Nothing symbolizes how sick and tired people are of the Bloomberg education reform battles better than Chancellor Dennis Walcott receiving a muted response from what was supposed to be a friendly audience of 1,100 school administrators at Brooklyn Tech while he gave a speech defending the Bloomberg education legacy.
The Bloomberg administration went out of its way to sell this speech before it happened by having Walcott call up the NY Times and tell them about it on Friday.
This was supposed to be a strong defense of the Bloomberg/Klein/Walcott education reform legacy before an adoring crowd.
Instead Walcott got laughed at when he said he wasn't a political guy, then mostly got silence and cricket sounds for the rest of the speech.
Nothing undercuts a message like overselling a speech that is supposed to be a rousing defense of your policy before an adoring crowd and then getting mostly silence and cricket sounds.
Heckuva job, Dennis.
Thanks for crystallizing in one neat afternoon block just how people are ready to move on from the Bloomberg Era and get on with the business of educating children rather than using the school system as political weapon to promote free market ideology.
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