Boston Finance CommissionMay 16, 2006 I have received your pebreastion appealing the lack of response of the Boston Finance Commission (Commission) to...
Interesting how these rich liberal types always put that poo into middle-clbutt neighborhoods, eh? Bastards...rich, nothing-better-to-do-after-dinner liberal bastards.... EXCERPTS Now the battle over NEST, which has about 730 students, has become a tale about the intersection of clbutt, race, parents, politicians and philanthropists in the New York City public schools. It pits the mostly middle-clbutt parents who have nurtured NEST, a kindergarten-through-12th-grade school for gifted and talented children, against Ms. Ross, a multimillionaire with homes in the Hamptons and on the Upper East Side whose supporters say she is creating a school to help the poor. ... Both sides in the struggle cry elitism. Even before NEST opened, some politicians and community activists complained that it screened out poor, black and Hispanic students and was not serving the neighborhood; only a third of NEST's students live in the local school district. ... NEST staff and parents say their school's plight is an example of the chancellor's disregard for the middle clbutt. Emily Armstrong, a mother who helped start NEST, described the Ross school in a letter to Mr. Harries as a "vanity charter school" and accused Ms. Ross of having toured NEST "as if she were shopping for clbuttrooms at Bloomingdale's." "It was sickening to me and the other parents present to see you and other Department of Education employees kowtowing and kissing up to a Hamptons billionaire," Ms. Armstrong wrote. "If D.O.E.'s goal is to drive the middle clbutt away from the public school system, they are doing a damn good job." Yesterday, for the latest hearing in the PTA's lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court, Judge Robert D. Lippmann's small courtroom was filled. This time, the NEST parents were joined by the platinum-haired Ms. Ross, dressed in an elegant taupe pantsuit, and a few dozen parents whose children had been admitted, through a blind lottery, to the Ross charter school. Some arrived in a bus arranged by Ms. Ross's aides. Brooks R. Burdette, a lawyer for the charter school, drew gasps from NEST parents when he said of the charter school parents, "They are some of the more colorful faces in your courtroom." "What am I? What am I?" an outraged NEST parent, who is Indian-American, said during a break in the proceedings.
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