Mr. Weiner suggested that the emotional debate over charter schools was overblown and a distraction, since only 56,000 students attend charter schools in New York City, while more than 1.1 million attend the city's public schools.
No one is much willing to listen to its defenders, who point out, for instance, that higher default rates are inevitable given the higher-risk populations being served, or that state schools also receive enormous taxpayer subsidies that just don't happen to be as obvious, or that the allegations hurled at the for-profit schools are sometimes overblown or unfair.
Increasingly, they are graduating into a world of overblown expectation and debt.Between 1996 and 2008 private law schools' median tuition fees almost doubled, to just under $34,000 a year.
In 1999 in New York City, dozens of teachers and two principals were accused of cheating on reading and math exams in 32 schools, though later investigation suggested reports were overblown.
Stanford is becoming such a — not a trade school for tech companies, I think that's overblown — but you can tell it's in Silicon valley.
David Thweatt, the superintendent, would not disclose how many armed employees patrol school hallways, but he said fears of increased liability were overblown.
Additionally, the notion that any public school option would be too dangerous for Sasha and Malia is overblown.
An unabashed libertarian, he has argued that greed is good for the economy; that environmentalists are "scaremongers" with vastly overblown fears of global warming and pollution, and, even, that seat belts in school buses are a waste of money.
It gets overblown in the third act as the "be yourself" message sinks into a quagmire of after-school specialness, but again, I'm not exactly the target audience here.
He is an entertainer of the old school - which he confirmed on Friday night by concluding his two-hour set with an overblown showbiz singalong accompanied by the City of London Choir.
