Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is not anti-Israel, he’s explicitly affirmed Israel’s right to exist, just not as an apartheid state. If you want Israel as an ethnostate then you need to propose a path to that that doesn’t entail crimes against humanity, and that acknowledges that the current two-state solution is utterly unworkable in practice; just saying there ought to be a Jewish homeland and refusing to grapple with the humanitarian consequences of that is a non-answer.

You didn’t answer. What were the other options?

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Anonymous wrote:It's a shame that "moderates" coalesced around somebody as shitty and toxic as Cuomo, then

I like Cuomo. I thought the SH claims were a nothing burger.

The man tried to get the gynecological records of one of his accusers. This is not okay and he is a piece of shit.

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Were you in NY when that happened? Genuinely curious what Cuomo was supposed to do with those patients?

Yes, I was. Step one was for Cuomo to admit it when one of them died and add their deaths to the death toll. He didn't do that . From the NY Times 3/14/22:

The administration of former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo failed to publicly account for the deaths of about 4,100 nursing home residents in New York during the pandemic, according to an audit released on Tuesday by the state comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli.

The audit found that Health Department officials at times underreported the full death toll by as much as 50 percent from April 2020 to February 2021, as Mr. Cuomo faced increasing scrutiny over whether his administration had intentionally concealed the actual number of deaths.

He didn't report them PRECISELY because he didn't want his decision to put covid patients into rehab facilities with immunocompromised patients criticized. Now, we can argue as to whether he had other choices at the time. But LYING about their deaths is unacceptable.

First, it was incredibly demoralizing to the patients in the nursing homes who were scared out of the minds by what was going on when they knew --because they read and watch the news--that the deaths of their fellow patients were NOT being reported. That's why the patients in the public rehab facility in my neighborhood put up posters every day with the number of people who had died.

Second, Cuomo lied to enhance his own political ambitions. Read more here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_COVID-19_nursing_home_scandal

So, while you might want to argue as to whether he had better options, I hope you won't argue that leaving over 4,000 deaths out of NYC's covid death statistics is a serious offence.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a shame that "moderates" coalesced around somebody as shitty and toxic as Cuomo, then

I like Cuomo. I thought the SH claims were a nothing burger.

The man tried to get the gynecological records of one of his accusers. This is not okay and he is a piece of shit.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't lived here for 25 years straight, but I have lived here for several long stretches beginning 25 years ago - including with kids - and I don't see any sign of things getting worse. I'm sorry if your experience has been bad but it's not typical of anybody I know.

Frankly there are plenty of cops on the subways that sit by and don't do a damn thing about people with obvious mental health issues, so the idea of having other professionals handle that job (espoused not only by Mamdani but by several others, I believe) ought to resonate even with the 'public safety' crowd.

The G&T programs are a joke; the specialized high schools are not, but we need more of them. I don't think anybody wants to get rid of Regents Algebra.

Not PP: We need standardization of G&T programs, advanced/honors courses in the middle school, and (gasp!) a return to the G&T test starting at 5. NYC has an extensive testing regime for toddlers and preschoolers in D75 schools. There is no reason why kids as young as 5 can't be tested, bc guess what - they already are being tested at that age! Just bc it's not what you want for your child that doesn't mean it's a joke.

G&T is a waste of time. It should be reserved for neighborhoods without decent public schools. UWS, UES, etc. don't need it. We live in a neighborhood with a very good zoned school. My kid got into a very desirable G&T program. We looked around and said no thanks. Much happier at Gen Ed.

G&T kids are told from K that they are the cat's meow and their poop doesn't stink. Because they did well on a test when they were 4. Most of them are brats. My kids have played sports, done activities, etc. with G&T kids and did not like most of them (some were perfectly fine). The worst of the bunch were the kids who could have gone to good Gen Ed but chose G&T. The kids who went to G&T because it was their way out of a bad school were much more humble. Same applies to Hunter elementary kids.

If you want good schools, move to a good neighborhood. Or find a way to get into a school in a good neighborhood (it's really not that hard). Very simple.

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't saying the concept of G&T was a joke, but there's ample evidence that the current NYC implementation is, at least aside from a few incredibly-hard-to-get-in-to exceptions.

For my own part, I have a kid at one of the new (or newly restored, anyway) D2 middle school screened programs and I can say firsthand that it doesn't count for much.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't lived here for 25 years straight, but I have lived here for several long stretches beginning 25 years ago - including with kids - and I don't see any sign of things getting worse. I'm sorry if your experience has been bad but it's not typical of anybody I know.

Frankly there are plenty of cops on the subways that sit by and don't do a damn thing about people with obvious mental health issues, so the idea of having other professionals handle that job (espoused not only by Mamdani but by several others, I believe) ought to resonate even with the 'public safety' crowd.

The G&T programs are a joke; the specialized high schools are not, but we need more of them. I don't think anybody wants to get rid of Regents Algebra.

Not PP: We need standardization of G&T programs, advanced/honors courses in the middle school, and (gasp!) a return to the G&T test starting at 5. NYC has an extensive testing regime for toddlers and preschoolers in D75 schools. There is no reason why kids as young as 5 can't be tested, bc guess what - they already are being tested at that age! Just bc it's not what you want for your child that doesn't mean it's a joke.

G&T is a waste of time. It should be reserved for neighborhoods without decent public schools. UWS, UES, etc. don't need it. We live in a neighborhood with a very good zoned school. My kid got into a very desirable G&T program. We looked around and said no thanks. Much happier at Gen Ed.

G&T kids are told from K that they are the cat's meow and their poop doesn't stink. Because they did well on a test when they were 4. Most of them are brats. My kids have played sports, done activities, etc. with G&T kids and did not like most of them (some were perfectly fine). The worst of the bunch were the kids who could have gone to good Gen Ed but chose G&T. The kids who went to G&T because it was their way out of a bad school were much more humble. Same applies to Hunter elementary kids.

If you want good schools, move to a good neighborhood. Or find a way to get into a school in a good neighborhood (it's really not that hard). Very simple.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't lived here for 25 years straight, but I have lived here for several long stretches beginning 25 years ago - including with kids - and I don't see any sign of things getting worse. I'm sorry if your experience has been bad but it's not typical of anybody I know.

Frankly there are plenty of cops on the subways that sit by and don't do a damn thing about people with obvious mental health issues, so the idea of having other professionals handle that job (espoused not only by Mamdani but by several others, I believe) ought to resonate even with the 'public safety' crowd.

The G&T programs are a joke; the specialized high schools are not, but we need more of them. I don't think anybody wants to get rid of Regents Algebra.

Not PP: We need standardization of G&T programs, advanced/honors courses in the middle school, and (gasp!) a return to the G&T test starting at 5. NYC has an extensive testing regime for toddlers and preschoolers in D75 schools. There is no reason why kids as young as 5 can't be tested, bc guess what - they already are being tested at that age! Just bc it's not what you want for your child that doesn't mean it's a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't lived here for 25 years straight, but I have lived here for several long stretches beginning 25 years ago - including with kids - and I don't see any sign of things getting worse. I'm sorry if your experience has been bad but it's not typical of anybody I know.

Frankly there are plenty of cops on the subways that sit by and don't do a damn thing about people with obvious mental health issues, so the idea of having other professionals handle that job (espoused not only by Mamdani but by several others, I believe) ought to resonate even with the 'public safety' crowd.

The G&T programs are a joke; the specialized high schools are not, but we need more of them. I don't think anybody wants to get rid of Regents Algebra.

Not PP: We need standardization of G&T programs, advanced/honors courses in the middle school, and (gasp!) a return to the G&T test starting at 5. NYC has an extensive testing regime for toddlers and preschoolers in D75 schools. There is no reason why kids as young as 5 can't be tested, bc guess what - they already are being tested at that age! Just bc it's not what you want for your child that doesn't mean it's a joke.

Anonymous wrote:I haven't lived here for 25 years straight, but I have lived here for several long stretches beginning 25 years ago - including with kids - and I don't see any sign of things getting worse. I'm sorry if your experience has been bad but it's not typical of anybody I know.

Frankly there are plenty of cops on the subways that sit by and don't do a damn thing about people with obvious mental health issues, so the idea of having other professionals handle that job (espoused not only by Mamdani but by several others, I believe) ought to resonate even with the 'public safety' crowd.

The G&T programs are a joke; the specialized high schools are not, but we need more of them. I don't think anybody wants to get rid of Regents Algebra.