tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post18628430753238271..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: (Revised) Organizing Parents: Harder Than Herding Cats (Much)ed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-48558998132109621372011-08-16T03:52:16.650-04:002011-08-16T03:52:16.650-04:00Norm--
This post was almost 2 years ago to the da...Norm-- <br />This post was almost 2 years ago to the day! I'm shocked by how little has changed for the children in NYC public schools, how much worse things are at the present, but pleased that the allies are closer now to reaching critical mass in a resistance movement of teachers, parents and a lot more high school students. Ths work is exhausting and can make me old. . . real fast, so fast that two arduous, long years have gone by like a blink. <br />- BeOne of the Manyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02463829295589148773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-24342705964981632342009-08-19T07:11:32.299-04:002009-08-19T07:11:32.299-04:00Patricia, Dorothy, Leonie, Lisa and others who hav...Patricia, Dorothy, Leonie, Lisa and others who have commented regarding the errors in yesterday's post:<br /><br />My initial intent was to post Benita's interesting points on parent action and it got out of hand. It was an extremely careless post as I added a throwaway email by Sean on ICE mail who has been critical of the Parent commission. I had no right to even quote this email without further discussion and clarification with him and Lisa has been kind enough to have conversations with both he and I to set both of us straight.<br /><br />I will attribute part of our confusion due to the variety of information and misinformation floating around about the work of the Commission and what its mission was, which we understand now was clearly not to organize a mass movement of parents but to address the governance law. I guess both Sean's and my frustration at the sense there is a vital need for such an organization that can work with progressive teachers. And we have been similarly frustrated as Dorothy is as to the role so often played by the UFT as we struggle within to organize teachers into a force that can work in partnership with such a parent group when and if it exists.<br /><br />Rank and file teachers, in contrast to the UFT leadership, are so beset in the classrooms with useless and wasteful work due to the impact of mayoral control. Teacher activists (the relatively few there are) are also frustrated at the fact that the UFT misleads their colleagues from seeing this connection and instead praises the mayor. We believe there is a need for a strong movement to remove politics from education and we hope such a strong voice of a united parent and rank and file teacher movement will emerge and will include parent and teacher activists from all parts of the city.<br /><br />All this is not an excuse for carelessnesss and ignorance.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.com