Mario Cuomo told the conventioneers that you couldn’t do “anything better for a poor kid than what you did for a poor kid from New York City called Colin Powell, and that is give him a good public school.” Here’s a way to do better: Why not let a poor kid choose the nearest parochial or private school — you know, just like the ones Cuomo and Bill Clinton and Al Gore and Tipper Gore attended (never mind Chelsea Clinton, and Karenna Gore, and Sarah Gore, and Kristin Gore, and Al Gore, Jr.) .
Both Bill and Mario went to Catholic schools called St. John’s. Cuomo studied at St. John’s Prep in Brooklyn for ten years, while young Bill attended second and third grades at St. John’s Catholic school in Hot Springs. Dale Drake, a close relative of the president, has said that Bill’s experience at St. John’s “was the real foundation of his education. The sisters said he was a real achiever. That seemed to start him on his way.” Funny he never mentions it. Funny Mario doesn’t bring it up either.
Not so funny when you consider that the National Education Association sent the largest single bloc of delegates and alternates to the convention — 405 in all, an 11 percent increase since 1992.
