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Waiting List for Kindergartens put Manhattan Parents on Edge
As a growing collection of Manhattan’s most celebrated public elementary schools notify neighborhood parents that their children have been placed on waiting lists for kindergarten slots, middle-class vitriol (刻薄话, 辱骂之词) against the school system—and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg—is mounting.
Parents are venting their frustrations in e-mail messages and phone calls to the mayor, local politicians and the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein. Some plan a rally on the steps of City Hall for next Wednesday afternoon ("Kindergartners Are Not Refugees!" proclaims a flier), and some are taking it upon themselves to scour the city for potential classroom space.
The outpouring of anger comes as state lawmakers consider whether to renew mayoral control of the city school system, which expires in two months, and Mr. Bloomberg is seeking a third term in part on his education record.
A. renewing mayoral control of the city school system
B. propagandizing for the election and the control of schools
C. exaggerating the crisis of New York while hiding the prosperity
D. displaying delaying, lacking of focus and high-handed attitude