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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Moskowitz tells her charter students, 'No more foreign languages'

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Moskowitz tells her charter students, 'No more foreign languages':

Moskowitz tells her charter students, 'No more foreign languages'


”We can’t do everything... And by the way, Americans don’t tend to do foreign languages very well.”​ -- Eva Moskowitz  
One can only imagine who Moskowitz is referring to as "Americans". 

Moskowitz, speaking in 2014 at a forum sponsored by the right-wing American Enterprise Institute (AEI) told the audience, ”Something had to go,” Turns out that “something” was foreign language classes. She just doesn't believe that her students, mostly African-American and Latino, are capable of reading and speaking more than one tongue. 

She's most likely the world's greatest --certainly the highest paid-- charter school hustler. She pulls down a cool half-million yearly, running the so-called Success Academy network of charters in New York City. Using her hedge-fund money connections, her political clout and relationship with former MayorMichael Bloomberg, Moskowitz' charter operation grew to the point where she now operates 34 charters with 11,000 students in them.

Unfortunately for those kids, they will no longer be able to learn a language Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Moskowitz tells her charter students, 'No more foreign languages':