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Hmm, let’s see, $8/hour times 40 = $320/week, less social security and medicare. $1200/month for everything? Where in the U.S. can you rent a place to live for $400/month? They likely need a car too, and gas is almost $3/hour throughout the U.S. Or transit fare, which is much higher in most places than here.
“it was leaked to parents, who are calling for his dismissal.”
Of course this won’t be easy, since he’s in a union.
The principal should be fired.
“When I lived in one they were known as ‘welfare hotels’.”
I lived in a welfare hotel for 2 weeks in late 1986, when I started law school, and couldn’t get into my studio, and it was all I could afford. The Roger Williams Hotel on Madison & 31st, which still took in some guests. Now, I believe it’s an upscale boutique hotel.
Anyone else see this?
BIG BUCKS, LITTLE BRAINS: The principal of a Brooklyn, N.Y. middle school sent an e-mail to the school’s teachers that was so poorly written, it was leaked to parents, who are calling for his dismissal. Principal Andrew Buck of the Middle School for Art and Philosophy was defending his decision to not provide students with textbooks. In one passage, Buck, who is paid a $129,913 salary, wrote: “Text books are the soup de jour, the sine qua non, the nut and bolts of teaching and learning in high school and college so to speak.” But: “[J]ust because student have a text book, doesn’t mean she or she will be able to read it … Additionally students can’t use a text book to learn how to learn from a textbook.” The e-mail had about 50 errors of grammar, spelling and/or logic. “The writing and logic are so confused I thought it was a joke,” said an English professor who was asked to review the message. Only 13 percent of the school’s eighth-graders passed state reading exams last year. (JW/New York Daily News)
There are a lot of SROs throughout Brooklyn. there’s one across the street from me that just went into contract!!! You’d never know it was SRO.
“You can’t live on the minimum wage.”
Many people do, comfortably, in many parts of this country.
L, you’ll get a kick out of the fact that SRO is a term popularized by the left. To give ‘respect’ to the people that lived in them.
When I lived in one they were known as ‘welfare hotels’.
There’s actually one or tow still functioning, I think. Isn’t that one on Atlantic around 3rd still in biz?
“By rf on December 1, 2010 11:57 AM – Lechacal, he’s still sleeping under a bridge…..”
And that’s Wal-Mart’s fault?