The following piece came to us from our Forest Hills High School insider.
For more, see the Queens Chronicle.
There was a huge anti Ben Sherman rally in the cafeteria of Forest Hills HS Thursday afternoon. Parents, politicians, and teachers all denounced Principal Sherman at this big UFT dinner party.
The headliners were Melinda Katz and Karen Koslowitz. There was one other state legislator and two additional staffers from other politicians offices. There must have been about 500 people there.
Politicians were very supportive. The teachers made fiery speeches and parents also spoke.
Borough President Melinda Katz----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We know you've been fighting the fight, we know you've been bullied.
We didn't want you to think you were on your own.
I said to the Chancellor, "look," we've never had a problem with Forest Hills before. "You have to wonder, 'why now,' what's the difference."
Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I've been a resident of Forest Hills for 56 years. My two daughters went here. ....I've been reading the paper. and I am heart sick (about what is happening. We simply do not deserve what is happening now, over the last two years.
We're here to help you.
Are all the allegations we read in the paper true?
The crowd thunders back, YES!!!!!!
Then she said something barely audible that sounded like, that's all I need to hear.
Assemblyman Dan Rosenthal-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Forest Hills High School is one of the best and the largest and we want to keep it that way.
We are determined to make sure things get settled peacefully.
23 comments:
As an atr I rotated into Sherman’s former school. He was a big liberal blame the cops and white privilege tyoe of principal. They even had a Trayvon Martin day where the kids wore hoodies and denounced whitey! Not kidding
Its always about blaming Trump for everything. Just because they're afraid to make amerce great again they let those kids do whatever
Adam C Bergstein, here, Chapter Chair at Forest Hills high school. I think we also need to thank the UFT for organizing this event and making sure that so many elected officials from Queens came together to show their support for the school community. Just saying.
Have a nice Saturday everybody.
Thank you UFT and Adam for leading the charge
I'm a teacher at Forest Hills HS. This week the DOE shuffled a few more ATRs here, and now the many rumors are that positioned staff will become deans and the new ATRs will take over their classes, OR the deans will be full-time deans, with the ATRs taking over those few classes, OR the ATRs will become deans, ... blah, blah, blah, you get the picture. Not even the department APs know what's going on. And Adam does a thankless job protecting teachers' rights. But,think about the fact that the teachers now have to help the incompetent Principal from destroying their own school. Also, think that some of the supposed solutions is to take teachers away from their classes 3 months before finals and Regents exams. Nothing against the ATRs, but how focused will the students be with a "sub" coming into the class to get them ready for the rest of the year? If anything, use the free ATRs to walk the halls, bathroom sign-ins (as other schools do) and give them walkie-talkies? Keep teachers with their classes AND keep an eye on the halls? Or does that make too much sense?
I don't think it would be contractual to assign ATRs to hall duty all day. ATRs are teachers covered under the teachers contract.
As an atr I’ve covered caf, bathroom and hall duty all day for weeks, greatest job I ever had.
The only good thing about the doe is the 38k pretax into retirement accounts and the medical. I will have a tiny pension because I'm quitting. The job sucks too much
UFT sucks, this blog sucks, and you all suck. This job sucks and I can't wait until I hit 20 years and get away from all you losers.
Go read another blog then. I am glad I am in a union.
Yeah a union that gives you just enough scrapes, deflects just enough abuse and promises just enough bs to keep you placated. I sometimes feel the same way and that’s the uft’s game plan.
We make $120,000 a year with pretty decent benefits. Tier 6 has to go and yes we are treated like shit but without a union, how many teachers make 100k a year?
Basically none.
What is 120k if you want to kill yourself?
And you suck.
Better than the 50kyou make at Eva's schoolwork without a union.
Tell that to all the part time UFT reps that are retired and working for Eva.
The single most evil piece of shit principal is Namita Dwarka of Bryant....she needs to be removed.
@3:18...you will still be in the presence of the biggest loser...
The number of homeless students enrolled in city schools has exploded to record highs — but Mayor de Blasio won’t pay for social workers who’d make a huge difference those needy kids’ lives, activists and school staffers charge.
Hizzoner whacked $13.9 million in the city’s upcoming budget that paid for 69 social workers who help homeless kids get to class on time and complete their schoolwork — and now 15 groups who work with children and the homeless are calling on de Blasio to restore the money.
If they don’t get the funding, the social workers will lose their jobs.
The mayor’s $92 billion budget — unveiled in February — is the biggest in the city’s history, and it comes at a time when there are more homeless students than ever, making it vital that the mayor fund the social workers, said Advocates for Children of New York Policy Director Randi Levine.
“We don’t understand why the mayor is playing budget games with these crucial supports,” Levine said. “This is not the time to pull away from the support — we need the city to increase services for students.”
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During the 2017-18 school year there were 38,000 students living in shelters and 114,000 total public students identified as homeless, according to city figures. That total is up 66% since 2011 and is the biggest number of all time.
I put up with the personal insults and views that I rind repulsive at times in the name of free speech. Hijacking is not free speech. There is one person, I am fairly sure it is one person, who likes to post articles that generally have nothing to do with the post here but are purposely inflammatory. That is not free speech.
If this continues like before we suspended, then we will have to shut down the comments or go on hiatus again or use moderation or something else. I can't monitor this 24-7.
Thank you to everybody for understanding.
Disturbing - https://atradventures.blogspot.com/2019/03/safety-is-illusion.html
Actually Dr. Kingsly Kwateng PHD as he calls himself of Benjamin Banneker academy in Brooklyn... Downright snake
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