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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA 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 theyre 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 Bloombergs 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 Dont 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.>>>>
brooklynite
(94,302 posts)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)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 theyre 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.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)brooklynite
(94,302 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)what has been happening to our educational system over the past decade or so especially in poor districts.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)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.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)And for emotional satisfaction.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Disgraceful tactics.
K&R