The City is transforming Education into a revenue maker. They are forgetting about Teaching.

Concerning PS 15 Patrick F Daly School and the Pave Academy Charter School Business being housed at in Red Hook, the trigger has been pulled again, this time at the school itself.

January 27, 2010 the Pave academy staff walked around with huge grins and did victory dances in the face of the PS 15 Patrick F Daly staff; it was a very sad day at PS 15 in Red Hook. It truly felt as if Mayor Bloomberg, Klein and the PEP aimed and shot the Mr. Daly School right in the back without any remorse of feelings whatsoever.

From the huge tragedy of a December day almost 20 years ago, to dealing with the 9/11 crisis that was so close to the school and now this! Shot in the back for doing its job. With the rug pulled out from under its feet, Red Hook has lost its triple A school to Mayor Bloomberg’s hostile charter school takeover of Public School buildings. It took the multi million dollar donations of the Tiger Foundation to Bloomberg, the work and influence of billionaires and back room deals with the community organizations in Red Hook surrounding PS 15 outside and even inside PS 15 itself to hand over a public school building to the Pave Company that has built itself on lies.

The PS 15 Patrick F Daly school staff and PTA can be very proud of itself for doing all it could. Yes, we walked around very very tired from being at the PEP meeting until the wee hours of the morning, but we can hold our heads high even though the smirks from the Pave staff were like alcohol being poured on open wounds. But what does anyone care? Little did we know that with mayoral control of the schools the voices of the parents, staff, and the voices of those in Red Hook not bought by Spenser Robertson would fall on deaf ears? Little did we know anything about the corrupt Tiger Foundation and how it would plan an attack many years ago and use all its resources against us? Little did we know that all the DOE rules would be broken and changed to fit the charter school business inside PS 15? Little did we know that the PEP and how it is stacked by the mayor, after being shown all the rules that were broken, could care less about it? Little did we know that the President of the United States, with his Race to the Top program has sanctioned this type of activity and the Governor of NYS supports this kind of activity? Little did we know that the police under Mayor Bloomberg would infringe on the civil rights of parents, students and staff of PS 15 with pictures taken of us from peaceful rallies? Little did we know about the UFT, how it works and to find out they have their own charter schools and would send little support? Little did we know that the UFT would not organize every school in this city to help fight this? Little did we know that many, not all, of the local politicians would do nothing for the almost 400 families and staff of the PS 15 community? Little did we know that Facebook can be hacked? Little did we know about charter schools and the push to privatize and hand over communities to businesses and corporations? Little did we know about the backhanded activities of Mayor Bloomberg and the DOE? Little did we know about how the media is manipulated in NYC? Little did we know how much other schools know about what is going on in neighboring schools? My God, what we have learned in the past couple of years and the tragedy that is now to come, the handing over of our rooms to the charter school business, the handing over of special ed service rooms, science rooms, art and music space that is to come.

No one from the PS 15 PTA or on the PS 15 staff asked for this. We were doing our jobs, loving and caring for the community of Red Hook. We rose to the occasion trying to defend our territory as anyone would do but the big big money and the guns were pointed at our backs and the trigger was pulled and the Patrick F Daly school was shot in its back. This is dictatorship at its finest and manipulation of the system and back room deals. This is conflict of interest but the politicians and those in power support this activity. It is acceptable practice in the Bloomberg administration.

The PS 15 Patrick F Daly School PTA and Staff stand proud in the face of the victory dance and smirks from the Pave staff. We did all that we can against a corrupt Mayor Bloomberg, DOE, Tiger Foundation and Pave Academy Charter Business. We did this without the millions and millions of dollars under the table and back room dealings with Red Hook / Brooklyn community organizations inside and out of PS 15. Mr. Daly has turned in his grave; his AAA school has been shot in its back by the shameful Mayor Bloomberg and his stacked PEP group of puppets, Bloomberg’s chancellor Klein the lawyer, the DOE (are any of these educators?), and Pave Academy Charter business.

We need to revisit documents written very long ago called, Common Sense by Thomas Paine and the Intolerable Acts. We are in a very sad state of affairs. This is America in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, January, 2010.

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