...UFT will be there in ususal role of undermining militancy.
Oh, Randi, the enabler of closing schools, will be there to cry crocodile tears and commiserate. UFT officials will be there to tell teachers their "rights" - their rights to join the growing ATR pool from which they will have to race around the city applying for jobs with all the other ATRs and then be branded incompetent a year later if they are not hired and then with the help of the UFT be councelled on how to make a settlement with the DOE.
And sadly, the teachers at MS 399X, grasping at straws, will have no choice but to buy it.
Imagine if every school being closed held a protest on the same day all over the city? That will never happen with a UFT that plays the role of easing the closings for the DOE, not fighting them.
If one day there is a massively organized opposition to Unity, this is exactly what could happen. But that day is still far away.
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That's absolutely right, Norm! The problem is that most NYC teachers are oblivious to the ATR and rubber room problem. If it's not happening to them, they don't usually care, or they believe that ATR's have gotten what the deserve. It's sort of like when teachers of the "gifted" classes start to believe that they are gifted themselves.
As for the UFT, Unity has created such a veneer of smoke and mirrors that only the most seasoned can see what Randi is up to.
And wait until Carolyn Kennedy, Bloomberg/Klein's friend becomes a NY senator. All the Coke and Pepsi Democrat and Republican gentry will have their triangulation parties on the backs of the working man.
Maybe this whole school "reform" movement is just part of some weird Darwinian construction on God's part - where real educators keep getting killed off until a genuine class consciousness develops among the teachers.
As Popeye used to say, "The fault dear Brutus, is not in the stars but in ourselves.
Some of us already "got it". It's the new fascism wrapped in a package being called "reform".
We don't care about those who've already "got it". We only care about ourselves. Plus, i just got a new UFT painter's cap. I'm so proud!
I bet that all these UFT OFFICIALS -- Pat Bonadona, Attia, etc, etc & Randy are going to the closing schools telling the teachers that everything will be all right. NO! The nightmare just started for these teachers.
Th biggest joke is the "Rubber Room Report" blog. It is controlled by a paid paralegal under the UFT. This week they have an article written by a NYSUT lawyer, another agent of the UFT Reich. Try posting a negative comment about the union. It will never be posted. This is how insidious the UFT is. They have fake radicals controlling the dissenting media. The fix is in and we are doomed!
One fire truck and a marching band !We'll race you to the Washington Monument for the 14th Amendment to oppose !We'll organize 1.4 million teachers and educators in Public Education from state to state currently in reauthorization with Pl107-110. End the mandates of NCLB and it's not working !Publish your school system audits for Public Transparancy reformer ships and identify corporate interests and non-profits eating our students pie."Paid Paradise Put Up A Parking Lot !" Closing down Public School buildings and selling them to developers ? No ! Fund equally and centrally ! John F. Kennedy executive order 10925,1961 !Who's covering the educational tax credits and philanthropy tax ? Put it to Lemmon Test under NCLB and 10%! Funding formula's driven from the bottom up ! Hold the line Public Education ! Hoist the lines and cut off their wind with the privatization ships sailing in !Hooray for democracy and the 14th Amendment!! Radical Socialism vs Decentralization ? "Don't it always seem to go,that you don't know what you've got till it's gone." Read Manufactured Crisis and grab Guskey and Marzano ! Motivate to engage !Sink that 10% under funded NCLB !End the mandates !
Start A Love Train ! Join hands ! We're playing that song and it's by the O'Jay's, young whippie snappers !Some grew up with the bubble testing but not our generation in Public Education ! They taught us to stop streets and have parades !Ha ! All ABOARD !
It's an American hat rally for Public education ! Yankee,doodle went to town and stuck a feather in that hat for democracy and no privatization !Public Education shoots the ball from half court and scores !Buzzer blew reformers and good game under Pl 107-110 underfunded. We found old tennis shoes and borrowed laces to play anyway ! ZONE ON GUARD !
"SHAKE" Let Your Back Bone Slip old school ! Get up ! Heads Up ! Identify with a new generation !Otis Redding !"Everybody Needs Somebody To Love." Do you know how loud a fire truck speaker blasts hooked up to a jam box ? Get a permit and ask the fire department ! In the name of democracy for Public Education ! "Fire it up and let's go Public Education !" Get the teachers to dress up like the Blues Brothers on top of the fire truck ? Teaching is fun and so is learning !
Pick a theme from history and dress up ! The costume shops are open ! Get out of the bubble testing unleashed and teaching to engage with creative methods of instruction on go ! Who's going as George Washington ? Who's calling the news ? Where are the students with that razzle,dazzle to the Orginal Hampster Dance ? See video Michael Jackson and work those moves in unison ! Laugh and it's free !
They've launched a political campaign ! Make a come back Public School teachers ! Yes we can ! That's why they call it the United States of America ! Get the permit ! We will as American citizens !
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