They say actions speak louder than words. If so, what are we to make of Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña’s visit on Friday to PS 149 in Harlem?
A week ago, Fariña apologized after the firestorm that followed her remarks suggesting the charter-school kids whose schools she and Mayor de Blasio had taken away were not really her concern.
“I shouldn’t have said it,” she said. “All these kids” — meaning those at charters and those at traditional schools — “are ours.” Yet only a week after saying this, she visits a building that houses three public schools: two traditional schools and a charter.
Guess which one Fariña avoids? Correct: the Success Academy Harlem 1 charter.
Fariña met with the principals of PS 149, a traditional K-8 school, and the Mickey Mantle school, a special-needs school in the same building. Meanwhile, Success Academy Principal Danique Day Loving stood in the hallway attempting to welcome Fariña, whom she’s never met.
No such luck. The chancellor took off.
What can we say? Given all her comments about charter kids, seems this new snub speaks for itself.