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Lie #1 from Eva Moskowitz: 7,000 teachers applied for her teaching positions. Only true if you consider the unsolicited emails sent to Teach for America alums by Sheila Lopez as teacher applications.

If 7,000 teachers applied for that first batch of teaching positions, Harlem Success HR must be pretty bad considering that they fired two or three teachers and an AP within months of the first school opening a couple years ago.

And she does not giver her teachers 3 preps a day!

True. And, it’s actually $310,000 according to the Daily News, http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2009/02/26/2009-02-26_former_city_council_member_eva_moskowitz.html

How is she making her teachers better? Unionize the HSAs!

“in the school by 7am and out by 8 o’clock”

What the hell???? Doesn’t she have young kids to spend quality time with????? Why is this lady supposedly working 13 hour days?

I was shocked at Randi’s behavior. She talked to Eva like she was a child. Randi also skirts every question or topic. The union rep. and district rep. at my school behave in the same manner. Always condecending and stirring trouble. It’s like they have some class where they learn how to talk down to all of us. I lose faith in my union every day.

However. I do believe that both of these individuals want students to succeed. But they both need to give a little bit. We need a contract that allows for more preparation time and collaboration between teachers and we need to be evaluated for our effectiveness. Lifetime jobs are unacceptable. I consider myself a good teacher who keeps getting better. But, will I eventually stop trying like many of the teachers in my building? It seems so hopeless. We need people supporting us to excel and we need to know that there are people who could do our jobs better. I would like to believe that charter school administrators strive for this type of professional environment, but I am realistic enough to know that is not always the case.