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Ridgefield Park, N.J.: While Councilman Joe Borelli makes some good points in his op-ed (“Social justice warriors’ silence on schools,” Nov. 17), he makes too many drastic miscalculations and statements based on his feelings and findings. All institutions have their unique challenges. The largest challenges in administering or managing these institutions are the oversight, input or controls exerted by those who have no idea what it is to do the job.

I point this out to make the point that DOE has as many problems as any other city or governmental agency. We have way too many figureheads and not nearly enough people who speak the truth to management for fear of losing their jobs or putting other colleagues in danger of losing their livelihood.

In our district, we just got a new principal who looks good on paper but in the six months that he’s been in the position, he has done nothing at all that is helping in the classroom. Now this is far from the only problem in my local district, but it underscores that problems don’t get solved by committee. The best looking plan on paper can and should be revised as needed when results don’t follow. The only way things will get better is if we work together. Bryan Ezring

Warning!

Howard Beach: Voters beware! Do you believe a billionaire cares about us, the working class? Billionaires like to run things and be on top. They like to tell all of us how we should live our lives. This will send a message to the world that only a billionaire can be president. This is wrong. Let’s remember that Mike Bloomberg is 77 years old and if elected will be 81 at the end of the first term. He will have a different way of looking at things that are important to us. Remember, he ignored the laws of New York and ran a third term and didn’t care one bit about it. He may do the same as president, or worse — become the King of America for life. It’s just wrong, can’t you see that?

Nick Di Pasquale

Never Bloomberg

West Orange, N.J.: Under Bloomberg: Filthy streets, $125 or more traffic tickets for waiting for someone to pull out of a parking spot, fines for someone else’s recyclables that they dropped in your garbage that’s hardly ever collected, narrower streets with islands for bikes like it’s rural Holland, more congestion, and massive condo developing (so much for climate conservation). All this when I lived in Brooklyn. A total elitist who sees no need for unions, and has a total coldness to the working and

middle class, and will make sure that they pay the lion’s share of taxes. Give me Joe Biden (decent and very experienced), Cory Booker (brilliant and articulate) or Amy Klobuchar (salt of the earth) anytime.

Legacies last

Flushing: As far as Bloomberg’s legacy: The 311 hotline is hardly a success and places an extra level of bureaucracy with no direct knowledge of the issues between the complainant and the government agency they are trying to reach. As far as Citi Bike being a success, it flooded the city with an ever-expanding pool of inexperienced bicyclists who flout all the traffic rules. Bloomberg refused to negotiate in good faith for years with the unions that represented hundreds of thousands of city workers, thereby misrepresenting the city’s actual finances and then dumping the problem in his successor’s lap.

Robert Avner

That’s not nice

Miriam Sheff

Manhattan: Is it Voicer Raymond Moran or Voicer Raymond Moron? To refuse the testimony of those patriotic public servants such as Fiona Hill and Lt. Col. Alex Vindman is unforgivable. Trump is running the government like it is his own fiefdom. He thinks he can do anything, including overturning the military on its own business. And this coming from a man who escaped military duty because he had bad feet.

Peter Goodridge

Truth to power

Bronx: To Voicer George Higgins: I call the whistleblower a true patriot of our country, who told the right people what Trump was up to. Trump is an arrogant buffoon and very corrupt. Someone should have enough guts to put him in his place. Trump is a traitor.

Doris Festante

Electoral reformist

Brooklyn: Hi Voicer Chana Schwartz: Did you forget that a woman won the 2016 election? America was ready but the wishes of the people were overturned by the outdated Electoral College. In this day and age with social media, everyone is heard and counted. But with the Electoral College, each vote is not equal. Time to eliminate the Electoral College. Are there any politicians ready to do that?

Greg Ahl

Novice investigator

Massapequa, L.I.: I’ve always wondered how to research where all our tax money goes. Every year I pay more in New York State taxes. I figure, we’re a sanctuary state. This year school tax and property tax almost doubled in the town of Oyster Bay. Who pays for the college, interpreters, the healthcare, the food? I know I couldn’t afford college. Also, what percentage of our gas tax goes to the MTA, etc.? Perhaps Voicer Diane Hombach can help.

Jean Marie Chiaramonte

Question

Bronx: To Voicer Diane Hombach: Who pays for illegals when they go to the hospital and have no medical insurance?

Timothy Sullivan

Rights and wrongs

Whitestone: Freedom of rights. Point A: It’s my right to go to school and be safe. Point B: It’s my right to shoot others in school because it’s my freedom. Point C: Whose rights are wrong? Point D: Our government must protect the rights of point A.

Sally Defelice

Bike lane to nowhere

Brooklyn: The road from Caesar’s Bay to Home Depot has been eviscerated. A hundred or so parking spots along the fence are no more. Why? An absolutely idiotic bike lane where one was not needed. The sidewalk there was wide and not used. This is a travesty for anyone using those businesses along the way. Outrageous.

Vladimir Cousteau

One star

GETTY

Bronx: I went with a friend to the Department of Motor Vehicles in the Bronx on Commerce Ave. My friend needed a new New York State picture ID. We had no problem getting the ID, the problem was paying for it. They had us sitting for an hour to pay for the ID. Payment should have been taken at the time the ID was given to us so we could get out of there and go about our business. To all who have to renew their IDs: Stay away from the Department of Motor Vehicles in the Bronx on Commerce Ave. Renew by mail and avoid the horrible service.

Michael Kaplan