Our naive public is being fooled into thinking that the NYC school system is improving. Test scores are supposedly up. Let's get the real score on the system.
Teachers can't wait to retire. Thanks to 55/25 hordes of teachers are leaving the system. Others just quit or transfer to other systems.
Discipline just gets worse and worse. Teachers are routinely blamed for everything. The idea is that they are not motivating the recalcitrants.
It's long overdue that we reestablish the 600 school concept for the unruly. A longer day and longer year are ridiculous. Children run amok through the halls creating havoc. The disruptive child has his own agenda. That agenda is that no one learns anything while he or she is around.
We have supervisors out there who never taught one day in their lives. How can they supervise a teacher fairly? At least teach the subject that you are observing the classroom teacher teach!
Chancellor Klein should commit to teaching in one of our many SURR schools once he leaves the chancellor's position.
How could the UFT have allowed seniority to be done away with? We have teachers teaching over 20 years who have been excessed and now relegated to the substitute status. What an insult this is. You can't grieve a letter? You're back in the trenches supervising cafeterias and monitoring hallways? Teachers are there to teach. Do doctors patrol the corridors of hallways? Do lawyers monitor the corridors of the courts? Of course not. Only teachers are dumped on by uncaring administrators and a mayor who will never understand what a teacher goes through from September until June.
I look forward to replies. To all my fellow teachers still teaching, have a wonderful summer. You've earned it. To all of us who have retired: Thank the Lord that we made it!
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