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1. 

   QueensParent

   March 8th, 2010 11:00 am

   C’mon you guys. There’s no mention here of the history that was made in Madison Square Garden this weekend at the PSAL Basketball Championship. Ruth Lovelace became the first ever female coach of a boys team to win the title. Must education news always be doom and gloom?

2. 

   Bronx Teacher

   March 8th, 2010 1:41 pm

   Queens Parent-

   Most of what you write is doom and gloom against teachers usually without having all the facts.

3. 

   QueensParent

   March 8th, 2010 3:43 pm

   Bronx Teacher take your bad attitude somewhere else, or just do your job, that’d be even better.

4. 

   Michael M.

   March 9th, 2010 9:22 pm

   Pot? Non-kettle.

   BT, you clearly haven’t figgered out that in QP’s world, teachers, or more precisely UFT teachers, are the enemy of educated kids throughout the land.

   (But she’s not alone. No less an authority than Joel Klein so much as called teachers the biggest obstacle to children’s civil rights in a May 2009 HuffingtonPost essay that still sticks in my craw:
   “Poor and minority students will never get their fair share of educational opportunity — and are far more likely to lead unsuccessful lives — until administrators and political leaders commit to fundamentally changing the way teachers are recruited, rewarded, and retained. The goal is as easy to articulate as it is hard to realize: that every classroom will one day be led by an effective instructor who demonstrably advances student learning.”
   Love them non sequiturs. Karl Rove would be proud.
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-klein/transforming-the-teaching_b_200616.html)

   Why less than a week ago, I very politely suggested that QP had seemingly made a TYPO when suggesting that all DOE-hired teachers should not be teaching. As opposed to: not all should be, or some such. QP, who I believe reads most everything here, let the original comment stand, and the correction slide.

   Re Coach Lovelace, thanks, QP. Great story.
   Congrats to Coach Lovelace, the team, and the entire school.
   http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high_school/2010/03/07/2010-03-07_roos_hop_into_history.html

   But only 5000 or so people saw the game, thanks to a melee at and after the title game in 2007, at which coincidentally, Coach Lovelace became the first female coach to reach the finals. Since then, tickets since have been severely limited, and no at-the-door sales.
   http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/kevin_armstrong/03/19/psal.brawl/

   And there was another melee THIS year, sad to say. The article isn’t clear, but seems the venue was one of the schools, not MSG.
   http://www.nydailynews.com/other/2010/02/26/2010-02-26_melee_erupts_at_psal_playoffs.html

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