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  • 2017-05-02 (xsd:date)
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  • Is Samantha Bee's Husband Fighting to Keep Poor People Out of His Child's School? (en)
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  • In April 2017, after Samantha Bee's Not the White House Correspondents Dinner television event in which the comedian argued for the importance of a free press (while throwing a few jabs at President Donald Trump and his administration), web sites such as the Daily Wire and Yes I'm Right published stories about the former Daily Show star's husband Jason Jones, who allegedly was fighting to keep poor black kids out of his children's school: Both articles lifted from a piece originally published by Slate in June 2016 about the rezoning of public schools in New York City. Despite the fact that the Slate article was nearly a year old at that point (and the issue has been resolved), web sites presented the story as if Jones were currently fighting the rezoning plan: The web sites also mischaracterized what Jones actually said, in the process omitting a crucial portion of his quote. In June 2016, the New York City's Department of Education proposed a plan which would have had P.S. 452, where the Daily Show correspondents' children attended school, move sixteen blocks south: Several parents spoke out against the proposed plan for a variety of reasons. One argued that the move would make the commute unbearable, another accused the city of playing musical chairs with their children's education, while yet another said that the move would deprive children of the benefits of attending school in their own neighborhood (such as walking to school with friends). However, because this proposed plan involved moving the school next to a housing project and adding a more diverse group of students to the school, some critics characterized the plan's opponents as classist or racist. This is the characterization against which Jones spoke out during a public hearing in June 2016: It is true that Jones' children were affected by a school zoning issue in New York City in 2016. Although ethnicity and financial status were both issues in the debate, it is false to say that the Comedy Central star was fighting at any point to keep black kids out of his children's school. (en)
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