You see what we pay teachers these days? They could be teachers kids AND homeless…
Cool motive, still nepotism
They weren’t teachers. They worked in an office to support homeless students. It was mostly the manager of said office, though she “encouraged other staffers” to do the same.
Homeless kids deserve childhoods too, but can’t help thinking there must be higher priority items than sending them to Disney. A tragedy of this story is maybe those grants wouldn’t have been diverted and could have been stretched further had they been spent on more useful things.
There is always going to be “higher priority” to spend that money on. But they got it for this so let them just use it to make kids happy and not try and say that it’s not the “useful things” to spend it on.
It’s a great priority. A poor kid deserves to not worry about bills and just enjoy Disney.
Wait wait, hold up. So Disney is providing trips to homeless kids to visit their amusement parks? Couldn’t they think of another way of changing these kids lives in a more… lasting way?
But in case screw those scumbags who took the trips.
Where does it say Disney is paying for it? If it was Disney donating the trips, it’s not really costing them much to do that.
If it was NYC businesses or tax payers, then yeah. They’re probably not getting much of a discount and the money could either have been spent on more productive activities or even just a closer theme park.
these people should be mercilessly mocked and shamed until they fear showing their face in public.
According to the report released this month, Linda Wilson, the Queens regional manager for the office that supports students in temporary housing, took her own children on trips that were paid for through grants for homeless students and encouraged employees she supervised to do the same but to keep quiet about it. “What happens here stays with us,” one staffer quoted Wilson as saying. Contacted by the New York Post, Wilson denied bringing her two daughters on trips or encouraging staff members to bring their children. Wilson called the special commissioner’s probe “a witch hunt.”
Queens. The same place that gave the world donald trump.
I haven’t been, but Queens sounds like America’s festering asshole, with little demons crawling out of it? Can anyone with first hand experiences there elaborate?
My mom is also from Queens. Rockaway Beach to be specific. A plane crashed into her old neighborhood in 2001 (no, not 9/11) and destroyed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587
Queens is really big. 108.1 mi² according to Google. There is a lot of bad and there is a lot of good about Queens.
One thing I liked is that there is a long history of shooting films there going back to the 1920s and there’s still a studio there. Inside is also the Museum of the Moving Image. I never got a chance to go any of the times I went to New York:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufman_Astoria_Studios
There’s also Flushing Meadows, which is a great park. It’s where the 1939 World’s Fair was held.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Meadows–Corona_Park
And, of course, even though her neighborhood is gone, the beach is still there.
