3 September 2009
Mayor Menino needs to go.
Posted by nico under: Life as we know it .
This morning, there was an article in the Metro about ’school bus safety’. The tips they offered were ideas like “do not play in the street while waiting for the bus”. Helpful as they may seem, they are not going to help our kids living in areas like Roxbury and Dorchester. Getting hit by a school bus is probably the least of the fears these families face when sending their children off to school. They have to worry about random violence like what happened to Cedirick Steele while waiting for a ride two years ago.
Although I wasn’t raised in this city, I feel that I have been here long enough to say with some authority that Mayor Menino’s time as mayor is up. He’s had nearly twenty years to govern this city yet we still have the same issues and concerns we had when he started. I have always said that for a city this size, there should be very little to no violent crime yet it continues to be a constant concern of its residents.
Boston is also a city that boasts of having top-rated universities but is not so quick to speak about their elementary and secondary public schools. We are failing our children and abandoning them as they drop out and turn to violence and other crime. Sure, it’s easy for Menino to throw numbers at us in an attempt to prove success, but when even one child is lost, we have failed.
Menino has shown through his (lack of) actions that he doesn’t care about the residents of these areas by allowing violent crime to continue. Where are the youth programs to pull these kids off of the streets? In fact, where is Menino when all of this is going down? I was actually surprised to see that he showed up to the debate last night. He spends so much time holed up in his Hyde Park compound bubble, I didn’t realize he remembered where Boston was…
It’s time to show the Mayor that we are done with the status quo. It’s time to show our youth that we will not settle for second best when it comes to them. It is time for a change and Michael Flaherty is that change.
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