Teachers of NYC are a group to watch. They are holding a Zoom event on Sunday evening on ending mayoral control of NYC schools. Note that Mike Schirtzer, the one UFT Executive Board member not afraid to ask tough questions to UFT President Mulgrew, will be on the panel as will Class Size Matters' Director Leonie Haimson.
I will be attending and so should you if you are able.
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It is really about the indiscriminate cruelty, incompetence and cronyism that are inevitable under mayoral control. The blood of the folks that perished last March and April is on the hands of the mayor.
Maybe they hope the older workers will die so they can hire cheap newbies.afterall, some called it boomer doomer.why cant we just have a movement to have mulgrew removed?we need a union, not a sellout.who knows...maybe he is paid off to sell us out...we wouldnt need to have this zoom if mulgrew would have our backs.no politicians speak out about the way the school issue is now.unbelieveable.they dont have the cajones to stand up to cuomo and diblasio..cuomo prob itching to b.c. e prez.sickening.how do we just get mulgrew out?cuomo wont fire diblasio either.
And so much for diblasio keeping his promise re close at 3%.it means stay closed, not close at 3, open at 5!fucking morons running this city..but let's do some mindfulness or we will have trepidation training for teachers, ie not only for the students.
On Ch 7, I just watched Mulgrew stutter, double talk and look very uncomfortable rationalizing the reopening of schools, this right after some really bad Covid stats for the city and for hospitals, and a threat from King C to shut down all indoor dining.
I almost barfed my dinner - Cuomo calls himself the Pacino of the Covid era and Faucci, DeNero. Cuomo has many monickers - King Andy, the Devil, the real Italian (as opposed to the fake one, deBlasio) and the horny Italian. Pacino isn’t one of them. If I was Al, I’d sue. The Pacino wannabe is about to close everything but schools. I guess that Emmy is going to gigantic head.
How was work today?
Well, the vaccine is not coming. The vaccine is going to other countries first.
HHS quote all but confirms the shocking news reported in the NYT story...
“We are confident that we will have 100 million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine as agreed to in our contract, and beyond that, we have five other vaccine candidates.”
This is stunning
It took 1 day. Worst week ever. I’m done. Colleague has covid &schedules have to be changed. Add the reshuffling because opening of schools this week. Now family member I just saw came down with fever.
Show some compassion and humanity towards educators.
Cool. Open schools, totally safe for 15-19 kids to eat "instructional breakfast & lunch," per Mikey Mulgrew and the uft
Mark D. Levine
@MarkLevineNYC
· 5h
Hospitalizations in NYC are up 15% in past 5 days. And we still haven't seen the full force of the post-Thanksgiving surge.
Sorry to hear this 6:25. Get us the specific details.
From tonights
@UFT
Exec. Board--Two unlinked cases will close any school, but complete city lockdown now occurs at 9%, as per Cuomo. http://nyceducator.com/2020/12/uft-executive-board-december-7-2020.html
Can students return to school WO consent form? No. Anyone without one was sent home saying they can come back when they have form. Students will be on register to 12/23, and then assigned to full remote. Zero tolerance.
NY Assembly woman Linda B. Rosenthal introduced a bill that would mandate vaccines for every single New Yorker. Look up A11179. When it comes, they will force us all to take it.
At least without mayoral control, there will be more checks and balances and not this dictatorship that runs the schools. If someone on the board does something corrupt, they will be easily replaced. The mayor won't like it because teachers will go back to giving honest grades and having some real standards in place. God forbid the graduation rate drops. Also it could put an end to all this unnecessary spending, closing schools down and the atr pool. Also we could bring back Seniority rights. Maybe all won't be lost. Time will tell.
I still don’t understand why Mulgrew agreed to this! By next week the schools and the entire city will be shut down. Having thousands of teachers commuting via mass transit will add to more Covid misery. It’s unconscionable.
About time! If true!
"Particularly horrific stage" - and NYC school reopen. Wheee!!!!!!!
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Jake Tapper
@jaketapper
· 9h
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters a particularly horrific stage, @TheLeadCNN will this week be on from 3-5pm ET/ noon - 2 Pacific.
Where a table of two can sit and eat for 30 minutes - that’ll be closed. Where a cramped room of 19 can eat for 45 minutes 2x a day and spend 6 hours straight in the same room - a school - that’ll stay open. What an a—hole Gov’nor.
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Postitives in schools today (12.7):
Total: 119
Students: 54
Staff: 64
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