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"For some of the schools, the migrants coming here has been a godsend because we’ve lost so many other kids."

"Some schools were being threatened with whether we’re going to be able to keep the doors open. I push back on a lot of the kind of negative politics that people talk about with migrants. This is a city of immigrants. I mean, that’s the uniqueness of New York. We never make it easy for immigrants who are coming. But they find their way. And the same thing is going to happen here."

Said David C. Banks, quoted in "Migrants Have Been a ‘Godsend,’ New York Schools Chief Says/In an interview, Chancellor David C. Banks said migrants had helped schools that were bleeding students. He also promised a big new role for artificial intelligence" (NYT). 

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RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

Why were they bleeding students? Pray tell.

tim maguire म्हणाले...

"Under my leadership, my school was failing. But then these people came and saved my job. USA! USA! USA!"

Jeff Vader म्हणाले...

My favorite part of the influx into my local school district is the pregnant middle schoolers, that’s a new one for me

MadTownGuy म्हणाले...

Corporate greed pales in comparison to State greed.

Those kids will now be subjected to indoctrination, and may get some education in the process, but not enough to help them survive in real life, unless they seek it on their own.

doctrev म्हणाले...

Are the migrants really that rich? Or does this explain why the Mayor is begging for buses to be turned back to Texas?

The left is devouring itself. Too many special interests with too much to lose, even while the policies become as popular as poison ivy.

natatomic म्हणाले...

The schools were bleeding students because they were shitty schools with shittier results. Thank God we now have a whole new cohort of kids we can dumb down and indoctrinate.

Dagwood म्हणाले...

"Artificial intelligence" is exactly what schools have been producing in the last couple of generations' graduates.

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Just export teachers to whatever sh*thole country they're coming from and teach them there.

Wince म्हणाले...

That some schools are being topped-off in numbers and kept open by an illegal immigrant influx does not mitigate their drain on the entire school system.

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

Right. The ESL programs were hugely overtaxed BEFORE the invasion, and that was when most illegals spoke one common language, Spanish. And now it's a godsend to have to teach English as a Second Language course in Mandarin, Russian, Arabic, Portugese, Czech, French and Persian?

I'm not buying it.

Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...

I'm getting the sneaky suspicion this mayor McCheese has no idea what the hell is going on his school district. He just wants all that Federal cash to keep on flowing. Graft and patronage are the mothers milk of Democrat politics.

Aggie म्हणाले...

Now isn't that just a fascinating Coinkydink?

Iman म्हणाले...

So it’s a jobs program…

Cappy म्हणाले...

Inquiring minds want to know.

Money Manger म्हणाले...

The local school district has gone from 7% hispanic to 35% in the last six years. Unexpected benefit: our soccer program has gotten really good.

EdwdLny म्हणाले...

Migrants, what bullshit. They are illegal alien invaders. Who's paying for all of this public employee largess ? Are the illegals, he'll no. The taxpayers are, and the illegals are not taxpayers they are an enormous cost. You idiots drove students out of your failing, incompetently run schools. They should have been closed and employees terminated, saving money for those taxpayers. This isn't about anything except lining your pockets with taxpayer dollars. And aiding and abetting a criminal invasion by ever more welfare leeches. People who do not and will never be gainfully employed nor ever benefit society. Heh imagine that.

Dogma and Pony Show म्हणाले...

"Never made it easy" for immigrants? That may have been true in the past. But this administration is literally flying illegals into the U.S. to be housed and cared for at the expense of unconsenting taxpayers.

Kate म्हणाले...

No one wants to buy the product he's selling. (No one in NY wants to produce consumers for the product he's selling, either.) Through the power of government, though, he can make us all pay for this product.

Sebastian म्हणाले...

"Some schools were being threatened with whether we’re going to be able to keep the doors open."

Fewer customers, fewer facilities, saving money: what a concept.

"But they find their way"

Usually, illegally or with phony asylum claims.

"Migrants Have Been a ‘Godsend,’"

Even by prog standards, it's such obvious BS. Saving the system by forcing taxpayers to pay more for illegal aliens? But it counts as a metagaffe: illegals serve prog interests as clientele and future voters, law and taxes be damned. In that sense, they are indeed a godsend.

dbp म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
dbp म्हणाले...

Anyone who doesn't make a clear distinction between immigrant and illegal alien is a grifter and nothing they have to say on the subject is of any interest to me.

Gusty Winds म्हणाले...

The teachers unions and the public schools need tax money coming in, or budgets would have to be cut, which would include payroll and jobs. The US birth rate is declining, so in order to keep their system alive, "migrants" have to fill the gap. It's not about the kids. It's about the money that flows into the education establishment. Always has been. WI Act 10 battle illustrated that clearly.

Gusty Winds म्हणाले...

When my family moved to Elmhurst IL in 1977 I was starting the second grade and went to Washington School for 2nd and 3rd grade. Because of the diminished student population, four of the older grade schools were closed at the end of the 1979 school year, and students were consolidated. The older schools built in the 1920's were closed and torn down. They were once filled with Baby Boomers, but Gen X couldn't fill them.

Gusty Winds म्हणाले...

Saving tax dollars is not in the greedy wheelhouse of the education establishment.

rehajm म्हणाले...

…they ‘has’ been a godsend or ‘have’ been a godsend? What’d he say??

Dave Begley म्हणाले...

It's all about union jobs. Forget about everything else.

Lazarus म्हणाले...

Rent the empty schools out to private, parochial or charter schools. Problem solved.

Kevin म्हणाले...

The current grift was based on the illusion of teaching students. The grift can now continue.

Leland म्हणाले...

More reason for Gov. Abbott to keep bussing the immigrants to New York. In Texas, the schools are overrun, and we can't build them fast enough for the influx of new students. Texas should charge transportation fees to New York to help fund our schools.

lamech म्हणाले...

"For some of the schools, the migrants coming here has been a godsend because we’ve lost so many other kids. Some schools were being threatened with whether we’re going to be able to keep the doors open."

While I hope the NYC schools chancellor is well-intentioned (although overhauling ways to teach reading is wrong-headed), the above statement reminds me of The Wire and Cutty's short stint as a truant officer.
“School gets a certain amount of money for each kid that shows up one day in September and one day in October … after that they don’t lose the government money”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X1QbL7qL2VM

Greg The Class Traitor म्हणाले...

Bingo. So, for schools that were total crap, a new batch of kids they can monetize, who can't escape, are a "Godsend".

Because otherwise the schools might actually have to start educating. And THAT is just not acceptable

narciso म्हणाले...

In 1980 our city was swamped by the Mariel boatlift and that is more people then ny has taken in entire and it was one common language

Mason G म्हणाले...

"But they find their way."

How is taking money from other people to pay for stuff for you "finding your way"?

"And the same thing is going to happen here."

Was there ever any doubt?

Jeff Vader म्हणाले...

Ours didn’t as nearly all are academically ineligible

Rocco म्हणाले...

Migrants doing jobs the natives just won’t do.

Richard म्हणाले...

What you have to understand is that the purpose of the school system is to provide jobs for teachers and administrators. If schools were to close due to low enrollment, then they would lose their jobs. We have to prevent that from happening at all cost (pun intended). The fact is that the parents of these illegal alien children pay no taxes and moreover are supported by money from the government. Thus the taxpayers are being hit by a double penalty – paying for unneeded school personnel and paying to support the illegal aliens.

Jupiter म्हणाले...

What's good for the public schools is good for America.

Michael Fitzgerald म्हणाले...

They turned the old elementary schools in my town into senior housing. My mother ended up living in the room she attended second grade.

Dude1394 म्हणाले...

Jobs program. There is no dobut that some schools need to close, everything has a growth/shrink cycle, except democrat jobs.

Bitter Clinger म्हणाले...

He says the quiet part out loud: the public schools aren't maintained to educate the children, rather the population of children must be maintained to support the public schools and employ the union members.

pacwest म्हणाले...

300-500 billion at last estimate. We could afford to pay the interest on the debt with that.

Skeptical Voter म्हणाले...

Those pesky migrants. Doing jobs that Americans won't do--like sending their kids to the public school indoctrination centers. The public schools in most of the country are failing to actually educate the children--but they can teach them how to put a condom on a cucumber, so there is that.

robother म्हणाले...

So, Texas governor Abbot and Fla. Governor DeSantis are doing God's work in sending illegals to NYC? Spread the word! Make it rain illegals on every sanctuary city and state.

Interested Bystander म्हणाले...

The problem is who's paying for them? Their parents are likely working for low wages and on EBT and other forms of welfare. So the New York taxpayers pick up the tab and not just the people of NYC.

n.n म्हणाले...

Progressive debt for the federal government and the rest of us through redistributive change,, and progressive profits for administrative staff. Win, win, win.

Joe Bar म्हणाले...

Sending a kid to public school is child abuse.

JIM म्हणाले...

It has never been easier to be an illegal alien in America. Especially in Democrat run states.

The Godfather म्हणाले...

This message is mostly about recent immigrants to this country, and for those native Americans that support them.
Like most commenters on this thread I'm descended from immigrants to America. My ancestors came here from England 1620 and later, and Ireland and Germany 1865 and a little later.
You are not a hero just because your ancestors came here as immigrants, nor are you a villain for that reason.
When my ancestors came to America there were no immigration laws; now there are. I think a good public policy argument can be made for less-restrictive immigration laws. But until and unless our Government adopts such laws, they ought to enforce the laws that they are sworn by oath to enforce.

Mason G म्हणाले...

"But until and unless our Government adopts such laws, they ought to enforce the laws that they are sworn by oath to enforce."

Democrats ignore laws they don't like. They only enforce the laws they support, along with what they think should be laws, but aren't.

Barry Dauphin म्हणाले...

I get to keep my phony baloney job!

Michael K म्हणाले...

Lazarus, the Tucson school system sold a vacant school to a developer to prevent a charter school from using it. It will become apartments.

Michael K म्हणाले...

So is the homeless thing. Jobs for social workers.

walter म्हणाले...

Warm bodies to support a failing enterprise.

Dr.Bunkypotatohead म्हणाले...

Waiting for the Venezuelan gangs to take over the schools. Should be easy pickings, being gun free zones and all.

mikee म्हणाले...

Schools exist solely to pay Teacher's Union members, and everything else doesn't matter.