David Banks, the incoming Chancellor of New York City schools, appointed by new Mayor Eric Adams, comes to the job as a critic of its bloated bureaucracy and its failure to educate black and hispanic students, and as a leader of a network of targeted charter schools. As hopes rises for minority kids, will the teachers’ unions and legacy Democrats stand by as public schools get transformed into academic performance machines for young leaders?
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22 replies on “NYC Public Schools Critic Now Leads Them: Hope Rises for Black and Hispanic Students”
Just flinging out some ideas in my insane quest to be the next governor of NY..😀
https://rumble.com/vp6ydy-political-alternative-education-reform-school-choice-new-york-governor.html
But Scott, we’ve been told that testing is racist! So how do they know 65% of the black and Hispanic students are not proficient?
The unions are a big part of the blame, but going hand in hand with that are the techers who buy into the pablum the unions spew.
Crack the unions, you still have to try and disengage all those teachers. And they ain’t budging.
I belonged to a FB group for teachers a little while ago. One teacher went whole hog on his BLM spiritwear in his classroom. I made the statement that if I saw that, I would wear my MAGA hat.
I was called a racist, my ability to teach was called into question, and someone sent a copy of that comment to my principal. Her reaction was more “Quit it, I don’t want to deal with this and the Covid thing, too”, than berating me for my politics.
I used to say there were two different types of educators. Those who teach what they were taught to teach in school, without really examining it, and those who embrace the leftist ideology hook, line and sinker.
I would give a pass to the former group. Sadly, there are a lot more of the latter, nowadays.
I’ll give another example, Hawk Newsom of BLM fame partnered with Montessori schools to found a charter school in New York and advance the Marxist agenda.
DEBATE: Candace Owens CLASHES With Black Lives Matter Activist
https://youtu.be/s5XHGo_CTg4?t=1515
Newsom doesn’t realize he’s advancing the Marxist globalist agenda, but that’s exactly what he’s doing…
https://montessoriforsocialjustice.org/category/press-statements/
“The United States has a racism problem. The United States has a police brutality problem. The United States was founded on the oppression, rape, murder, and enslavement of Black people.”
https://montessoriforsocialjustice.org/black-lives-matter-montessori-for-social-justice/
You would think the Marxist fist would be Newsom’s first clue.
I have about as much faith in a member of the public school system reforming public schools while remaining a member of the public school system as I do in trusting the fox to reform the security guidelines to the henhouse.
Can the class spell “controlled opposition”? He reminds me of Frances Haugen, the fake Facebook whistleblower supported by Pierre Omidyar and other globalists as Glenn Greenwald reports…
Pierre Omidyar’s Financing of the Facebook “Whistleblower” Campaign Reveals a Great Deal
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/pierre-omidyars-financing-of-the?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozNDM1NjUxNiwiXyI6InpBa3R5IiwiaWF0IjoxNjQwMjIzMjg4LCJleHAiOjE2NDAyMjY4ODgsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xMjg2NjIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.roAIjoIdX5VeG8rU1poe-CvN_foFDLEmlr93I58AxDw
If he has faith in his methods, then he’ll have faith in his methods working outside the system. And why did have to wait to be appointed Chancellor of Schools to fight the power?
Give me a break.
“Racial injustice, oppression and discrimination must be tackled head-on. This is the story of our education at the Eagle Academy Schools we attend or attended. Our teachers understand the disparities that place many of us at a disadvantage when we walk through their doors. Inside these walls, there is space for young men of color to develop freely and be celebrated for our differences.
We are often asked to conceal the emotional toll of the atrocities committed against people like us that we see on social media. We act out a facade of unwavering strength to ensure that we are not seen as vulnerable. To have a space where our cries are heard is cathartic and deeply affirming, since too often we cannot let our guards down.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-what-young-black-men-need-and-deserve-20200612-6jjopq75czglxneh2zqyjzjdbe-story.html
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present King Randall…
For a story of an ACTUAL black activist doing great things for the black community DESPITE BEING BLOCKED BY DEMOCRATS, ladies and gents, may I present to you King Randall. Bought a building and founded a charter school for black youth at age twenly-one. Extremely impressive.
Watch how he dismantles the victim narrative (two videos below)……
Roland Martin BAFFLED By BRILLIANT Black Conservative!….
https://youtu.be/jarzxhHF9RY
Marine veteran says school board is blocking him from helping children….
https://youtu.be/JSsgtIfcMVY
For the record, not a fan of clickbait titles. Having said that, King Randall’s credibility supersedes the need. He’s too legit to quit.
One of the first public figures to warn about non-teaching administrators was ADM Hyman G. Rickover. Looking at that little school he set up where we take six months and give high-school graduates what amounts to an associate degree in nuclear engineering… maybe we should listen to him?
Scott, I enjoy your optimism. However, given the power and money invested into the teachers unions, I fully expect him to face a wall of ugly dissent from the progressive left. I pray he has a thick skin, and a team that will stand tall with him.
“School system is not an employment program for adults, it’s an education system for children.” – Scott Ott
That quote is perfectly stated for what has gone wrong with the education system.
All public employee unions should be abolished with the teachers unions heading up the list. PEU’s have done more to damage this country than just about anything else I can think of.
The next Republican president should just use his “phone and a pen” like Obama did to legislate without Congress and expiate this scourge from America.
Bill, the new hairstyle does nothing for me!
He just shook hands with Mr Van de Graf
Bill, pay no attention to hair comments. I have uncontrollable Janis Joplin hair. If I go short I look like “Annie” from the comic strip. If I color it to my original brown, I look like I’m trying – badly – to look younger. I have become quite gray; my hair is somewhat like Katharine Hepburn’s in “On Golden Pond,” frizzy, and a little wild. I think it suits me, though. (I just wish I had those cheekbones!). So, suit yourself.
I love perfection in all its forms.
In Finland there are no private schools. No matter how wealthy the family, their kids must attend public schools. This insures that public schools must perform.
Another hopeful sign that the Democrat Party is starting to swing back towards center. This is very good news.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The aim is not to establish a permanent Republican Party hegemony in government. The goal is to move the nation back towards a sound, stable, productive, prosperous conservative system because we know that’s the system that works.
I consider myself a Conservative Independent. I left a strict Republican Party membership because I got tired of RINOs. There are people on both sides, of both parties, that fail to uphold the Constitutional values of our Founding Fathers.
It is a matter of great shame that anyone like that would be in any way supported by or representational of the Republican Party.
That absolutely does not mean I’ll vote for even worse Democrat Party Leftists. It means I won’t support RINOs and I won’t endorse or support the Party that puts them in office either.
We’ve seen the result of compromising Conservative principles with the Left. They take a mile for every inch offered, they never give anything back and they will not compromise for the greater good. For the despicable Leftists that now control the Democrat Party, the Overton Window (aka “the window of discourse”) is on a ratchet. Once any tooth on that ratchet is achieved they steadfastly refuse to compromise in any way that would allow that tooth to slip back towards the Conservative side.
This is a strategy we Conservatives should be using too. Many times I’ve seen people say that we should not stoop to adopting the tactics of the Left as our own and generally that’s true. But in this case it is not. Uncompromising, stubborn steadfastness standing on our own principles is a lesson we must learn from Leftist politics. The Republic cannot endure any further ratcheting towards the Left.
The People need to see a difference between us and the Left. A RINO, any RINO, blurs that difference and is counterproductive in the name of a false compromise.
If we’re going to save this country we need a sharp dividing line between us and our political opponents. That way when people see that Conservative principles better serve their overall interests they will pull their party, whichever party that may be, more in our direction and less to the Left.
This also has the effect of keeping the Left “honest”. Oh, they’ll still lie, cheat and pull any dirty trick they can come up with but if the lines are sharp and clear what they cannot do is obfuscate the results of their own policies.
So if Democrats want to remain relevant they will have to move more to the right. Like Eric Adams’ election as mayor or New York City clearly proves.
The vast majority of Americans are Conservative centrists, whether they know it or not, whether they vote Republican or Democrat. I cannot begin to count the times in the last two decades I’ve talked to a nominal Democrat who agreed with my ideas on policies right up to the moment they found out that I vote for Republican Conservatives. Then the curtain comes down and I have to resort to asking questions like “Do you really believe that letting perverted men use the same restroom as a little girl is good for little girls?”
Nearly every single Democrat I’ve asked that question has answered “No”. Then the discussion is over because if I ask how they can vote for the party that not only supports such nonsense but has actually codified it as law they shut down. They know they do not have a sound counter argument and they refuse to discuss it any further. I think on some level they would like to vote against that kind of thing but cannot bring themselves to vote for a Republican even so.
What they need are candidates in their own Party that vote that way.
Which accomplishes my purpose of saving the Republic nearly as well as any Republican can achieve.
As long as the lines between Conservatism and the Left are clear and sharp we will always have a slightly right of center society and that’s probably the best we can realistically hope for.
I have a working idea that instead of just “voting everyone out”, people should focus on just voting for Republicans, at least for 2-3 cycles. Since their leaders are less driven and the caucus less monolithic, this will do the least amount of damage. Vote out all of the bums and you’ll still have some insiders voted in that will take power. Once the R’s are in all the chairs, they’ll predictably splinter into the various groups that have kept them from doing much of anything (just witness the Trump v NeverTrump groups, and Paul Ryan not able to do anything in the 2 years they had, vs Pelosi + Schumer + Obama).
Once the R’s split, we can make 2-4 parties out of the mess, maybe a GOP, a New Dems, the Green/Socialist and a compromise BigGov group of the wall street Dems and big corp Repubs.
Those that have no argument to your “men in the girl’s room” are probably just experiencing a cognitive dissonance brain freeze. They haven’t had the red pill of “today’s Democrat Party isn’t the one of my father, and JFK wouldn’t be welcome” yet.
Keep the crook honest is partly the realization that the rules do apply. When they think they are playing a different game than you, and that you’re trying to score points that are not on their board, frees them to do what they want. If we do start playing their game, they will change their ways. So far I think we’ve been trying to say “Well we will just take our ball and go home” while they’re playing with something else… sticks and a hoop or something.
Brings to mind this quote:
“Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly… stupid.” – Jack SparrowOr the idea that a tyrant can occasionally be appeased or fall into slumber but someone doing something for your own good will do all the more harm.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”- C.S.Lewis
Yup, that’s the rest of the second quote I missed the (Enter) to split off. I guess going by Lewis’ phrasing, we need to get all busybody in the Left’s business so they’ll pull their nose out of ours. That or lawfare the door shut on their noses.
I hope they are ready for a fight, because they are going to get one. That union is not going to go gentle into that good night.
I also hope that they are sincere, and I would stand with them right next to Scott.
Yeah, I agree. The union is it’s own animal, separate from the teachers it is supposed to represent. It will fight for it’s own life – a lot of money and power would be on the line. I know many teachers and have 2 sisters that are teachers, one who supports the union and one who doesn’t. In today’s world, I don’t understand teachers who support collective bargaining. It eliminates schools competing for the best teachers or offering higher pay for merit. I think teacher salaries would go up significantly if teachers in public schools weren’t tied into union contracts for wages. Right now, when teachers are becoming scarcer, would be the best time for individual teachers to negotiate higher pay with better benefits, but the collective doesn’t allow it.
Well some wages would go up, for the good teachers, and the poorer ones would either get less pay or just be asked to leave so a better one could be recruited.
As professionals, teachers should be insulted by the notion of a union with its support for the weak links, the slackers, grifters and unprofessional workers.
I’ve long believed that the federal Department of Education needs to be abolished and teacher’s unions intensely investigated for fraud and failure to meet the obligations for which they were originally formed, ultimately to their demise. I think many classroom teachers are held hostage/captive by the federal, state and local unions, and do not support or want to be part of them. They are at fault for passively letting the zealotry of progressives prevent them from doing the job they perhaps naively believed was incumbent upon them to do – teach instead of indoctrinate. Some of them however are a curse in the classroom and an insult to the profession. I put them in the same category morally as pedophiles, which probably not a few are.
I truly hope Mr. Banks can make a dent in the corruption and ineptitude that is prevalent in NYC public schools.