Susan Edelman and The New York Post have a series of articles that question Chancellor Carranza's staff shakeup at the DOE. While I may not agree with the Chancellor's choices or the consultants he selected foe his ill-advised diversity programs, he has every right to choose the people and programs he feels most comfortable with running the DOE. Considering that the DOE was toxic when it came to the classroom, any change is welcomed. Is Chancdllor Richard Carranza a racist? I don't think so.
All the high level executives at Tweed that he demoted were hired by Joel Klein and are part of the Bloomberg policymakers that are toxic to students and teachers, As far as I am concerned, this "spring cleaning" is long overdue and should have been done by Carmen Farina.
It's about time that somebody started to get rid of many of the Bloomberg era administrators at Tweed and maybe the teachers in the trenches will see the DOE as a collaborator rather than the enemy of the classroom.
I am willing to believe it and hope it is true. We have been aware for a long time that Tweed is its own world and needs to be cleaned out.
ReplyDeleteI would say though, if this sort of dialogue starts to be replicated inside of schools it will be very very bad. I worry that it will happen in at least some places next year.
Come on Chaz, of course Kline was despicable. But have you not read the articles on Carranza you link to?
ReplyDeleteTelling employees to check their whiteness (Tell somebody at work to be less black and the conversation is over. You're gone.
Telling teachers to favor students of one race over those of another?
Replacing highly qualified people with their former subordinates who have little or no qualifications but the right skin color?
Hoe is this not reprehensible and clearly racist? How can you delude yourself?
Get rid of Danielson. It old Bloomberg era too.
ReplyDeleteI would add, that even if we ascribe positive motives to Carranza and even if he is operating from them, can we trust the "outside consultants" who are being brought in to lead the trainings? Can we trust every power hungry person who gets empowered from this? It could be the new version of Leadership Academy. I was lucky to attend an Implicit Bias training that was pretty upbeat and harmless, and a mixed audience of DOE staff experienced it as a gentle first step in some longer process. But, those who want to quickly "disrupt" and overturn everything, to achieve ends regardless of means, this could go sideways fast.
ReplyDeleteAlso, because the topics are complicated and fraught with emotions and often personal pain, it can spiral far away from the normal confines of a professional discourse and staff development. In the wrong room that is a powder keg.
Equity should be mostly about bringing more quality resources to kids and families, and opening up the world of opportunities - that might be too normal and cost too much $. So, the danger of "Equity on the cheap" might be, blame people for inequity, and force things to happen through top-down methods. Also, there seems to be a desire of some to create fast change, maybe with an eye to the political elements of this.
Top- down tends to be the way it goes in the DOE - we all were obliged to eat a lot of @#$% during the Bloomberg era, and most went along with it. It continued to a degree under Farina, and now we may be getting a new flavor. I find it hard to trust these folks at the top because it is usually about power/money/influence at that level, not about the day to day realities of schooling. These folks will pay themselves and cut a budget if it suits them, and engage in their own versions of nepotism and aggrandizement.
This is why I hope it is mostly a Tweed War and doesn't come inside schools, but it is tough to believe that it will not - look how much Danielson changed everything, once it got into schools and wan't just a nice book for a book club or grad course.
Red Guard...stuff...
ReplyDeleteHe needs to clear out the entire legal department at the DOE. He should also clear out any current leadership academy principals currently working in the DOE and place them away from actual schools.
ReplyDeleteThe Blaze has an article on this $90 million lawsuit.
ReplyDeleteHow is the ATR lawsuit?
If anybody thinks he is gonna be around when we have a new mayor in 2 years, I got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.
ReplyDeleteLousy Mayor, and an even lousier Chanchellor. I'm afraid to race baiting against "white teachers" has already been established with the new election of Blackroc Obama. It was just Carranza that lit the match.
ReplyDeleteChaz, Why does the chancellor get a pass? When principals new to a school "cleans house" they are villified. Chancellor should be no different.
ReplyDeleteWhat did he do with that pig Grace Zwillenberg?
ReplyDeleteHow about the rampant age discrimination that has been going on in the DOE for years? The average age of teachers in the ATR pool is over 50. What happened to the age discrimination lawsuit that "The Teacher's Lawyer" Byran Glass is pursuing?
ReplyDeleteMy two cents is that there are two issues here (1) Carranza putting his own people into positions (2) the implicit-bias training. They do cross paths at times but Carranza will come and go. The "race-pimping" is here to stay, at least until these people make their millions.
ReplyDeleteCarranza is allowed to place anyone he wants even if unqualified and incompetent; there is plenty of precedent for this.
The implicit bias training is troublesome to me. I am a minority and feel insulted and embarrassed every time I have to sit through a training for this; two full days this year so far. I believe the "equity and equality" consultants are race-pimpers who will use the topic of race to make as much money as they can and they are making millions. These consultants use incomplete facts to push their agenda, they blame others for their lack of success, they have an entitlement mentality, they do blame the white man for all their troubles, and they do not think the 70% out of wedlock births for blacks is an issue.
During these trainings, a few of the white teachers did try to speak up either with questions or in support of implicit-bias but the consultants shot them down because there was no way they could possibly understand the plight of the black man. The light skinned minorities were not encouraged to contribute either because they have "an appearance of white" so they can't understand either.
This is a huge multi-million dollar business that will only improve life for the people making the millions.
@ 6:37...U got that right...SURE, got that right...75% out of wedlock...u racist for even mentioning that as a factor in this never-ending inner city tragedy...Yup..."the race industry" is a huge multi-million $$$ cash cow which
ReplyDeleteis evil in intent..especially for the "victims" it claims to save from the evil white man...once, about 10 years or more ago, I saw "Rev.Sharpton" sitting in a very fancy restaurant, dressed in the finest of suits, eating very fancy foods and wines. Impeccably tailored, he looked like a mannequin...and finally...these programs and materials originate from our elite academic centers, and are intended to keep the peasants (all of us except them) poor and subservient, and them Gilded...forever...an u racist for even questioning it.
Identity politics is marxism class conflict with a new focus.
ReplyDeleteThat'a all. It divides people, and encourages tribalism.
Western civilization is toast, and if you pay attention to the news (statues of famous whites torn down, open anti-white policies, calls to replace the Constitution, open borders to replace the western populations, wholesale replacement of whites in all positions of power at every level, eliminating whites from popular media, dehumanizing whites - "They are born racist and evil from birth" and calls to abolish capitalism in favor of Chavismo) then you see it.
Why is it that whenever a supervisor fires someone it's because they are a monster of some kind? It's automatically assumed that the supervisor is in the wrong. This climate is crazy.
ReplyDelete@5:05 and 6:39: The ATR 'Lawsuit" was DOA at the State Division on Human Rights level and as such would not survive summary dismissal. Instead of scrutinizing the many instances of individual discrimination, the board lumped everyone in to one complaint and concluded that the 'disparate treatment' did not rise to discrimination on any grounds. My favorite quote from the decision was that 'changes to one's job responsibility, resulting in "things the employee doesn't like" is fine.
ReplyDeleteIf this Carranza wanted to make real change--just drain all the Bloomberg/Klein/Farina people at Tweed-and close that fortress building altogether-- just use that money for hiring more classroom teachers.
ReplyDeleteThe NBA use to be mainly all white players in the 60s and 70s. The league today is mainly black players. The transition happened naturally as black players proved to be better than white players with regards to jumping, running, blocking and all the skills needed to be a great professional basketball player.
ReplyDeleteThere is no need to force feed any race on any profession. If the talent is there it will rise up but force feeding a race into a profession or jobs never works out.
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ReplyDeleteAl Campanis, is that you? I thought you were dead....
Common Core, created by white people.
ReplyDeleteDanielson, created by a white person.
White = bad.
Therefore, get rid of Common Core & Danielson. A wim-win!
He’s just speaking his truth. Isn’t that what we’re supposed to do
ReplyDeleteThis is what the De Blasio-Carranza thinking is leading to - clearly saying that they want teachers of color (& whites not welcome).
ReplyDeleteThis should send chills to people.
We now know how De Blasio and Carranza are thinking.
https://nypost.com/2019/06/03/doe-job-ad-sought-teachers-of-color-for-nyc-schools/
The trainings are incredibly hostile with absolutely zero emphasis on how to actually support children and families. How that much money is being spent on blaming whitey and not salient practical classroom resources is criminal.
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