It was only last year that Santa Claus was terminated as a teacher, based upon the biased and unfair DOE investigation process. You would think that Santa Claus would be pretty upset with these naughty non-educators at Tweed that runs the DOE. Despite suffering from the DOE's witch hunt that lead to the false, embellished, and outrageous accusations against him and subjected him to the 3020-a process, Santa Claus did not hold any malice and still tried to meet the needs of the DOE leadership wish list because that is what he is. Of course we all know that the DOE leadership was "naughty" and far from nice when it came to the parents, students, and staff at the schools under their thumb. During their failed leadership, over 90 schools have closed or are closing and who cares about what the community wants. Even ex-Chancellor Joel Klein stated he didn't go far enough in destroying teacher due process rights and community input during his eight year tenure that saw teacher morale plummet, paperwork explode, and teacher control of the classroom eliminated by top-down mandated programs, just to name a few.
Let's take a peek what the DOE leadership wish list looks like.
Ex-Chancellor Joel Klein: A heart and managerial skills.
Future Chancellor Cathie Black: A masters degree and a clue about what goes on in a public school classroom.
Head Of Legal Services Michael Best: The power to suspend teachers without pay & health benefits when accused of misconduct or incompetence.
OSI & SCI: More investigators that can do biased and unfair investigations against school staff, when the Principalcalls them in. Here was one such advertisement for OSI investigators.
Tweed Leadership: The right to hire and fire teachers as they please and the elimination of those inconvenient "due process" rights. This is what Tweed wants. Moreover, an increase in their already-bloated headcount to achieve these aims and to further spin statistics and the fuzzy math that is the hallmark of Tweed.
"Leadership Academy Principals": The power to remove staff from their schools and budgets as they see fit. Furthermore, they want the authority to ignore building & layoff seniority rules without being questioned. Are they not the CEO of the building?
Santa Claus read the outrageous demands from the DOE leadership and realized how very naughty and unaccountable they were this year. Therefore, Santa Claus did the only thing possible. He gave every last one of them what they deserved. A lump of coal in their stockings.
I know, I forgot Mayor Bloomberg. However, Mayor moneybags is a mufti-billionaire and does not need a gift from Santa Claus. He just uses his money to change the rules and then he simply buys what he wants, like a third term as Mayor.
This is my last post until 2011. Everybody have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Chaz: A Clue
ReplyDeleteunity hack:
ReplyDeleteSome independent thought
Unity HacK:
ReplyDeleteHow about some constructive thought, or is that not allowed by your masters?
You poor teachers. Everyone is out to get you and the NYC DOE exists to abuse you. Your all innocent and the 3020-a arbitrators that fire you are corrupt which means better than 90% of them are corrupt.
ReplyDeleteYou should be greatful for what you have. Read the papers, do some primary research, ook at what is around you, as your not going to have it much longer. And you know it! That is why your frustrated and angry. Give me a break.