I attended the UFT Solidarity meeting today. There were two women who spoke up saying that they had been filling teacher vacancies since the fall but they were still being paid as day-to-day substitutes. Day-to-day subs are supposed to be covering for absent teachers. Apparently, certain principals are hiding vacant teaching positions and pretending subs are covering for someone who is absent. The sub is actually subbing for herself/himself. This is outrageous.
If someone is doing a full time teaching job, she/he should be hired full time and paid a full salary with benefits. I don't know how principals who pay teachers doing full time work a day-to-day sub wage could live with themselves.
It clearly violates Article 5 of the UFT Contract to have someone do all of the work of a regular teacher and not receive full time pay and benefits.
Give it to UFT Solidarity, they are backing these teachers and preparing to take action.
If you know of any sub who is covering a vacancy for the term or has covered for an absent teacher for at least 30 straight school days (Z status), then please fill out the Solidarity intake form. Don't let the DOE rip anyone off for another second.
Let's end this disgraceful DOE cheating as soon as we can.
Oh and I have not forgotten: How does the UFT permit this despicable DOE behavior?
Im in a school where the principle is using around 8 subs for various things. Some subs are doing reading and math intervention full time. Theres at least two subs covering pods. Can someone tell me whats allowed and whats not allowed. And how do you report it.
ReplyDeleteBut I pay dues to the uft, not solidarity. If solidarity is giving this info why am I wasting $1500 a year? If the uft isn't doing the job why am I paying?
ReplyDeleteThat’s ridiculous! I’m doing all the work of not even a substitute teacher(ATR) and I’m getting full salary on top tier! Leave it to the geniuses at Tweed to devise such a backwards system.
ReplyDeleteNot complaining, I’m just pointing out the ludicrousness!
Once again, this all boils down to the crazy and asinine Fair Student Funding fiasco. Principals are de-incentivized to add staff and salaries to their Galaxy payroll. What better way to get the cheapest labor to do a full time job than to utilize subs to do all the grunt work? For well over a decade, veteran teachers making top salary working 25, 30 years who never received a letter or negative observation report were all of a sudden getting Ineffectives and being railroaded into 3020a hearings just so the expensive salaries could be eliminated. Now, they've cleverly discovered another way to game the system. Unbelievable. If this is going on in one school, trust me, it's happening all over the city. It's a new wrinkle in their playbook for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm getting 7k extra pro-rata. I have about 8% attendance overall and 1 complete no show class. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteI'm an ATR. In the school I'm in the principals had sense enough to give me a full teaching schedule, but my two previous schools I was basically on a full page sabatical without having to take any classes.
ReplyDeleteThe UFT is just an ancillary arm of the DOE. This kind of crap has gone on for years by the way. Usually the sub is promised a full-time position once the budget is opened up or somebody retires. Sometimes it may happen, but it’s frequency is much like winning the lottery. Often times the sub is strung along indefinitely, even when there is clearly a vacancy. The root of this is Fair Student Funding. FSF short changes each and every school, and the principals are desperate to find creative means to balance their respective budgets. FSF is never mentioned by the UFT or fought. Mike Mulgrew, has when pressed, said that the UFT has no say so in DOE accounting procedures (schemes). That’s true of course, but the fact that it punishes so many schools, teachers, subs, ATRs and children should put it on the forefront of each and every agenda that Mulgrew presents. He chooses to ignore it. It suits the UFT, in that they get two for one dues with an ATR and a new teacher replacement. In the case of a substitute teacher, he or she is still paying dues and still deserves to be represented, especially in such egregious cases. But the UFT is more concerned with looking after CSA members, while doing as little work as possible, than they are with their that are due paying members. I can almost, word for word, predict what the UFT will say to a sub calls to complain about this. “Do you trust the principal to honor his word and give you this position when he can? If you do continue to work and wait. If you don’t, please look for another position. We have no way to force a principal’s hand to give you a position that he has already chosen not to or will choose not to once we contact him.”
ReplyDeleteThe full-time sub position is also a way to hire people who have not been able to pass their teacher exams. We have a few at my school that I know of; it is all kept secret.
ReplyDeleteA question on FSF:
ReplyDeleteHow much money, even in a large school (3000 students/ 150 teachers) does an Admin save by pushing out senior teachers and hiring newbies?
There is the normal, constant attrition, of retirees, teachers who resign, teachers who take long leaves and are replaced on the appointment table, and these are teachers of all ages and years in teaching.
But we are concerned about how many senior teachers are pushed out because of FSF.
If the Admin, of a large school, with a $25, 000,000 budget, pushes out 10% of senior teachers at top salary and replaces them with newbies at the lowest salary, the Admin will still pay the average salary. So, how much saving would that be in a big school (3,000 students/150 teachers)?
Less than 2%
So, why save 2% and give up that experience, that maturity, that continuity?
It's not the money.
I went through this in long island many years ago. But now, perhaps they may not have a real vacancy pot pandemic.also the sub they have may not be a person they would choose for a perm job.subs are in short supply now.so I do not always think it is ill will.also many subs are not certified. BUT what I have seen is subs not being paid at the higher sub rate after filling a vacancy for 30 days.she waa afraid to mention it thinking it would land her a chance to continue subbing next school year for the same position.the vacancy ended up being filled with a certified teacher in september.
ReplyDeleteIn my long ago situation, I was told I would be working alongside a teacher with ALS and district was working out a retirement pkg for him;then I would get the job.well he never showed up and every inquiry was met with a stall tactic.of course nothing materialized and I ended up coming to work in nyc...that was 1988...very disgusting of the district.
It really all comes down to principal. Some people don’t like to admit it, but whether or not the principal is a good person makes all the difference.
ReplyDeleteI am in my 40’s and have been an ATR for a bit. This year, my principal has given me a full program that changes from time to time, but I am doing real work.
In the past, I have seen the practice of a principal hiring a per diem sub and giving them full time responsibilities.
The way I see it, I will do what I am told to do.
If I am told to do no work, that’s not on me. That’s on the doe and the principal.
But if you ask me to work, I will.
That is why I want to be an ATR until I retire. We are on the S/U system and if you are reliable and don’t cause an issue, you won’t get harassed.
Oh, and our pensions and benefits and salary are the same
9:08 If Solidarity wins, it will be dues well spent to vote for them. Other than that I’m with you on withholding dues.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be an ideal thought if the first person who posted an anonymous comment on here understood the difference between principal and principle - and which one should be used in this case?
ReplyDelete7:32: If you have a 2 or more classes for more than 5 months, you are rated the same as other teachers. S/U is only if you have no classes or only one class.
ReplyDelete9:17: The way I was taught was the principal of a school is your pal. Silly but it works.
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows this is going on. I wonder if anyone is going to do something about it. It has been mentioned more than once on facebook groups where higher up UFT representatives are members. They know this is going on.
ReplyDeleteShelly, admin doesn’t want experience, they want someone the can mold. An Experienced teacher knows when he’s being taken advantage of, a newbie doesn’t and won’t complain. Most principals only want newbies for just that reason. FSF facilitates that. The UFT does nothing concerning it.
ReplyDeleteI thought principals take the average salary of all the teachers combined out of their budgets, not different salaries of different teachers. I realize senior teachers bring the average up but newbies balance it out with entry salaries.
ReplyDeleteRight, so it's not about the money, although FSF adds to the many incentives Admins have when making decisions. In a big school, like the one I used in my scenario, where you have $25,000,000 budgets and 150 teachers or more, the 2% saved by hiring newbies and shoving top salaried seniors out the door, could be saved by cutting back on copies and paper, something most schools are doing as technology advances into education. So Admins push Senior teachers out because they want to manage a Charter School staff, a union-free teaching staff. They don't want people who know the contract. Like I know it, not quite chapter and verse, but well enough to advocate for others, and so I am targeted, and not just by Admins but by my CL, and by other want-a-be Admins.
ReplyDeleteI have seen
The old gods go
And the new gods come.
Day by day
And year by year
The idols fall
And the idols rise.
Today
I worship the hammer.
Relax 917. It’s a blog not a thesis. No one is proofreading posts before hitting send. Also autocorrect and auto fill often fucks things up. When I send texts duck replaces fuck. And trust me when I tell you I know the difference between a duck and a fuck.
ReplyDeleteSince ny just got billions, can we get the spring break pay from 12 months ago?
ReplyDeleteThere is no excuse for not pushing for that money now.
ReplyDeleteWell, I can bet you that isn't being done. All he keeps sayning is that arbitration isn't open and will continue to say that.
ReplyDelete10:05,
ReplyDeleteIf you are teaching out of license and an ATR, most principals will play a game and make sure you are S/U.
I have done leave replacement programs before in license the whole year and have been S/U
1254, that one got me laughing well said
ReplyDeleteMildew is sending high school teachers in while the bald bastard stays home.
ReplyDeleteIf you are fine with not getting paid for last years Spring Break then you should ok with working summers for free and ok with not getting any raises in the next contract.
ReplyDeleteMany teachers have very poor judgment about their personal finances and very lo self esteem.
Perhaps they are dust mops pretending to be teachers.
Mildew is sending high school teachers in while the bald bastard stays home.
ReplyDeleteSo we should wait another year for spring break 2020? What should we do when not paid?
ReplyDeleteShelley keep in mind the carving up of the larger comprehensive HS into several "small schools". I'm sure the institutional memory issue you're talking about is absolutely there, but also in the smaller schools knocking off 1 or 2 high salary people can make a significant difference.
ReplyDeleteAll is well in lala land.
ReplyDeleteRandi Weingarten
@rweingarten
The Biden administrations investment in testing infrastructure is going to open doors.
This $10B dedicated testing and tracing allows districts around the country to check off an important item on their reopening list.
"Once we started talking to people about testing, we understood how pivotal this tool would be to not just reopening schools to in person learning, but managing that reopening, keeping them open and making sure we could have some kind of stability and normalcy"
In case anybody is interested both the N.Y. Assembly and N.Y. Senate have the early retirement incentive in their budget proposals. Negotiations on a final budget are definitely underway and is to be finalized by April 1. Fingers crossed! This is further than any such legislation has come in years.
ReplyDelete@4:03 so what are you doing to not be a dustmop? oh - you withdrew your dues- horahh- now mildew doesn't have to listen to your complaints, about a sh***ty raise or whatever. i guess youre boycotting summer Horrah me too.
ReplyDeleteguess what- my finances are so in order i dont give 2 sh**ts about last spring. i too k a religious day off and posted a couple assignments ahead of the schedule. give me a per session hours pay for the hour i worked or not- i dont care. guess that means i have "lo self esteem"? guess again-
He listens to the people who pay dues? No. My finances are in order, I would bet better than yours. It us the principle. So pay the 1600 for my benefits. Thanks
DeleteI'm glad we are paying for saviors like this. Really focused on how to help us.
ReplyDeleteRandi Weingarten
@rweingarten
White supremacist propaganda surged in 2020. We must do all we can to combat hate and call out white supremacy - whether from politicians, friends or relatives. Let's make America better than this.
7:23 nothing wrong with calling this out and combatting it. more concerning, why does doing that bother you?
DeleteRandi Weingarten Woke.
ReplyDeleteLol. I can't believe I, a teacher, had to unfollow the aft president. Pathetic. She talks this left wing shit all day about white supremacy yet never mentions blacks are the ones mostly attacking Asians, this is documented.
ReplyDeleteSending high school students back to school is ludicrous. 80 percent of them are still going to stay remote anyway. Why are we being raked over the coals for wanting to stay remote? The fact that so many kids are staying home and teachers are still getting accommodations is acknowledging that there is a danger with the schools. The kids are still going to be on computers all day anyway. I heard at one school the kids are staying in the same classroom all day for 7 periods will eat lunch in there and gym while the teachers will rotate. Why would any kid want to do that? Sense and the doe don't go hand in hand. Also why isn't Eve Moskowitz being criticized for keeping her schools remote. How can we be sure the kids in Success Academy aren't experiencing learning loss? Has she been doing assessments?
ReplyDelete723, does she call out anything else, any black on Asian attacks, how about the constant shootings in certain communities, or the constant crime in certain communities, or the single parent households. Did she speak about the knockout game? Be fair.
ReplyDelete834 why does white supremacy deserve fairness?
DeleteNot white supremacy, the fact that she picks and chooses what is reprehensible. No mention of the 14 and 16 year old black teens who lit a white man on fire in Rochester and murdered him.
DeleteAre other crimes meaningless?
Delete10:56 does this mean it is wrong to challenge and call out white supremacy?
DeleteThe fact that uft solidarity has to do all these tings prove that mulgrew doesnt listen to nor does he do anything for the dues payers. Perhaps you havent read the postings on here over the past 15 years. I will keep my money. But thanks.
ReplyDeleteI'm counting the days... out by June 30th, terminal leave starting in September, 140 days, so 70 days will push me to mid December....bye bye
ReplyDeleteHow come the only people that put their names on their comments are retired? How come every time an article is the paper the majority of teacher comments are anonymous? Why are teachers so scared to voice their personal opinion? This has been the case for years. Is it because all you teachers are just scared, or is it something deeper?
ReplyDeleteI personally put my name on my comments because I want the idiots at Tweed to read them and know I’m not afraid of them. I with more of my teacher brother and sisters would join me. How can we advocate for a stronger union in the shadows?
Because teachers don't care, want to get their paychecks and don't want to get targeted, which kind of makes us not teachers.
DeleteHow come the only people that put their names on their comments are retired? How come every time an article is the paper the majority of teacher comments are anonymous? Why are teachers so scared to voice their personal opinion? This has been the case for years. Is it because all you teachers are just scared, or is it something deeper?
ReplyDeleteI personally put my name on my comments because I want the idiots at Tweed to read them and know I’m not afraid of them. I wish more of my teacher brother and sisters would join me. How can we advocate for a stronger union in the shadows?
Why are schools open but not arbitration?
ReplyDeleteGo UFT SOLIDARITY!
ReplyDeleteThis is the progressive part of the UFT!
They will continue to grow stronger!
Vote UFT SOLIDARITY!
1057,
ReplyDeleteWhy would you want to be targeted?
I’ve been there. Done that. It’s not fun.
It impacts your health and personal life.
In my twenties, I was that guy viewed as ‘not a team player’ who always voiced how he felt on doe nonsense.
What did it do to me? It made administration talk poorly of me to colleagues, people I thought were friends mocked me behind my back and the kids knew the admins hated me.
I was a wreck. Then, I got excessed and started to change my mindset. I saw a therapist, started exercising and playing golf again and I’m much happier in my 40’s doing this job than I was at 25.
Talk to cops, fdny, sanitation guys or any city workers and we all deal with this nonsense.
It’s easier to go along to get along than it is to ‘fight the good fight’. The city can chew you up and spit you out.
Who needs that?
It’s much easier to go in, get by, get a round of golf in or a workout and live to see another day.
Oh, pass all the kids who show up, too. That helps as well!
Let the bashing of me begin in 3, 2, 1
I agree with your analysis, but given that reality we’re doomed to the current conditions ad infinitum.
DeleteIt’s eye opening sitting in on multiple Zoom meetings this year how little analysis is being taught in current social studies classrooms. It’s almost all regurgitation of facts based on short readings without an understanding of historical trends. If these teachers can’t analyze history in their classrooms, how are they going to analyze their current employment situation. They’ve all bought into the Liberal’s claim that the US has a completely despicable history and we need to atone for this. At what point do we stand up and fight for a better country, or is better off left for those Trump lovers?
It’s sad.
David, it is despicable. A strong critique of our history would keep us from regurgitating our past.
DeleteAlso, I wouldn't call it a liberal claim. I do not see actual liberals offering much critique. They are no different, on average, in their historical analysis and beliefs than conservatives. Both groups are ideologically tied to capitalism, militarism, and imperialism. Liberalism itself is the ideology of capitalism, specifically neo-liberalism in the US since the Reagan era, but in the US definitions have all been lost. Somehow liberalism is thought of as left wing only in this country. It isn't. It is center right and that is being generous.
Not sure that the size of the school matters much in the FSF equation that is said to incentivize Admins tp shove seniors out the door.
ReplyDeleteWhat matters is that they are senior teachers.
The cost of the teacher doesn't mean all that much. I know this has been the claim here for years, but the math doesn't support this claim.
In the smaller school model, when combined with FSF and Bloomberg management principals, budgets were top heavy with Admins, and, it has been claimed, budgets were often cut by shoving seniors out the door and hiring newbies.
But the math doesn't support this.
Not even in small schools.
For example, in a small school of 400-500 students with a staff of 30, and a $4,000,000 budget, pushing out 10% of top salaried staff or 3 seniors might save 2.25%
Admins can always save 2-3% in the budget without pushing out teachers and hiring new ones.
The REAL reason they shove seniors out the door is ageism and the fact that seniors stand up to Admins.
I've seen a CL cut a deal with Admins to lob off positions and not replace them to save money for technology and other programs. How does the UFT stand for this. One year there are 12 teachers in a department, the next year there are 10. The restructuring is often use to shove seniors and others out and not even replace them, but put the money into no-teaching items. The UFY should ne stopping this.
I don’t pay dues for union leaders to take on white supremacy or black supremacy or Trans supremacy. I pay dues for them to take on administrator supremacy. That’s why come June I’m no longer paying. I decided last summer that I had supported a racist radical leftist organization long enough. Randi, Hinds, many others are racists.
ReplyDelete10:54 why do you dislike the concept of taking on white supremacy?
DeleteIs it wrong to challenge overwhelming black crime? She didn't, for some reason.
ReplyDelete321. Go deeper. What system created the overwhelming poverty that causes crime?
Delete12:27 I’m super pro taking on white supremacy, black supremacy, trans supremacy, all the supremacies. We’re equal and we all should be given equal opportunity. Reread my 10:54 comment. Did you not understand the part where I mentioned what I pay for? I pay for a service so I want the service I pay for. Instead of fighting for me, a lowly teacher, they champion their own political causes. So I’m cancelling payment for the service in June.
ReplyDelete335. We live in a society. Issues intersect. People voice opinions. Are we against that completely? Or only when it is the issue she spoke about? Politics are a piece of all things. Especially, quite obviously, unions.
Delete321 let us understand. everytime someone makes a statement on an issue do they also have to bring up every single other issue to justify speaking out on the first one? For example, if we say sugar is bad, should we also say but what about salt? Or is this only a thorn in the side when it is in regards to calling out White supremacy?
ReplyDelete12:27: Battling white supremacy shouldn't mean we need to hire more teachers of color. To me that is regressive in that we are using the word color again which was phased out of our vocabulary back in the 70s. You can't put all non-white people into one category and call them people of color. Are white Hispanics considered people of color? Also when you use that term around students, do they know that it means anybody that is not Caucasian or does it refer only to skin color?
ReplyDeleteTHEY NEVER MENTION CERTAIN SKIN COLORS. The dem way. Ironically, they leave out the group that commits the most crime.
ReplyDelete358 The group that is overpoliced? That lives largely in poverty? That is incarcerated and convicted at higher rates than others for the same crimes? The group that has been marginalized and redlined disproportionately? Break down the statistics, and the things that fuel them. Analyze the present with historical context. The first issue is class, in the US race is another piece of it. And keep in mind, most policies by our two capitalist big money parties are written in favor of the White upper class. The rhetoric placates the people and the actions placate the White upper class. And why so worked up over someone calling out White supremacy? Seems to have irked a few people here.
DeleteWhite supremacy is when the NY Post questions the credentials of the chancellor and gets called racist, right?
ReplyDelete441 no that is White stupidity
DeleteYeah, 358 is right. They forget and ignore. Nobody says white supremacy is good, but some ignore the constant crime, riots, looting, shootings when the suspect is black. There is such outrage over the GA shooting but nothing about the black on Asian attacks which happen daily. Why? Skin color of suspect.
ReplyDeletedave. sounds like a problem with US news media, and the political class. anti racist activists denounce any hate based crime. Dems and Repugnicans and the media are all trash and just go for the hip rhetoric. Though, with local news, there is never a problem splashing black suspects across tv screens, quite disproportionately in fact. It is as if they are trying to stir up fear of a certain appearance.
Deletealso this was started by a person who was upset that White supremacy got called out, and not other things as well. apparently, White supremacy cannot be singled out without offending some people. kinda odd. wouldn't a more progressive approach be to champion that one good thing (calling out White supremacy) and then say let's go a little deeper and a little further, instead of the -how dare she call it out- framing that was offered up?
dave. Speaking of Georgia and anti asian attacks..
Deletehttps://news.yahoo.com/police-captain-said-atlanta-shooter-163214653.html
You are so lost you can’t even understand the guys (or gals) point. The union should focus on bread and butter issues of the teachers, NOT SOCIAL ISSUES! that’s not why unions exist. They exist to protect working people of all colors. Get a clue please.
ReplyDelete515 and protection of workers intersects with social issues. they all bleed together. a good, strong union (or State) protects its members in and out of the workplace. broaden the scope. connect those dots.
DeleteWe have 2 differemnt complaints.
ReplyDelete1-the uft should not get into the social justice referee business, they have a job to do, which thety are failing at.
2-the uft and randi and the media are completely one sided
3-Where is the spring break money, it is almost 12 months
550 they use rhetoric to placate. that is the bad thing. getting into social issues is not, as social issues also affect members. but they cannot use it to cover up the nothing they are otherwise doing.
DeleteTo those of you saying that they leave out the color of those that commit the most crimes - interesting you mention that.
ReplyDeleteBecause last time I checked, a majority of mass shooting events were initiated by white males. And almost always they try to cover it up with "mental health issues."
If you commenters are going to keep saying black people do the most crime, the media covers it over and over again, keep in mind that holds for you as well.
Mass shootings are a terrorist attack. People that commit mass shootings are terrorists. Most of these people are white. And the police and media cover it with "mental health issues" and they were "having a rough day."
Racism is an issue. The event in Atlanta was racially motivated. As a south asian who is a minority in their home country as well, who grew up post 9/11, I have had my fair share of racist remarks and actions that were always initiated by a white person. No black was ever racist towards me, no asian, no hispanic, it was always a white person.
Get out of your bubble and go to other parts of the city. Talk with people of other races. Learn about them and their culture before you make assumptions about them.
Racism exists. White supremacy exists. That's why these mass shooters always get to play the mental health card when getting media coverage. Bad day my arse.
The amount of times I have heard white people say the craziest most atrocious things. China virus - people in the South eat roadkill. Muslims and incests - people in the rural Midwest engage in that too, as well as polygamy.
Oh, but I guess it is okay if white people do it. They were just having a bad day.
@945 pm...
DeleteI decided to check in today to read the comments.I'm NOT surprised to read the same old lyrics of the "non-racist" Anonymous commenter singing their national anthem about "black people being the problem".
There used to be a commenter named Tom who tried to have a real conversation with the racist Anonymouser but it was pointless. I also stopped commenting on this blog because each day racist comments were posted "out of the blue".
I wholeheartedly agree with your views. Unfortunately some people will just be left behind because sh^t will change--like it or not. Good luck and stay safe.
Open school tonight. Minority school. Not a single parent. Sad!
ReplyDeleteCnn and msnbc make excuses for white people? Did cnn or msnbc spend 30 seconds covering the black on Asian crimes which happened daily from coast to coast? Everyone condemns the GA shooting. Only half the people condemn the black on Asian attacks and the riots last summer.
ReplyDeleteThe virus did come from china. Is Spanish flu racist? What's the difference?
Hasn't the country bent over backwards with affirmative action? Getting rid of laws. Bail reform. Um, no attendance policy or grading policy in nyc schools? Why did that happen? Because which group was lagging?
@1116 pm...
DeleteAs soon as the country recognizes how just giving a certain group"the benefit of the doubt" weakens us, maybe we can really MAGA. 2020 showed the world how after centuries of white men being "in charge" the US really is all hyperbole and full of malarkey. Malcolm X said it best,"The chickens will come home to roost". Now certain folks are losing their sh^t. For example, educators have tossed in the towel on their profession. Some are bitching and calling for the head of the uft because they had to work over last year's break. How do they demonstrate? By continuing to pass failing students because they are scared of their admin. They pick a side: republican and democrats but they don't see the commonality of working folks or the power we have. Black folks demonstrate for what we want. Instead of joining and adding the complaints of the working class to the demonstrations some of you sit and type weak arce comments about blacks. You are literally being sent back into a potentially unsafe environment and all you do is ask Mulgrew to save you. Cluefu^kingless.
W4S said:They pick a side: republican and democrats but they don't see the commonality of working folks or the power we have.
DeleteExcellent point Waiting. We miss you when you leave for sure.
Joe Biden has nominated Debra Haaland to be Secretary of the Interior. Why? She is a Congresswoman from New Mexico and has some Native American heritage. I assume she is fully compliant with the Democrats’ far-left checklist; otherwise, she has no apparent qualifications for the job.
ReplyDeleteHaaland’s nomination came before the Senate Energy Committee yesterday and today. She did not perform well. To put it charitably, she seemed like a nice lady who has little idea what the Interior Department does and no knowledge that would equip her to make decisions on critical issues that would come before her as Secretary.
Bread and butter issues. The leaders of the union can have as many views about social issues they want. However the focus of the union should be on working and wage issues, not social issues.
ReplyDelete515. It’s not their fault. They’ve been brainwashed to see nothing but race in all issues. Sad. We’re heading backwards. Evidently MLK was an idiot for believing we just judge people by the content of their character over their skin color. His statues will be torn down too eventually. Streets with his names will have to be changed. We’re headed for nothing good with this leftist ideology. Luckily other states have more sense and are rejecting leftism. The battle rages on....
ReplyDelete731.. use the full MLK quote. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." MLK was speaking of his children, the color of their skin. He is specific, you should be too when quoting him. And if you're going to trash leftists, why quote a socialist?
Delete@731...
DeleteSome folks only like to quote dead black men...it's less threatening. Some folks are a product of the US education system. It teaches people that white is good and all others are helpless and need help. A commenter mentioned earlier: dig deeper. When you do, you will see the fallacy in the indoctrination.
2018 statistics from BJS.gov show for white victims, 62% of perpetrators are white. For black victims, 70% of perpetrators are black. For Asian victims, 27% of perps are black, 24% white and 24% Asian. Victimized Hispanics are victimized by other Hispanics 45% of the time. According to these statistics, whites, blacks, Hispanics are more likely to be victimized by members of their own race but Asians are more likely to be victimized by blacks. Also, according to these statistics, if you are white, black or Hispanic and are victimized by someone outside of your race, the odds of your perpetrator being Asian range from less than 0.1% to 2.2. For nonAsians the safest community to live in seems to be an Asian community. For Asians, they are least likely to be victimized by Hispanics. For whites, blacks “hate” crimes are not the concern but regular old crime by our own race sure is. 62% and 70% for them compared to 24% and 45% for Asians and Hispanics.
ReplyDeletePlease provide a link to your statistics, 8:18.
ReplyDeleteCited source.
ReplyDeleteMore facts: Federal Bureau of Justice statistics data show that of nearly 600,000 violent interracial victimizations involving Blacks and Whites, Black suspects committed 537,204 interracial felonies (not including homicides), or 90%, and Whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10%. The Red Elephants blog points out that Black perpetrators are also overrepresented among all perpetrators of hate crimes — by 50% — according to the most recent Justice Department data from 2017. Whites are underrepresented by 24%.
According to the FBI, African Americans accounted for 52.4% of all homicide offenders in 2018, with Whites 43.1% and "Other"/Unknown 4.4%. Of these, 15.4% were Hispanic or Latino. The per-capita offending rate for African Americans was roughly six times higher than Whites, and the victim rate is a similar figure. Most homicides were intraracial, with 81% of White victims killed by Whites and 89% of African American victims killed by African Americans.[52][53]
African Americans account for the majority of gun homicide victims and arrestees in the US while Whites (including Hispanics) account for the majority of non-gun homicide victims and arrestees. Of the gun murder victims in the United States between 2007 and 2016, 57% were black, 40.6% white (including Hispanic), 1.35% Asian, 0.98% unknown race and 0.48% indigenous American. Non-gun homicides represented about 30% of total murders in the time period. African Americans were also over-represented in such homicides, by about 2.5 times their share of the general population.
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ReplyDeleteWe're not going backwards. Until you have experienced getting harassed for how you look, don't speak like as if you know whether or not racism exists. It does, it happens to many people a day, and lots of it goes unreported. Especially those from Asian cultures who are wary of making police complaints.
ReplyDeleteOh, btw, I have been to D26 schools. Majority white, just as stupid as the rest of the city kids. The only difference is white parents pester and complain to get high grades. The kids don't actually earn it though.
Lori Loughlin anyone.
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There should be no reason 20,000 plus teachers cannot gather in new york in May to show we mean business we can be socially distanced by 3 feet with 3 masks 😂😂. Again, waiting 12 years for retro you morons thinking getting paid for spring are loony.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of white supremacy, makes me sick that in 1939 Madison Square Garden held a Nazi rally with 20,000 people!!! WE all know US brought over nearly 2,000 nazi or german scientist after holocaust and ww2 for CIA and NASA. There was no way these sick poeople were going away since they are embedded in this country at the highest positions.
The plan is to divide and conquer us with racial division and propaganda and it seems to be working.
James https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv18.pdf. Table 14 on page 13.
ReplyDeleteI do know how it feels to be targeted for how I look 951. Once again I really think it’s sad that many leftists are so obsessed with color/race they can’t read and understand a simple comment. No where did I say racism doesn’t exist. I pointed out data that shows that Asians are the only group more likely to be targeted by someone outside of their own racial group and that blacks victimize Asians more than any other racial group. Facts are a stubborn thing.
ReplyDelete1109 Leftists apply intersectionality to race. You are thinking of liberals and conservatives, and how they misuse identity politics. They leave out ideology and class all the time and only focus on race and sex.
DeleteAs for Asians, shall we discuss the root of Asian hate crimes, that is US and European imperialism and colonialism? It creates the culture of hate, it creates the frenzy, it is the violence from the top that creates violence at the bottom.
@1239 pm...Facts are great.
DeleteUnfortunately some facts are buried in order to continue the great lie.
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DeleteAmen.
So MLK didn’t want other races to be judged by the contact of their character but only black people? Or to be even more literal he only wanted his children? We either judge all people by the content of their character or we judge some by skin color. If you don’t subscribe to the former, which people do you judge by their skin color?
ReplyDeleteAsk a present day American from China or the Philippines or who descended from such people if they want American citizenship or the citizenship of their country of origin. Blacks commit more crimes against Asians than any other group and it’s because of white imperialism and colonization? That’s just not logical. Asians are victimized by whites and other Asians in equal number. Was the Imperialism and colonization of eons ago so strong it convinced Asians to victimize other Asians? Racism exists but when you dig deeper into the left’s arguments the absurdity of their race obsession is obvious. Look at Japan’s history of abusing Chinese people? Maybe they started the current wave of Asian hate crimes. Absurdities. All of it....except the fact that yes racism does exist.
1:55 when we use quotes we must use them in their proper context, not mold them to support our narratives. it was Black people being judged by the color of their skin. Not White people. that is the context. do not misappropriate Dr Kings words.
ReplyDeletehttps://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-43
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W4s. Randi Weingarten started it with her tweet. All of the comments on race started with misinterpretations of the commenter who wanted the union to focus on teacher issues not social issues. This, being in the era of the absurd, meant that the commenter somehow supported white supremacy. No one said blacks were the problem. The statistics were used to show that crime statistics don’t support that white supremacy is the problem. Asian hate crimes came up in the thread and again the statistics do not support that white supremacy is the problem. If accusations of white supremacy are to be made, then the accusers and the bystanders can’t bitch when statistics are used that cast a poor light on blacks when countering the accusations. Black people were not the target here. The target was to expose that the white supremacy card is over used. To support that argument, victim/perpetrator facts were used. I think all of this was obvious it one follows the thread.
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DeleteI've followed the thread(s) for several years. Some anonymous poster always bring the discussion around to race and more specifically black folks. Personally I couldn't care less about the opinion of any racistposter/commenter here or anywhere. However I am simply giving support to the poster/commenter who is attempting to enlighten the racist. Anywho, hey James. This is why I take my sabbaticals from this site. Praying you, your fam and friends are healthy and safe.
PS To my asian brothers and sisters: Stay safe. When they attack you, they attack me. That's how i rock.
@waiting.... some folks are just racists who hate white people.
ReplyDelete@256... racism doesn't exist,right?
DeleteRacism is not dead, but it is on life support — kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as “racists.” - Thomas Sowell (still alive and still black last I heard)
ReplyDelete@3pm...racism is kept alive by those who won't see it.
DeleteAnd wrong on just about every issue.
ReplyDeletePerhaps if I groomed 14 year old boys or wore blackface you would think higher of me like the Lincoln project or joy Behar or gov northam or sent out anti gay tweets like joy reid. I guess you forgot.
ReplyDelete@347... get outside. You sound as if you're troubled.
DeleteSooooo we judge some by the color or all by character??? I choose character.
ReplyDelete423 is right, tell the blacks to stop the daily black on Asian attacks.
ReplyDeleteEnough already. This post was about regular teachers being paid as subs. I let it go way off the rails. Sorry about that.
ReplyDeleteWaiting... Implying anyone here is denying racism exists is an attempt to distract. The white supremacy is everywhere narrative was rebutted with statistical evidence. The old playbook of just scream “racist” to get someone to back off debating their argument just doesn’t have the same weight anymore. Let’s put them on the defensive. I’m not safe here that’s why I need breaks....wah wah. If you think the comments you don’t like are racist, you’re the one who needs to go outside for fresh air. Racism exists. No one said otherwise. White supremacy is being widely exaggerated by the left. That’s my opinion backed up with evidence. Disagree but don’t label those who hold this view as racist.
ReplyDelete@6:02 pm - except it isn't as exhibited by the mass shooting this week. I could list more that occurred to those of my religion and culture.
ReplyDeletePost 9/11 hasn't been pretty for those who practice our religion and culture and most initiated by white men. I would like to say it is not exaggerated.
So tell the whites to back off our subset of Asians. I think it is because those committing the crimes are very poor at geography.