Comments on: Bloomberg’s turnaround switch would cause 33 school closures

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:22:00 +0000

Teachers are being obeserved more than usual, and senior teachers are getting rated U and most of the reasons the APS are writing in their reports is poor planning. All of the sudden senior reachers who have been satisfactory for years are getting rated U. There is a direct link since the mayor has anounced the closure of the school, and the increasing of teachers rated U. The mayor has an agenda to close schools and to portray as many senior teachers as possible to look unsatisfatory. Be alert and gather proof. I have never seen so muchi viciousness going on as know. The press and the public opinion needs to know how TWEET acts.

By: YOURCOPSBROKEMYLEG

YOURCOPSBROKEMYLEG — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:09:00 +0000

Mayor Bloomberg and The DOE
           You are talking about closing 33 schools and mire to get these Charter
schools opoen with younger and less salary. I have a hard working husband working in your system well educated and has the students in mind. I say this because you have allowed him to get two”U” rating because he makes too much and the Principal and the asst. principal can not stand him so he is being harass.
             point out by his so call peers. This man has gone through a lot in this school    school. You may not care but I do. He had a stroke from the pressure
              the teachers and adminstrators place on him. You have teachers that are in his school that are alcholics,mental problems, physically ill. I don’t see one of these people being harass at. You need to check out the head of all of the schools.
               When it comes to the system it is all about money!!!

By: Edutainer

Edutainer — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:59:00 +0000

Great comment– I’m curious, where do you get the numbers on the overall education budget over the past 8 years? I’m interested in researching the increase in administrative costs under Bloomberg and am wondering if there’s a good place to find solid, itemized data on this stuff.

By: DOE Pyramid scam

DOE Pyramid scam — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:40:00 +0000

The fact that the city education budget has increased the last 8 years while individual schools have had to slash their budgets up to 13% is a crime. Bloomberg should be brought up on charges. The high school I work at, was mandated to use a PSO/CBO network which is taking $600,000 of the $900,000 given to us under transformation. This PSO/CBO offers “coaches” for our principal but does not offer anything for our students. The money being spent on consultants, administration coaches, and partnership organizations in the DOE is a joke. Its a tragedy and the kids and teachers are the ones being hurt.

By: Eveready4

Eveready4 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:05:00 +0000

This. Is. A. Monstrosity.

By: nuff said

nuff said — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0000

Just curious-exactly why do you think he will wait until Septemberr? Don’t be surprised if he closes the schools immediately and reopens them the same day with different names and numbers. It seems they have been prepared for this for awhile and that King and Cuomo have been onboard for some time–look at the timeline of announcements for the evidence. He will act with lightening speed and the State will let it go saying to turn back would be too disruptive for students.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:08:00 +0000

This is interesting. Two years ago the UFT and ACLU sued to keep schools open because communication with the community was not sufficient. At Washington Irving we have had four models in the last six months, Restart, Transformation, Phase-out, and now turnaround. Is this clear communication? And are we to consider the State of the City an official change in strategy for our school?

By: Transformation Teacher

Transformation Teacher — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:10:00 +0000

Today in the middle of my 7th period class DC37 employees had to come to every class and give a memo to the students to bring home. This memo explained that the school is being proposed for turnaround which would bring out ineffective teachers, and ensured the parents that it would get the best teachers for their children into the classroom. It also blantatly blamed the loss of sig money on the UFT. Thank you DOE, for ruining and disrupting my final classes of the day, and once again scaring all employees at my school.

By: Norm

Norm — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:55:00 +0000

Part 2 of the attack will be on the ATRs – they will use whatever means to go around whatever protections atrs have claiming the costs are prohibitive.

By: Vote NO!

Vote NO! — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:54:00 +0000

Regardless of whatever model they decide upon, many of these “PLA” schools would probably end up on being closed anyway when the SIG money runs out. The buildings are much worse than they were before they entered the program. Money is going to consultants, and not the classroom. Administrators have been set upon teachers to make sure they do the Danielson “dog and pony show” in their classrooms. Danielson is not a very effective teaching method, especially for schools with a lot of high needs students. They’re doing so many observations, that they have little time to do anything else. The other programs which require administrative support have been neglected. The staffs are so demoralized, that they may actually get very large numbers of teachers who would volunteer to become ATRs if given the chance just to get out of such an environment. Meryl Tisch called one of these schools a “warehouse.” Most teachers who entered the profession did so to “teach” not work in a “warehouse.”

By: Leonie

Leonie — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:17:00 +0000

Since when did education reform turn into an insanely destructive& pointless chess game? It’s like Alice in wonderland without the laughs. Such heedlessness & reckless cruelty. And when it’s all over hundreds more teachers on atr & taxpayers left footing the bill.