No, Assemblyman Ramos, charters are not a virus — they are a cureBy NY Post Editorial Board
February 14, 2022
In a bizarre tirade likening charter schools to COVID, Assemblyman Phil Ramos exposed himself and like-minded Democratic lawmakers as beyond ignorant.
“Charter schools have kind of taken on the characteristics of coronavirus. We create a vaccine, and they morph into something else,” like the Delta and Omicron variants, Ramos (D-Central Islip) charged.
Oh, and since it was an NAACP-sponsored forum, he threw in the claim that charters impose “a discriminatory system on our people.” He also called the charter movement a bunch of “poverty pimps.”
His actual gripe, it turns out, is that a second charter school just got OK’d to open in his area, offering families a chance to escape from the 7,500-student Central Islip school district, where (per State Education Department data) just 39% of black and 40% of white third-graders test as proficient in English, and only 29% of Hispanics. The math scores are terrible, too.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/14/assemblyman-ramos-charters-are-a-cure-not-a-virus/
