Because serfs and government dependents can be ruled, thinking citizens not so much

“They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please”

And the parents who keep these rulers in power obviously want the same thing: “don’t give us any o’dat thinking stuff, we want some of d’em culturally responsive holding pens.”

Team Mamdani cheers hip-hop high school despite aborting AI-focused high school plans — what a sick joke

A week after they united in canceling an AI-focused Manhattan public high school over bogus “racial justice” concerns, Chancellor Kamar Samuels proudly joined Mayor Zohran Mamdani to give the Bronx … Hip-Hop High. 

Samuels bragged that it and four other new schools will deliver “innovative and culturally responsive instruction” and “build a stronger, more equitable future” for the city.

Which school is more likely to put students on a solid career path?

Next Gen Tech was to be academically rigorous, with a strong math and science curriculum including calculus and coding.

The School of Hip-Hop plans to teach “hip-hop foundations,” entrepreneurship,” and “civic engagement through music” — blatantly vaporous stuff — with the vague promise that kids will “graduate not only academically prepared, but performance-ready.” 

AI and STEM skills generally are vital to the future economy; hip-hop is a music genre founded 50 years ago — whose future is behind it. 

What a tale of two schools: Samuels rejected the one that set the academic bar high, then embraced the one that’s transparently an academic joke.

And, ooh, the racism: First in the cries that screening for ability to do Next Gen Tech classwork would exclude black and Hispanic students, and then the smirking “gift” to mainly minority Bronx kids of a school “rooted” in the “five elements” of hip-hop: emceeing, DJing, graffiti, breaking and knowledge of self. 

Of course, this “soft bigotry of low expectations,” as a former president termed it, goes all the way up to the anti-education State Education Department, which now pretends that “project-based learning” is a fine pathway to a high school diploma.

New York City parents need leaders dedicated to preparing their children to succeed in school and in life; instead they’ve got Mamdani and Samuels, who plainly see the public schools as some combination of a con and a joke.

Way back in 1986, the Rainmakers had this scam pegged, and wrote a song about it, “Government Cheese”

Give a man a free house and he'll bust out the windows
Put his family on food stamps, now he's a big spender
No food on the table and the bills ain't paid
'Cause he spent it on cigarettes and P.G.A
They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please
They're feeding our people that government cheese

Give a man free food and he'll figure out a way
To steal more than he can eat 'cause he doesn't have to pay
Give a woman free kids and you'll find them in the dirt
Learning how to carry on the family line of work
It's the man in the White House, the man under the steeple
Passing out drugs to the American people
I don't believe in anything, nothing is free
They're feeding our people the government cheese
Government cheese
Government cheese
Government

(Decline and fall)
Fall down baby
(Decline and fall)
I said fall way down now
(Decline and fall)
Come on fall down little mama
(Decline and fall)
Decline and fall