In a weird tirade likening constitution colleges to COVID, Assemblyman Phil Ramos exposed himself and like-minded Democratic lawmakers as past ignorant.
“Constitution colleges have form of taken on the traits of coronavirus. We create a vaccine, and so they morph into one thing else,” just like the Delta and Omicron variants, Ramos (D-Central Islip) charged.
Oh, and because it was an NAACP-sponsored discussion board, he threw within the declare that charters impose “a discriminatory system on our folks.” He additionally known as the constitution motion a bunch of “poverty pimps.”
His precise gripe, it seems, is {that a} second constitution college simply acquired OK’d to open in his space, providing households an opportunity to flee from the 7,500-student Central Islip college district, the place (per State Training Division knowledge) simply 39% of black and 40% of white third-graders check as proficient in English, and solely 29% of Hispanics. The maths scores are horrible, too.
Charters, in brief, provide hope for the children, however hassle for the colleges that Ramos’ teacher-union friends management. He solely sees somebody stealing the scholars as if the common system owns them and the taxpayer funds which are purported to assist their schooling.
Households see liberation, however Ramos & Co. solely see somebody taking their management away.
