tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post890059955561542611..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: ATR Update: Quotes From Eternos, Aixa, Leonie, Jeff Kaufmaned notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-60597373887661971452018-10-27T16:58:10.359-04:002018-10-27T16:58:10.359-04:00ATRs are a product of age discrimination, and the ...ATRs are a product of age discrimination, and the result of being targeted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-73092245961651245992018-10-20T08:03:33.018-04:002018-10-20T08:03:33.018-04:00In my building we laughingly call ourselves the &q...In my building we laughingly call ourselves the "grey hair" club. And none of us are ATRs. There has been extraordinary bias against senior teachers for years!!!! They are trained to do this in principal school. Some of us are women who stayed home with the children for a few years and still need to teach to gain a full pension. Others are people who simply love what they do and do it well but suffer constant harassment. Need a personal business day? They will question you. One of our teachers had two hundred days in his sick bank and due to some bad winter weather happened to use 12 sick days last year, first time in at least a decade. This guy was called on the carpet and reviled by the principal in front of the CL, even tho a lot of his pet new hires are 20 days in the hole. The teacher being mistreated started the new school year with only 198 days in his sick bank. In some buildings the deans are set up to watch the senior teachers and report to management on them. I have been targeted by my principal for things I have said out loud at chapter meetings, and staff members have been told they should not be seen with me if they want to stay in favor. We watched a colleague nearly driven to death by a crude management while she had three hospitalizations. She was called and threatened many times while ill and eventually left early and lost a chunk of pension.If a child, spouse, or sibling falls seriously ill, better not tell management. You will be visited day after day by administrative teams that will write you up U again and again in order to force you out of the school, even if your Regents rate is 100 percent. There's plenty of people to do the evil job. High schools are overrun with administrators to the cost of 1-2 million dollars in each building. Older teachers are frequently denied access to technology; laptops and iPads are less likely given to anyone over 50; training, if offered at all, is scheduled after school hours, unpaid. In many buildings training is only by private invitation. Or if you do get trained and manage to use tech that frequently breaks, the tech "teacher" who is getting 300-400 hours a year in per session money is told not to fix your stuff any time soon. In my building we have had broken "stuff" unfixed across multiple Septembers. Then there's the actual ATRs. Some of the same people who are marched in to cover all the maternity leaves every spring (and do it well) are tossed in June to wander the system. Then next February or March, the streets are scoured for them to make the prin look good and then they are tossed again. ATRs whose file codes begin with certain numbers are never offered interviews anyway so why run around like a fool when the system is permanently stacked against them. TRs cannot tap the very lucrative per session offerings in a high school. <br />Many of these problems are the fault of the UFT. Notice how the proposed new UFT contract deals with the ATR problem-NOT! Good reason to vote against it. I curse the management and the union every time I see another mistreated ATR. Morale in my building is lower in October than it was last April.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-83591026009929979642018-10-19T19:14:30.462-04:002018-10-19T19:14:30.462-04:00Buyout was 2017, not 2018. DOE and UFT are not rel...Buyout was 2017, not 2018. DOE and UFT are not releasing data numbers of ATRs because they are higher than they pretend and the article doesn't mention counselors and social workers in the pool. There are also many APs in the pool that are stuck in terrible schools for one year stints. ATRs have it the worst though - babysitting students that they don’t know and don’t know them. Hellish and a complete waste of talent and money. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com