tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post3558042780618049760..comments2024-03-07T15:25:26.971-05:00Comments on ICEUFT Blog: ENGEL AND BOWMAN ON EDUCATION (Updated: It looks like Bowman won and so did AOC!)Jeff Kaufmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728874415155394751noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-65612081498209630792020-06-17T15:52:10.049-04:002020-06-17T15:52:10.049-04:00My admin is leading a "morning mindfullness&q...My admin is leading a "morning mindfullness" every morning. It is a little rediclous. It can be equated to leading a morning prayer session (especially since meditation is in fact a Buddhist form of prayer). They have a captive audience and force everyone to sit through it at their morning meetings. It is done every day without any choice. Everyone hates it but everyone is scared to speak up. When people have said something, we are told basically that meditations helps everyone and they know what's best. The admin is the only one who wants this.<br /><br />We used to have a morning yoga program for the students but we were told we could not continue it, it was not helpful but meditation is okay?<br /><br />How and who could I report this too? I don't want this to continue over the summer or next year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-25944241353808355782020-06-17T15:51:06.919-04:002020-06-17T15:51:06.919-04:00Hey Oren, You made a comment on a student grade. T...Hey Oren, You made a comment on a student grade. This post is about this specific election. Please move it to a more appropriate post. I will put it up.James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-3310210773161252912020-06-17T15:26:02.603-04:002020-06-17T15:26:02.603-04:00Ok, it is June 17. A student has done zero remote...Ok, it is June 17. A student has done zero remote learning because he has a baby on the way. How is that my fault? How is that an excuse?orennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-36592130413862345322020-06-17T12:03:26.977-04:002020-06-17T12:03:26.977-04:00Well said Bronx ATR. Well said Bronx ATR. James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-75543726625764294002020-06-17T11:58:37.466-04:002020-06-17T11:58:37.466-04:00Bowman has aggressively campaigned the electorate ...Bowman has aggressively campaigned the electorate that votes. (I’ve had at least fifteen robo calls from him.) Engel was recently unknowingly over heard on TV requesting to speak at rally and being turned away. He pressed the issue and said he wouldn’t care except its an election year. It’s been played incessantly since and Bowman jumped all over it. I don’t know enough about Bowman as a principal - if Engel was smart he’d investigate and publicize any negative findings of Bowman’s tenure as principal. Without that, Bowman wins BIG in November. People want positive change, not the status quo. I can’t think of anything that Engel has done - he only seems to appear during an election year. If Randi is endorsing Engel, I’ll volunteer for Bowman (as long as he wasn’t a Leadership Academy Principal).Bronx ATRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08787717237141454628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-90233631610397269072020-06-17T11:55:13.191-04:002020-06-17T11:55:13.191-04:00UFT on wrong side as usual. UFT on wrong side as usual. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-51138370200875465822020-06-17T11:19:56.696-04:002020-06-17T11:19:56.696-04:00American Prospect:
House Foreign Affairs Committe...American Prospect:<br /><br />House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Eliot Engel’s three-decade tenure in Congress may be coming to an end.<br /><br />According to new polling from Data for Progress, middle school principal and progressive congressional candidate Jamaal Bowman has cracked open a 10-point lead in his primary bid to unseat Eliot Engel, the 16-term incumbent in New York’s 16th district. In a survey conducted between June 11 and June 15, Bowman showed a commanding advantage, holding a 41-31 margin over Engel, with 27 percent undecided. <br /><br />That surprisingly decisive advantage adds even more momentum to Bowman’s campaign, which in recent weeks has been designated as “surging” by various news outlets, including this one. It’s also a sign of remarkable strength at this stage of an election cycle. Two years ago, no public poll showed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez within 30 points of establishment Congressman Joe Crowley, until Election Night. But Bowman is well ahead in the only poll released thus far in the race’s final stretch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-45835923261294723182020-06-17T10:10:31.405-04:002020-06-17T10:10:31.405-04:00Bowman was a member of the Independence Party and ...Bowman was a member of the Independence Party and wasn't a Democrat until 2018. If this is the great hope of the left, they may find him lacking in the end. I very much doubt Scaresdale is going to vote for Bowman. This district covers part of the Bronx and Southern Westchester. It should be a fascinating race. No surprise the UFT is with the corporate Democrat. It is who they are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-88679584113257971282020-06-17T07:13:21.183-04:002020-06-17T07:13:21.183-04:00The phrase "All politics is local" may b...The phrase "All politics is local" may be making a come back. If the people in the 16th get out the vote and toss the incumbent in favor of the progressive upstart the headline in The Newspaper of Record will proclaim a shift to AOC. The conservative tabloids will do the socialist scare. The UFT will endorse either incumbent next go around. The phrase, often attributed to Tip O'Neill is down to two things: winning primaries, then working the back rooms to bring it on home. Eliot Engel's fate may be decided by the come back of the phrase that may reflect more than a shift to the New-New-Left of the fake-left and to more socialism, it may be a political engagement at the grassroots, a green deal and the green shoots that have sprung up over the graves of so many, so may victims of the pandemic in the Bronx. The rich, the Catholics, the Jewish constituency, folk up in the high Rye, and in what they still think of, in the unwoke Liberal and Neo-Liberal and Neocon neighborhoods, where the NYC author, Thomas Pynchon named his villain, the Arch-Plutocrat, Scarsdale Vibe, as "non-partisan democratic" Scarsdale, may be in for a reckoning now that the pandemic has exposed how the other half's vote may count and that war and business as usual are not local. Shelleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-80190467107596437032020-06-16T21:37:16.896-04:002020-06-16T21:37:16.896-04:00Since I am Zionist (even if I do not support Bibi-...Since I am Zionist (even if I do not support Bibi-Likud), Bowman is a bit of a worry, but Engel is a dinosaur. Dems control House so<br />I think Zoe Lofgen (CA) will assume his Chairmanship. OK.<br />But look at that district--- it is not anything close to what AOC has... <br />Next Mayor of NYC needs to be black or Hispanic--- but able and smart please. DeBlasio should resign. <br />Anyway--- Bowman might upset but not likely. Think Scarsdale and Rye. (I did not see Nadler and Schumer endorsements on this...?)<br />TY, Neal <br />NY NY <br />Medellin<br />IsraelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-76922513147865873272020-06-16T21:10:04.008-04:002020-06-16T21:10:04.008-04:00Why does the deranged left always practice censors... Why does the deranged left always practice censorship when they can't win an argument with logic? Pathetic and weak. And now unfortunately this very sick group is going way Beyond censorship. These crazies will burn your whole city down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-69978330670020511262020-06-16T19:11:27.034-04:002020-06-16T19:11:27.034-04:00Uft backed means I must do the opposite. They taug...Uft backed means I must do the opposite. They taught me well. waitingforsupporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07390407586885648546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-60842852781866170322020-06-16T19:03:45.934-04:002020-06-16T19:03:45.934-04:00I'd like to know how he feels about teachers i...I'd like to know how he feels about teachers in the ATR pool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-16595937681678414042020-06-16T18:56:01.157-04:002020-06-16T18:56:01.157-04:00A. It doesnt matter
B. Who cares
C. Dues well s...A. It doesnt matter<br />B. Who cares<br />C. Dues well spentEricnoreply@blogger.com