Former NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein Is Not Telling the Whole Truth About His Personal History

[George II]

44. Final word on this since I'm butting up against a brick wall........

...he NEVER described where he lived as a "tenement"

...the objective of "public housing" when it was created in the early 1930s was what you say, but by the early 1950s (about 20 years later) that objective had changed dramatically, not how you portray it.

...he NEVER said his parents couldn't read - I KNEW you would cite that quote - and figured it would be out of context. He said in that sentence

"Nobody in school said to me, ‘Well, you grew up in public housing, your parents don’t read"

How could you POSSIBLY conclude, after he stated that his father dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and his mother graduated from high school, that he "impugned the memory of his dead parents" - surely you're knowledeable enough to know that no one gets through the 10th grade or graduates from high school without being able to read.

Obviously you have an agenda, and you'll twist words to forward that agenda. And you misrepresent his statement to that aim - he said "NOBODY...said...your parents don't read"!!!!!!

Sheesh..............it's unbelievable.

Take care!