If anyone is really interested in fixing, the New York City School's, they could start by cleaning house at Tweed headquarters. Chancellor Carmen Farina made her biggest mistake by keeping most of Mayor Bloomberg's appointments in place at the Central Department of Education.
Next on the agenda if we one day get a pro-public education Chancellor is to end the war on teachers by reigning in what are clearly a set of really horrible administrators in many of the schools.
Sue Edelman has a story in the NY Post on an assistant principal from Brooklyn named Diana Rendon who was caught on camera boozed up, falling off a bed in a hotel during a school retreat. This 33 year old assistant principal has the power to ruin careers of teachers through subjective observations using the Danielson Framework.
Edelman writes:
Staffers said the images were brought to light because Rendon, despite her fun-loving behavior, was a bullying administrator who created a “culture of fear.”
At the end of the 2014-15 school year, some 25 teachers — nearly half the staff — left the school.
“It was posed as an optional weekend of professional development,” one employee said of the retreat. “But if you refused to go you would be retaliated against in the form of negative observations.”
People like this need to be stopped if there is any chance of restoring teacher confidence and moving the school system ahead with what it most lacks in too many places: integrity.
Disgraceful.
ReplyDeleteBut wait, we pay $1300 each, times 80 thousand, plus all the paras and school aides and the uft doesnt stop it?
DeleteFariña is a big disappointment for keeping these abusive and bad principals.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day,Farina herself had a reputation as a tyranical and abusive principal who created a climate of fear. Is it any wonder that admins throughout the city are modeling her?
ReplyDeleteMy own principal (with 30+years) told me off the record that she's the worst chancellor we've ever had in NYC.
Don't be fooled by these warm wishing emails from grandma.
I could care less that this AP was a big boozer and liked to party. However, it will be a cold day in Hell before any AP tries to get me to go away for a weekend of "team building" and not get paid for it.
ReplyDeleteAt least you draw the line somewhere. Don't go and be observed ineffective Monday morning.
ReplyDeleteAmy Arundell at UFT Executive Board meeting on why UFT loves more and longer evaluations:
ReplyDelete"Amy Arundell—Update on evaluation.
We’re not interested in reducing number of for stakes observations. Principals are. Does everyone remember drive bys with S and U? We wanted to overrule people giving judgments based on little data. We want to hold admin accountable. States that answers my question."
http://nyceducator.com/2017/01/uft-executive-board-january-9-2017.html
Exactly as I said in previous posting, UFT says more observations are better because its harder for an AP to rate you poorly.
ReplyDeleteNo it is not.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, thats what we pay $60 a check for...
ReplyDeleteThievery.
ReplyDeleteThey are drunk with power both the UFT and DOE.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Mulgrew for finally marrying the guidance counselor he was fucking in a classroom, who was brought up on many charges, but managed, through connections, to stay on payroll.
ReplyDeleteColorado police are investigating a possible hate crime after a woman was sexually assaulted outside a mall Friday morning.
ReplyDeleteThe incident happened at the Mission Viejo Plaza Shopping Center in Aurora, Colo., police said.
Two black men allegedly attacked the 23-year-old woman outside the mall as they yelled racial slurs at her before fleeing the scene, KCNC-TV reported.
The victim did not know her attackers, police said.
Is the guy with the racial issues going to copy and paste every story where a black person is involved here? Go away please. We know where you are coming from and feel for you.
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