63 posted on 03/17/2019 5:12:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: EinNYC
Obviously she never did learn English.
64 posted on 03/17/2019 5:21:11 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: Sacajaweau
I think AOC has fully bought into the postmodernist concept that reality is not that which is supported by facts but that which you "believe" to be representative of the "moral high ground."

She should take up wilderness camping to see how her ideas of reality work out in nature.;-)

65 posted on 03/17/2019 5:24:53 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: ifinnegan

Wasn’t her father an architect? Or did I imagine that?


66 posted on 03/17/2019 5:25:48 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Former Proud Canadian
She knows nothing and will say anything.

Agree...she's a loose cannon.

67 posted on 03/17/2019 5:28:59 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Mogger

I saw this yesterday:

Teacher: “There are alligators that grow up to 15 feet.”

AOC: “The ones I’ve seen only have four feet.”


68 posted on 03/17/2019 5:44:44 AM PDT by Leo58 (Those who cheer you today will curse you tomorrow, the only thing that endures is character.)
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To: EinNYC

She’s certainly not an endorsement for Boston U’s economic department.


69 posted on 03/17/2019 6:01:11 AM PDT by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: EinNYC

The PR Princess trashing America again. What the hell is she doing here? She needs to go home to the wonderful land of her ancestors.


70 posted on 03/17/2019 6:06:46 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: zeestephen

Armonk is corporate headquarters for ibm, not yorktown heights.Yorktown heights is 17 miles away.


71 posted on 03/17/2019 6:11:51 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: a fool in paradise

That is 500 bucks each. Heck I was paying 500 month in the late 70s just a few years after college. With a degree from BU why didn’t she have a real job bilingual and all?


72 posted on 03/17/2019 6:16:55 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: EinNYC

I wonder if her horse teeth in small head caused speech issues.


73 posted on 03/17/2019 6:18:43 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Sacajaweau

1926 same with my mom. No English spoken at home. Started school speaking only a foreign language. Mom ended up speaking English without a foreign accent and it became her primary language.


74 posted on 03/17/2019 6:21:59 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: EinNYC

Her father was a highly educated architect and they lived in Westchester Co. Why would her father speak English as a professional outside the home and only Spanish in the home?


75 posted on 03/17/2019 6:24:56 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: EinNYC

She’s right about NYC schools..........they suck!


76 posted on 03/17/2019 6:28:04 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: oldenuff35

She is Ignorant of how LIFE works. Much less government. When was the last time Civic/Government was taught in our Public Schools.

Has anyone checked for the FACTS she went to Public Schools?


77 posted on 03/17/2019 7:09:10 AM PDT by GailA (PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, GET OVER IT SNOWFLAKES.)
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To: EinNYC

Didn’t they rename Queens for a Mosque ?


78 posted on 03/17/2019 7:29:28 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EinNYC

Years ago when I was registering my son for grade school, one of the questions on the form is what language is spoken in your home. I put down English and Spanish. The principal asked me, does your son speak English well? I said he speaks very little Spanish but is totally fluent in English. The principal then said, “take Spanish off the form, otherwise we will have to evaluate him for instruction in Spanish.” I did.


79 posted on 03/17/2019 8:45:49 AM PDT by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: EinNYC

80 posted on 03/17/2019 8:58:58 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Desperate swarm sewage drains for water..." Venezuelans or D.C. Swamp denizens?)
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