Thursday, August 20, 2020

DETROIT TEACHERS VOTE TO AUTHORIZE AN ILLEGAL SAFETY STRIKE

 From Vice:

Detroit teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a "safety" strike if the state's largest school district doesn't allow all teachers to teach classes online during the pandemic. It's the latest in mounting tensions between teachers and school districts across the country over school reopening plans. 

On Thursday evening, 91 percent of Detroit teachers voted in favor of authorizing the 'safety' strike, which means teachers would refuse to teach in-person classes if the school district does not agree to implement a set of safety protocols before schools reopen on September 8.

"We've already lost members of our [Detroit Public Schools Community District] family to COVID-19," a teacher said in a video posted online by union members about their reopening concerns. "It's just simply not safe for us to return into our buildings and classrooms right now."

Further on:

The strike vote is the latest in a series of actions taken by teachers across the country in districts with plans to reopen schools for in-person learning. This week in New Jersey, dozens of teachers held a sit-in to protest a public school district's plans for resuming in-person teaching. On August 14, 100 teachers and staff members in Arizona called in sick to protest reopening schools, forcing one school district to cancel its plans. Those Arizona teachers have called for a nation-wide sickout, referencing the 2018 #RedforEd teachers strikes, which spread from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, and eventually Los Angeles.  

For those who are wondering, strikes by public employees are illegal under Michigan law. There are fines for striking just like NY. Their infection rate is below 3%, same as NYC.

Is NYC going to be the only place in the country where teachers don't stand up for themselves? That would be quite unfortunate after we suffered the greatest losses with 75 in service NYC DOE deaths from COVID-19 in the spring and an additional 12 School Safety Agents. No school system that I know of came even close to that many COVID-19 deaths. 

The Mayor is sending UFTers back into classrooms that we know won't be safe and not taking our threat of job actions seriously.

This isn't about Michael Mulgrew or Richard Carranza or Bill de Blasio. It is about protecting the safety of union members, the students and all of the families. Detroit teachers understand this. Now, it's up to you.

82 comments:

#Pro UFT ICE blog! said...

I support a strike because the lives of my students, families, coworkers, and communities matter more to me than money.

I’ve got bills: mortgage too, and I’ve been cleared to work remote but I’m standing up for what is right even. — single mom of three

Anonymous said...

Whoa. New poll from
@EdTrustNY
throws cold water on de Blasio's claim that parents want schools to reopen. "Black, Latinx, and low-income parents are disproportionately likely to be wary of reopening school buildings
this fall." https://ckbe.at/3iZWoLq

Anonymous said...

Strike, strike, strike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

This is all part of the greater saga of criminal mismanagement of the NY City public schools by the mayors of New York City. There has been criminal racketeering to fix grades and graduation rates. This current pandemic situation is appalling , but it is just part of the greater history of continuous criminal mismanagement.

Anonymous said...

I will not get fired for people not wanting to go in. The danger of Covid-19 is overblown at this point.

Anonymous said...

908 p.m. needs to watch Norma Rae. Word on the street is the UFT is getting to its chapters. This is going to happen. No way the NYC teachers union threatens a strike and then gets embarrassed. It would set the whole movement back years. Enjoy it, folks. You are making history.

waitingforsupport said...

Recognize your power. Get up. Stand up. Stand up for your rights.

James Eterno said...

Bob Marley. Sounds great Waiting.

Prehistoric pedagogue said...

As a second year teacher I was on strike for a week
In September 1975. It was a great way to discover the true character of many of my colleagues. Good luck if you strike. Prepare to make lifelong friends and enemies. There are still scabs with whom I will not associate.

Prehistoric pedagogue said...

I went on strike my second year as a teacher in 1975. Prepare to learn the true character of many of your colleagues. There are still some scabs with whom I will not associate. Stay strong and stay together

Anonymous said...

We're not going to open on September 10. Mulgrew has backed himself into a corner by making demands for COVID testing that the city can't meet. If Mulgrew calls for a strike the membership will absolutely support him. The CSA, tons of individual principals who are willing to put their names on paper, opposition caucuses within the UFT raising money for legal action, and much of the NYC political class are with us. Cuomo's not with us, but the fact that he can't control his deep-seeded infantile urge to get into pissing contest after pissing contest with de Blasio means he'll quietly support us. The mayor can't stand up to all this political pressures and will fold like a deck of cards (especially when enough pressure from his advisors builds up to finally convince him that the alternative of opening anyway is too risky given that any problems that occur in any schools will be a disaster for his future political persuits).

Anonymous said...

I am a retired teacher who began a 30 year career in 1966 I began teaching for one month when Al Shanker (may he rest in peace) called for a strike and I was walking the picket line then and for all the strikes there after. WE FOUGHT FOR ALL THE THINGS YOU NEWBEES THREW AWAY, seniority for excessing replaced by bogus ATR system, loss of right to step grievances, missing teachers' lounges, to name just a few and yes I was layed off in 1974 which WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN because of the seniority "bumping" that took place city wide. With all the strikes we didn't lose pay it was negotiated back at the settlement and I NEVER SAW A TEACHER FIRED FOR STRIKING BE strong! Now's your time in history

Anonymous said...

Alert: Stuyvesant model was approved, leaving 40% teachers in excess.

Summary: 5 periods a day, 9am to 2pm. Students take 4 periods classes a day. 64% students stay at home, 36% in 4 groups, each 9% in person, not in classrooms, but in gyms and open spaces. Teachers stay in classrooms, broadcasting to both at-home and in-school students.

Details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQwRS57ys0&feature=youtu.be

The city is ready to layoff teachers.

Anonymous said...

After seeing Detroits vote of 91 for striking I can't see how NYC teachers suddenly has a no vote to striking.

I understand striking but I think it's a losing strategy. Latest word is one city option in case of a strike is to stop collecting dues on the paycheck and force the union to get it directly from the individual. This will do more damage than Janus.

Diblasio could let this happen, force the unions hand, shut schools anyway with the blame all on the strike and we end up the losers.

People seem to forget that he has leverage, not us. Shutting the schools is an inevitability not something caused solely by our strike. By the way do you think he is scared closing for a few days while we strike? And who shows up to this strike when we are striking because of unsafe conditions? We can't go to class but we can gather and protest together. Its hypocritical. They will get the days back like they did during Sandy, like they did last year.

We should have let it play out. Mulgrew showed his hand too early. So now we go to war but not to victory.

Anonymous said...

Does anyone know who is supposed to contact me about what grade/school I am teaching for full remote? I have a medical accommodation and have not heard from my principal. Are principals told which teachers have a medical accommodation? Are they told why?
I hear conflicting info that I may be put in a pool to teach students from another school?
Also, am I responsible for just full remote or the hybrid remote day students as well?

James, do you know?

TeachNY said...

Is admin going to strike? To really make a statement they should.

TeachNY said...

I think another option would be to simply delay the school year and work through next summer instead as an exchange.

Anonymous said...

Enough is enough! Not only will I strike, but if schools are open, I will vote for Trump and let all my relatives who moved out of NYC in recent years to battleground states... who voted for Trump in 2016, but who are now having second thoughts... that they should vote for him again too! Why??? Because by opening public schools in an urban environment, the DEMOCRAT Diblasio is showing that he doesn't care about the health of working people (staff and their families) and minorities (the students and their families). And no, I'm not a Republican. I voted Democrat in every Presidential election since Walter Mondale in 1984. (Yes I voted for the guy who promised to raise taxes for those old enough to remember.)

*** For those concerned about "their bills"...we all have them, and it's difficult to pay your bills if you're permanently disabled from the virus, spending weeks on a ventilator or worse yet...dead!

Anonymous said...

SCHACHTER v. CMTY. SCH. BD. DIST. NO. 24

www.leagle.com/decision/198267688ad2d5882469


MATTER OF BD. OF EDUC. OF THE CITY SCH. DIST. OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK v. UNITED FED'N OF TEACHERS, LOCAL NO. 2, AFT, AFL-CIO

www.leagle.com/decision/1979106446ny2d10181812

www.leagle.com/decision/197766160ad2d6011429

Bronx ATR said...

If Mulgrew calls for a strike the newbies and those under 10 years in will DENY him. I don’t know the statistics of how many of those teachers are in the classroom. Are they now a majority? Many of them look at teaching as a temporary gig -something the DOE and the UFT have both inspired them to assume. I think Mulgrew knows this and if he calls for a strike it’ll be shot down, but at least he’ll look like he’s done something. If he does call for a strike it must be supported. (However,I still think it’s a game he’s playing with Cuomo. Mulgrew has never done one thing, ever, that could be considered militant or strong. He is the weakest Uft president ever and has severely hurt the teaching session in New York City.) In my broken up large high school school there are five principals, 25 APs and redundancy everywhere. Put the schools back together, bring back teachers cafeterias and lounges, start viewing teaching as a profession and not a temp job and you’ll do a hell of a lot more long term than you would with a strike that in all likelihood is unnecessary (because Cuomo is waiting with a giant fly swatted for deBlasio.) It’s the mindset of the current teacher that’s fucked and striking for Covid is extremely shortsighted, but if they’ll support - Hallelujah. I support it, of course. The teaching profession in New York City, whether you realize it or not, is at a dead end - it’s over. The waste is incredible. Why does Carranza have three tiers of bureaucrats around him? What the hell are they doing? Why is there an army of lawyers waiting to eviscerate any teacher that gets out of line? All the policies of Bloomberg are still in place. The folks, some well known bloggers and executive board members, that were praising deBlasio and Carranza as the second coming, and ignoring their Bloomberg reinforced policies, are now vilifying them because it affects them directly, not the abject, ostracized ATR or targeted veteran. Everything that the Uft does is about it’s bottom line - dues, it is complicit in everything Bloomberg did and deBlasio didn't. Personally, I’d like to see a big protest against the UFT. They have been partners with every mayor and Chancellor in every disaster that has happened since the 2005 contract. Weingarten and Mulgrew Should be sent to China to investigate the origin of COVID-19.

Anonymous said...

Cuomo On Sending Own Kids To NYC Schools: ‘Risky Proposition’
“I would have a lot of questions,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on the TODAY Show when asked if he’d send his children in-person to city schools.

DeBlasioMustGo! said...

I'm all for Trump, but this White House designation of teachers as "essential workers" is complete and utter BS. I didn't sign up for this kind of crap, and neither did most of us.

They can't just change our job description because it suits them and the interests of entitled parents who never should've had kids in the first place.

But who knows, maybe he's doing this to play games with the Democrats. I wouldn't be surprised.

If we reject being "essential workers", certain parties will later use that as leverage to designate teaching as an expendable profession.

And the funny thing is, I saw this implosion coming my first year as a full-time teacher. The entire system was an unsustainable joke. This COVID-19 crisis is going to be a reckoning in the long term.

And I knew that the whole BS narrative of "Teachers are heroes" back in March was going to mutate into "Teachers are entitled brats who whine too much". The jealous vermin out there, who can't stand the fact that we have 2 months of paid vacation every year, were out in wings, waiting with their pitchforks.

All I know is this - whatever happens, this is the beginning of the end of the DOE and the teaching profession as we know it (and I would include the charters and their backers in that too!).

TeachNY said...

Lol Trump is the one who is saying all schools should open!

waitingforsupport said...

Absolutely. Bob spoke to the people for the people.

Anonymous said...

School Administrators Return to Buildings in Preparation for the 2020–21 School Year

On August 31, all principals and assistant principals (APs) are expected to return to their school buildings to prepare for the start of the school year. School administrators who currently have approved health accommodations for the 2020-21 school year to work remotely will be exempt from in-person attendance beginning August 31. COVID-19 testing for all staff is recommended and additional guidance is forthcoming early next week.

In accordance with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's executive order, if you have traveled from one of the designated states with significant COVID-19 community spread, you must quarantine for 14 days when you return to New York from traveling in states with high coronavirus infection rates. For further information, including a list of the designated states, review this New York COVID-19 travel advisory. If you fall into this category, please be sure to alert your superintendent immediately to ensure that the appropriate arrangements are made to support school reopening.

waitingforsupport said...

@9:45am... you will strike if the schools open. You'll vote for Trump (he wants the schools open) and people should join the strike because Covid is deadly/disabling. This is a head scratcher. March on!!!

Anonymous said...


We have received an anonymous tip that the inspectors who are going into the school buildings are not trained health experts but are employed by the UFT. There are concerns that these untrained individuals may clear school buildings that have health violations. Can anyone please ask their building rep for the name of the inspector who is visiting their building?

Anonymous said...

Escalating their fight against the resumption of classroom learning next month, a crowd of city teachers massed outside Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza’s Brooklyn apartment building Thursday night to demand a reopening delay.

Carrying signs and chanting, the throng argued that the city has failed to ensure the safety of school staffers amid the coronavirus crisis and that buildings should remain locked until their demands are met.

Members of the group carried a cardboard guillotine to drive home their assertion that the Department of Education is putting them at risk.

The action began with roughly 150 protesters gathering at Grand Army Plaza and later marching through Prospect Park before arriving at Carranza’s Prospect Lefferts Garden apartment building.

Anonymous said...

Those supporting a strike are speaking from a place of privilege.
See what I just did?

ed notes online said...

I love you Trump backers. He recognized you as essential and wants schools open - you should be willing to risk your life for your dear leader.

waitingforsupport said...

"By opening public schools in an urban environment the democrat Diblasio is showing that he doesn't care about the health of "working people". You will vote for Trump who labeled teachers as essential workers and mandates the opening of schools. Soooo why are you upset with DiBlasio? He's actually following the president's mandate. Maybe look over your argument again before you try to convince your red state relatives. I'm not buying what you're selling.

waitingforsupport said...

play games with democrats? He's playing games with working class people period. Imo, he's once again showing working class people who he is: a rich guy who plays with people as if they are toys. He just waved his fairy stick and bam, "now you're an essential worker". I can say one thing about Trump, he has always shown us who he really is. PS I doubt if too many "entitled" parents have children in public school.

Anonymous said...

Norm and Waiting for Support,

I don't see what you guys are "missing" or "scratching your heads about"??? True, Donald Trump wants schools open, but he's not opening NYC schools... My "Dear leader" Bill diBlasio (a Democrat) is. If I want a politician to follow Trump's policies...Especially a policy that is this dangerous...I'll just vote for Trump!:)

My relatives live in "Battleground states" not "Red states" Two of those states voted for Trump in 2016, one went for Clinton.

By the way, I'm not "selling" anything. I said I'm willing to strike for this work related issue. It happens to be an issue LITERALLY of life and death, not a few extra percentage points of a raise or some work rule change.

Anonymous said...

Cuomo said a while ago—that he wouldn’t open schools unless he felt it was safe for his own kids. And-just a few hours ago—he wouldn’t commit to sending his own kids back to school—as he now refers to school reopenings as a ‘risky proposition’—and that all parties involved must have testing protocols, safety measures in place—and so on,—which is his message to DeBlasio - ‘Better safe than sorry’..Looks like a very good chance that NYC schools will at a minimum—have a delayed opening of a few weeks.—maybe till October.

Anonymous said...

We have the lowest infection rate of any district trying to re-open. I'm just curious to all here, what would make it safe enough for you to go back to in-person teaching? Because based on what i'm reading, it seems like its not about making the schools as safe as can be, but its about not wanting to go back until this is gone forever. Yeah, thats not going to happen. We can NEVER mitigate this disease 100%, not even with a vaccine that won't be mandatory. We don't have the means to get tested everyday, which would solve the problem...but thats NEVER going to happen anyway, so i'm honestly asking...what should be done to provide enough safety to get people to go back and teach? Testing once a week, twice a week? adequate PPE, social distancing as best as possible?

And yes, I'm a NYC teacher.

Anonymous said...

@1:30PM
Mandatory testing for staff and students at least once a week with rapid results.

Anonymous said...

Easy respond to 1:30: we will return when indoor dining and gyms are reopen.

Anonymous said...

1:30 is correct. There are some who want an unrealistic infection rate that can never be realized. This virus like others will be around forever. We will need a shot every year like the flu shot to protect ourselves. Not everyone will take the vaccine. We will have students entering the country and our school system who won't have the proper vaccinations. If we eventually don't return to normal and by normal I mean attending sporting events, full capacity restaurants and movie theaters, and of course schools the economy and society as a whole will suffer. We are in fact in a better position to return now than we will ever be and in 2 months when flu season begins we will certainly have to shut down anyway.

We probably are in better position to prevent the spread of infections than we were a year ago. We clean our hands more, masks on public transportation should be the norm moving forward, and we need to not tough out fevers and colds like we have in the past.

If we go back now or not, eventually we have to and a vaccine or medicines may not be available neither would quick testing turnarounds.

Anonymous said...

1:25
I think Cuomo is starting to feel the feet getting "cold." He has to be watching what is happening in the school districts which opened and what has been happening on the college campuses. You are not going to get teens and early twenty somethings to follow the safety protocols. Everyone kind of knew it, but now they are actually seeing it.

1:30
"We can NEVER mitigate this disease 100%, not even with a vaccine that won't be mandatory."

True, but with not too much time the natural infection rate and the development of vaccines and therapeutic drugs can mitigate the harsher effects that put people in the hospital for long periods of time with many patients dying. 30% of common colds are caused by Coronaviruses. You probably had one in your lifetime. It's just that this is NOVEL Coronavirus which people's immune systems in many cases don't react well to since they haven't been exposed to it. As more and more people are infected and drugs are developed to mitigate the harsher effects it should just become another respiratory infection.

The 2009 Swine flu scare was the H1N1 Strain. It closed a few schools and killed about 1200 people worldwide. What caused such a panic is that was the same strain that killed 50 million people in 1918 when it was called the Spanish flu. A lot of respiratory viruses become more benign as they spread through the population.

We should be all remote for this school year. By next summer everything should be back to normal.

Anonymous said...

No community spread. No new infections for 14 days in the area. Hundreds of infections per day that we will just be adding to if schools open is not acceptable. Also, schools that look more like hospital settings will not cut it.

Anonymous said...

Um, is someone going to tell de Blasio that we aren't going in?

waitingforsupport said...

Absolutely @8:51pm

Anonymous said...

Ah, teachers are going back and Mulgrew isn’t calling for a strike, unless it’s sanctioned by Cuomo to be stopped before it begins. Mulgrew thinks teachers are stupid and they are.

Anonymous said...

DOE now saying classes can have up to 14 students. What scam. The scam continues.

Anonymous said...

Are you aware of the mask-less instructional lunches slated to occur in NYC?
@NYBATs

@MOREcaucusUFT

@UFT
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Andy Pallotta
@AndyPallotta
· 5h
Any plan should require both social distancing and mandatory mask use.
@nysut @AFTunion

Anonymous said...

MORE NYC PRINCIPALS CALL FOR DELAY: 29 principals from District 2 join chorus of school leaders from districts 6, 13 and 15 asking for remote-only start to school year as many safety, logistical and pedagogical questions remain unaddressed https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/8/20/21378199/nyc-schools-reopening-de-blasio-teachers-principals

Eliza Shapiro
@elizashapiro
· Aug 20
Group of principals from NYC's biggest school district, District 2, join calls to delay in-person school. Notice that their concerns are as much about logistics/planning as about safety. They still dont know how many kids + teachers are gonna show up.

Anonymous said...

School scheduling is always hard. But this year with

1) impossible #BlendedLearning models
2) unanswered questions
3) staffing/ students in flux (choosing remote, medical accommodations)
4)
@UFT and @NYCSchools openly disagreeing is worse.

Anonymous said...

So somehow the DOE revised the number of kids allowed in a classroom and now rooms can have up to 14 people. This doesn’t allow for social distancing, but it will make scheduling easier. How convenient.

But sure, we trust they are going to keep us safe. Face with rolling eyes
MORE-UFT
@MOREcaucusUFT
·
1h
.
@UFT
we need to strike. It’s simple.

Anonymous said...

I posted at 1:30.

@2:01 - Yeah I think thats a fair ask. Its not ideal but once a week and proper PPE should keep the infection rate under 3% in a hybrid teaching setup.

@2:30 - We are close to there now, but not quite all the way. We should have open up gyms and dining to 25-50% 2 or 3 weeks ago to gauge how much of a spike we would get since those places mimic close to what 1/2 a student/staff school population would look like. Add in the fact that since we were hit first and hardest that the infection rate has stayed super low due to the possible rise in some herd immunity. Not proven but from a few reports i've read - they think thats helped NYC a bit.

@2:41 - Thats just unrealistic.

And this all or nothing gambit that the powers that at be are playing with is going to cost us a lot more than just a few weeks of a strike if it happens...This is a second career for me and my fiancee. Divorced, debt and started teaching at 37. Now 42, newly engaged to someone who just passed one year cancer free. Just because I am pro-union (and I am) doesn't mean you follow blindly off the cliff. I agreed with the lockdown, social distancing, closing schools in March...all of it, and I still do. I also think we should go back if its reasonably safe to do so, and the metrics in the city, point to it being more safe right now than it isn't. You can believe both of those things at the same time.

waitingforsupport said...

Trump wants schools open but he's not opening them (so he will get my vote). It's a dangerous policy (that dem Diblasio is enforcing) but I will vote for Trump for PRESIDENT (the ahem leader of the country). However I will strike. Okay great just as long as we can count on your yes to strike vote too--its all good.

Anonymous said...

We see how 2nd waves happen. Schools in NYC will make covid spread like wildfire. One person in a school, on a train, will infect the whole school. Then i go home and infect my family, we all do. Then what? Every school that opens has this happen.

Anonymous said...

Numbers low in nyc with schools closed. People miss the point.

Anonymous said...

I have just about had it with school reopening. The lack of accountability, the dishonesty, the gaslighting and disrespect shown to parents/ teachers/ students who are working their asses off to fight for resources, answers and better solutions is untenable.

We need to strike. The mayor had 3 months worth of chances to make his plan better & safer. He won’t even listen. The Governor has had years worth of chances to fund schools. Enough.

Anonymous said...

Carranza sent an email. Enjoy.

Anonymous said...

Up to 30k accommodation applications.

Anonymous said...

NEWSFLASH: Bill DeBlasio does not give two shits if Detroit teachers go on strike.

Anonymous said...

Can anyone comment on the contract's insubordination exception i.e. if one defies authority because of a health/safety risk? Is that a loophole to avoid a strike?
I emailed Mulgrew this question directly on August 14th, and in response, I got a vague phone message on the 18th saying there is no talk of a strike. The next day, Mulgrew said we are prepared to strike.

Anonymous said...

Nobody feels its unfair that 30k stay safe and the rest are put in harms way?

Anonymous said...

Individual school union meetings next week for UFT staff, Chapter Leaders and District Reps. Possible pledge drive for job-action to get 100% membership on board. - From Queens UFT meeting this afternoon.

TeachNY said...

If people applied to teach remote, they have a serious reason. Be happy your BMI isn’t high. Be happy you’ve never had cancer/surgery. Be happy
You don’t have asthma....

Republican said...

Just got word from central office. TEACHER LAYOFFS ARE IMMINENT!!!

Anonymous said...

Email for Carranza from an hour ago. The kind of email that is sent before dropping the bad news, i.e. layoffs.

Anonymous said...

Carranza wanted to hear from a doctor, right?

“I do think that we’re going to have a third act of this virus in the fall and the winter,”
@ScottGottliebMD says. “And it’s likely to be more pervasive spread in a broader part of the country.” https://cnb.cx/2U4uC6G

Anonymous said...

I am 50 and although I do not have a diagnosis for a medical accommodation, I am very concerned. Have had a lung issue in the past which I overcame and have a precancer diagnosis and I still don't qualify as per CDC.

TeachNY said...

And if strike, the contract will be null and void. Wonder if they’ll fire the most senior teachers first. No more last in, first out.

TeachNY said...

Yes! I would totally teach if we did this.

Anonymous said...

Warning signs!!!
Please take a look at this!
The “learning bridges” sites will not have licensed teachers or DOE Staff! The DOE will be outsourcing this program to third party companies who will staff them!
This is alarming because I believe this weakens our union. Furthermore, I personally have worked at a REC center daily since the beginning of the pandemic. I am proud to be a one of the few teachers in the building providing direct instruction for children of first responders, which is why i volunteered for it. But there is countless sub teachers and sub paras that will no longer have a job because of the out sourcing. If they can do that to them they can potentially do this to us as well! In such an uncertain time it is truly is a shame that the DOE would outsource direct instruction for an after school program!!!

Anonymous said...

Remote learning greatly facilitates teacher layoffs. Mulgrew isn’t teaming with Cuomo, he working with deBlasio and Carranza to make it look like the teachers get what the want - remote learning. And deB and Caz get what they want from their boy Mug.

Anonymous said...

Teaching in buildings facilitates deaths. Layoffs are not happening because the city has to follow state law. Last in, first out.

Anonymous said...

Who cares. Lay off tier 6.

Anonymous said...

Carranza is fear mongering like some of the anti-union morons here.

Anonymous said...

If deBlasio demolishes the UFT, no more progressive on his resume. It kills his chances to get a new job. Stop the fear mongering. Grow a set.

Anonymous said...

@7:12 Last in, first out is FOR layoffs. NYC teachers are dumbest mofos in the entire country. Mulgrew is playing all of you.

Anonymous said...

@5:51 PM - Apply for the accommodation. You qualify.

TeachNY said...

Well that’s nasty.

Anonymous said...

why is 5:51 nasty.

Besides too late to apply for an accommodation.
first there was no deadline only "encouraged" by July 31

Then they changed the rules mid game.
there was an arbitrary deadline I=of the same date that parents had to make that sham selection of hybrid or all remote.


That said nothing ventured nothing gained, if the on line leave portal is still open put in an app. and a doctors's note.
if your doctor is sympathetic and uses the correct wording , you might get it.

Worst case scenario , you no worse off then you are now.

Anon2323 said...

@2:30 12,00 died from H1N1 US alone 300,000 world wide but media was soo shhhhhhhhhh quiet to protect obama many of you liberals have no clue thousands of kids died.

Moron Diblasio should have opened gyms and indoor at 25-50% in early august to test and use data that can help. When you have negligent leaders this is what we get.

Anonymous said...

The newbies in my elementary school are in it for the long haul. They want full careers as teachers. They all want out of NYC but in the past 25 years my school has only lost 3 teachers to a change of profession. Other commenters have said newbies look at teaching as a temporary gig but that's not the case in my school. What say others?

waitingforsupport said...

@Anon... Yes. That's why we have to get him out. He's THE most negligent "leader?" his own family knows it too.

Anonymous said...

I am a District 6 teacher in Manhattan. No one in my school seems to be bothered by any of this. There is very little unity in the building. Our Chapter leader has not reached out to us since her last newsletter to close out the year in June. Idf we have a sick-out/strike, I'm afraid I'm going to be the only one participating. This will be my 15th year. Can anyone suggest what steps I can take. I have tried social media posts: only my non-teacher friends comment. I have tried to text over articles...I get "wow! so crazy" and other shallow replies. I'm very worried that my school/district will just go with the flow and report to school in person on Sept 10th- upset but compliant.

Anonymous said...

@5:46

I have the same experience at my school, most teachers stay until retirement, and few transfer. It really depends on the school you're in. Shocker, schools with good kids and admin retain teachers, and ones with bad kids and horrible admins lose them.

waitingforsupport said...

@9:36 pm. Try to not be dismayed. While it is disappointing annoying and frustrating that your colleagues are apathetic, stay strong. If there is no strike you will have to come up with a solution that's best for you. Review the DOE's current policy on what you must do to keep everyone safe. If you have been sneezing/coughing/feeling nauseous,etc you can't go in. If someone in your family feels sick,you can't go in. You get my point? Look out for yourself.Talk with loved ones. Praying for your well being.