At least one teacher knows she won’t be getting a pink slip from Mayor Bloomberg.
The mayor told Stefanie LoPinto at a town-hall meeting Thursday on Staten Island that she didn’t have to worry about losing her job, despite his plan to ax as many as 4,200 teachers.
LoPinto, 30, a self-described “big supporter” of the mayor, had stood up at the meeting and voiced her concern.
“How long you been teaching for?” Bloomberg asked her.
“Five years,” she answered.
“You’ll be fine,” the mayor responded, as neighbors erupted in laughter at the Richmond County Country Club.
Said LoPinto, a Staten Islander who teaches kindergarten at PS 19 in Manhattan’s East Village: “I can sleep a little better. I have more job security.”
Bloomberg, meanwhile, was ripped for remarks he made on his WWOR radio show yesterday about parents fighting his plan to close failing schools.
“Unfortunately, there are some parents who just come from, you know, they never had a formal education and they don’t understand the value of education,” he said.
Councilman Robert Jackson (D-Manhattan) called the mayor “absolutely wrong,” pointing out that “parents who are poor and immigrant parents want their children to have a good education.”