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De Blasio to Fix Broken New York Schools by Putting Solar Panels on Roofs
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 1, 2014 @ 12:27 pm In The Point | 26 Comments
Liberals love putting solar panels on things. Obama put solar panels on the roof of the White House. His VA Sec put solar panels on the roofs of VA hospitals. If there’s anything that can’t be fixed by putting solar panels on it, liberals don’t want to know about it.
A lot of New York City schools are in terrible shape. But there’s nothing that can’t be solved by putting solar panels on their roofs.
New York City is making a major investment in solar energy at public schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday.
The mayor said solar panels will soon be installed at a total of 24 schools around the boroughs. The $28 million investment is part of the city’s green buildings plan.
Bill de Blasio said the climate protests and United Nations summit held in New York City made last week an important one.
“A week we’re going to look back on, not only in New York City but around the globe, as having been a turning point,” he said.
Meanwhile in the real world, New York City schools are a disaster area.
The isolated building sits a block and a half from the beach, surrounded by vacant, weed-choked lots, the road behind it strewn with trash bags and broken TVs.
PS 106 classes still don’t have the books or teacher’s guides. Teachers muddle through by printing out worksheets they find online, buying their own copy paper.
About 40 kindergartners have no room in the three-story brick building. They sit all day in dilapidated trailers that reek of “animal urine,” a parent said; rats and squirrels noisily scamper in the walls and ceiling.
I bet they’ll love the solar panels though. The rats and squirrels can play on them.
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