Just a quick reminder for eligible UFT members that the Teacher's Choice allocation that was in the November 29 pay must be spent by January 12, 2020.
Accountability forms are due on January 17, 2020. Start looking for those receipts for school supplies you have purchased since August.
Please don't miss deadlines because then you will have to pay back any unspent allocation to the Department of Education.
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Principal Henry Shandel of Marie Curie middle school in Bayside Queens has sent teachers a proposed grading policy that allows students who fail to complete assignments to make up the work or get an alienate assignments up to the grading deadline. According to the Daily News article here is what the Principal wrote to the teachers about his proposed grading policy.
: “For late/missing work due to student failure to complete an assignment on time, students must also be given multiple opportunities to make up or turn in work regardless of due date and without academic penalty, up until the end of the current marking period."
To me Principal Shandel's letter to the teachers is just another example of academic fraud to jack up the passing and graduation rate of the school and push undeserving students into the next grade or high school without the academic tools to legitimately advance in grade.
Teachers were understandably upset since they knew that the Principal was not interested in giving students a quality education but simply wanted to pass as many students as possible. According to the article The Principal's grading policy removes student accountability and weakens teacher control of student grades. Not surprisingly, the DOE supports the Principal and their public relation mouthpiece hypocritically said the following according to the Daily News article.
“We are laser-focused on students mastering academic content and the draft policy as written is academically sound and was distributed to teachers to solicit their feedback," Education Department spokeswoman Danielle Filson said Thursday.
This is just another example of academic fraud proposed by a Principal that weakens teacher control and reduces student accountability,and supported by the DOE that hurts student academic achievement to make them look good statistically, plain and simple.
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That first comment is a Daily News article that Chaz featured on Marie Curie. If that grading policy was a proposal from the principal and not yet an official policy, I would have gone through the Article 24 Professional Conciliation process probably before going to the media. I understand why people run to the press but it would look stronger if we used the contractual processes first. On grading, I think we would win on an Article 24 conciliation. If we lost, then we could scream to the press and show how we tried to be reasonable. We have a winning hand for sure on grading as we are upholding standards.
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