This is a private matter, I think, from our community. So I urge you A, to stop talking to the press. When you scroll down and you read rhetoric from some parents that suggests that you are opposed to this move ‘those against this idea are terrified of what it would look like if the school were to be in an area by the projects’ is dishonest at best and slanderous at worst. Whether that means a bigger place for our children to learn, or wanting to keep it here, we are all united in wanting what’s best for them. We are not divided, we are absolutely united in wanting what’s best for our children. I read the newspaper for some reason, I can’t believe it’s still around, but it disheartens me to wake up in the morning and see that the Upper West side is divided. I was just going to come up and make jokes because everything’s been said, eloquently and not so eloquently. This is the characterization against which Jones spoke out during a public hearing in June 2016: However, because this proposed plan involved moving the school next to a housing project and adding a more diverse group of students to the school, some critics characterized the plan’s opponents as classist or racist. One argued that the move would make the commute unbearable, another accused the city of playing “musical chairs” with their children’s education, while yet another said that the move would deprive children of the benefits of attending school in their own neighborhood (such as walking to school with friends). Several parents spoke out against the proposed plan for a variety of reasons. 191 would relocate into a brand new building right near its current home on Amsterdam and 61st Street, that was originally going to be used for a different school. The city is looking into moving the school 16 blocks south, into the building now occupied by P.S. The small school currently shares space with two other schools on West 77th Street. The plan – which is still in the early stage – involves P.S. 452, where the Daily Show correspondents’ children attended school, move sixteen blocks south:įacing persistent problems of crowding on the Upper West Side, and the thorny issue of school segregation, the City’s Department of Education is considering another idea that’s met with sharply divided responses. In June 2016, the New York City’s Department of Education proposed a plan which would have had P.S.
The web sites also mischaracterized what Jones actually said, in the process omitting a crucial portion of his quote. Husband of Trump-Hater Samantha Bee is Fighting to Keep Poor Black Kids Out of HIs Kid’s School. Samantha Bee’s Husband Fights To Keep Poor, Black Kids Out Of His Children’s School. Despite the fact that the Slate article was nearly a year old at that point (and the issue has been resolved), web sites presented the story as if Jones were currently fighting the rezoning plan: And elsewhere: “We are not divided,” he said at a public hearing about the proposal, “we are absolutely united in wanting what’s best for our children,” then encouraged fellow parents not to talk to the press about the controversy.”īoth articles lifted from a piece originally published by Slate in June 2016 about the rezoning of public schools in New York City. “To portray any opposition as classist or racist is as bad as it can get,” Jones told WNYC. 452 parent speaking out against the move is comedian and former Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones, who’s married to Samantha Bee.
Samantha Bee’s husband is not only fighting this move, the former correspondent is - get this - urging parents who agree with him not to talk to the media: Oh, and Jones doesn’t want the city of New York to move his children’s school to a location that would make it more accessible to poor, black kids.īoth Samantha Bee and Jason Jones are wealthy and very white. Jason Jones is not only a former “correspondent” for the left-wing Daily Show, he is also husband to Samantha Bee, one of the leftist leaders of the so-called Resistance Movement against President Trump.
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In April 2017, after Samantha Bee’s “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” television event in which the comedian argued for the importance of a free press (while throwing a few jabs at President Donald Trump and his administration), web sites such as the Daily Wire and Yes I’m Right published stories about the former Daily Show star’s husband Jason Jones, who allegedly was fighting to keep “poor black kids out of his children’s school”: