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It will be a tough time to be a fetus around here. Tons of ruling class money will flood in to fund infanticide programs which will be supplemented with tax money. The African american genocide- already at 76% of teen fetus' will accelerate after being stuck there for a while - fulfilling Margaret Sanger's dream of true eugenics with a nearly total black genocide.
What they would really like to see is the 41% number for all fetus' killed moved to around 50%. This would be a joy for the ruling class cabal. Maybe Smashburger could partner with Rockefeller's Planned Parenthood and open up some DeBlasio endorsed retail abortion clinics called SmashBaby to make this linchpin of the ruling class social program more palatable. Some of this money will make it to his election coffers ensuring his reelection.
The carriage horse will be removed from the street ensuring the high-moral ground for deBlasio. Unfortunately for the horses they will be slaughtered once they are out of view just like a fetus - but the public goodwill for putting the horses out of work will already be cemented.
I am hoping he turns his attention (and $$) to developing the 4 other boroughs, and this is some of my wish list:
1. Let's make 125th street a new Central Business District with affordable commercial towers lining 125th for non-profits, entreprenuers, artists, industry incubators, tech firms, green firms, and similar. It should maintain retail on the ground level, and become a great business sector and revenue generator for the city..an affordable business alternate to the high rents in midtown and downtown.
2. Develop the Southern Bronx waterfront into a mixed income community with dense housing towers, retail, commercial space, restaurants, green space, waterfront parks, pedestrian zones. As part of this development, there should also be a commercial business sector as well.
3. Revolutionize sanitation in this city. No longer should we have plastic bags piled 4 feet high crowding the sidewalk, feeding the rats, and ripping open for garbage to fly around the city. There needs to be a massive change in how we collect and dispose of garbage in this city.
4. Invest in major quality of life initiatives that have been very successful in Manhattan and expand them into the 4 other boroughs, including protected bike lanes, pedestrian plazas, traffic mitigating streetscapes, dedicated recycling garbage cans, and new parks/upgraded parks.
5. Eliminate S&F and engage in community oriented policing based on the needs of particular areas. Increase foot patrols and police presence in the handful of communities which drive crime in NYC, instead of casting nets and arresting everyone for the crime of being outside. Retrain the department to understand that their role is to protect and serve the public, not to instill fear and subjugate. Adding cameras on clothing for all police officers would eliminate many issues on both sides.
6. Destroy Laguardia airport and start over, preferably somewhere in South Brooklyn. The airport is horrendous, poorly served by public transportation, and is dangerous!
7. Invest in the existing public housing stock (specifically the housing projects), and provide a better QOL for residents. If it means rents must increase, so be it. We cannot have dilapidated public housing which is not only dangerous for residents and an eyesore for the city, but also the disinivestment directly/indirectly leads to a major crime driver for the city.
8. Continue the aggressive expansion of affordable housing, except make it affordable to middle income residents who earn from $60,000-$120,000 (based on family size). These are the people leaving the city in droves for lack of quality affordable housing and the residents we most need to stay.
9. Push the green agenda, put solar panels and wind turbines on all public/government buildings and housing projects, and lure as many green jobs and developments as possible.
10. Diversify the economic engine of NYC away from finance/stock market, and disseminate these new industries to the other 4 boroughs so they each have their own distinct economic drivers/generators.
11. Expanding select bus service, dedicated bus lanes, light rail/street cars, and train service linking Bronx/Queens/Brooklyn directly should be developed.
If we could move forward with even 1/2 of these his term will be wildly successful in a way that Bloomberg's never was.
Not that I am an educator, but I have huge doubts about how forcing 4-year-old children into full-time "pre-K" provides any significant academic advantage. And there are many 4-year olds who are just not ready to learn how to read and write. So in some ways, full-time "pre-K" could be counterproductive.
By the way, I am 55, and somehow managed to get into a good college with half-day kindergarten, where we sang songs, painted, and had a daily nap. The main purpose of kindergarten was to get kids used to be away from home so they could enter first grade with confidence. I have no recollection of any academics other than learning the alphabet and numbers.
Most studies purporting the advantages of pre-K are made by organizations that have an interest in promoting pre-K. Can you say the teacher unions?
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The FDR bible used by Mayor Bill de Blasio for his swearing in vanished after the New Year’s Day ceremony, sparking a panicked, hours-long search for the historic tome.
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Not that I am an educator, but I have huge doubts about how forcing 4-year-old children into full-time "pre-K" provides any significant academic advantage. And there are many 4-year olds who are just not ready to learn how to read and write. So in some ways, full-time "pre-K" could be counterproductive.
By the way, I am 55, and somehow managed to get into a good college with half-day kindergarten, where we sang songs, painted, and had a daily nap. The main purpose of kindergarten was to get kids used to be away from home so they could enter first grade with confidence. I have no recollection of any academics other than learning the alphabet and numbers.
Most studies purporting the advantages of pre-K are made by organizations that have an interest in promoting pre-K. Can you say the teacher unions?
No, you can't. And you grew up in a very different world.
There is a vast body of evidence that pre-school has positive influences. Much of it was produced by educators. Should DSNY workers produce these studies ? Medical doctors ? Clerks at Duane Reade ? Of course it was produced by involved people.
As it is, the majority of more educated people opt to send their children to schools rather than to "day care" - they also tend to be wealthier, because it is expensive. Universal pre-K would give more children this early learning experience.
No, you can't. And you grew up in a very different world.
There is a vast body of evidence that pre-school has positive influences. Much of it was produced by educators. Should DSNY workers produce these studies ? Medical doctors ? Clerks at Duane Reade ? Of course it was produced by involved people.
As it is, the majority of more educated people opt to send their children to schools rather than to "day care" - they also tend to be wealthier, because it is expensive. Universal pre-K would give more children this early learning experience.
In Finland and Sweden, kids don't really start "learning" until age 7, and they have the highest test scores in the world.
I equate pre-K to Pee Wee Football. Having 6-year-old boys play tackle football does not make them better football players at age 12, than a 12-year-old that plays tackle football for the first time at age 11.
And I don't care how many studies you have, but a kid that learns to read at age 4 (and most kids can't anyway so there is no point in forcing them to try), will read no better at age 10 than if the kid started reading at age 6. It's intuitive and logical.
As for wealthy kids sending their kids to pre-K, that is an insane Manhattan phenomenon where 4-year-old are actually tested to get into nursery schools. Stuff like that does not happen in the suburbs, no matter how wealthy the community.
As for wealthy kids sending their kids to pre-K, that is an insane Manhattan phenomenon where 4-year-old are actually tested to get into nursery schools. Stuff like that does not happen in the suburbs, no matter how wealthy the community.
You are entirely mistaken.
Nor do you know anything about education, obviously.
Nor do you know anything about education, obviously.
Where I live, kids start to learn how to read in kindergarten, unless mom and dad get them started at home. THERE IS NO REASON to force 4-year olds to learn how to read. None.
just no ugly red block projects any more. NYC has too many government housings/ hood . too much gov aid nourishes laziness
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