tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post8632295380812214161..comments2024-03-14T13:50:26.981-04:00Comments on Chaz's School Daze: The UFT/DOE "Rubber Room" Agreement RevisitedThree Month LaterChazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-82700111487760838172008-10-12T12:57:00.000-04:002008-10-12T12:57:00.000-04:00An alternate procedure to that now in place could ...An alternate procedure to that now in place could track the provisions applicable in Civil Service Law Section 72 Leave for ordinary disability cases. Essentially, Section 72 bars an appointing authority from removing an employee from his or her postion [i.e., work-station] until after a hearing is held and an a determination is made that he or she is unable to perform the duties of the postion due to a disability or sickness unless the individual poses an immediate danger to himself/herselp or to co-workers or to the public being served.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-69369727617031167802008-10-09T11:16:00.000-04:002008-10-09T11:16:00.000-04:00Randi is not capable of digging in her heels for h...Randi is not capable of digging in her heels for her members. Since the contract of 2005 she has cowtowed to her freinds Klein and Bloomberg. Don't trust her. I believer she already is selling out the ATR folks, making a deal and hoping to get out of the UFT with her reputation intact. Don't let her fool you, she's not on our side anymore.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12333100834670846462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-51358743497983775982008-10-05T17:10:00.000-04:002008-10-05T17:10:00.000-04:00The answer is to wait out the kleinberg administra...The answer is to wait out the kleinberg administration until the cost to the City forces them to cry "uncle".<BR/><BR/>As long as Randi digs in her heels and does not give away tenure, the City cannot do a thing but pay the ATRs year after year.Chazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-19594215292919686662008-10-05T09:52:00.000-04:002008-10-05T09:52:00.000-04:00we need to get more organized and get the message ...we need to get more organized and get the message to the public. the public does not know about us being held at bay. we are suffering it the worst ways. i have seen too many people in the room lose it. i brain wash myself everyday to stay strong. however, how long will i be able to stay sane in this volatile, caustic and denigrating process. i feel like a prisoner that goes home in the evenings but then goes back to work release. we need to get our message out! Save US!betruetothyselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15431929149020671197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-60931838493410046622008-10-04T22:40:00.000-04:002008-10-04T22:40:00.000-04:00and to top it all off, Randi, now the president of...and to top it all off, Randi, now the president of AFT (she won an election against nobodyO and not ever again going to run for UFT president has given away our parking permits. For what in return? Probably another kiss from Joel Klein. Just another knife in the backs of her members. ATR's should start looking for new jobs. She's already sold them out, I believe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12333100834670846462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-26615061296378312012008-10-03T22:41:00.000-04:002008-10-03T22:41:00.000-04:00I don't think the Union will return your calls. T...I don't think the Union will return your calls. They are too busy helping Bloomberg to run for the third time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-30105614417399192462008-10-02T12:00:00.000-04:002008-10-02T12:00:00.000-04:00I am sitting in the rubber room right now. It is ...I am sitting in the rubber room right now. It is like an insane asylum. There are people in here who need to have their cases reviewed and removed because they are harmful to the rest of us. Some are slowly deteriorating and some are just good at hiding it. Where is our Union? I don't know. Noone has returned my calls since Friday. We need action immediately!FidgetyTeachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13062058958826674862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-85097144118455981492008-10-01T20:19:00.000-04:002008-10-01T20:19:00.000-04:00The DOE always believes the students over the teac...The DOE always believes the students over the teacher and the union just lets them reassign the teacher.<BR/><BR/>Under the DOE the teacher has no rights and according to Klein all teachers reassigned did something wrong.Chazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-58433512054956267682008-10-01T19:38:00.000-04:002008-10-01T19:38:00.000-04:00It's a year since the UFT rubber room swat team we...It's a year since the UFT rubber room swat team went into action. Good work boys (and girl.)<BR/><BR/>I have a friend with 15 years in the system and an impeccable record and rep as an excellent teacher in the RR for 7 months because a kid said she made a comment that he was an idiot and couldn't learn because he is black. What she said was "if you didn't (sounds like idiot if you stretch it) do your work you would never learn. When she calls the UFT they say "shhh. better not to rock the boat."ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-22286459751943125622008-10-01T14:49:00.000-04:002008-10-01T14:49:00.000-04:00Sad to say, I find your points utterly persuasive....Sad to say, I find your points utterly persuasive. I really can't figure out what the heck the UFT patronage folks are thinking. <BR/><BR/>The ATR mess keeps me thinking, "There but for the grace of God go I." They'll make it a priority, but they've made toothless unenforceable deals in the past, as in class size and reorg 3, and there's little reason to suppose they won't do so in the future.NYC Educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188066345722781723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20674128.post-8450312017114908742008-10-01T14:22:00.000-04:002008-10-01T14:22:00.000-04:00What the DOE has done with the RR is to create "a ...What the DOE has done with the RR is to create "a prison culture" among educators. It is designed to break you emotionally so that you can throw in the towel. The fact that there is an inordinate number of African-American, Latino and teachers that are over 40 makes it even more obscene. It is the "Guantanamo of the DOE".<BR/><BR/>I come from a long line of people who have been political prisoners in Latin America so for me I can defintely understand what the DOE is doing and why. It is heartbreaking to see my colleagues who really can not handle reassignment and take it personal.<BR/>They can keep me in the RR until hell freezes over. I have done nothing illegal or immoral. The turd that put me in there was fired and humiliated by the 4th estate and this gives some me consolation about being in the RR. The fact that I am Latino sends a message to my students who are all African-American and Latino and mostly male that even in Civil Service you can expect to be "incarcerated". This situation needs as much light as we, teachers with "cojones", can shed light on.<BR/><BR/>To those who end up in "the Guantanamos of the DOE" my advice is to get in the best physical and mental shape of your life. Organize, educate , inform , make noise with your elected politicians and go out there and tell every one what is going on.<BR/>What do you have to lose than you have not lost already? If they are going to fire us all of us they would have done it by now. We can defeat BloomKlein so long as we have the moral high ground and the law on our side.JUSTICE not "just us"https://www.blogger.com/profile/05502604957951804040noreply@blogger.com