Opinion

Against ‘Success’ in schools

The Issue: Community reaction in Brooklyn to Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools.

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Eva Moskowitz writes that some might find it rather odd that “those claiming to speak for children would promote ‘no success’” (“The Lobby Against NYC School Success,” Post-Opinion, Nov. 28).

It’s odd, but not surprising. Being a political leftist is all about demonizing those who peacefully achieve success without government handing it to them.

Mark Kalinowski

Clifton, NJ

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It’s rather telling that Moskowitz makes no mention of the powerful lobby emerging in her favor created by hedge-fund executives to support charter schools.

Moskowitz and her ilk are making an absolute fortune off the backs of NYC schoolchildren, and the woman’s master plan is rather chilling.

Any student who does not subscribe to her brand of instruction is quietly transferred back to a traditional public school, and any entity that challenges her domino theory of education is demonized by her in the media.

J. McGeever

Stony Brook

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The Post has done the Cobble Hill community a disservice by publishing this article.

The neighborhood being targeted by Success already has a number of excellent elementary school options, which are all at or near capacity.

What Moskowitz fails to acknowledge is that her “success” is achieved at the expense of less-accomplished students.

As a resident of the neighborhood in question, I would be more interested in improving existing schools than in giving a new elementary option essentially rent- free space in a public school.

M. Miller

Brooklyn