DeBlasio Says Pre K Will Curb Student Suicides (New York, York: 2014, home)

[Gumshoe Lady]

De Blasio says pre-K expansion will curb student suicides | New York Post

Yeppers, he really said it. The guy is so stupid he's skeery.


“It’s a larger societal phenomenon,” the mayor said, referring to student suicide, which has claimed the lives of 10 public-school kids in the past two months.
“It is deeply troubling,” de Blasio told reporters at an Upper East Side press conference on housing issues.
“Its not just in our public schools. We’re seeing this at the college level, too. We have to reach children earlier.”

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[Airborneguy]

Originally Posted by Gumshoe Lady

"We have to reach children earlier.”

This is one of the scariest political statements I've ever heard. All I need is the Progressive horde getting their hands on my kids before they can even think for themselves. Private school is looking more and more like a necessity I'm going to have to figure out how to afford.

[AMSS]

I totally support DeBlasio in his stance against charter schools, but pre-K will be just another babysitting service. Plenty of kids don't do preschool yet are still successful in school because their parents educated them at home in one way or another. Honestly, reading to the kid every night and taking him/her to the playground to play with other kids is enough preparation for kindergarten. I get DeBlasio knows some parents are beyond worthless and thinks this is the way to take care of those kids, but we're better off working with parents to get them to do their job rather than continually put kids in schools at younger and younger ages.

At the same time, I don't trust any publication owned by Rupert Murdoch who clearly is upset the people of NYC chose DeBlasio. Murdoch will do anything to taint the man - make a mountain out of a molehill, make Eva Moskawitz a saint, leave out vital information, find the two whiners on the Upper East Side in a snow storm. Because of his slanted coverage, I doubt DeBlasio so easily connected the two.

[bigjake54]

Originally Posted by Airborneguy

Private school is looking more and more like a necessity I'm going to have to figure out how to afford.

The missus needs a teaching certificate & a private job with free tuition for the young ones.

[AMSS]

Originally Posted by Airborneguy

This is one of the scariest political statements I've ever heard. All I need is the Progressive horde getting their hands on my kids before they can even think for themselves. Private school is looking more and more like a necessity I'm going to have to figure out how to afford.

Relax and check out your public school. Most of them are good and most parents and teachers there are trying to fight off the Common Core stuff. Also, three kids in public schools and I have yet to hear any progressive rhetoric that the media digs up.

[bigjake54]

Originally Posted by AMSS

three kids in public schools and I have yet to hear any progressive rhetoric that the media digs up.

Your children's teachers are inundated in it, unfortunately.

[Gumshoe Lady]

DeBlasio is despicable! He took stats on students suicides announced by Carmen Farina this week and used something so tragic to enhance his own political agenda.

[rubygreta]

He's gone off the deep end. Although maybe he was always off the deep end. I mean Pre-K will end all of societies woes, including suicide? Kook.

[Gumshoe Lady]

Originally Posted by rubygreta

He's gone off the deep end. Although maybe he was always off the deep end. I mean Pre-K will end all of societies woes, including suicide? Kook.

Thank you! I thoroughly agree with you. Based on everything I've seen so far I think, to put it kindly, he has issues.

Although "kook" says it better.

[nycjowww]

Pre k will help poor young mothers who have to drop out of college because they can't afford babysitting.

I support it.