UPDATE: With news breaking about NYC’s COVID Czar living, well, a more social life than the rest of us were allowed in 2020, it’s worth noting that during COVID, while Brad Hoylman-Sigal insisted that reopening NYC public schools wasn’t safe, his own children enjoyed in-person learning at the elite Windward School, which stayed open throughout the 2020-2021 school year.
He ensured his kids avoided learning loss, while leaving New York families to struggle with school closures and the consequences of remote learning.
Sure must be nice to live by a different set of rules than the ones you force on the rest of us.
New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal has been a long-time, vocal opponent of charter schools and school choice.
But while opposing choice for working families across New York, he was busy enjoying the benefits of school choice for his own children.
He decided NYC public schools were not good enough for one of his kids, instead, sending his eldest to The Windward School, one of the city’s most exclusive private institutions for kids with dyslexia.
But it doesn’t stop there.
While Hoylman-Sigal rails against charter schools and takes tens of thousands of dollars in political contributions from anti-charter school special interests, all the while sending his other kid to Manhattan’s elite selective admission magnet school, Hunter College Campus Schools. He uses his political influence to get out of NYC’s DOE schools, secures top-tier education for his own family, but works to block laws that would allow working class families the same opportunities.
While he keeps your kids trapped in underperforming schools, Hoylman-Sigal’s children enjoy the best private and elite schools that his political pull can buy.
Hypocrisy?
It’s worse than that.
It’s a deliberate effort to deny your family the same privileges he takes for his own.
