Joe Crowley: “I hate to keep harkening back to my own problems back in New York. It is sometimes difficult for me to imagine, though…”

“I hate to keep harkening back to my own problems back in New York. It is sometimes difficult for me to imagine, though, how children who are being taught in hallways, are being taught in closets, or school rooms that were once bathrooms, those are really some of the problems that our teachers are faced with and our administrators in New York City. I guess if I lived in other parts of the country, I would have a hard time believing as well that that is how we can treat our children. I think I said it to the gentleman from North Carolina once I heard that Reverend Jackson had taken a number of children from inner-city schools in Chicago and brought them out to the suburbs and showed them what it was like in those suburban schools. What I thought was more important, he took those children from the suburbs and brought them back to the city to show those children what the city schools are like and what they were not afforded in those schools. I think the same can be done in my district.”