Last evening, Michael Mulgrew said the City was not on their A Game when it came to reopening the city school buildings for employees this past week. I am wondering if the UFT is on its A Game.
This is from Mulgrew's August town hall.
Question: How can we prevent kids from not turning around, not taking masks off and not sitting on top of each other?
Answer: We will train them. Hormones raging with middle school students. First couple of days are all about training the kids. Kids who can't follow safety procedures are going to have to go home for fully remote instruction. Our nurses from the hospitals will do the training for all of us. DOE happy to have our nurses do the training. We might have counselors and others needing face shields and other full PPE equipment. Everyone may need a shield.
Did a UFT hospital nurse provide training for your school last week? A video?
This is not a gotcha question. This should have been done on day 1, particularly since we have heard reports in comments (not confirmed) of staff not social distancing or wearing masks in buildings.
A leading pediatrician recently said how there is extensive training for medical workers on preventing COVID-19 but some still were infected. The doctor didn't think that type of training was possible in schools. I want to know if UFTers are getting the minimal training from medical experts that Mulgrew assured us we would have.
There have been two answers when I ask friends and family if they got the training on the first week. One group laughs and asks if I am serious. The other group just says no. I am aware that my inner circle of family and close friends may not be representative. Let me ask all of you: Did you get training from a hospital UFT nurse this past week?
No. UFT HS Bronx District #10.
ReplyDeleteI think we had a Zoom training. But I don’t remember if it came before or after we were shown how to walk in a picket line. Are you nuts?
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ReplyDeleteWe don't even have a school nurse at our campus in the Bronx. The nurse's first day is Sept 21st. I wrote the UFT, with no response as usual, that this makes no sense. Shouldn't the nurse set up the isolation room along with all the PPE equipment needed? So kids that come Sept. 21st in the morning that display symptoms have nowhere to go since the "NEW NURSE" hopefully shows up and is totally unprepared to see students that are at risk.
ReplyDeleteBut it's safe?
ReplyDeleteNo training whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteNo, but told we will.btw, maybe mikey let us go in as a strategy to show that we are doing are part and city not keeping agreement, so that we can shut down. Since they broke the deal.just a musing...
ReplyDeleteUFT and A Game is as oxymoronic as DOE and AGame. Both are administered by major league assholes whose main qualification for their job is that they sucked up to the right people.
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ReplyDeletePrincipals blast NYC DOE for supplying schools with ‘cheap black-market crap’ PPE
ReplyDeleteBy Susan EdelmanSeptember 12, 2020 | 5:09pm | Updated
https://nypost.com/2020/09/12/principals-rip-nyc-doe-for-supplying-cheap-crap-low-quality-ppe/
So I sent the video of Mulgrew to My CL with the information of how our school isn't staffing properly. Instead of speaking to me... he called my AP...who called me and basically yelled at me for trying to cause problems. Basically that *I* am always the one whose name comes up.... causing problems. I am done. I give up. I tried to give my CL the benefit of the doubt aaaannnnd.... he broke my trust. So I will do what I need to do with my kids...and im DONE. My coworkers will now have to speak up for themselves. This pandemic has truly made me question staying in this profession.
ReplyDelete@6:00pm... 5 deep breaths. Consider that your entry ticket to sanity. Now that you're fed up, have recognized the bs, touched the flame you can claim your reality check. Your CL is still a zombie. Your AP is a tool. You did the right thing. They did the wrong thing. Suggestion: moving forward let your colleagues figure stuff out on their own. Some people love to push you up to the front but will turn their backs on you when the #%it hits the fan. The DOE/UFT aren't your friends. They don't care about you, your family, your students, your dog, your cat or anything else about you. They care about ensuring that the machine keeps churning out more defective products. You seem like you recognize a kink in their machine and well, that makes you a problem for them. Stay safe. Keep doing the right thing if you don't mind tolerating their BS. Again, you did the right thing. They are the wrong.
DeleteAs I was calling parents this week to tell them students are supposed to bring their laptops back and forth to schools every day, a dad said his daughter was 12 and he was concerned she would get jumped for her laptop.
ReplyDeleteThen he said “everyone out here” knows the city’s hybrid policy means all kids will have chromebooks, iPads or other tech in their backpacks. He wanted to know what we are doing to prevent theft, and to protect kids and this massive investment in equipment if the word on the street is there will be a free-for-all on day one.
No way. Kids shouldn’t be in tech in-person. They’re on tech all day!
DeleteAll good, right?
ReplyDeleteRight now, according to The Johns Hopkins University, 193,518 Americans have died from coronavirus. But the new
@IHME_UW
forecast says that number could grow to 415,000 by Jan. 1.
If we had shut the country down for 2 months and then slowly reopen it...maybe we could've been pass this point but noooo...
DeleteMy colleague asked the SSA agent for her temp. reading out of curiosity.. the lady responded 84... she said you know I would be in a coma most likely then.. the agent rolled her eyes and walked away!!! Only the best for us.
ReplyDeleteI got my schedule. I have to teach 6 periods straight 8:30-1:10pm. Lunch is after 1:10pm. How is it legal? I will be starving
ReplyDeleteThe number of teachers, my wife included , who have to stay in a classroom with their students while they eat lunch in the rooms.. How can that be considered safe?
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Watch and Share!
Only when its safe means only when its safe!
If the city cannot meet the requirements of the Sept 1st agreement the members of Unity Caucus will not allow school buildings to open on Sept. 21st.
We are the ones that will keep us safe! Report health and safety issues to your chapter leaders and DRs. Post and send in photos. People need to know.
Administrations will come and go and UFT members will be here doing the work. This is our school system and we will keep it moving forward together to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our school communities!
https://www.youtube.com/watch…
No training, and I've had plenty of idle time to attend this non existent training.
ReplyDeleteHeresTheDeal 2 dozen cases in 3 days. This isn’t about testing. It’s about the nonsensical expectation of the DOE and the UFT that nobody was going to be infected coming back. School buildings should remain closed until it’s safe to reopen. https://nypost.com/2020/09/10/uft-threatens-to-delay-reopening-amid-lack-of-covid-testing/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons via
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https://nypost.com/2020/09/12/principals-rip-nyc-doe-for-supplying-cheap-crap-low-quality-ppe/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
ReplyDeleteThis one is worse;
https://nypost.com/2020/09/12/doe-hiding-a-full-list-of-schools-with-covid-infected-teachers/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&utm_source=pasteboard_app
Our Safety Agent didn't wear masks, teachers didn't wear masks--- teachers were within inches of each other taking to each other, laughing... And, the kids haven't shown up yet. Great!
ReplyDeleteI give it four week. This is a house of cards!
ReplyDeleteI know some who did not return to buildings, who still hoped, against the odds, that thousands might do the same, but like the strike, the sick out flopped. It was easy enough for thousands to stay home by using the self health screening form online. No CARS days are deducted. Admins can't question your reasons for not reporting to work. It is ragweed season and the mold on the trees is causing covid-like symptoms in many. Tests are not as easy to get as some here say. Not where some teachers live and results are not quick either. I know some who did self screening for a couple few days and went in on Friday. There may have been a nurse conducting a meeting but how would they know for sure. Sent to rooms with laptops to zoom, rooms where the usual noise of the hvac system makes it difficult to hear even a seasoned teacher with a James Earl Jones voice capable of stirring dull roots and tuned out teens. Vrooming and Zooming rooms full of feedback and echos, buffering boxes on sputtering screens, where the WIFI is weak and the nurse might be on the other end of the wireless but nobody can tell.
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad state of affairs. Like Teach NY I worry about automation and technology buggy-whipping us out of work, but going remote for a semester will only provide more evidence to support the old classroom. Eventually we will be replaced, but we can kill this army of robots without firing a shot.
Spring Creek Community School K422 East New York. No training. No programs. No class assignments. No rosters. Spent week wondering what I will be doing with information always promised tomorrow.
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ReplyDeleteDOE keeping secret a full list of schools with COVID-infected teachers
https://nypost.com/2020/09/12/doe-hiding-a-full-list-of-schools-with-covid-infected-teachers/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
can we strike already?
ReplyDeleteAnother thing missing from our super wonderful agreement. Keep up your A game Mikey.
ReplyDeleteMikey works for and on behalf Billy D.
ReplyDeleteHe pleasures him.
Don't expect the DOE to live up to the agreement.
And definitely, don't expect Mikey to force the DOE to keep to the safety agreement.
Mikey will help Billy D. slip and slide out of compliance.
It is not in Mikey's DNA to help teachers with safety and compliance.
Also, beware of the financial givebacks to NYC that Mikey will give to help his daddy,
Billy D.
No training from any DOE nurse. Instead, we watched a movie involving a very strict nurse exhibiting the best practices for discipline that can very easily applied to every student in attendance called: ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.’.
ReplyDeleteThe schools are not safe. PERIOD.
ReplyDeleteNo training from any DOE nurse. Instead, we watched a movie involving a very strict nurse exhibiting the best practices for discipline that can very easily applied to every student in attendance called: ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.’.
ReplyDeleteTalk to your CL, coordinate a walk out and do it even if your on your own, which you won’t be. No one is looking out for you, except you.
ReplyDeleteNo Training.
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A sickout won't matter on staff days. A sick out has to happen when the kids come. I don't even think the school I"m in has a nurse. Also, teachers are getting half remote half in person schedules which according to the UFT is not allowed. Also, not for nothing, but how are kids going to charge their laptops throughout the day in school?
ReplyDeleteCould someone please answer this question intelligently? If there is a severe teacher shortage, why is there still an ATR pool?
ReplyDeleteCause the ATR pool was created to push teachers out not to really try to place them in positions.
DeleteBecause the ATR pool exists for ideological reasons. It is designed as an attack on teacher unions as defenders of incompetent teachers that should be fired. Without having the ATR pool as a constant visible reminder of this war against teacher unions, the educational reformers lose an important ideological symbol of the pilloried, incompetent teacher. So they need to continually creatively churn out incompetency in order to cry our in the tabloids "Why are these teachers sitting around, doing nothing and getting paid?...the bad teachers unions are wasting public money that could be spent on improving our kids education... children first, always." It is all about the pablum of an ideological mindset initiated by Bloomberg, Joel Klein, Rupert Murdoch and their ilk and they all hated trade unionism. The ATR pool exists because of historic ideological reasons.
ReplyDeleteAlso, an ATR should never retire or resign. They should collect a full salary as long as they can as reparations from the criminal organization, namely, the NYC DOE.
ReplyDeleteI stopped taking my blood pressure meds a week before my physical this summer and told my doctor I started smoking 6 months ago. Got my accommodation. Desperate times desperate measures. Back on my meds, home blood pressure checks and I'm fine. I'll live to fight another battle.
ReplyDeleteMy CL is friends with the principal and gets a lot of perks. I cannot go to my CL with any issue. My UFT boro rep is also useless; he provides my principal with names and details if anyone from my school communicates with him.
ReplyDeleteIn my school, too, the teachers will be half in person and half remote (from home), with a full schedule of classes and students. We have no idea how many students will be full remote but we are expected to teach them, too. All this with no input from the teachers. Did the UFT agree to this?
No training from a nurse last week.
Can someone please check UFT bylaws and see if there is a way to vote in a new UFT president if the current one is incompetent?
ReplyDeleteI agree that the ATR should exist only for people found guilty in a 3020 hearing but that's it. Most people are there because they were excessed and most people are teachers with 20 or more years who are too expensive. It would be good if people who don't want to teach could put themselves in the ATR pool. Most people in there don't want to be there. To me it's a form of torture.
ReplyDeleteIt is starting.. Been that way for a couple of weeks, actually. Cuomo's selling low positivity rate in NY as the sigh all is well, but if the Rt number is 1.09, it means the virus is spreading again in the state.
ReplyDeleteNo training occurred at The School of Cooperative Technical Education, District 79
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't the uft police its in bed with the principal Chapter Leaders. Those kind of Chapter Leaders should be disqualified from holding office.
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DeleteThose self serving CLs should be voted out. There are quite a few of them permeating schools
11:07, Chapter leaders are elected by their chapters and are accountable to those who elected them, not to UFT officials.
ReplyDeleteYou can vote a CL out next spring or you can recall a CL or Delegate now. You need a petition from 1/3 of your chapter that you send to Mulgrew. The borough office then conducts a recall election. If 2/3 of those voting vote to recall the CL or Delegate in a secret ballot vote, the CL or Delegate is out and there is a new election to fill out the three year term.
Vote a Chapter Leader out? In many schools—just have the feeling that at least a third of it’s staff don’t even know who their leader is and probably a sizable percent don’t even vote in the UFT elections. Perhaps congruent to apathy with the general public elections
ReplyDeleteThe uninformed and apathetic are who Diblasio and Mulgrew love.
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