For the rest of the state, New York State United Teachers has this excellent ad reminding people to vote YES on their school budgets. Enjoy it, spread it and make sure if you live in NY but outside of the city that you remember to send your ballot in.
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
NYSUT "THANK YOU TEACHERS FOR WHAT YOU DO" AD REMINDS PEOPLE TO VOTE YES ON SCHOOL BUDGETS
Mail-in votes are due in a week for school budgets for those who live outside of NYC. In most places in NYS, voters actually vote on who gets to be on their school board and on the actual school budget. In NYC, we have the disastrous mayoral dictatorship system over the schools.
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Funny commercial. Thanks for reminding about vote.
Don't forget the census too.
Where the fuck is the uft?
What on earth is going on with this PD day Thursday? We’ve gone from talking about the need to be flexible to full day schedules in front of the damn computer! This is not ok! How do people with children too young to monitor themselves navigate this? And even if you’re single how is this healthy for anyone physically or mentally?
And once again where is the union on this? I don’t want to hear that we are the union, I don’t want to hear “we tried”, enough already! 100% not the time for this crap!
How about this for a uft staement?
"The UFT denounces the fraudulent grading policy the DOE has enacted over the past decade. We believe all students have the right and ability to pass classes and graduate honestly. Lower standards, having a never ending makeup policy and having no attendance policy where students pass classes with under 10% attendance is an injustice. The uft will be collecting sample work and publishing it to show how students on an elementary school level are graduating high school, while barely showing up. If we want students to excel in college and beyond, we must ready them by implementing behavior and grading standards. " You would never do that, but then cry discrimination when they can't get or hold a decent job. Can't have it both ways. Do you not think they can pass honestly? Normally, when you dumb everything down and make suspending someone impossible, numbers improve, but that is because you know students can't achieve based on the previous bar that was in place. Seems that way to me.
They would never say that? LOL.
Maybe not but this is quite creative.
So send it to mulgrew, much of it is accurate.
Also don't forget the rhetoric principals use on teachers saying you're not a good teacher if your kids aren't passing, or how come your colleagues have a lot of kids passing and you're not and if you were a caring teacher they would show up to your class. Also they like to say indirectly, that they are ghetto kids and we can't expect much from them.
It would never get to his sorry ass.
I expect them to show up and do some work. They do ok for the most part. I am no star.
So send to his vp, hinds or barr or roberson or mantell
They will delete it just as fast.
james has uft connections, he can get it done.
I think Waiting for Support might even support those sentiments 7:31. It is a uniter, not a divider.
No he could not. The UFT and honesty have a very poor relationship normally.
I am 7:31 PM, I sent that to Queens Rep Amy Arundell several days ago, with a few other complaints, she did not respond.
Send it to us privately at iceuft@gmail.com with your name and school and we will make sure it gets to someone in leadership.
I sent it to you James, I sent it to you and Amy.
MAN THIS IS SO HEARTBREAKING Broken heart
A 77 year old retired police officer named David Dorn died on a sidewalk after being shot by a looter in St Louis.
HE DESERVES JUSTICE!
Where is #blacklifematters ?
I didn't get that statement by itself. Maybe it was wrapped in other things but not the statement by itself with a school name.
District budgets are now limited by state tax law, so participation, motivated by either fear of higher taxes or fear of cuts to schools, has declined. In recent years, with a fair to good economy, almost all districts passed their budgets, but with the current economic collapse, we may see budgets fail again. This may raise participation again, but the current law discourages participation, increases voter apathy.
If NYC were back to community run schools and votes, would this weaken the union? The union plays lip service to communities now, so that wold be a major shift.
One question to consider is the percentage of NYC teachers who live in NYC. does anyone know the answer? What's the trend? Is this blog dominated by opinions from outside NYC? When the majority of your union jobs in a city are held by commuters it's a problem. No?
Ed Notes has been reflecting on the history of the relationship of the Union to the students and the community, and asking if NYC teachers would ever do what they did in LA and in Chicago, that is, fight for the community, for the students and their families. While I disagree with the parallels being drawn between what happened in the 70s and what is happening now, and while I'm certain NYC teachers would never fight for communities, students and families, I wonder if the communities, now protesting and fighting in our streets will ignite a larger movement and force the issue. Maybe the UFT has to figure this out. Are we willing to put children first? Really?
from The Chief
See a pattern?
City Correction Officers June 1 ratified a three-year contract containing 7.95 percent in raises, significant increases in longevity benefits and an $8.45-million boost in city contributions to the union's welfare fund, by a count of 2,540 in favor to 309 against, slightly more than two months after they voted down the initial deal made by the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association.
The swing of more than 2,600 votes without the reworked deal adding to the city's costs seemed attributable to two factors: union President Elias Husamudeen getting a clearer sense of what his members' priorities were, and the way those priorities were reshaped by fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
Near-Clean Sweep As 98% of SanWorkers OK A 47-Month Contract
Provides 7.95% Wage Hike, With Other Benefit Gains Including 'Longevity'
In a unanimous vote, the City Council May 28 backed pay parity for Emergency Medical Technicians, who at top salary make about $35,000 less than cops and Firefighters.
Can Waiting for Support please comment on 7:31's statement?
To pay or not to pay union dues.
I pay my union dues. But, since the conviction of Sheldon Silver, I don’t contribute to COPE . I’m not happy with lots of things our unions does and I’m even more displeased with much that they fail to do, but I pay and will continue to pay my union dues. When I get my Retro and see that the union has taken a larger chunk then they should, I will grumble, but it won’t move me to opt out. Today I got a delivery of medicines I need to stay healthy and alive. The bill, if I needed to pay it would be higher than all the union dues we, we are a family of union workers, would pay in a year. This was only one medicine. I take several. The 7% TRS TDA is unbelievable. Those that keep complaining that it was cut and that the Admins still get the super-unbelievable rate are delusional. Take it and keep quiet. Most teachers are unaware, and now that the Great Chaz has passed, I guess fewer will be made aware of the other TDA benefit we have, the Deferred Compensation Plan. These two benefits plus the drug benefits are so UNBELIVABLE that at times I think, well, screw the miserly raises, these benefits more than make up for them. Of course, I am in the right Tier and so I do feel for the younger workers and would support a fight to reverse the Tier, but for me, paying sues is painless. These benefits and the SUMMERS OFF, plus THREE 10 day vacations are reason enough to keep me paying my dues. Of course, I would get all these if I didn’t pay the dues, but I would feel like something of a scab if I did it whilst my co-workers continued to pay. I’ve listened to a lot of venting here and after a while it’s an echo chamber. If things are tight, I understand that dues might be a burden, but I don’t think the failure of the union to get a person transferred or get a Admin to back off is reason to cut dues. Consider a sabbatical. Another reason to pay dues. Sabbatical! Who gets those anymore? We do. If you are sick and tired and need a rest, take one. Great thing to do. The tuition is, for some earners in our salary table, tax deductible. And, one of the silver linings of the Pandemic is that you may be able to take all your course work through distance learning. Go wherever the Internet is available for a year. Worth the dues I say.
simply can't believe that our politicians and media -- who are on board with the notion that covid-19 is not important enough to stop tens of thousands of people protesting, shouting, and standing in close proximity -- are ready to perform this experiment in human sacrifice.
That's how this goes, right? They're killing grandma. They don't care about the most vulnerable. They're ready to put minorities in danger so that they can engage in activities they prefer.
My job is to teach, Shelly. I'm not an activist or a community organizer. I'm paid to teach and that's what I do. My union that I pay dues to is paid to fight for me not for kids or parents. If other teachers want to be activists go right ahead. I want to teach, go home, plan for my next day and then forget about the job in order to spend time with my family. I lived in NYC for my first 20 years of teaching. I grew up there. I moved after having two cars stolen, one vandalized and my elderly neighbor was knocked to the ground in broad daylight for the $11 she had in her purse. I now live in a safe place in a suburb and just want to do the job I'm paid to do. NYC is a lost cause. Criminals ruled the streets these past days because those teenage and 20something rioters were bred in NYC public schools where zero consequences has been the policy. The NYC DOE has taught them they can do what they want, to whom they want, whenever they want. The good kids are the biggest victims of Deblasio and Carranza. Until the school system enforces personal responsibility and punishes bad behavior, we can't expect kids to accept that there are consequences for bad behavior in the real world. Good luck with whatever you want to fight for. I'm a few years from retirement and will soon never have to step foot in NYC again.
Shelly, your union dues don’t pay for your healthcare or medicine. The city pays for it and the union is merely an intermediary. Why? I have no idea, other than Unity slugs telling the asking that if you opt out you have no coverage.
If I am the agent/attorney for an NFL player, I dont worry abut anything else except getting my client the best deal/most money possioble. You are making excuses. The uft has done a poor job. What chool sydtem doesnt have summer off? We agree, 7% is a lot, but it was made worse. How was that ever fair or agreed upon? The ufthas been absent when it coems to the discipline code. they have gotten thousands of in writing complaints about that and many other things. They just let it go. Sorry, i cannot look myself in the mirror and have them profit while destroying me and making me sick to my stomach as the whole sytem has been wrecked.
He sent us in 3/17/-3/19 because we accept it and keep paying dues. The list below was accepted, right?
1.3% raises over 11 years, retro held back with no interest for 11 years
WE are the only group who had TDA reduced from 8.25% to 7%
no discipline code
fake grades
fake grad rates
fake suspension rates
higher medical co-pays
absentee chapter leaders
abusive admin
abusive students
cell phones in buildings
open market fraud
no travel hardship transfers
getting blamed for students not caring, not being present, being in poverty
screwed observation system
2014 contract extended twice with 0 raise
Shelly, your union dues don’t pay for your healthcare or medicine. The city pays for it and the union is merely an intermediary. Why? I have no idea, other than Unity slugs telling the asking that if you opt out you have no coverage.
Dues cover nothing except unity steak dinners and trips to the democratic convention.
Uft is supposed to be doing our bidding. Telling us we couldn't get the retro for 11 years because it would bankrupt the city is not the problem of teachers. Giving 4 billion dollars in medical givebacks is not the uft fighting for me. Telling me we have a good tda rate even though it got worse is not a lawyer fighting for a client.
Calendar?
Open market?
Spring break comp?
How much is $1600 a year times 78,000 teachers, plus the others who pay???
Not getting our money's worth. That is a lot of money.
Where is our UFT leadership now when we need to hear from them?
....about our spring break pay?
----about our healtha dn safety?
----about our calendar for next year?
----about our job security?
The UFT failure to communicate is a type of hostile communication.
Their silence tells us that they don't care about the rank and file members.
They care only about their perks and their status.
Good luck teachers, school open in september. get that will ready, as mulgrew said.
Here's the highest-ranking uniformed cop out shaking hands without a mask an hour before Tuesday's protests started
NYPD cops ignore directive, abandon masks during clashes with protesters
https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/nypd-cops-ignore-directive-abandon-masks-during-protester-clashes/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
Waiting for Support emailed me that she is having difficulty commenting but she is fine with 7:31's statement.
I don't know if the tech problem is from her end or Google's.
Unity is looting its members. Wait till October 15 until they charge you triple dues that day. Why opt out? Lol.
Funny how uft hierarchy loves telling us how wonderful things are in schools while they never set foot in the classroom. Easy for them to say. Hypocrites.
More dumb teachers...Again, uft dues gets you
Lawyer if brought up on charges
Uft discount
Uft pension consultation
CL at disciplinary hearing
Voting in uft elections
That's about it
Mulgrew writes...
As we grapple with a moment that has exposed the disturbing flaws in our democracy, I invite you to join us on Tuesday, June 9, for a Day of Peace and Justice. On the day that George Floyd will be laid to rest at a funeral in his hometown of Houston, we will be wearing black in his memory.
George Floyd’s desperate struggle to breathe under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis laid bare the stain of racism that continues to mar our nation. The killing occurred 10 weeks after the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American EMT in Louisville, Kentucky, who was shot multiple times during a no-knock police raid. These incidents come at a time when the coronavirus crisis had already exposed the profound inequities in U.S. society.
Mulgrew doesnt write...
Kerik
2019
10 million - total arrests
1004 - killed by police
41 - unarmed killed by police
19 - white unarmed KBP
9 - black unarmed KBP
How exactly are the police racist??
Chicago violence: 92 shot, 27 fatally, over Chicago's most violent weekend of 2020 | http://abc7chicago.com
For every 10,000 black people arrested for violent crime, 3 are killed
For every 10,000 white people arrested for violent crime, 4 are killed
Iyanna Dior a black trans woman was beaten yesterday by a black crowd of over 30 people over a fender bender. Black men I don’t have it in me to write a long post cishet Black women i don’t have it In me to reprimand you all either. DO BETTER #allblacklivesmatter
“A police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.”
No looting, rioting? A teen involved in the slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors has pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and faces up to 18 months in detention.Zyairr Davis, 14 — who was charged with murder — copped to the robbery admitting that he helped two pals in the botched mugging of the 18-year-old college freshman at Morningside Park on December 11.
Black police officer (retired) David Dorn is murdered in cold blood by looters
24/7 media silence
The relentless promotion of "self-care" when they care not.
The uft doesnt care about staff or students.
I love how teachers and principal who are passing kids for doing nothing put on the pretension that they care about the kids' well being during this time when they really only care about themselves. They care about their students is a bunch of BS!
@AFTunion
headquarters along New Jersey Ave. is getting boarded up.
Ironic.
Wednesday, June 03, 2020 11:54:00 AM
If I am the agent/attorney for an NFL player, I dont worry abut anything else except getting my client the best deal/most money possioble.
Nothing like comparing Apples and Oranges to make a bad argument worse. How about comparing teachers with, I don't know, maybe other teachers who are not organized and don't pay union dues? There are lots of them and don't have an Agreement like the one we work with.
You also asked, rhetorically, what schools don't have summer off? Some don't, but most schools have teachers in a union that will fight for a calendar that includes summers off. Of course, students and families and communities would also join teachers so that schools don't shift to no summers off. See the value in working with and not aganst kids, families and communities? Also, Cuomo's re-imagining education with Gates & Co. smells a lot like Arne Duncun's re-imagining of education. Duncun tried and failed to end summers off for teachers. Though one of the most influential secretary of education in recent memory, Duncan failed because teacher unions thwarted his plan.
On Union in Apocolypse Times
http://nyceducator.com/
Seems apt to our recent discussions. No?
If you think paying $1600 yearly for that list you are a damn fool.
Omg I so miss WFS's bullying rants.
You know why the uft does this? Because teachers never push back, they take the crap, take the ignorance, take that their reps abandon them...Every person writes that the C:L does nothing and knows nothing, the DR and BR do nothing? Have you emailed directly, threatened to file an official complaint, pull dues?
This is what i will do tomorrow. No online pd and an assignment has already been given.
Why does the uft retweet pro anarchy? Is that what $1600 gets us?
You hit it 10:09, and then when you call them on it, they ignore you. The teachers really need to do something about the uft leadership.
#IAMHISMOTHER
Handcuffed.
Face Down.
Knee on his neck.
They did nothing.
He called the officer "Sir."
They did nothing.
He begged for his life.
He begged for water.
He begged for mercy.
They did nothing.
His nose bled.
His body trembled.
He lost control of his bladder.
They did nothing.
He cried out, "I can't breathe."
They did nothing.
Twelve more times.
"I can't breathe."
"I can't breathe."
"I can't breathe."
"I can't breathe."
"I can't breathe."
"I can't breathe."
"I can't breathe."
"I can't breathe."
"I can't breathe."
"I can't breathe."
"I can't breathe."
They did nothing.
One last time, he gasped, "I can't breathe."
They did nothing.
He lost consciousness.
They did nothing.
A firefighter demanded they check his pulse.
They did nothing.
Off duty medical personnel begged them to stop.
They did nothing.
Deprived of oxygen.
His organs screaming.
His brain frantic.
They did nothing.
They watched George Floyd die.
His life fading.
A slow death.
They did nothing.
A lynching on the ground.
They did nothing.
For eight agonizing minutes.
Four officers watched.
He cried out for his Mom...
A grown man...
Crying out for the woman who gave him life....
As he feared joining her in death.
And still they did nothing.
A black man.
A gentle giant.
Murdered because he was black.
And still, they've done nothing.
Probable Cause exists.
A Double Standard exists.
Racism/sin is real
May justice be served.
America will be judged
COPY AND PASTE!
#IAmHisMother
He shouldnt be dead from giving fake money but he was still breaking the law. He also did 5 years in jail for a previous violent crime. Would you want your child doing those things?
Gentle giant?
Let it go buddy. Black lives matter.
Agreed. Minorities should stop hurting their own people in impoverished communities.
BREAKING: 2 NYPD Officers shot at
Church Ave And flatbush Ave in Brooklyn. Near erasmus hs.
Among the many charitable things Drew Brees has done for the New Orleans community he most recently fed thousands of families during the coronavirus pandemic but yea, ‘fuck Drew Brees’ because he respects the United States flag. Unreal.
11:59: The saying should say Black lives matter too. All lives matter not just black lives. Nobody cares when a gay kid gets his ass kicked and suffers bias attacks. To most kids that is funny and adults don't care because most aren't gay anyway.
@9:01...I'm back. I'm also known for a lot of things but bullying isn't one. Since we're playing a guessing game, I peg you and your comrades as jittery whiners who jump into the petri disg called school as soon as your administrators say so. Do i win???
@7:31 am: i love your proposal. You are part of the solution. The least we can all do is try. I would sign off on your proposal. Good job!!!
@10:34 am I love the statement.
@8:27 pm: It is certainly a unifier. What do you think?
What about this?
AP
"Blockages in sewers and storm water drains are increasing as home-bound Americans are seeking alternatives to bathroom tissue because of occasional shortages, while stepping up efforts to sanitize their dwellings and themselves with disposable wipes and masks."
Don't throw stuff not made for the toilets into toilet bowls. Can we have a PSA on this? Can Mulgrew and Carranza put out a statement? Can we have a good plumbing curriculum for our schools?
Huh! Apparently the 9p.m. curfew in Seattle has just been canceled because the protests have been so peaceful, says my television. My only friend.
Could we see the same in NYC?
Where in the fuck are the media crying and screaming like their kids are being kidnapped when 10,000 people gather together in ny and all over country with this virus!! Either in 2 weeks we are having the most dramatic spike orrr we have been hoodwinked by dems and media to keep this show going.
No way Floyd should have died, def infuriates and boils my blood with incompetetance of the police. I do not glorify him by any means he was a bad person. Putting a gun to a pregnant womens belly on a robbery, naw bro, you fucking trash. High at the time of arrest too trying to use counterfeit money.
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