Our Chancellor,
"Its A beautiful day" Carmen Farina, using her usual poor judgement, kept the NYC Public Schools open, despite 6 to 8 inches of snow falling during the school day while all other school districts in the
winter storm warning area in New York State closed their schools. Only in the New York City Public Schools is it more important to keep the schools open and risk the safety of the schoolchildren and school staff trying to travel to and from the school. You would think that the disappointing Chancellor would have learned her lesson from
last year's fiasco but she didn't. For the New York City public school children and the staff it was an adventure in reaching their school and a nightmare in returning home.
In many schools, there were over 50% absences of students and staff and little learning was done. But then again it isn't about learning i
t's about babysitting and feeding the students. Learning is secondary to supervising the students. Maybe the school staff should be required to take a
"babysitting course" that the various libraries give as a Professional Development requirement since on days like this we are simply babysitters.
It appears not to matter who the Mayor and Chancellor is, When it comes to protecting the children in hazardous weather conditions, its more important to open the schools and babysitting them then keeping them safe.
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Our attendance was actually pretty good, but I attribute that to the eighth graders anxiously awaiting their high school acceptance letters.
Think I'm due for a day off. All the white crap is going to freeze and turn into a massive white brick that I'm not inclined to deal with.
thought the post was going to be about what atrs do on a daily basis !!!! soul destroying and boring as hell
You are 100% correct. We are babysitters. Safety of all students and staff should come first.
I actually expected schools to be open but how in the world do they not cancel after school programs? Free day care at its best.
Gee, 6:31, soooo sorry that the posts here are not more entertaining for you. You sound about 5 years old, with a corresponding level of empathy. But then, it's all about you, isn't it.
as an atr I get paid a lot of money to babysit every day!! rain or shine!! 2 masters degrees and almost 20 years of experience and I babysit for a living!
anon 5:00PM - I agree.
I also work in a middle school, and hs acceptance letter day is like Christmas for these kids!! We had 90% attendance in a school with 1000+ kids. Don't forget all 9th graders are also eligible to apply!
Combine all k-8, 6-8, and 6-12 schools... and that's A LOT of eighth and ninth graders who helped keep the citywide attendance percentage high yesterday.
Played chess all day. Had a blast with the kids. Free day, can't ever call out on a free day like that!
Treat my ATR ass like a bitch?
I'll suck this teat till it's dry!
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