Monday, August 03, 2020

NY POST COVERS UFT SOLIDARITY PETITION CALLING FOR CARRANZA RESIGNATION

Selim Algar was shown the UFT Solidarity petition calling on Chancellor Richard Carranza to resign and featured it in his latest story in the NY Post.

The first part:
Another teachers union group has come out swinging against a return to classrooms in September — and is calling for the resignation of Chancellor Richard Carranza.

Citing unresolved health concerns and a general lack of preparedness, the United Federation of Teachers’ Solidarity Caucus wants Carranza to step down with the new academic year now weeks away.

“The Mayor and the Chancellor have consistently failed to provide that leadership and instead, continue to create confusion and chaos despite the urging of government representatives, multiple parent and community groups, the teachers union, and other advocates for public education, to work towards a solution that puts the health and safely of our most vulnerable citizens, our children, above and beyond any political pressure to ‘reopen’ and ultimately putting ALL at risk for exposure to COVID-19,” the group said.


The petition has over 500 names on it. Many of them are teachers who are not afraid to call for their boss to resign. I signed and hope many more will jump on board.

26 comments:

Anonymous said...

It took about 1 day. The largest school district in the state reported Sunday that 260 employees have tested positive for the coronavirus or are in quarantine because of possible exposure as they prepare for the new school year.

Anonymous said...

(CNN)Georgia's largest school district has confirmed that around 260 employees have either tested positive for Covid-19 or have been exposed.

The Gwinnett County School District (GCPS) employees won't be returning to school just yet as districts across the country continue to adjust their back-to-school plans to prevent the spread of the virus.

Anonymous said...

Must be fake news. Let's go in and die for DOE.

Anonymous said...

CNN Opinion

The irony of the situation can be seen in the school board meetings and parent input sessions that I'm invited to attend. They're held remotely because no one would think to pack dozens of people into a room together as Covid-19 cases continue to rise. Unless we're talking about students in a classroom, that is. Somehow, for the good of the economy, we're all expected to walk this delicate tightrope, where maintaining health and safety looks one way for the entire population and another for students and teachers.
People refuse to wear masks during a 30-minute shopping excursion. Is this really a battle we expect teachers and staff to engage in on buses and narrow hallways and classrooms? These are unfair burdens to put on school staff. My family hasn't come out of quarantine even though our state has "opened up" and we surely won't do it in the fall. Isolation is bad for kids, yes. But, right now, I'm far more worried about complications from a deadly virus. So are teachers, who are begging districts to pursue remote-only learning in the fall.

Anonymous said...

Yes, adults in amusement parks refuse to wear the masks too.

Anonymous said...

I can’t bring Covid-19 home to my husband. He has severe asthma. This is not a case of the sniffles.” I will not enter a building. Period.

Anonymous said...

But we should have 1.1 million students without masks and 200k staff members on buses and trains and in close quarters...Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. MSGE, -0.28% said Tuesday that it has cancelled this year's "Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, citing uncertainties associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The company said all tickets for the 2020 show will be refunded, while tickets for the 2021 sale are now on sale. "We are disappointed for everyone involved with the show, as well as for the many fans who make the Christmas Spectacular a cherished part of their holiday tradition," the company said in a statement.

Anonymous said...

Typical doe. Typical scam. Summer school fraud as expected. This is from a supervisor.

"It is crunch time and stragglers are beginning to log into their classes and have questions. Please double check that you have added your contact information and Zoom link on all of your ilearn pages."

Let me understand, we are in week 5 of 6, there are 6 instructional days left out of 30, students will now start to log in? And they can still pass?

Anonymous said...

When Israel reopened its schools, "the virus rippled out to the students’ homes and then to other schools and neighborhoods, ultimately infecting hundreds of students, teachers and relatives.

Anonymous said...

mayor blames increased shootings on covid. Huh? Expect him to care for our health?

Anonymous said...

The coronavirus is so real and so deadly that D.C mayor @MayorBowser
has exempted herself and all government employees (state and federal) from mask mandates which stipulate that masks must be worn everywhere, always.

Anonymous said...

"The idea that this may be an exercise in futility I think is becoming increasingly real to me," says
@drsanjaygupta
as some schools make plans to bring kids back school. "...The numbers will go up." http://cnn.it/33ABM8b

Anonymous said...

We are now closing in on 20,000 medical accommodations requested. Another well done plan.

TJL said...

9:59 it was the same BS in the Spring. Crunch time for whom? People AWOL in March, April and May, who you know for a fact had phones to boot, and appeared in June asking what they could do to pass and then saying it was a lot of work. No kidding, it's a lot of work if you don't show up for 3 months (or in this case 5 weeks). And then admins complain that you gave too many NX.

Prehistoric pedagogue said...

Traditionally, teachers are in favor of anything that will open the public minds and close the public schools

Anonymous said...

Good luck in September. Like a well oiled machine. Feel safe?

Mayor de Blasio's health commissioner resigns in the middle of the pandemic. #COVID19
@EMPIREREPORTNY
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Breaking: NYC Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot has resigned. @NY1

Anonymous said...

If NYC's Health Commissioner can't trust the
@NYCMayor
's handling of #COVID19 and resigned in protest, should we trust our mayor to reopen schools safely?

Anonymous said...

What is your source, basis for your statement that " twenty thousand'
Accommodation requests have actually be filed???????????

Anonymous said...

I applied. It says what number they are up to...

Anonymous said...

I would like to know the source basis for 11:06 statement 'We are now closing in on 20,000 medical accommodations requested. Another well done plan."

THE CITY HAS BEEN MUTE AND SILENT ON THIS!!!!! Do we have a confirmed number on how many teachers have actually filed electronically post July 15? Yes or no?

Anonymous said...

In addition, for those that applied for a medical accommodation has there been a response?

Until you work in a NYC school it is not clear as to why there is such concern over safety.


Anonymous said...

Thank you to Tuesday, August 04, 2020 6:24:00 PM for your prompt and courteous reply.

That would seem to be a reasonable inference , but sequential numbering might be too functional and organized for the DOE :)

My honing in on this is more that academic couriosity, if there is truly that volume that is enough to make this remote only for all , just due to logistic staffing constants. They won't have enough licensed live bodies to be in the classrooms.

would 20K applications with PDF attempted uploaded in a short time frame work with the nycdoe IT limitations.
SESIS sure could not handle this.

WILL ALL REQUESTS BE RUBBER STAMPED APPROVED?
HOW COULD THE CLERKS REVIEW 20,000 applications with supporting documentation?

Anonymous said...

Even 10,000 would be difficult to handle.

Anonymous said...

Do you mean "handle" to process and review or handle to open in person?

Anonymous said...

I applied for accommodations and I didn't see anything stating how many cases were filed. Are you saying the case number on the receipt is the number of cases filed? If so, mine is over 13K and that was last week. No answer yet.

Anonymous said...

No answer yet either.