Mayor Adams should realize that the border crisis is a national problem. He claims a white governor of Texas is bussing people to black mayors. However, the data does not support this. For example, El Paso's mayor has bussed more people to New York City. All who choose the bus sign a waiver and pick their destination. New York City is just one place among many including Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Denver. They can't all stay in El Paso. This is a national problem and the federal government should help. Mayor Adams should take his concerns to Mayorkas and President Biden and not blame Texas and Arizona for this crisis.
Blow it out your ears, Mr. Mayor. You'll chat with a writer about how badly you want to maintain the little educational excellence which remains in the city, but you won't stand up for it. Mr. Sotto Voce the Cowardly Lion.
Bari’s question about how it could be possible that Democrats are labeled “soft on crime” presumes that that’s not true, and Adams’s answer just regurgitates her point that crime most hurts the poor and suggests that Democrats are tough on crime because they support gun bans. It’s ridiculous.
It’s exclusively Democrat prosecutors that are setting felons free to wreak havoc instead of jailing them. It was exclusively Democrats who called for defunding police across the nation and who demonized cops as racists, leading to mass retirements and rampant crime waves. It is exclusively Democrats who moved right past the Nashville shooter’s trans manifesto and hatred of Christians and instead portrayed the trans people as the victims. It was a Democrat president who invited grandstanding disruptive Tennessee lawmakers to the White House instead of the families of the victims in that shooting. It is exclusively Democrat big-city mayors who are allowing drug addicts to roam free on their streets, injecting themselves and attacking innocent passers-by without consequences.
Democrats are labeled “soft on crime” because they are soft on crime, not because conservatives have “hijacked the language” and faked everyone out.
I like the Mayor's response. All too often, one needs to 'Get in Line' with all liberal views to be able to mix and mingle with those elite Dems. Life is far more nuanced. I really like Adam's views and comment on education, for instance.
I find it interesting that this article about New York has only 9 comments at the time I am writing this while other articles have hundreds. And this was published on April 25.
I wonder if this is because people all over the world who read publications like this have finally stopped giving a fuck about New York, New Yorkers and their insidious Yankee bullshit. How much oxygen does this single city really need? New York has given us Donald Trump AND Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Maybe the lack of interest in this shithole city and its loser mayor is a sign of some small hope for the rest of the nation. We can only hope.
Like it or not, New York City is the engine that keeps America humming along. More people live in New York City than in 38 other states. It's only the lopsided Senate that keeps NYC from having a fair share of power in the country.
If New York disappeared tomorrow, the country would be in a deep recession within a matter of weeks whereas Nebraska, Alabama, North Dakota and some others could disappear tomorrow and no one would even notice.
New York sucks. The only thing that sucks more than New York is New Yorkers. I suspect that if New York disappeared, things would be remarkably improved. Hopefully Washington D.C. would fall into the same black hole. But should the central states disappear, people would go hungry...
I'm a FP subscriber, and I don't remember this article. I love the FP, but this "interview" was a total waste of time. That's probably why no one is commenting.
"Mayor, why did you allow the forced masking of 2-year-olds FAR past the point in the pandemic when it was abundantly clear, via millions of data points, that gappy, filthy cloth masks could have no possible protective effect for children who were statistically at ~0 risk of a bad Covid outcome anyway?"
Maybe you'll ask for 35 minutes next time so you can squeeze that one in.
I have lived overseas for 26years and I can assure you, nearly all Asian megacities are better than anything in the United States. Especially those in mainland China.
Unfortunately, public charters, which rely on public funding, are seriously underfunded even more so than public schools. Charter schools that are established have less of a problem but new charter schools struggle. How do I know? I have two children in a charter school. They are struggling to get good teachers. We are considering moving them back into public schools. The answer needs to be in curriculum that focus on teaching students based on the students' learning needs and supporting great teachers to do their job.
Just saying "charter schools" is the answer is not an answer.
I dare you Mayor: Put together a blue ribbon committee using the brightest of the public intellectuals to develop an education white paper on improving education in NYC. Invite people like Pinker and McWhorter and members of Harvard Free Speech movement, well-known intellectuals of that caliber and you will change not only education in NYC, but education in all of our nation. Set a real example, do something truly bold. We have the answer to the problem, we lack the political courage to develop education policy that will apply it.
The only place systemic racism is unchallenged, the only place Democrats continue to support systemic racism, is in public education. And it is obvious, after decades of dramatically increasing investments in public education that throwing more money at public education is not the answer. Charter schools and school choice have clearly demonstrated real student achievement, and education is the key to success. But Democrats take enormous teacher union contributions in return for shutting-down charter schools and opposing school choice. They don’t even want parents involved in public education, classifying them as domestic terrorists. Mayor Adams has embraced this by closing charter schools. Teacher union money is more important to Democrats than educating poor inner city children.
My problem with charter schools funded with public money is that the taxpayers have no say whatsoever in how they are run. At least with public schools, we can vote out the School Board if we don't like what's happening in school.
Another problem is that, currently, charter and private schools can be very selective in who they admit but public schools must take EVERY student that shows up, including those who are disruptive or have various problems. If charter schools had the same requirement, they wouldn't be as good as many of them are.
If we went to a voucher system for education, 1. how would there be accountability to those paying for it? and 2. what would happen to all the kids no schools wanted to take?
Scott - You are citing common misinformation about charter schools. First, all charter schools encourage parental (taxpayer) involvement. That is key to student success.
Second, all but three states require charter schools to accept all students through a lottery, and the three states that don’t require lotteries by law do it voluntarily anyway. Charter schools are public schools.
Private schools can be selective about the students they accept.
Disruptive students will not be coddled and allowed to interfere with other students’ education in charter schools. That’s how it should be. And yes, it’s one reason charter schools are more successful in educating children than regular public schools which have to accommodate disruptive behavior.
It’s a big reason why charter schools are successful and why the lists are so long across the country of parents wanting to get their children into charter schools.
As far as accountability to taxpayers, the Justice Department regards taxpayers who attend school board meetings to be “domestic terrorists” at the behest of the school boards association. Many boards don’t want taxpayer involvement.
And kids that no schools want to take would have to attend regular public schools, same as today.
If you believe the work of George Borjas, another area of systemic racism would be immigration. His evidence claims to show that 50% of black unemployment is due to immigration policy. But up until 2016 or so that was a largely bipartisan policy supported both by those who have compassion not balanced by pragmatism and by business leaders.
There are always unexpected consequences to any public policy. It is true that open borders affects the working class, so Dems need to be VERY careful when they claim that limiting immigration is a form of racism.
Mayor Adams should realize that the border crisis is a national problem. He claims a white governor of Texas is bussing people to black mayors. However, the data does not support this. For example, El Paso's mayor has bussed more people to New York City. All who choose the bus sign a waiver and pick their destination. New York City is just one place among many including Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Denver. They can't all stay in El Paso. This is a national problem and the federal government should help. Mayor Adams should take his concerns to Mayorkas and President Biden and not blame Texas and Arizona for this crisis.
Blow it out your ears, Mr. Mayor. You'll chat with a writer about how badly you want to maintain the little educational excellence which remains in the city, but you won't stand up for it. Mr. Sotto Voce the Cowardly Lion.
Eric Adams is a xenophobic Nazi!-Ken Burns, probably.
Bari’s question about how it could be possible that Democrats are labeled “soft on crime” presumes that that’s not true, and Adams’s answer just regurgitates her point that crime most hurts the poor and suggests that Democrats are tough on crime because they support gun bans. It’s ridiculous.
It’s exclusively Democrat prosecutors that are setting felons free to wreak havoc instead of jailing them. It was exclusively Democrats who called for defunding police across the nation and who demonized cops as racists, leading to mass retirements and rampant crime waves. It is exclusively Democrats who moved right past the Nashville shooter’s trans manifesto and hatred of Christians and instead portrayed the trans people as the victims. It was a Democrat president who invited grandstanding disruptive Tennessee lawmakers to the White House instead of the families of the victims in that shooting. It is exclusively Democrat big-city mayors who are allowing drug addicts to roam free on their streets, injecting themselves and attacking innocent passers-by without consequences.
Democrats are labeled “soft on crime” because they are soft on crime, not because conservatives have “hijacked the language” and faked everyone out.
There is no reason outside dishonest partisanship to assert that Democrats care about the poor more than Republicans do.
Republicans have always been the party that actually does better for the poor.
I like the Mayor's response. All too often, one needs to 'Get in Line' with all liberal views to be able to mix and mingle with those elite Dems. Life is far more nuanced. I really like Adam's views and comment on education, for instance.
Now THAT is really “speaking truth to power.”
I find it interesting that this article about New York has only 9 comments at the time I am writing this while other articles have hundreds. And this was published on April 25.
I wonder if this is because people all over the world who read publications like this have finally stopped giving a fuck about New York, New Yorkers and their insidious Yankee bullshit. How much oxygen does this single city really need? New York has given us Donald Trump AND Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Maybe the lack of interest in this shithole city and its loser mayor is a sign of some small hope for the rest of the nation. We can only hope.
Fuck New York.
Long live Cedar Rapids!
Like it or not, New York City is the engine that keeps America humming along. More people live in New York City than in 38 other states. It's only the lopsided Senate that keeps NYC from having a fair share of power in the country.
If New York disappeared tomorrow, the country would be in a deep recession within a matter of weeks whereas Nebraska, Alabama, North Dakota and some others could disappear tomorrow and no one would even notice.
New York sucks. The only thing that sucks more than New York is New Yorkers. I suspect that if New York disappeared, things would be remarkably improved. Hopefully Washington D.C. would fall into the same black hole. But should the central states disappear, people would go hungry...
I'm a FP subscriber, and I don't remember this article. I love the FP, but this "interview" was a total waste of time. That's probably why no one is commenting.
"Mayor, why did you allow the forced masking of 2-year-olds FAR past the point in the pandemic when it was abundantly clear, via millions of data points, that gappy, filthy cloth masks could have no possible protective effect for children who were statistically at ~0 risk of a bad Covid outcome anyway?"
Maybe you'll ask for 35 minutes next time so you can squeeze that one in.
I know people abroad and I tell them not to go to SF, LA or NY. Dubai and Tokyo seem to be safer and cleaner.
I have lived overseas for 26years and I can assure you, nearly all Asian megacities are better than anything in the United States. Especially those in mainland China.
Unfortunately, public charters, which rely on public funding, are seriously underfunded even more so than public schools. Charter schools that are established have less of a problem but new charter schools struggle. How do I know? I have two children in a charter school. They are struggling to get good teachers. We are considering moving them back into public schools. The answer needs to be in curriculum that focus on teaching students based on the students' learning needs and supporting great teachers to do their job.
Just saying "charter schools" is the answer is not an answer.
So you'll put them back in failing public schools? Why don't you teach them yourself, or find a good private school?
I dare you Mayor: Put together a blue ribbon committee using the brightest of the public intellectuals to develop an education white paper on improving education in NYC. Invite people like Pinker and McWhorter and members of Harvard Free Speech movement, well-known intellectuals of that caliber and you will change not only education in NYC, but education in all of our nation. Set a real example, do something truly bold. We have the answer to the problem, we lack the political courage to develop education policy that will apply it.
Hear hear!
The only place systemic racism is unchallenged, the only place Democrats continue to support systemic racism, is in public education. And it is obvious, after decades of dramatically increasing investments in public education that throwing more money at public education is not the answer. Charter schools and school choice have clearly demonstrated real student achievement, and education is the key to success. But Democrats take enormous teacher union contributions in return for shutting-down charter schools and opposing school choice. They don’t even want parents involved in public education, classifying them as domestic terrorists. Mayor Adams has embraced this by closing charter schools. Teacher union money is more important to Democrats than educating poor inner city children.
My problem with charter schools funded with public money is that the taxpayers have no say whatsoever in how they are run. At least with public schools, we can vote out the School Board if we don't like what's happening in school.
Another problem is that, currently, charter and private schools can be very selective in who they admit but public schools must take EVERY student that shows up, including those who are disruptive or have various problems. If charter schools had the same requirement, they wouldn't be as good as many of them are.
If we went to a voucher system for education, 1. how would there be accountability to those paying for it? and 2. what would happen to all the kids no schools wanted to take?
Scott - You are citing common misinformation about charter schools. First, all charter schools encourage parental (taxpayer) involvement. That is key to student success.
Second, all but three states require charter schools to accept all students through a lottery, and the three states that don’t require lotteries by law do it voluntarily anyway. Charter schools are public schools.
Private schools can be selective about the students they accept.
Disruptive students will not be coddled and allowed to interfere with other students’ education in charter schools. That’s how it should be. And yes, it’s one reason charter schools are more successful in educating children than regular public schools which have to accommodate disruptive behavior.
It’s a big reason why charter schools are successful and why the lists are so long across the country of parents wanting to get their children into charter schools.
As far as accountability to taxpayers, the Justice Department regards taxpayers who attend school board meetings to be “domestic terrorists” at the behest of the school boards association. Many boards don’t want taxpayer involvement.
And kids that no schools want to take would have to attend regular public schools, same as today.
If you believe the work of George Borjas, another area of systemic racism would be immigration. His evidence claims to show that 50% of black unemployment is due to immigration policy. But up until 2016 or so that was a largely bipartisan policy supported both by those who have compassion not balanced by pragmatism and by business leaders.
There are always unexpected consequences to any public policy. It is true that open borders affects the working class, so Dems need to be VERY careful when they claim that limiting immigration is a form of racism.
I don't know what would be a worse insult. Being a New Yorker, or being a Democrat. Fortunately, in both instances, you can choose to leave...