Build Schools, Not Stadia!

LEARNING CURVE
In Push for Small Schools, Other Schools Suffer
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Many large high schools in New York are suffering, their
troubles largely the fallout from efforts to create new
small high schools.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/nyregion/14school.html?th

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The game plan of the Roman emperors was bread and circuses. Our current Wall St. based mayor's equivalent seems to be to build stadia and fiddle with our schools to the detriment of education. Needless to say we need more schools; we need ancient and deteriorated schools remodeled. There is presumably just as much construction work to be had doing the right things in terms of repair and construction of schools as with producing a West Side stadium in an area already overcrowded. We could construct an attractive West Side park there along with 15,000 affordable housing units to keep the homeless and other hard-pressed working New Yorkers off the streets -- and an attractive school and other amenities to go with it -- if we were a just society. I can't say how much I am beginning to find that squeaky voice grating as it plays games with human lives. No more Republicanism light for this great city!