... a response to Unity
Yesterday's "What a Farce" posting resulted in a comment by an anonymous Unity person, most probably one of the 2 Unity people referred to in the response below:
I read the "What a Farce" item on your blog, and your facts are correct. The note from "anonymous" purports to be for the record, but it attempts to muddy the record. The ICE person tried to do just what you said he did, get the chapter to ease up on the relentless ad null campaign against Rohloff in order to focus the chapter's energies against the closing and the long-term negative impact on the school of this strategy since as long as the closing was a fait accompli, Rohloff was gone anyway. That's the kind of "support" for Rohloff, in order to challenge Weingarten's capitulation to Klein's small school, break the union strategy. The ICE person asked for a truce in the battle against Rohloff and that would have built a stronger chapter that could have also checked Rohloff's U-rating binges.
As you suggest, the two [Unity] prime movers of the "Rohloff is the root of all evil" demarche, remain secure in their jobs, at least for now. Meanwhile, they ostentatiously denounce the 2005 contract as the "worst" contract ever, without even mentioning that they supported it, stuffed the mailboxes for Unity, and attacked ICE for being anti-union [because ICE opposed the 2005 contract].
"Anonymous" further claims that the Alumni, as well as one politician approved the takeover of Lafayette by the High School of Sports Management and two other schools. Yet "Anonymous" also distributed to all staff the recent Post (?) op-ed by well-known Lafayette alumnus Jerry Della Feminina denouncing Klein for closing Lafayette and calling for a rally of alumni to keep the school open. I hope more alumni write your blog and let you know how much they "approve" of the closing of Lafayette!
Yesterday's "What a Farce" posting resulted in a comment by an anonymous Unity person, most probably one of the 2 Unity people referred to in the response below:
I read the "What a Farce" item on your blog, and your facts are correct. The note from "anonymous" purports to be for the record, but it attempts to muddy the record. The ICE person tried to do just what you said he did, get the chapter to ease up on the relentless ad null campaign against Rohloff in order to focus the chapter's energies against the closing and the long-term negative impact on the school of this strategy since as long as the closing was a fait accompli, Rohloff was gone anyway. That's the kind of "support" for Rohloff, in order to challenge Weingarten's capitulation to Klein's small school, break the union strategy. The ICE person asked for a truce in the battle against Rohloff and that would have built a stronger chapter that could have also checked Rohloff's U-rating binges.
As you suggest, the two [Unity] prime movers of the "Rohloff is the root of all evil" demarche, remain secure in their jobs, at least for now. Meanwhile, they ostentatiously denounce the 2005 contract as the "worst" contract ever, without even mentioning that they supported it, stuffed the mailboxes for Unity, and attacked ICE for being anti-union [because ICE opposed the 2005 contract].
"Anonymous" further claims that the Alumni, as well as one politician approved the takeover of Lafayette by the High School of Sports Management and two other schools. Yet "Anonymous" also distributed to all staff the recent Post (?) op-ed by well-known Lafayette alumnus Jerry Della Feminina denouncing Klein for closing Lafayette and calling for a rally of alumni to keep the school open. I hope more alumni write your blog and let you know how much they "approve" of the closing of Lafayette!
3 comments:
Various ex-Lafayette teachers were none too happy about how the 2 Unity union people handled the situation at Lafayette last year when other teachers were pursued by Rohloff which resulted in these teachers either quitting the school or accepting their fate as permanent ATR's, or taking early retirements.
I hear Rohloff went after one teacher so vocificerously that he tried to commit suicide.But this is not confirmed.
The people Rohloff went after are none too happy with the chapter leader and how he supposedly represented them.
There was a big flap about the AP who did a lot of Rohloff's bidding changing Regents grades and being sent to the rubber room and demoted to teacher. It always appeared to me that the Unity people were not happy about the ICE person advocating the ICE position. As long as these guys have secure positions, why should they endanger their retirements? Many felt that both were just paying lip service to the plights of the teachers, all the while ensuring that they were playing both sides of the fence. They did not trust these guys.
Check the Facts again:
The teacher who had a nervous breakdown, was taken to Coney Island Hospital where a suicide note was found on him. The teacher had made several suicidal comments to a school aide and the AP supervising him called the chapter leader. The chapter leader informed the AP that the threats should be taken seriously. The teacher along with the social worker was EMS'd to the hospital where the note was discovered.
The AP of supervision was the person that the teacher blamed for his condition. Rohloff and the AP were harassing him and causing him this mental/physical stress.
The AP removed for regents tampering along with a great teacher(loved by the staff), were removed via the AP's own testimony to the investigator from OSI. The case involves the changing of 1(ONE) student grade so I understand.
As for the recent comment regarding the chapter leader and other unity member, If you or any ICE member wanted to challenge them to an election or any member from Lafayette, they would win with the same proportion that Unity defeated ICE this past election. That is at least 85% for Unity. Actions speak louder than the internet.
REMEMBER the ICE guy MELTED during the fight against Rohloff. AS the unity folks at Lafayette have seniority, more than 60 years combined in teaching, they have a right to remain until excessed. Or do you and the ICE person begrudge them that??
Seriously, does ICE even serve a real purpose other than to drive a wedge within our union? Has ICE ever accomplished anything worthy of mention? And no, a sham presidential candidate in the last election, shoddy quality YouTube films, and heckling during the Delegate Assembly doesn't count.
-Son Of Unity, the next generation
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