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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:17 PM Jun 2014

A Rally to End the Fourth Term of Michael Bloomberg Tomorrow @ 4:30 pm.

At Tweed Courthouse @ City Hall Park.

Bloomberg is gone but his butt-ugly anti-teacher, anti-union apparatus lives on.

Big Bill: We are waiting.

From Raging Horse Blog:


>>>>Five months have passed since Carmen Farina assumed the job of Chancellor of the NYC Department of Education following 12 years of the sadistic reign of Michael R. Bloomberg. And while, unlike her three predecessors, Farina is indeed an educator, little at Tweed, other than the tone and rhetoric, has really changed. The institutions and the policies remain eerily similar to that of Walcott and Klein.

To wit: Tweed remains bulging with lawyers charged with advising principals how best to fire tenured teachers. The loathed and exorbitantly expensive networks are still running around pretending that they are actually working and actually know what they’re doing. Sociopathic principals are still ruining the careers of new teachers without a second thought, while the cases of hundreds of unfairly U rated or discontinued teachers remain wholly unexamined. The Leadership Academy continues to churn out new business model principals by the sackful.

And the newly ratified UFT contract goes near none of this.
http://raginghorse.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/a-rally-to-end-the-fourth-term-of-michael-r-bloomberg-tomorrow-at-430-at-tweed/

In many ways, teachers are struggling through what can rightfully be called Bloomberg’s fourth term.

The first real volley to demand an end to the Reign of Bloomberg will be a rally to take place tomorrow on the steps of Tweed from 4:30 -5:00, organized by the newly created Don’t Tread on Educators. (http://dtoe.org/)

All those who can attend should attend. Nothing will change until we make it change and we have no one to depend on but ourselves.>>>>

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A Rally to End the Fourth Term of Michael Bloomberg Tomorrow @ 4:30 pm. (Original Post) Smarmie Doofus Jun 2014 OP
UNREC brooklynite Jun 2014 #1
......... Smarmie Doofus Jun 2014 #2
Don't waste your time on that one. LeftyMom Jun 2014 #3
Maybe the fact that nobody else but you responded speaks to the lack of clarity? Just a thought... brooklynite Jun 2014 #5
Thank you, I had no problem understanding the OP. But then I've been very interested in sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #7
Did you read the OP? The policies are clearly stated in the release. I agree and wonder why it's sabrina 1 Jun 2014 #6
Kick for exposure. Smarmie Doofus Jun 2014 #4
Morning kick for *indecent* exposure. n/t Smarmie Doofus Jun 2014 #8
This is a fight for the children not only teachers, I hope they are successful. Jefferson23 Jun 2014 #9

brooklynite

(94,302 posts)
1. UNREC
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:24 PM
Jun 2014

You're certainly free to repost a press release, but if you want people to show up, would it hurt to provide some definition to what "demand an end to the Reign of Bloomberg" means? Specific policies you want changed? Firing DOE staff? Renegotiating the union contract? The "DTOE" website says absolutely nothing.

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
2. .........
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:39 PM
Jun 2014

It's not a press release; it's a well-known blog written by a well-known working NYC public school teacher.

"Specific policies you want changed? Firing DOE staff? Renegotiating the union contract? The "DTOE" website says absolutely nothing."


Specific policies we want changed are laid-out in the text of OP :


1. >>>>To wit: Tweed remains bulging with lawyers charged with advising principals how best to fire tenured teachers.>>>>>


2. >>>>>>The loathed and exorbitantly expensive networks are still running around pretending that they are actually working and actually know what they’re doing. >>>>

3. >>>>>>Sociopathic principals are still ruining the careers of new teachers without a second thought, while the cases of hundreds of unfairly U rated or discontinued teachers remain wholly unexamined. >>>>>

4. >>>>>The Leadership Academy continues to churn out new business model principals by the sackful. >>>>>>


Let me know if there's further confusion.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
7. Thank you, I had no problem understanding the OP. But then I've been very interested in
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 12:35 AM
Jun 2014

what has been happening to our educational system over the past decade or so especially in poor districts.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
6. Did you read the OP? The policies are clearly stated in the release. I agree and wonder why it's
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 12:33 AM
Jun 2014

taking so long.

Same old story, promises during campaigns, fiery rhetoric, and then, nothing. Until the people get involved. Seems to me that ANY changes that have occurred for the better, didn't come willingly from politicians, they came only after huge efforts on the part of the people.

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