tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post7896337162560530620..comments2024-03-14T13:50:26.981-04:00Comments on Chaz's School Daze: Was Michael Mendel A Hero Or Villain? It Depends On Who You Ask.Chazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-74606614492168892272013-11-01T10:40:38.113-04:002013-11-01T10:40:38.113-04:00I guess if you work for the union Michael MEndel i...I guess if you work for the union Michael MEndel is a great and caring person but if you're an atr the opposite is true.<br /><br />To one he is a hero to snother he is less soAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-64379565532277957352013-10-31T17:27:37.350-04:002013-10-31T17:27:37.350-04:00Hey anon 9:45 are you an atr? Why don't you a...Hey anon 9:45 are you an atr? Why don't you ask the atrs that travel weekly through your school how they feel about Michael Mendel?<br /><br />Are you even in a school or are you one of those union people who will be getting a double pension?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-41901666541417712532013-10-31T15:23:43.476-04:002013-10-31T15:23:43.476-04:00Anon 6:56
Your DR is wrong! They cannot give you...Anon 6:56<br /><br />Your DR is wrong! They cannot give you a sixth period in the secondary schools instead of a circular six assignment. They can inly give you a circular six assignment that other teachers do.<br /><br />Chazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-59197823273717615022013-10-31T15:20:55.340-04:002013-10-31T15:20:55.340-04:00Yeah right! He is so respected that he kept his i...Yeah right! He is so respected that he kept his involvement secret on the ATR committee and didn't even bother to ask them what was best for them. The result? We have the travesty of a weekly ATR rotation that does nobody any good.<br /><br />You may respect him but ask the ATRs how they feel about him?Chazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-73640073429129438712013-10-30T21:45:28.291-04:002013-10-30T21:45:28.291-04:00anyone who assumes where the money for Mend... anyone who assumes where the money for Mendels send off party came from, I do not listen to. especially when I know that people paid their hard earned money to attend. that's how much he was respected!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-20552159906115485222013-10-30T18:56:25.949-04:002013-10-30T18:56:25.949-04:00I heard from my district rep. ATR's can be gi...I heard from my district rep. ATR's can be given a sixth teaching period because we do not have a circular six.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-92137587340176292782013-10-29T20:32:01.103-04:002013-10-29T20:32:01.103-04:00James: Okay the entire DA is the blame and Adam R...James: Okay the entire DA is the blame and Adam Ross gets a greater part of the blame. Still Michael Mendel deserves the lion's share of the blame since it was his baby.<br /><br />Anon 7:59<br /><br />Really the CL or DR should be filing a grievance on the sixth period outside the elementary school. However, you might want to call Amy Arundell at UFT headquaters and pick her brain about the issue.Chazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-53635067986182438222013-10-29T19:59:36.580-04:002013-10-29T19:59:36.580-04:00Chaz, I need your advice. I am an ATR in an eleme...Chaz, I need your advice. I am an ATR in an elementary/middle school and I feel mistreated. I been getting many days of six teaching periods (I know elementary teachers have six periods). But some of this was a mixture of upper and lower grades on the same day. My district rep tells me to seek the chapter leader. However some chapter leaders are helpful and some are not. I have saved almost all of my schedules since the start of the year. How can an ATR handle this? How can an ATR file a grievance if necessary?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-34779144036989635942013-10-29T18:23:51.137-04:002013-10-29T18:23:51.137-04:00How about putting some blame on Adam Ross, our chi...How about putting some blame on Adam Ross, our chief lawyer who I think negotiates the language of agreements? Everyone who voted for this agreement deserves some responsibility. Putting it all on Mendel is just plain wrong. James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-12422199776954212442013-10-29T16:37:00.928-04:002013-10-29T16:37:00.928-04:00I can't understand how anyone can call Mr. Men...I can't understand how anyone can call Mr. Mendel a hero. If chaz is right and he never spoke with the ATRs about the weekly rotation proposal that he apparently spearheaded and rammed through the DA then he deserves the criticism that chaz has identified.<br /><br />If I was an ATR I would be angry too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-86540026497172584942013-10-29T15:59:27.678-04:002013-10-29T15:59:27.678-04:00Jonathan:
Everybody knew that the Bloomberg threa...Jonathan:<br /><br />Everybody knew that the Bloomberg threat was a bluff. He would have never laied off the "newbies" once he lost the "last in, first out": battle in Albany.<br /><br />All this did was make the life of the ATR a living hell while Principals continued to hire the "newbies". <br /><br />To me. Mr. Mendel is no hero just a hack who sacrificed over 2,000 senior teachers to purgatory without never bothering to reach out to them. Chazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-60970303385044794232013-10-29T14:01:08.804-04:002013-10-29T14:01:08.804-04:00Ya know, all this political bullcrap we have endur...Ya know, all this political bullcrap we have endured from bloomshit and other phoney politicians reminds me of a video we have all seen in the past, i.e. saddam hussein being trapped in a fox hole and eventually hung and khadafy being dragged on the ground by a moving vehicle. Is this what happens when the people unite against sick demented rulers?? I hope for this countrys sake it does not come down to that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-22225429011461572892013-10-29T13:35:52.423-04:002013-10-29T13:35:52.423-04:00Mendel received assistance in this horrific scenar...Mendel received assistance in this horrific scenario from the arrogant UFT General Counsel, Adam Ross who drafted the July 2011 document for the DA meeting.<br /><br />Neither Mendel or Ross give a dam about NYC DOE educators.<br /><br />Their sole concern was pacifying Bloomberg and protecting TFA teachers who would have been subject to the LIFO rules.<br /><br />I would not be surprised if they received compensation from Bloomberg in his desire to destroy public education. <br /><br /><br /><br />facts regarding how this agreement Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-47153591350852401762013-10-29T07:58:15.855-04:002013-10-29T07:58:15.855-04:00And how about the rank and file, including some of...And how about the rank and file, including some of your fellow bloggers, who voted for that heinous 2005 contract? They rationalized their own actions by saying how they were going to retire soon and the money looked good, never caring about what it did to other teachers or the profession. What hypocrites!!Ms. Tsourishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978868613223436958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-81570393098118935592013-10-29T07:04:27.801-04:002013-10-29T07:04:27.801-04:00Looking back at nycatr.blogspot.com blog of fall, ...Looking back at nycatr.blogspot.com blog of fall, 2011 we see that Mendel was endorsing the observation of ATRs while in rotation.<br /><br />This is another aspect of how it is unfair that huge decisions for our lives are made without elected reps.<br />Consider also the cellphone factor. Half the kids have them in use in high school classes. They think that putting the phone away is resting it on the desk without using it. Essentially teachers in schools where the admins tolerate them (even before de Blasio or Lhota officially roll out a cellphones OK policy) is asking the teacher to be more entertaining than anything in the smartphone.<br /><br />And we're being judged with our lesson performance in these conditions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-66761221529596828022013-10-28T23:27:50.593-04:002013-10-28T23:27:50.593-04:00James is right (except for misspelling my name). I...James is right (except for misspelling my name). I voted for the agreement that included ATR rotation.<br /><br />It was part of a deal (buried in <a href="http://www.uft.org/files/attachments/no_layoff-atr_moa.pdf" rel="nofollow">VB </a> that was packaged as a "no-layoff" agreement. <br /><br />I believed at that time that the threat of layoffs was real. And I still do.<br /><br />However, I should have objected to the rotation. <br /><br />If we allow one group of our members to take a hit, if we ask them to take a hit, it should be members most able to do so. Not members under fire. Not probationers. Not ATRs.<br /><br />Dropping sabbaticals was a fair concession. Rotating excessed teachers (ATRs) was not. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-17583164047052798942013-10-28T21:17:23.446-04:002013-10-28T21:17:23.446-04:00The real villain is Mayor Bloomberg and the DoE. ...The real villain is Mayor Bloomberg and the DoE. Let's not forget that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-26354939156858709432013-10-28T20:26:43.093-04:002013-10-28T20:26:43.093-04:00James:
He was the lead UFT person on the secretiv...James:<br /><br />He was the lead UFT person on the secretive ATR committee and it was Mr. Mendel who brought this cockamamie weekly rotation proposal to the DA in the first place. <br /><br />Yes, Michael Mendel is the blame because he kept his participation on the ATR committee a secret from the ATRs and he never bothered to ask the ATRs for their input and we have suffered for it.<br /><br /> Why don't you poll the over 50 Jamaica High School teachers how they fell about the weekly rotation system?<br /><br /><br />To you and Jonathan he may be a hero but to me he has shown to be an secretive "know-it-all" who didn't bother to ask the very members affected by his terrible decision, the ATRs!Chazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-85904010489219188062013-10-28T19:47:10.458-04:002013-10-28T19:47:10.458-04:00What about the entire UFT Executive Board, includi...What about the entire UFT Executive Board, including I believe your buddy Jonathon, who voted for the ATR rotation? Oh and the vast majority of the UFT Delegate Assembly that voted for it? Who was the only one screaming to speak out publicly for the ATRs? Oh that would be me.<br /><br />http://iceuftblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/city-budget-being-balanced-on-backs-of.html<br /><br />Blaming that whole rotation problem on Mendel exclusively is ridiculous.James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-76520448424548438312013-10-28T15:31:08.993-04:002013-10-28T15:31:08.993-04:00I didn't know that Michael Mendel was the UFT ...I didn't know that Michael Mendel was the UFT representative on the ATR committee. He deserves the criticism he's getting on your blog.<br /><br />Anybody that came up with and agreed to this weekly rotation nonsense without talking to the members affected by it is no hero.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-76285383595876531802013-10-27T20:54:36.591-04:002013-10-27T20:54:36.591-04:00How about the 5+ hour rounddtrip I must go through...How about the 5+ hour rounddtrip I must go through every day as an ATR to get to work? What has the UFT done? Nothing. The principal refused to release me knowing full well they are breaking the law. Grievance filed, nobody cares. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-15061506824941503422013-10-27T16:57:39.625-04:002013-10-27T16:57:39.625-04:00I was very happy when assigned to one school. May...I was very happy when assigned to one school. Maybe the Principal couldn't hire me because of FSF but I had my own classes and administrators that treated me as part of the staff. Furthermore, I had the Principal and Assistant Principal's appreciation and could use them as references. <br /><br />Now I find myself a stranger in a strange land and ignored by the administration and staff. If Michael Mandel agree to this then I'm glad he's gone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-83297990407917893092013-10-27T16:03:20.778-04:002013-10-27T16:03:20.778-04:00James, I think you are missing the point. Mr. Men...James, I think you are missing the point. Mr. Mendel never bothered to talk to the ATRs about the terrible rotation system he agreed to with the DOE and imposed upon us. In fact, he wouldn't tell any of us that he was on the secretive ATR committee.<br /><br />Why don't you ask the ATRs how they feel about Michael Mendel agreeing to the rotation system. He may not be a villain but he is certainly no hero.Chazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-54727609305086671792013-10-27T15:03:28.812-04:002013-10-27T15:03:28.812-04:00Why would anyone sing the praises of someone who w...Why would anyone sing the praises of someone who was directly involved in the cycles (rotations) of hell we atrs are subjected to. Good riddance to bad rubbish. I'd like to see Randi sometime, so I can thank her personally.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-20785768580887340952013-10-27T14:04:46.354-04:002013-10-27T14:04:46.354-04:00It is more than just Jamaica. Michael Mendel actua...It is more than just Jamaica. Michael Mendel actually listened and respected other points of view in many different UFT forums.<br /><br />When he was working on UFT Elections, he would always answer my calls and then have DOE officials direct principals to let us stuff mailboxes with caucus literature. Mendel has a sense of fairness lacking in too many UFT leaders including President Mulgrew.James Eternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578647381229034792noreply@blogger.com