Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to come on the television and blames the President for the problems with the City actions on combating the coronavirus. However, he seems to ignore his many failures in taking appropriate action to combat the coronavirus himself. The result is that New York City is the epicenter of the coronavirus in the Western Hemisphere.
First, he resisted closing the schools until the Governor forced him to do so. However, it was too late as many students became either affected and or became carriers who passed it on older relatives, resulting in the City having over 25,300 affected residents (300 fatalities) and rising. Worse, as staff reported becoming affected by the coronavirus, the DOE failed to close the schools as the State required as both the Mayor and Chancellor, Richard Carranza, did not want to close the New York City Public Schools. Read the New York Post's Susan Edelman on Brooklyn Tech. Finally, where was the City not using their massive budget surplus to buy medical supplies rather than wait for the State and Federal governments to do so?
Mayor Bill de Blasio was too late in closing down the City and allowed the cronavirus to spread and even today, the Governor blasted the Mayor for allowing groups to congregate in parks and other gathering places and gave the Mayor 24 hours to enforce his edict. In addition, the Mayor still allowed ticketing for alternate street parking until Tuesday, while telling people to stay indoors, what a hypocrite!
Of course the Mayor's failure to lockdown the City was because he wanted tourist dollars to continue to stream into the City, which allowed thecoronavirus to come along with the turists as well. The Mayor's reluctance to close schools and tourist attractions like Broadway shows and the parks contributed to the rapid spread of the coronavirus, because it was all about the money.
Note: Chancellor Richard Carranza decided that all non-essential DOE employees work at home. Interestingly, the Chancellor himself started to work at home last Friday while DOE employees must report to their jobs on Friday, risking getting infected by the coronavirus from co-workers.
New Yorkers voted for him twice!
ReplyDeleteAt this point I'd be shocked if he didn't act like an incompetent idiot in pointing the finger and blame-gaming. That whole 'leadership' thingy is well beyond his capabilities.
ReplyDeleteHe is marginally capable of the infantile 'Orange man bad' mantra but nobody's buying that sort of deflection.
The delusional tall fella is still surprised nobody supported his presidential run.
(Beyond that, the praise Cuomo is getting nationwide must be killing folks like De Blasio and Biden [if, in fact, Biden knows whoCuomo is] ).
Why are people praising Cuomo so much? He agreed with De Blassio to keep the city schools open. NY had the most cases in the country and Cuomo still kept the schools opened, so it's his fault too. He could have easily forced all the schools in the state to close, but he acted slow too. I don't think that lady from Staten Island would have done any better had she been elected.
ReplyDeleteWhere's all the ATR's now huhh? Complain about your union guys?? Where are you all? Getting paid 121K to stay home and do absolutely zero! Funny that none of them are complaining now. Maybe you'd like to help me with my 5 Google Classroom Live videos? Please do us all a favor an stop complaining (like forever)
ReplyDeleteHaving ATRs has been a failure of the city and the useless Union.
DeleteIn the last election, only 18% of eligible voters re-elected DeBozo. Most people stayed home. One of the biggest untreated diseases in NYC is a crazed fear of voting for Republicans. So most people stayed home, not wanting to vote for a candidate with an "R" after their name, but not wanting to reward an obvious grifter with another term by their own selection. Stay home again you morons, but don't complain when self-centered kleptocrats are put into office time and time again.
ReplyDeleteHey 1045,
ReplyDeleteI’m an ATR. I never complain.
Actually, I love confusing teachers who don’t understand what an ATR is by telling them how bad it is when I’m laughing inside.
Honestly, stop blaming the ATR when he/she did nothing wrong.
Good luck w your videos and trying to please a millennial principal who has never been in the classroom.
Don’t worry 10:45 when you’re laid off next September an ATR will have your job. Then you can complain.
ReplyDelete10:45: Trust me, you would not want to be an ATR. I'd change with you in a second. A few days later you'd want your job back trust me.
ReplyDelete@10:45 former atr till this year (forced placement) speaking
ReplyDeletewish i was still an atr
ps yes im jealous
Hoping Mulgrew runs for Mayor!
ReplyDeleteCurrent ATR here.
ReplyDeleteBetween checking my email and not receiving any messages to wishing I was a ‘real teacher’, this has been a tough day.
I went to college and grad school for this?
It’s a tough job, but I’m up for it.
Yes! I know the feeling 3:01pm.
ReplyDeleteI was an ATR for many years and I felt invisible!
I did finally get a job and know both sides.
Having a job is much better and makes me feel much more stable.
The DOE and city are a disgrace when it comes to having an ATR pool!
Power to the ATRs!!!
Exactly a disgrace.
DeleteWord from the union is that teachers do not have to go "live" with video in Google Classroom or Zoom or any other program. Is this true? If so, why doesn't Mulgrew just come out and make it clear?
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ReplyDeleteYou're still an ATR until you're appointed.
Deblasio just gave an edict to all city agencies to cut spending...
ReplyDeleteI smell an ATR buyout!
Add 3 yrs to my 22 yr tenure, and I'm gone....
Deblasio and the corrupt UFT are to be blamed for a system out of control.
ReplyDeleteDid not ask to be an ATR, but my school closed and had 20+ years. Left one year in June for summer vacation like everybody else as a permanent staff and was well respected. Then was placed in the ATR pool. That September upon return to work was treated with cynicism, disrespect and hostility. Like many others, did not do anything to deserve this treatment except that my school had closed. Since then, have had to advocate for my title. Admin and yes, permanent staff, can be cruel. Admin purposely keeps ATRs in the dark. I loved what I did, earned recognitions then to be disrespected. It's absolutely ridiculous. The union, depending on who you speak to, can be helpful. When school after school tries to treat you a certain way it's because it is coming from the top. There are too many Bloomies out there still. There needs to be a cleanse.
ReplyDelete@9:19...same here. A principal at a Washington Heights hs told me that "they want me to be mean to ATRs but I won't". When I walked into a school (am now retired) I did not accept anything but respect from educators and students. For the most part that's what I got. I was an educator just like everyone else and that's how I carried by self. Call it luck or whatever but I always got a key to the rest room and was always invited to staff events. The few times someone tried to belittle ATRs, i spoke up and they watched what they said around me moving forward. Do you really believe that you're better than me just because you have a permanent location? If you answer yes, then here is a $3 bill I am selling for $5--just to you.
DeleteArticle in the Post reported a Brooklyn Principal died of Coronavirus.
ReplyDeleteFellow teachers, avoid the dingbat virtual teaching ideas floating around and limit yourself to Google Classroom and weekly assignments (graded p/f).
ReplyDeleteNot the time to demonstrate your technical wizardry, love of virtual meetings, or willingness to work 24/7 for the schoolchildren.
Check your school email once a day during the week until we return.
Take care of yourself and your extended families during this time.
Get your priorities right.
@5:39 the last real incentive buyout was 1 month for every year.so you would just fall short of 2 years.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad to be in the rubber room! None of this online learning BS to contend with. Either way, I can just relax all day long at full pay. The only difference is now I can do it at home instead of a DOE office.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad to be in the rubber room! No online learning BS to contend with. Either way, I can sit and relax all day at full pay. The only difference is now I can do it at home instead of a DOE office.
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ReplyDeleteYou're right, but we can hope.
Remember, there are multiple thousands of surplus teachers in NYC...the city would be saving money if they threw a 20 yr vet a couple of yrs pensionable service credit.
Chaz...how about a full page discussion on this proposal
BUYOUt.....BUYOUT.....BUYOUT
539..
ReplyDeleteWhen was that?
Alt parking back starting tomorrow!
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ReplyDeletethe last buyout was like 93 0r 94 i believe .
you can look it up
too bad i dont see it happening here yet
I can feel everyone's frustration at being an ATR. Whenever I complain, I get "be lucky you still have a job." This is not what I went to school for though. I've been treated well by the two schools I was assigned to, one last year and the one this year, but it's the little things that get to you. In neither school I had a time card. In the one I'm in now, I don't have a mailbox. I only have one key to classrooms and you feel left out when they do common planning meetings and you don't have a group because you don't have classes. One thing I know for sure, when we all go back to school, it's going to be the first time everyone is going to be glad to be going back to school no matter how bad their school is.
ReplyDeleteSpeech teachers are being made to do live teletherapy for 5 periods a day without any training in telepractice. We can't say no or choose a different method unless the parents do not consent to the teletherapy, and then anything we do in google classroom doesn't "count" for us. Even kids who receive in-classroom/push-in therapy are supposed to get video teletherapy. When we took it to the union, we were basically just told to suck it up. We're doing 5x the work of classroom teachers and our union rep (Caroline Murphy) is conveniently ignoring us.
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ReplyDeletePensionable service credit has not been given away this century so don't hold your breath. As a matter of fact I don't believe pensionable service credit has been part of a retirement incentive in the last 50 years. (Not to be confused with the Tier I additional service credit since that had nothing to do with a retirement incentive.)
If anything, city/state will be short cash near-term (the opposite of a proper time for a buyout).
Buyout wishful thinking. City is facing multi-billion
ReplyDeleteDollar shortfall. They’re certainly not going to spend a penny to get rid of you If
852...
ReplyDeleteNot true. Teachers were offered time (more than 2o yrs ago) to clear out Tier 1...
@8:52
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Thousands of New York City teachers are preparing to retire early under a buyout plan, and educators say the exodus will leave behind a younger teaching force and probably, shortages in math, science and social studies teachers.
So far, 3,450 of the city's 68,500 teachers and 1,745 other school employees, including 105 principals and 191 assistant principals, have told the Board of Education that they plan to take advantage of the incentive program, a budget-cutting measure that offers teachers extra credit toward their pension plans. About 1,200 teachers usually retire each year, board officials say.
The retirements, open to any 10-year veteran who is 50 or older, threatens a major disruption to a system that is still bouncing back from the last early retirement plan. The exodus marks the third major loss of teachers from the school system in 20 years: 12,000 were laid off in 1975, and 4,000 took early retirement in 1991.
There was an article in the post that said that Di Blasio wants each city agency to slash 1.3billion dollars. The DOE won't have to pay out per-session, but I'd be worried if I were a new teacher low on the totem pole.
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ReplyDeleteWhat buyout are you talking about?
55/25 was not a buyout.
Heres an extra X no. of yrs on your service credit" is a buyout; heres $100,000 is a buyout.....
I think it's unlikely we will see any layoffs in the 2020-2021 school year, especially since most of that has been budgeted and they will be saving a considerable amount of money in per session for the rest of the year. I think what is more likely to happen is almost no per session given next year and a possible hiring freeze. While the city needs to save money, adding a ton of people to the unemployment list will not help.
ReplyDeleteIf the NYC DOE can produce such failure for 34 billion, it can certainly produce failure for half the price. Too many high priced administrators who create work for themselves and others. Start there. Then get rid of quality reviews, consultants, do nothing meetings, multiple testings, online crap, etc. There is plenty that can be cut before we even get to the schools.
ReplyDelete@7:16 PM - If the classroom and teletherapy fit in the day school schedule as far as period, you may not have a case. Make out a schedule for yourself with the classroom interventions, teletherapy, sesis time and lunch. Check if everything fits. Not sure if this is helpful in your particular situation. Please share a comment.
ReplyDeleteNot that I know exact numbers, but go into every doe building.
ReplyDeleteMake schools with 4-5 schools have one school. One principal.
Ditch PDs during the day, consultants, F status, I-ready, regents or ela scoring centralized, and get rid of centralized personnel.
Agree, there are too many consultants. Too many central staff. There are so many positions that it boggles the mind. AP for All, Computer Science for All, Nonsense for All, etc. Waste of money. Weekly PDs is nonsense. There's a lot that could be sliced. All of this is not needed.
ReplyDeleteDid I mention that Dwarka is a total freeeek?
ReplyDeletecarranza "working" from his home that is paid for by tax dollars along with his two person nypd security staff. he can do the same damage to the DOE from home as if he say in his newly renovated office at tweed. fire this jerk already!
ReplyDeleteYou are all deluding yourselves if you think the upcoming cuts will be made to administrations or useless consultants. These are the very people whose job it is to formulate budget and personnel and who will be in charge of making the cuts. They are like movie villains who are oblivious to the fact that they are the bad guys. Brace yourself. It’s not going to be smart or pretty
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