Thursday’s meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy was bound to be explosive, since it centered on a controversial new curriculum. But Chancellor Richard Carranza and his PC posse guaranteed more trouble by failing to bring Mandarin- or Cantonese-speaking translators to a gathering in Chinatown.
So much for the chancellor’s constant talk about “respecting communities.”
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The slight was particularly rude when the vote was a foregone conclusion, since Mayor Bill de Blasio’s appointees control the PEP. Would it have been so awful to ensure that dissenters from the general public could actually be heard?
Of course, Carranza’s been attacking the Asian community from the start: His plans to remake admissions to the city’s top public high schools explicitly aim to cut Asian enrollment in half. He’s also sponsored training that clearly lumps Asians in with whites at the top of a “racial-advantage hierarchy.”
All of which gave those Chinatown parents plenty of reason to fear that the new “culturally responsive-sustaining education” curriculum is more bad news for their children, no matter how much New York’s education bureaucracy insists it’s all about excellence.
Anyone familiar with education trends will suspect that curriculum’s goal of de-emphasizing “Eurocentrism” in the school system will quickly become a means of simply dumbing-down instruction — without enriching any child’s experience.
And Carranza’s record can only add to those suspicions. He answers every criticism with charges of racism; he’s purged career professionals from the department’s top ranks; he’s gone outside normal procedures to hire cronies.
In sort, he’s working nonstop to sow division — and every parent’s distrust.
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