My school was invaded by Green Dot Charter School — first the fourth floor, then third floor, then the auditorium where they gave rousing speeches, then they took the teachers’ lounge for a yoga studio so the teachers can eat in the stockroom with a table for the entire school staff. There is absolutely no upside to co-location for the public schools. None.

Kenneth Ricci, retired
(via Facebook)

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This started in Wisconsin with Gov. Scott Walker. The collusive, Republican, privatizing, union-busting, Koch-funded effort is about one thing: rigging the game. This is a national issue, a hedge-funded attack on the middle class that Cuomo/Bloomberg/Eva chose deliberately to stand with. It’s not about education for all — it’s about money for the few.

Anthony Losardo, retired
(via Facebook)

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It is clearly unforgivable that any tax dollars go to support charter school rent. Absurd. If they want to start charters, then let them pay from charter money. Period.

Pam Pruyn, retired
(via Facebook)

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The money that Eva Moskowitz used to buy those T-shirts and hats for the rally could go toward benefiting those children. Her organization is just using children to put money in its own pocket. It’s all about money, not the children.

Claire Robertson, retired
(via Facebook)

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Why don’t her schools pay rent? They spend $13,500 per student? Wow, sure, give the charters what they want but public schools in need, you’re on your own. I know my district is owed many millions of dollars but we’ll have to wait; it’s not like we could use additional social workers, psychologists, special ed teachers or guidance counselors to deal with our extremely difficult population. Feed the charters and starve the public system.

Rich Cieslak, Hempstead public school teacher