tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post1949555120805675847..comments2024-03-07T15:25:26.971-05:00Comments on ICEUFT Blog: PROTEST OUTSIDE A BRONX SCHOOLJeff Kaufmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11728874415155394751noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-35420289161739677372020-09-11T09:13:49.887-04:002020-09-11T09:13:49.887-04:00If you clean your own classroom, mice droppings in...If you clean your own classroom, mice droppings included, you're be scrubbing toilets next. Once after vacation I entered my room to find someone (not my students or me....wasn't there when I left work) had left a box of cookies on my desk. Mice had gotten to it and left droppings all over my desk. The AP cleaned it because my administration knows I will never be their f'n maid. Teach people how to treat you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-87671822185106265932020-09-10T22:30:28.580-04:002020-09-10T22:30:28.580-04:00We heard there was an agreement. There isn't o...We heard there was an agreement. There isn't one so who knows Unity Must Go.James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-92019741365272077842020-09-10T22:22:15.168-04:002020-09-10T22:22:15.168-04:00There is unfairness all around. This is the schoo...There is unfairness all around. This is the school year of unfairness. Any chance the DOE policy on assigned 100% remote teachers working from home will be up to the teacher to decide? In addition, is there any selection criteria? Does the position have to be posted or are the principals just being allowed to decide? And can the principal switch your assignment at any time? Don't play ball and suddenly they reassign you? I'm really interested in answers to these questions. Unitymustgo!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14117390123313141745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-4220330785185660152020-09-10T20:09:28.367-04:002020-09-10T20:09:28.367-04:00Are we working more hours? Are the extra 30 minut...Are we working more hours? Are the extra 30 minutes that we have to ho in added time?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-565769661007392020-09-10T06:39:52.594-04:002020-09-10T06:39:52.594-04:00Exactly. Staff not showing their face is our least...Exactly. Staff not showing their face is our least worry.<br />Stop it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-45561208834188082092020-09-10T06:27:30.509-04:002020-09-10T06:27:30.509-04:00We must stand together and fight like Hell. This i...We must stand together and fight like Hell. This is a deadly virus. No one should be entering a building that's not ready. So far, 21 district 75 schools closed because their not ready. Many district 75 schools are in buildings of state or agency who refuses to work with the DOE staff to make sure the building is ready. Mulgrew, the chancellor, and the Mayor don't care. <br />Take a medical accommodation leave everyone. Our families need us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-87539506766441112662020-09-09T17:51:42.959-04:002020-09-09T17:51:42.959-04:00We are educators not maids. Carranza should have b...We are educators not maids. Carranza should have been fired 6 months ago All he cares about is his photo ops and Mayor DEBLAH is a total failure who only cares about bleeding NYC residents dry. Michael hates them both but might have been worried about teachers' pocketbooks because of Taylor Law. I give the situation no more than 10 days. Where is leadership except for Cuomo?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-61115518381123120462020-09-09T16:20:46.321-04:002020-09-09T16:20:46.321-04:00TeachNY is concerned about remote staff not showin...TeachNY is concerned about remote staff not showing their face during PD meetings. How about being concerned about the conditions that our colleagues are facing since you were all for school reopening. It's life and death TeachNY - LIFE AND DEATH.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-33846754829906212322020-09-09T15:38:40.194-04:002020-09-09T15:38:40.194-04:00Principal for D79 school just told us building is ...Principal for D79 school just told us building is safe because he made sure all windows can be opened. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-28292121366557421162020-09-09T14:17:21.624-04:002020-09-09T14:17:21.624-04:00There shouldn't be an ATR pool. We totally agr...There shouldn't be an ATR pool. We totally agree.James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-57213367175050920372020-09-09T14:02:03.811-04:002020-09-09T14:02:03.811-04:00So why is there still an ATR pool? Why haven'...So why is there still an ATR pool? Why haven't they been placed into permanent positions or would that make too much sense for the doe to figure out? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-84742150599605266162020-09-09T13:38:07.133-04:002020-09-09T13:38:07.133-04:00They need in the thousands to do this right from e...They need in the thousands to do this right from everything I am hearing from schools.James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-66516283065085190172020-09-09T12:58:22.333-04:002020-09-09T12:58:22.333-04:00Bull James, there are still plenty teachers flound...Bull James, there are still plenty teachers floundering in the ATR. They should have been placed at the beginning of the year. There are only a handful of openings on open market. What's the deal?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-33165900731894462062020-09-09T11:57:35.625-04:002020-09-09T11:57:35.625-04:00There aren't enough teachers to cover both rem...There aren't enough teachers to cover both remote and in person.James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-79718260028340556052020-09-09T11:34:08.826-04:002020-09-09T11:34:08.826-04:00I am a teacher at FHS, Queens, NY. Why are we bei...I am a teacher at FHS, Queens, NY. Why are we being told that we may have to teach in person and remotely? We have the understanding that there is supposed to be 1 in classroom teacher and 1 remote teacher. We have "Tentative" schedules that will most likely change "many times. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-53372338958188673492020-09-08T21:59:35.466-04:002020-09-08T21:59:35.466-04:00The Principal's had to sit through a Chancello...The Principal's had to sit through a Chancellor's meeting at the end of the day today. All of the people on the call -- the Chancellor, the Deputy Superintendents, etc. -- were working from home.Quinn Zannonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13298967285306844168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-70831963254800588882020-09-08T21:44:50.052-04:002020-09-08T21:44:50.052-04:00Today at Urban Assembly HS of Emergency Management...Today at Urban Assembly HS of Emergency Management in the Murray Bergtraum building the co-principals were at the building. Staff were remote today as per the request of the co-principals. While on zoom, both principals were in the same office without masks. The school is located in the basement level. <br /><br /><br />All staff and students are supposed to have masks on. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-74138655021190709512020-09-08T19:07:44.820-04:002020-09-08T19:07:44.820-04:00The chief custodian is preparing a little doggy ba...The chief custodian is preparing a little doggy bag for Switzerland when he retires!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-49788490141689834572020-09-08T18:32:04.119-04:002020-09-08T18:32:04.119-04:00iceuft@gmail.comiceuft@gmail.comJames Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-10922371575887989552020-09-08T18:30:24.852-04:002020-09-08T18:30:24.852-04:00It is up to the principal's discretion. For ...It is up to the principal's discretion. For example, if a principals decides there is not enough space for a particular staff, the principal may ask that person tow work remote. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-4901533330802229312020-09-08T18:20:47.959-04:002020-09-08T18:20:47.959-04:00What's your email James?What's your email James?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-1197317113007648922020-09-08T17:41:56.313-04:002020-09-08T17:41:56.313-04:00So the current testing numbers are still below 1%....So the current testing numbers are still below 1%. Do you see how Mulgrew's testing plan totally screwed all of us? Don't believe me? Here's how.<br /><br />The positive rate is based on the number of people tested and what percentage of them tested positive. NY had about 50K tests reports and less than 1% (<500) tested positive. Good, right?<br /><br />Well, if you remember a few weeks back Gov. Cuomo criticized the President who said we should test less people and our number of tests total would drop. Makes sense. If you test less, less people get tested, that lowers our statistics.<br /><br />But what if that worked the other way? What if, oh I don't know, 80,000 people were tested who had very little chance of having the virus and were only being tested because their job mandated them to be tested. They weren't being tested because they thought they had the virus but because they had to. And what if those people were given priority at testing locations so the results came back quickly. Wouldn't that A) increase the number of tests, B) produce a low number of positives, and C) lower the city's infection rate?<br /><br />Then what if you required 1,000,000 students to be tested? Students who had equally low chances of having the virus and many, by doctor's estimations about 70%, may have been asymptomatic and have immunity. Wouldn't those increased testing numbers also A) increase the number of tests, B) produce a low number of positives, and C) lower the city's infection rate?<br /><br />And what if you had the same group do the same test the next month? Would you not again be flooding the statistics with negatives that would keep the city's infection rate under 3% because the more you test, specifically those who probably don't have the virus, the lower the infection rate would be?<br /><br />The infection rate as a protocol for closing schools is the problem. We are basically chasing our tail because the numbers can't catch up to the trigger that would shut the schools down. Instead we go into unsafe environments, which by the way have been unsafe for other reasons for decades but unless evidence is pointed out and published we will continue to be unsafe.<br /><br />Believe it or not we are ahead of the virus. NYers have been more vigilant than other states and we aren't going up as quickly as them. We need to take the reins off and try and open up the schools and restaurants and so on. We have to try. But the fight moving forward can no longer be about just covid. We have to use this opportunity to fight for safer buildings all around so that all schools have the proper ventilation, windows, cleanliness and ability to fight our seasonal viruses better than we have before.<br /><br />The UFT has failed us because the ultimate solution is so narrow in scope that it will eventually fail. They are focused on the next few weeks when we should be focused on the next few decades.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-85153585329962009732020-09-08T17:37:31.684-04:002020-09-08T17:37:31.684-04:00Can you measure air changes per hour with just an ...Can you measure air changes per hour with just an open window, when weather conditions could change the amount of air flowing through a window into a classroom, during a global pandemic where the disease is... airborne?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-49946088712705464032020-09-08T17:29:13.922-04:002020-09-08T17:29:13.922-04:00It's clear from
@NYCSchools
' shenanigans...It's clear from <br />@NYCSchools<br />' shenanigans today we won't have a safe plan in 2 weeks and we rank-and-file <br />@UFT<br /> members must FULLY STOP this unsafe school reopening. Organize your schools w/ http://tinyurl.com/StopUnsafeReopening & come to our 2 gen. meetings THIS Sat. 9/12 12pm & Sun. 9/13 2pm!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15921757.post-38068984066392244992020-09-08T17:19:15.803-04:002020-09-08T17:19:15.803-04:00At my school I caught our janitors numerous times ...At my school I caught our janitors numerous times walking around the halls without a mask on<br /><br />I saw fellow teachers not wearing a mask more times then I saw them actually wearing a mask<br /><br />There was no social distancing between employees<br /><br />They were groups of teachers sitting in classrooms next to each other and not wearing masks<br /><br />My principal had staff members in his office and was talking to them without a mask on<br /><br />I feel even more scared now than I was before returning š<br /><br />Iām hoping that when kids return to the classrooms that my fellow staff members will take it more seriously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com