tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post4329308620559625455..comments2024-03-07T15:25:26.971-05:00Comments on ICEUFT Blog: Shifting the Burden of Proof and Proving a Negative: How the Fundamental Structure of Tenure Has Been EvisceratedJeff Kaufmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728874415155394751noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-90779159882484600732012-02-22T11:26:59.383-05:002012-02-22T11:26:59.383-05:00If anyone here votes for Obama you are delusional-...If anyone here votes for Obama you are delusional-HE above all others is responsible for this. HE, who's taken more Wall St. money than any other candidate. HE, who is responsible for NO MAJOR ARRESTS OR INVESTIGATIONS OF WALL ST CRIMINALS. And finally HE that has COMPLETELY GUTTED PUBLIC EDUCATION. <br /><br />If you refuse to vote for the GOP< then VOCALLY sit this next election out, and tell your fellow teachers to do the same. If every teacher in the country does so-he will lose. Look, on the major issues, there is NO DIFFERENCE between the Red vs. the Blue team-NONE! And what Junior Cuomo just did is no different than what Walker of Wisconsin did last year-destroyed collective bargaining. VOTE NO ON OBAMA !!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-83750505465335530422012-02-21T20:01:10.682-05:002012-02-21T20:01:10.682-05:00Anon 3:39
What is significant about your post is ...Anon 3:39<br /><br />What is significant about your post is that it would make no sense to anyone who has not taught for a significant amount of time. You are exactly right. In the coming weeks all predictions will be revealed and will prove correct in the coming years.<br /><br />16 years speaking<br />Will probably leave this system for another one<br />Love teaching but want no part of NYC anymore<br /><br />Ps: I think there is more to this with unity/UFT<br />Perhaps they see the writing on the wall in terms of the demographics of teaching and not just the political winds<br />Of course they are in part responsible for the new demographics...it's all about creating a new normal...soon no old guard will be left so the UFT figures join them in order to stay alive...tragicAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-56000330982215147562012-02-20T06:06:41.303-05:002012-02-20T06:06:41.303-05:00with half of the teachers quiting in 5 years and h...with half of the teachers quiting in 5 years and half of the remaining being denied tenure, would you want your children to follow in their footsteps and become nyc teachers?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-67272419989829559522012-02-19T19:24:26.139-05:002012-02-19T19:24:26.139-05:00Maybe you're right. If you're not going to...Maybe you're right. If you're not going to fight them might as well get out. They just feed off people who are afraid --both the DOE and their partners the UFT.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-44728467821248221472012-02-18T17:38:48.748-05:002012-02-18T17:38:48.748-05:00Well done article. Well written. Good analysis. Bu...Well done article. Well written. Good analysis. But it gives absolutely no hope. <br /><br />If one haven't done so already, it is long past time to come up with plans to get out of this sick, toxic and absurd profession ASAP.<br /><br />Save some sense of self respect! Unless, of course you enjoy groveling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-36308891039716572992012-02-18T15:39:05.395-05:002012-02-18T15:39:05.395-05:00This evaluation will most likely open up a Pandora...This evaluation will most likely open up a Pandora's Box from hell and beyond that many on the outside will not see. Chapter Leaders in high school beware! There will be major calls from the rank and file for fair and balanced scheduling of regents classes and CTTT/ITT classes. Many teachers are usually pigeon holed into these classes for years in a row because they work "well." Graduation and credit rates may fall because a teacher will most likely attempt to safeguard these evaluation exams scores by speaking with thier own classroom evaluation of the student - in other words - "Hey, of course he or she didn't show growth on the exam, the kid did little homework, failed many tests and was absent 15 days - so I failed him. My own evaluation backs up the state's who used their own." This will cause conflict with the APs and Principal who want the 80 percent passing rate in all classes. Telephone bills for the school will grow ten fold as teachers will make sure they now record and call for even the slightest infraction by a student as possible future proof of their competence. This may now threaten the teachers reputation he or she desperately needs in the classroom to sell the material they are teaching. "Ahh, Ms. N calls my house now everytime I come in 30 seconds late." OR "It's the first homework I missed out of 15, you call my house for that?" I think you get the point. There are many more. The teachers who read this blog know that. Would love to hear more examples of how this silly, destructive and in my opinion impossible system can be installed without hurting truly effective teachers and the students they teach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-25948951757253648072012-02-18T12:19:46.519-05:002012-02-18T12:19:46.519-05:00Decertify the uft.
It might be the only answer.Decertify the uft.<br />It might be the only answer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-61766320677204969502012-02-18T09:45:02.296-05:002012-02-18T09:45:02.296-05:00And how nice that Unity gets to choose the 13%. If...And how nice that Unity gets to choose the 13%. If you open your mouth to the dist rep watch out. The DOE and UFT can truly collaborate on getting rid of trouble makers/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com