They're Not My Kids!!

I am enthralled by Bill de Blasio, New York's mayoral candidate.

This guy wants to increase taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers so that all four-year-olds get city-funded full-day pre-kindergarten classes AND all middle-schoolers can participate in after-school extra-curricular programs!

And the wealthy are up  in arms....Oh. What. A. Surprise.

The wealthy cry foul when Joe and Jill Citizen want the meager $22,000-a-year spent on public school students (and that's the highest in the country) increased to $25,000-a-year though many of those crying foul have their children in private schools where tuition is in excess of $35,000-a-year.

I will be watching the New York mayoral race closely. Big Bill, all six feet five inches of him, could be the catalyst for a real public education reform movement. And I'm not talkin' about the Michelle Rhee toxic psuedo-reform kind of movement.