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More school closures, more ATR’s with no place to go.  The union should be held accountable for ignoring the ATR situation.  If mayor Blumbucks has his way the entire NYC teaching corps will be ATR’s. The union should reimburse all ATR’s their union dues.

No one in the media discusses these findings: http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-school-progress-reports-and-nyc.html.  

At the most superficial level, it defies common sense that each year so many schools are “failing” and therefore “in danger.”  There’s something so disingenuous about this obvious “land grab” as if it was pre-ordained last year.  The very beginnings of this process, no matter how engaged DOE claims to be (especially this early in the school year), dramatically effect morale, perception and community.

In other words, the “word” on the street is now out, these schools have a mark against them.

I don’t think that’s a KIPP school.  It’s Knowledge AND Power…  

and the people at the DOE whose salary are paid with our hard earned tax dollars have the audacity to state what is so blatantly obvious when it came to closing down large secondary schools, “But in starting the early conversations, the department hopes to learn
why the schools are struggling and whether other efforts could help
them, according to Marc Sternberg, the DOE deputy chancellor in charge
of school closures”……shifting a largely academically needy student body from school to school when it is convenient to the narrative and the creative myth back at the DoE.  Please spare us the nonsense, while more than 100 schools have been closed under the current regime at the DoE, have they never thought that the problem fundamentally lies with those in charge of bettering the schools?

The reason why a business does not profit….excessive labor, fire them to the bare minimum…and if it does not work, continue to fire until there is nothing left of the original labor force…and then if the business does not profit, will the leadership notice that perhaps it is a failure at recognizing that it is not the workforce or the factory? 

The DoE ought to be sacked for their stupidity. 

Failed Leadership=Failed policy!

Of course they have to accelerate this process to get the charters into these places. It’s tick tock on Bloomberg’s third term. Look for these schools to get the bum’s rush

I would like to provide everyone with Marc’s profile:  “After earning a BA from Princeton University in 1995, Sternberg taught in the South Bronx for three years as a member of Teach for America. He then earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education before returning to New York City as vice president of Victory Schools, an organization that launches and manages charter schools.”
 
He taught for ONLY 3 years. 
If he had taught for more than 10 years, he would understand the challenges that schools encounter in a daily basis.  It’s poverty that burdens our children.
 
He’s a TFA alumnus.
The TFA organization is drive-by-teaching organization.  Their intentions and mottos are not aligned to the love of teaching and the longevity of the teaching career. 
 
He’s majored in business.
Public schools are not and will never run like a business.  Children are not widgets.  Experienced teachers should not be discarded and replaced as dispensable objects just because they chose teaching as their life.  Resources are not provided to struggling schools.  Schools are not provided the necessary support where poverty is a pervasive issue for the families who reside in the neighborhood.  Marc is epitomizing the business mentality that’s found in Tweed:  “That practitioners of the shock doctrine tend to seek a blank slate on which to create their ideal free market economies, which usually requires a violent destruction of the existing economic order.”  He and the others in Tweed are on a “violent destruction” of all the public schools, with no regards to the casualties that they’re going to create in the neighborhood of the many closing schools.  As a businessman, Marc is seeking a “profit-gained” career by closing these schools.  By doing this, he’s able to pad his resume, demonstrating his shameless action for prospective positions in the field of “education deforms”.
 
Marc, you are hurting the kids.  You are only following the mayor’s demand to make him look like a “reformer”.  You are showing your true colors of being a typical TFAer who used teaching and exploited the children as your stepping stone out of the classroom.
 
If you care about education, step down.  Go back in the classroom.  Help the children.  Protect the public school system by helping them, not by destroying them.  I dare you to stay in the teaching profession for more than 20 years!
 
 

Good Point Pogue.  No one else would be that heartless to drink and celebrating the bashing of children’s education and the closing of neighborhood schools.

The School Progress Reports remain a random letter generator, to which the Lame Street Media has turned a willful blind eye.

Which suits DOE just fine.

MARC S STERNBERG  has an SDA (permanent), nothing else! CertificatesSchool District Administrator Permanent Certificate09/01/2004 IssuedSocial Studies 7-12 Temporary License09/01/199508/31/1996ExpiredSocial Studies 7-12 Temporary License09/01/199608/31/1997ExpiredSchool Administrator/Supervisor Provisional Certificate09/01/200408/31/2009Expired