Until UFTers actually get involved to fix our Union by demanding proportional representation for AFT Conventions, the UFT is a big enough part of the AFT so you will see election results like these below forever basically.
These results are so preordained that they are not even news.
Here we go again...Preordained but we should care and hope for change.
ReplyDeleteRandi’s name is ever present in the same spot and position she has has been for years - it’s her defacto, status quo consultation prize for not becoming Secretary of Education under Hilary Clinton (after careful polling of her closest friends in order to give our full endorsement and guarantee of a landslide election). Randi has peaked and plateaued. I believe that is hell for her. We should all take consolation in it, as it beats anger and frustration by a mile. Eventually, years from now, she’ll pick someone that will be the most advantageous (to her personally) for her position and pass the crown. Whoever the person will be, she/he/they should be resoundingly rejected. Then there will be some semblance of democracy reintroduced into the façade that is the AFT, and by default the UFT.
ReplyDelete@3:58...that's one way to look at it. She's peaked!
ReplyDeleteIf I didn't know better, I would say that the election results were rigged. The AFT leaves very little room for surprises.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people invested in the slow downfall of public schools. Look at the pic of Randi.
ReplyDeletehttps://nypost.com/2022/07/17/those-destroying-public-schools-dont-want-you-thinking-about-alternatives/amp/
From 1.1 million students to less than 800000. At least this dysfunctional system is harming less children now. Randi and Mulgrew are major players in school dysfunction. Parents with money in their pockets escaped the dysfunction. The poor are stuck.
ReplyDeleteMore City, DoE and Mulgrew, in that order.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with contract.
ReplyDeleteSinking stocks, dicey economy may hand Mayor Adams a major budget crisis
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7:51 I have to say that it's not only rich folks. Im not poor but early in my career and low pay I went through periods where I had to pawn jewelry, make payment arrangements on many things and work 'round the clock to keep my children in private school. It was a lot of sacrifices for many parents. Not just because of academics, but the culture, not race, as I am a person of color. Anything to escape the dysfunction, as you say. Not everyone who is rich or even those who can comfortably afford it stay.
ReplyDeleteOnly in America.
ReplyDeleteNYC ex-schools chancellor Richard Carranza is engaged to an administrator he brought from Houston to New York for a six-figure job.
After he resigned in March 2021, she moved into his San Antonio apartment five months before quitting her DOE job.
"The painful fallout of Washington Democrats' 2021 spending binge continues to spread. A loaf of bread costs the American consumer 10% more than it did a year ago. A dozen eggs will run you 33% more. The price of a gallon of gas rose more than 100%."
ReplyDeleteBetter get a raise.
5:51, not sure why I thought I reach "rich folks" in your first post. You said 'parent with money in their pockets". That's not necessarily rich folks, but either way, not every one has money to spare, somehow they find it. And you're right, the poor are stuck. On the other hand, I'm not sure how vouchers would work. Every child deserves an opportunity, but we don't need the same dysfunction entering into the private schools.
ReplyDeleteGo to youtube and watch Bill Mahr segment on the United States of America.
ReplyDeleteThere is a segment there were he describes what politicians really think
of there constituent . It goes like this " Vote for me you". But what they are really saying is "Vote for me You dumb f___. " This is the same way that I think both Weingarten and Mulgrew think about there members. And you know what Bill Mahr is correct. How these two keep winning elections proves to me beyond any reasonable doubt that the membership of both the UFT and the AFT is made up of a bunch of dumb f____.
9:05 maybe some people are just not as miserable in the profession. Do you really not know anyone who is happy in their teaching job? Some are just miserable in life
DeleteUnion membership is largely uninformed
ReplyDeleteand/or highly skeptical of support from the machine, often rightly so. So you do something to fix it, the entire situation. Being divisive and spending time insulting each other is not it.