NEW YORK, NY. Graduation for some New York City high school and college students will officially end later this month. The hard work endured will hopefully reward students with summer and permanent employment for a job well done. With the unemployment rate soaring and a long hot summer ahead, we are looking at another economic catastrophe.
According to the popular Web resource, FinAid.org, college costs will increase about 8 percent each year. “There must be a new system in place where students and parents don’t have to endure the high cost for tuition and books, mayoral candidate Roland Rogers said yesterday.” “I have a sixteen-month-old daughter and by the time she reaches her graduation and ready to go to college the cost will be three times that of today’s numbers.” “If things don’t change quickly parents won’t be able to feed them let alone send them to college and as a result they’ll be thrust back into an environment working for minimum wage.”
Current Mayor Bloomberg calls himself the “education mayor” and wants full control of the schools because of higher standardized test scores. Standardized test scores are a poor indicator of a school system’s effectiveness. Most people just do not know better so higher test scores sound impressive. A more accurate barometer regarding the viability, vitality, and vibrancy of an education system is the graduation rate at the high school level. The responsibility of a school system (pre-k through twelve) is to ensure that students graduate without being pushed through the system or pushed out of the system. Each year, a dwindling number of minority students graduate on time from the City of New York public high schools with Regents diplomas. Now with rising cost for college they will not be able to continue their education. Mayor Bloomberg would spend a billion dollars a month on his campaign but not contribute a billion dollars from his $11 billion fortune to the education system that he claims to support, cherish and wants to control.
The fact that Bloomberg spends millions of dollars on his current re-election campaign speaks volumes regarding his perception/interpretation of his mayoral performance. Anyone who is in office for 8 consecutive years, has circumvented term limits and has to spend millions of dollars to buy an election is either wasteful or has not done an adequate job. The children are our future, Mayor Bloomberg’s our past Rogers said. “Let the voters decide our kids future with limited input from politicians who just want us to share the pain”…
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