Reply #11: The Village Voice has a laugh: [View All]

[Blue_Tires]

Cathie Black, the former magazine executive turned chancellor of New York City schools, is leaving her position after only about 100 days in office. Say it ain't so, Cathie! What will we do without your hilarious gaffes? Let's hope that Mayor Bloomberg's replacement Dennis M. Walcott, the Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development, has a similar sense of humor (or whatever). As we watch Black walk through that official city door for the last time, we shed a tear and take a special look back at the great moments we shared together. Cathie Black, this is your life -- briefly -- as the schools chancellor of New York City.

You entered the scene only known to media insiders as the "First Lady of American Magazines" that sent her kids to "boarding school in Connecticut." You promised to bring more often controversial charter schools to New York City. Controversial! Iconoclastic! We loved you from the get-go!

But we soon quickly realized that you weren't the right person for the job though and within an hour of your appointment, we gave the three reasons why you shouldn't be in charge. But maybe, we thought, we should to let you take the reins for a little bit and see how things turned out.

Before you even got confirmed, people were hating on you. Bloomberg came to your defense, but no one was really buying it.

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