The ICEUFT blog has prided itself on being a free speech zone but some of the comments are getting just plain nasty. When students google me, I risk being embarrassed.
Therefore, we will start taking down over the top racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ comments and other stuff that is just plain offensive and often has absolutely nothing to do with the posting it is commenting on.
Try to remember most of us are teachers and adults. Please stay on topic to the extent possible.
I'll try to monitor a little more closely.
Thank you.
The end of free speech. Thanks James you and your liberal friends call it hate speech but many of us call it the truth. Wake up my liberal foolish friend. I thought I'd never see the day that you want to censor people talking about how certain groups in society commit more crime and might be against gay marriage. We all know the truth but some of us are sick of the politically correct bs. Yes trump might be bad for education but I will let you in on a little secret education is almost dead in nyc. Fake grades fake graduation fake Union. Have a happy thanksgiving
ReplyDeleteYep, we need to stay on topic here. Does ANYBODY have any info on the ongoing UFT/DOE evaluation deal? They have 5 weeks to come up with a new evaluation. Hardly any teachers are even aware that we are about to get a new evaluation system here in NYC. Anybody with any thoughts of how it might look, please chime in!
ReplyDeleteSomething is rotten in Denmark!
ReplyDeleteHow is an evaluation system get made after 4 months of the school year?
Would you even consider to board an airplane that was being built and planed for completion 4 hours after takeoff?
As such, the new evaluation system is an obscene gesture delivered simultaneously by two highly ineffective organizations fornicating with each other with a design to at once destroy the teaching profession, public schools and satiate their unbridled arrogance and avarice.
Something is rotten in Denmark!
ReplyDeleteHow is an evaluation system made after 4 months of the school year?
Would you even consider to board an airplane that was being built and planned for completion 4 hours after takeoff?
As such, the new evaluation system is an obscene gesture delivered simultaneously by two highly ineffective organizations fornicating with each other with a design to at once destroy the teaching profession, public schools and satiate their unbridled arrogance and avarice.
The UFT/DOE have had the better part of a year to come up with a new evaluation deal and they knew all along that the deadline is January 1st. There are so many unanswered questions in regards to the new evaluation deal. (Will it use Danielson? how many observations are to be done? How many observations are formal vs informal? Will be be using outside evaluators? Will observations that have already been done since September be used?) It is beyond crazy that nobody is really talking about this. The chapter leader at my school knows no more than I. That makes sense since this new evaluation is being done behind closed doors. Hoping for a nice Christmas present in the form of a decent and fair evaluation system, Let's hope the UFT does not get us coal instead,
ReplyDeleteYou're in pretty bad company with eliminating free speech, like the Nazis. It's a slippery slope when we regulate speech.
ReplyDeleteJust remember, difference between racism and facts.
ReplyDeleteYou are so correct about what I am angry about. Making fun of Randi's sexuality is in very poor taste. You guys are faster than me but I will somehow catch up. and cut this nonsense out.
ReplyDeleteMessage to the racists and homophobics - why don't you start your own blog and exercise your free speech instead of doing it on the backs of those who have the guts to identify themselves? Gutless cowards like the real Nazis.
ReplyDeleteSorry - I clicked the wrong button above -- it's Norm.
ReplyDeleteJames - turn on comment modification -- these people complain about what kids say to them -- they deserve what they get from kids who they see as dirt. They are a disgrace to the teaching profession and the attacks coming on us are not unrelated to complaints about racist teachers.
ReplyDeleteWow James are you going to let someone call people nazi's? That comment should have been removed as per your guidelines. Now if I called a gay person a pervert would that be banned or protected speech. And for you ken you need to work for farina she loves blaming teachers. And just because some of us state the facts about how certain groups behave not based on skin color but the content of character we are called racists. May God Blees you all and have a safe and happy thanksgiving
ReplyDeleteThat comment called me a Nazi. I can take it and laugh it off. I am going out of my way trying to be fair. I really don't monitor the comments all day. I'm too busy. When I get home and look, it is an eye opener.
DeleteThat fool Ed notes guy called some people nazis
DeleteForget color. If a student, 18 years old, has 37 arrests, what would you call him?
ReplyDeleteI stopped reading this blog, because the hateful comments.
ReplyDeleteIt is time to tell those who don't want to teach to leave. clearly there are people on here who do not belong in the profession
Or maybe the civil, college graduate, masters degree teacher, should have a better quality of student. This is my question tho the readers...If your child was 20 years old in high school, had a parole office, had been arrested dozens of time, was cursing and threatening teachers, would you be proud of them? Why is the city college ready rate 30%?
ReplyDeleteWhat's hateful about telling the truth. Who are you to tell someone to change professions. We need honest people to keep reminding the foolish liberals that the policies of liberalism have failed our students and parents. These policies have created the fake grades fake graduation rates and government dependency. You like apples.... You know the rest. God Bless and Happy Thanksgiving. I hope James doesn't censor me.
ReplyDeleteThey probably think its cute when a student no shows for 3 months, shows up in January and says "I can pass the 3rd marking period and you have to pass me." And then when you say its cumulative, you have too many absences, they tell you that you will be dead in 4 hours.
ReplyDelete3:57, i appreciate some of your observations. why not also contribute to the uft facebook page, under an alias?
ReplyDeleteJust to chime in, I have walked into schools, first day, students dont know me from a whole in the wall, and they do nothing but disrespect, and take advantage. They walk in and out, students who dont belong give me fake names, or just ignore me and sit down, blasting music, recording whats going on in class...That is hardly respect. i understand some of you dont like what is said here, but that is really letting the inmates run the asylum. I think we have to give teachers, cops the benefit of the doubt. You guys are acting like these kids, in forever failing schools, come in, take out the notebook, do the do now, raise their hand, try really hard, etc. It is far from that. You say put the cell away and get greeted with get the fuck out of my face, you dont pay my phone bill bitch...and in the black schools, nigga is said every 5 seconds, but somehow that is totally fine.
ReplyDeleteHow do two or more wrongs ever make a right?
ReplyDeleteWhat are the 2 wrongs? The only wrong is the student action. Not only action, but history and pattern.
ReplyDeleteDon't see two wrongs just one big f-in wrong!!!!its the kids the kids the kids not the teachers fault. Say it Ed notes guy you fool of all fools. I walk into class and ask not tell the students to please put away the cell phones and start the assignment and am called a mother fucker suck my dick and worse. Almost everyday this happens. And to the fool who says it must be because I dislike the students and that's why the curse at me and they must sense it you are totally wrong. These kids are crazy and we need to stop pretending stop defending and stop the excuses before we raise another generation of dependent citizens. Wake up nyc most educated. Thank you
ReplyDeleteAttacking the kids is wrong as is attacking the teachers. Their behavior is totally wrong but calling them names is wrong too.
ReplyDeleteNot attacking anyone James. If you prefer instead of using the word crazy we could use a more politically correct term. Just a waste of time trying to reason with liberals. Good luck they are all yours
ReplyDeleteRather liberals than Trump any day of the week.
ReplyDeleteU funny Ann 2:36
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