NYC Educator: Post Editorial Board Full of Racist Scumbags

NYC Educator: Post Editorial Board Full of Racist Scumbags

Post Editorial Board Full of Racist Scumbags

I don't know who writes NY Post editorials, but this one is particularly disturbing to me. Ostensibly, it's about one of many corrupt, hypocritical administrators. I have no issue with that. Bad administration is a plague here in NYC and needs to be rooted out at the source. The source, incidentally, is largely Michael Bloomberg, who established a Leadership Academy that specialized in persecuting teachers for any or no reason whatsoever.

On the surface, the editorial condemns the principal for accepting expensive gifts against DOE policy. That's worthy of criticism, and this principal sets a terrible example. I've returned gift cards to students because I didn't want them to feel they had any influence on me. If my principal were sitting in his office full of clothing and jewelry given to him by parents (he isn't), well, I'd do the same thing, but I'd feel a little stupid about it.

The issue with the Post editorial is not its justifiable criticism of the principal. It's that they use it to tie into and ridicule social justice, utilizing scare quotes in the title just in case readers don't get the message. Social justice, for Post editors, is simply a hysterical punchline. Ha, ha, students of color want to be treated fairly! How hilarious!

As one parent summed it up: “I find it hypocritical that Principal Lacey supports social-justice activism against ‘white privilege’ but gladly accepts our green dollars.”
That’s a reference to a December student sit-in that Lacey supported and praised — triggered by the school-wide ruckus over supposed faculty racism after one student (eavesdropping on a private conversation) overheard another complaining about being wait-listed for a top university while others with lower test scores got in.

What a trivial concern. Some kid wants to get into a top university. Screw that kid. How dare the principal stand up for that kid? Since she takes expensive gifts, she ought to just CONTINUE READING: NYC Educator: Post Editorial Board Full of Racist Scumbags