Saturday, December 23, 2017

DON'T EXPECT MUCH TO CHANGE WITH A NEW CHANCELLOR

If you can stand one more story on Chancellor Carmen Farina's retirement, here goes. Some of you are hopeful that the streak of of anti-teacher Chancellors might finally be ending when Farina leaves. Here is a comment from Mayor Bill de Blasio's press conference, where Farina officially announced she was leaving, that should give all cause for concern:

"I'm thrilled with what Carmen's achieved and I want to just deepen what she has started, de Blasio said on Thursday. "Am I looking for something we don't have? No."

Could this mayor possibly be more out of touch with the school system he controls?

It looks like it will be more of the same so I'm not optimistic about the next Chancellor. Are you?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bill is just tooting his own horn in regard to universal pre-k and all the graduation numbers. Farina is leaving because Bill is pushing her out. I am not optimistic but I am not pessimistic. The ball is really in the hands of the UFT now that they are going to negotiate a new contract. If things get more shitty, it will be on the hands of the UFT and they will pay the price come Janus.

Anonymous said...

What do you expect from DiBLAHsio? He's just an incompetent, lazy, do-nothing,show-up-to-work-late, nap-a-day, take -off -every -Friday,
sit -on -the -porch and smoke pot, shake -down -every -one -he meets- for a donation, joke of a mayor.

Anonymous said...

Yes, Farina was a douche, but she was/is a figurehead like every other stooge in the position. The problem is deeper than her. The polices in place since the 2005 contract need to go. The legal department needs to be trimmed. More importantly, the whole attitude of an anti-teacher agenda needs to be eliminated. Many people on this blog are mentioning how Rudy Crew was the last good guy we had at Tweed and I agree. Maybe, just maybe, if a decent person is put in place we can return some sanity to the teaching profession in NYC. However, as the poster above wrote, the contract is really the backbone of our working conditions and that is the responsibility of the UFT. Gonna be an interesting year for sure!

Anonymous said...

Don't kid yourself. Bill Gates and his friends are controlling everything behind the scenes. This is a movement that will need legal action. We have the law on our side but are not using it. That and a million people with pitchforks.

Anonymous said...

Hard to tell the difference between the uft honchos and the department of education goons. Ever notice how close some of the higher ups are so chummy with their counterparts across the isle? Or maybe they are one in the same. For me the fact that many of the incompetent, lack of education classroom experience, leaderless academy folks still in administrative position is still going to continue. No matter who is chosen as chancellor, the uft will kiss up and tout their liable statistics with the excuse being they are protecting public education. I do agree with many that Janus will change that calculus dramatically.

to the barricades

Anonymous said...

The UFT lies to its members. Here's some examples.
1. They give incorrect interpretations of the contract as if you don't know how to read. Then assume you are too stupid to read.
2. At step 2 etc. they tell you not to talk. That they will take care of it. Misleading the member. you should always speak up for yourself.
3. Try to redirect you and mislead you like you're five y.o. One guy actually highlighted the wrong part of the contract and kept pointing to it. He thought I wouldn't notice he was misleading me.
4. Will tell you that the Step 2 officer is reeeeally nasty and be careful not to get in trouble. And that he's so nasty that even the UFT rep is afraid of him. How stupid.
5. Representative talks to step 2 officer like they're old friends right in front if you. This is done to intimidate you. Yes, the representative wants to intimidate the member.
6. Approved a rubric that is clearly subjective and then offers almost no help when you get an unfair observation.
7. Allows the DOE to bring phony charges to send you to the ATR factory, oh I mean 3020a. When they should have taken care of the problem before it gets that far. Thereby helping the DOE to violate your due process rights.
8. Eliminating the right to grieve most letters , thereby paving the road to 3020a.
9. Giving incorrect information to members. Such as not to file a PERB complaint. When the PERB complaint is the best way to deal with the problem. In fact we should also be filing PERB complaints against the UFT as well.
10. Calling the UFT office to get an explanation of the MOSL formula and bring told to look online. And no one there can answer any questions about it. Just give you another phone number where you get the same lame answer.
Are you convinced yet that the UFT and DOE are one and the same?

Anonymous said...

I am convinced. One in the same.

Anonymous said...

The biggest stupidity is ever expecting a pro- teacher chancellor. By the time they reach that level even if they have had an educator Background, they have completely forgotten what it feels like to be in front of a classroom

Anonymous said...

UFT is in bed with the DOE, but teachers are opening their eyes.