De Blasio can’t explain why mom was told to pull ‘smart’ kid from struggling school

Mayor Bill de Blasio looked to the heavens Thursday when asked about a Queens mom who said she was told by teachers at a low-performing school to yank her smart son when she asked how to improve the student’s education.

“I’m hoping and praying and believing that no New York City public school official would ever say that to a parent,” de Blasio said during his daily press conference about the public school teachers’ eyebrow-raising advice. “They would say, ‘How can we fix the situation for you here, let’s work together to do it, that’s the right way to do it,’ and that’s what we expect of our educators.”