Wednesday, May 06, 2020

4 NEW CUMULATIVE ABSENCE RESERVE DAYS WILL SHOW UP BY MAY 11

The following information came to us from David Irons via the UFT Staten Island.  The Staten Island Borough Representative sent an email to David saying that the DOE has informed the UFT that those 4 additional CAR days should be reflected in employee accounts by Monday, May 11. Those are the 4 days that were to be added to the CAR after UFTers were forced to give up spring break.

If your account does not reflect the appropriate days by Tuesday, please let your UFT borough office know.

I hope this clears that up as we get the question on when UFT members will be receiving the four new CAR days regularly. As for compensation for working the additional seven days through spring break, I have no idea when that will be resolved.

48 comments:

Anonymous said...

When do the layoffs and reimagination show up?

Anonymous said...

June 15

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing.

Carranza said we can use zoom again.

Sorry, but once the new grading system came in, I’m done live teaching.

Disgusted in Queens said...

Thank you so much for the information. I appreciate all that you do for those of us with reps who don't share or know much information.

Anonymous said...

In person school is obsolete. They are not paying 80 thousand teachers to sit at home forever. Good luck with the uft supporting you.

Anonymous said...

There is no possible way we can go back in September. I am a PE teacher. Try to imagine the sweating, spitting, fluids, breathing heavy on each other, touching equipment...

Anonymous said...

Uft reps dont know anything? Lol. What a surprise. Anyway, yeah, how would they go about terminating staff after they realize all these kids can stay home and pass?

Anonymous said...

The biggest problem, because teachers enforce no attendance standards, the doe knows that students dont have to show up and they can still pass. Teachers arent needed. At least nowhere near 80,000.

Anonymous said...

New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza just dropped $270 million on iPad tablets and related paraphernalia without first clearing the deal with the United Federation of Teachers — with entirely predictable results. Think fiasco.

So pour ashes on Carranza’s head, but also blame UFT boss Mike Mulgrew.

The tablets were intended to help kids learn from home during the coronavirus crisis. But remote instruction is poison to the always job-conscious UFT.

“The Department of Education policy regarding [remote] instruction recognizes that educators know their students and families the best and that they use a variety of instructional strategies every day to connect with their students,” says the union.

Rough translation from the edu-speak: Forget about iPads. They threaten the status quo.

So if UFT members don’t feel like conducting remote instruction, they don’t have to. As it happens, a lot aren’t even pretending, and there is nothing Carranza can do about it.


Thus the money is gone. A quarter of a billion dollars is a big chunk of change, but considering the post-coronavirus fiscal tsunami now bearing down on city schools, it’s a potentially calamitous loss.

Not that Carranza, for one, cares about the cash, or the kids, or much of anything beyond transforming the system into a national model of ethnically balanced, perfectly PC mediocrity. Maybe worse.

“Never waste a good crisis to transform a school system,” he said recently, and it would be a grave mistake to think that the fellow who has explicitly dedicated his tenure to “integrating” a school system that was 86 percent minority when he got to town was kidding.

Carranza’s obsession explains his indifference to classroom performance, to scholastic standards, to community tranquility and — now — to the UFT’s wholly predictable hostility to remote instruction.


Sure, the chancellor talks supportively. “Every student that’s identified themselves as needing a device … will have a device,” he said last month. And to that end, the Department of Education says it has distributed more than 300,000 iPads.

Spending is what DOE does best, of course. It went into the 2019-2020 school year with a $34 billion budget, supporting what is far and away America’s highest per-student spending, some $31,000 annually, or roughly double the national average.

Results have always been something else. Apart from some truly bright spots, student performance ranges from barely mediocre to purely disastrous. This is true for such reasons as an acute lack of engaged students, a surplus of disinterested parents, a self-engaged teachers union and an administration more dedicated to social engineering than it is to education.


So why should anybody expect the iPad experiment to have worked?

Yes, there appears to be some distance-learning success stories, and three cheers for that. But the disinterest and self-serving that hobbled the schools pre-coronavirus certainly didn’t disappear when the iPads were distributed.

Richard Carranza: Only '50-50' chance
Beyond that, it would be absurd to expect a seamless transition to remote instruction under any circumstances, let alone amidst the seismic disruptions caused by the coronavirus shutdown.

Let’s be frank: Good faith can carry abrupt change only so far, and there has been precious little of that. But lots of excuse-mongering and hostility. Some say remote instruction generates inequities and should be shut down because DOE hasn’t provided every child with the tools necessary to participate.


There’s probably some truth to this, given the department’s history, but the solution is to try harder — not to give up on schooling altogether. What happens if the pandemic keeps the doors closed in September?

And what about remote instruction beyond September? More strife, most likely.

Anonymous said...

Teachers are part of an unethical scam. There is no standard.

Anonymous said...

When does our money for those days show up? It is absolutely ridiculous at this point....we are supposed to be so afraid of losing our jobs we are not supposed to say anything. Gimme a break... don't live that way!

John said...

"An acute lack of engaged students, a surplus of disinterested parents, a self-engaged teachers union and an administration more dedicated to social engineering than it is to education." I agree.

waitingforsupport said...

Can teachers enforce the school's grading policy? Those folks who have a problem with the government encroaching on their civil liberties should be in the forefront of the great pushback. If students don't do the work, they don't pass. Don't be a robot because if you continue, the gov't (doe) may replace you with a newer model i.e. permanent remote learning.

waitingforsupport said...

@8:23pm: I may have missed it but you left out all of those educators who allowed their employer to usurp the teaching profession by demanding via admin that ALL students must pass. It made it difficult for those who pushed back. Many of those who pushed back became ATRs. So yeah, some teachers have to be added to your equation.

Anonymous said...

Money? You mean for spring break? What we are getting hasn't even been determined. It could be $5. The uft agreed without knowing what we were getting.

Anonymous said...

I gave mostly NX, gave a handful of failing number grades, got an email from AP, I am breaking DOE policy.

Anonymous said...

Finally, some truth out of SF. This is what liberalism looks like.

Taxpayers are picking up the living expenses of homeless people and funding their substance habits in the city by the bay.
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waitingforsupport said...

And the failure of many educators to push back. You can deny it or ignore it but that won't make it disappear. Am I wrong?

Anonymous said...

Well, Carranza is reimagining, forcing certain groups into spots they dont deserve....

A poll of more than 1,000 city parents found that 92 percent are “extremely or very concerned” about Department of Education grading and admissions overhauls amid coronavirus-induced turmoil, according to the PLACE advocacy group.

Respondents objected to the junking of grades for all K-8 kids and worried that the crisis was providing a pretext for the hasty execution of larger agendas.

“Many parents fear that means the Chancellor will use the pandemic as cover to remove highly coveted screened schools and programs,” PLACE said in a statement.

In a panel discussion last month, Richard Carranza, who has questioned the ethics of sorted schools, told fellow administrators not to “waste a good crisis” in the pursuit of change.

In addition to the grade ban, the pandemic also led to the cancellation of state exams and the removal of attendance as an admissions metric.

Without these elements, parents are wondering how the DOE will handle screened school admissions — next year and into the future.

waitingforsupport said...

Carranza is correct in questioning the ethics of some schools.

Anonymous said...

What about those teachers who have over 200 days in their bank already?
we should have an option to cash them in.

Anonymous said...

Hi James, for a change from everyone else, I will actually ask you a question about what you posted!

Could you ask this question - I have asked it as well - what happens with these additional CAR days if someone like me already has 200 CAR days. Do I get the additional 4? I asked and I got No from one person, Yes from another.

Thank you!

4 Days 4 What? said...

The 4 days and a small retro for the raise has posted to the May 29th check available on payroll portal.

Anonymous said...

Waiting for support,

This is the doe. Hard work is punished. There are no ethics or morals.

Anything our parents taught us about hard work, standing up for what’s right and wrong and doing your best are not traits of the doe

You have to know what you can and cannot fight and how to stay on the principal’s good side.

The doe is a game. You do your best to prepare lessons you know will work, smile at the kids, comment on how nice their sneakers are and then at 230 pm, you move on.

Oh, and when the principal asks how everything is going, you smile and say ‘great, boss!’

Will people say this is a bad way to be? Maybe. But more people have this way of thinking than don’t.

The way the laws are, if you don’t get accused of something by a kid each day, that’s a success.

James Eterno said...

Someone who has 200 CAR days keeps adding a day and then it goes back to 200 at the end of the year. So, if you have 200 in September you would gain a day every month but if you didn't use any days, by June you should have 210 but instead you are magically reduced to 200 in September. After 200, it's use them or lose them.

Unless the DOE changed the rules with the four extra days which I will try to ask about, it would seem to me you now have four additional days to use or lose.

Unknown said...

right so i am losing them
as i do not take off
as you can see with over 200 days

James Eterno said...

I checked with a knowledgeable UFT source and they are just four days added. You will still go back to 200 in the fall. My source asked me to say God bless you for making it to 200.

Anonymous said...

Didn't see the 4 days on my 29th check, payroll secretary also said they haven't showed yet...

Anonymous said...

Call borough office and tell them.

DOEvet said...

Thank you, James, for the info on the 200 CAR days, and yes, I feel blessed lol. Maybe have to use those 4 in June if it is a use or lose scenario.

Anonymous said...

Perfect example...Contact made with student who is having difficult time finding the motivation to complete tasks-gc strongly encouraged student complete what he can daily. parent is also trying to motivate student to do the same.

But pass him because he doesnt have the motivation. What if I didnt have the motivation at work?

Anonymous said...

You would kiss the principal's butt if you were not motivated and become an assistant principal.

Anonymous said...

No 4 sick days posted for me

Anonymous said...

Is the raise there?

Anonymous said...

Yes, raise posted. No sick days.

Anonymous said...

Maybe if you opted out you dont get it lol

Anonymous said...

Andrew Cuomo's approval rating has surged beyond 80 percent. New York is the global epicenter for COVID-19 and there's little the government did well to contain the virus in its early stages. 20,000+ people have died. It is truly one of the most remarkable PR coups of all-time.

It's a dark lesson for future executives. You can be as incompetent as you want to be, as long as your performance pleases media outlets and you win the hearts of cable TV pundits and personalities. It also helps to have yourself compared to Donald Trump and Bill de Blasio.

Anonymous said...

It says it will show up May 11.Today is May 7. Patience please.

Anonymous said...

Some say they already received it.

Anonymous said...

I would have preferred 7 days of pay. I already have enough days in my CAR.

Anonymous said...

I would prefer a Maserati or Ferrari but it ain't coming.

Anonymous said...

I am trying to find the summer application to work this summer.

Does anyone know where to find it?

Anonymous said...

I don't think the posting is out yet. Nobody knows what summer school is going to be like.

Anonymous said...

3:41 pm

If you do not get 7 days of pay, file a complaint with the Department of Labor for non payment of wages. The UFT did not agree to work without pay. Also, ask your Principal how to get per-session for the 7 days. They can inquire with central so that it is not forgotten.

Anonymous said...

You will get thrown out of the DOL faster than you can say Donald Trump. Good luck as I don't think as salaried employees we fall under the wages and hours law.

Disgusted in Queens said...

The 4 days are showing in our account. Thank you again for keeping us informed! My rep and sec had no clue!

Anonymous said...

CAR days are incorrect. Checked 5.9.20.

James Eterno said...

Teachers have been commenting on this in a different post. Put it on record to payroll secretary if you want to note it officially but this looks like it is all over the place if our readers are a large enough sample size.