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I would like to buy Mr, Sternberg a first class ticket on the Titanic – what a disgusting excuse for an educator and a man – oh wait he is not an educator – he is in charge of the office to close schools – what an embarrassment – wonder how many other cities have a whole office with a Deputy Chancellor in charge of closing schools making way over 100K??  If I were him I would crawl back into the hole that I came out of – I wonder what qualifications you need to have to close schools – the only thing that should be closing is the department of closing schools – let Sternberg know what it feels like – what a jerk!

It truly tells everyone that the DoE has the biggest cajones with the chutzpah.

Schools on the closing list serve the most low income students, the most homeless kids, the most kids in special education and the most English Language Learners.
*****lunch forms*****

Half a million in budget cuts in over 3 years for elementary, and 1 million for H.S.
When they take this money away, where does it exactly go? I would hope to maybe the even less fortunate of NYC. Cause if children in the struggling communities that are stricken with poverty and crime are not deserving of a proper and supportive education, the ones that are attaining a decent education is going to have to pull some heavy weight for their generation in the future. Within these school communities the youth are plagued with violence, school should be a harvest for them. With the proper leadership and guidance from qualified, sincerely devoted overseers, that can recognize their story and ensure a promising future in the most imperative years of their lives. By closing schools your are not giving the youth any hope. Displacing thousands of kids to areas outside their neighborhood to over populate another school, (that may eventually even end up closing cause I am sure their are more buget cuts on the way.) would only create more obstacles in the school system. DON’T CLOSE IT, FIX IT TILL YOU GET IT RIGHT!

Its simple, enlighten the parents, teach them their parental rights. Inform them of each and every board to become informed of the school and DOE policy. Let them know that they have the right to be apart of their children’s educational future.

Show me the money! Where is the accountability? This is not an overnight problem,
getting to the root of it is the only option to correct the statics/data/#’s

Stop closing schools, that is not the answer. The youth today do not want to fill the jails that are being built, they want to rise above the strikes against them.

And when you have 26-29 students in a classroom you need 2 teachers in there!!!!

indeed!
adding to the list:
high-stakes tests
“technology”/on line programs
litigators
flavor of the day math programs/textbooks

Healthcare and pensions for retirees.  Bus contracts.  These are the big expense items, and the fastest growing ones, too.  

55 I’m Out – You talk big but I imagine if you were asked to lead a team of teachers towards school improvement you would spend the majority of the time complaining and moaning about how “We don’t have enough resources..” or “My work day is 6.5 hours and that’s all I put in.” What do you know about leadership and vision? It’s the resistant complainers like you that keep our schools from moving forward. If you think you can do better, which I highly doubt, become an administrator or better yet – a teacher leader – and do some real work.

Your post was elementary.  You also wrote, “If you think you can do better, become an administrator ……”  are you serious?  I became an EDUCATOR, not an administrator.  I love working with students and interacting and making a difference.  I don’t need to hide behind a desk and pretend to evaluate teachers who are probably smarter than most administrators, like yourself.  Don’t be upset that you have limited time in your “non needed” position.  You have made enough connections so when the time comes and Mr. Cuomo says enough is enough, use the money for things like …. ummmm, teachers and kids, you will be set up somewhere else with some other type of fake position.  It’s administrators that are not needed.  It’s all these fake positions that never existed EVER BEFORE but somehow were created now.  Again, read clearly —– At the end of the day, you physically and logistically need a TEACHER in a room.  You do not need anyone else, period!  My role is defined, your role is not.  It will come out soon enough.

That was funny but I want to do something more pathetic than greeting people at WalMart.  I’d like to work with you at the network.  We can scam schools into thinking we have all the answers and charge the going rate, 30K per.