STOP BLOOMBERG

To all my friends, fellow students, their parents and TEACHERS,

The granting of a waiver for a non-educator only shows that if we don't mobilize, Bloomberg wins. Please read this and send to as many people that you who know who are teachers and parents. The fact that a true democracy in NYC has been eroded by an oligarchial tyrant is disheartening and sickening. If we DO NOTHING (yes, parents, students and teachers at IS 61 and all over NYC, your pathetic apathy has allowed this to happen) then we have allowed the billionaires and Bloomberg supporters to win this fight. I may never support Charles Barron but in this case he's right. Allowing billionaires with no educational background to run roughshod and make your education a playtoy will cost you and the future of New York City plenty. The DOE is a puppet organization run by a political demagogue who bought an illegal term, raised your property taxes, raised the sales tax from 8.25% TO 8.875%, cut services (6,100 teachers, fire, police, sanitation) eliminated the tax on clothes under $100 and when he leaves (IF HE EVER DOES), his fortune will be $30 billion up from $3 billion when the absolute monarch took office in 2001.

Its almost funny that as a social studies teacher, I have to say that we are a democracy. In NYC, this is so far from the truth. If this does not anger you then sit on your backside and watch the United States become a nation under an oligarchy. We elected three corporate bought politicians, its time to say enough is enough.

http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2010/11/powers-that-be-lesson-for-children-of.html