Comments on: In education-packed speech, Bloomberg vows to bypass UFT

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:58:00 +0000

Why not put some of the onus on parents and elementary education. The failing students in high schools now are students that were failing in the the system since they were little. A high school teacher can try to turn a child around once they get to high school but the reality is that most of these children are at a point where they cannot be turned around. They have been “passed” through the system and the parents were of no help in trying to make them successful.

By: Valeriebell42

Valeriebell42 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:06:00 +0000

Our children are or future if we don’t. Teach them this world will not be runing right please don’t let our kids brains go to waste please help the kids to be som one thank you

By: Jenriquez

Jenriquez — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:52:00 +0000

How is it possible that this man can say and do whatever he wants in a field that he has no experience in. How is it possible that the media can not evaluate this mayor the same way he evaluates teachers. Rate his work as highly effective, effective, developing, ineffective.
1. Job creation
2. School management
3. Budget ( make sure to include all those ppl that lost their jobs because of his political agenda)
4. Bend mayor term office
My ratings will be:
1. Developing 2. ineffective 3. Ineffective 4. Highly effective. Overall grade= Ineffective.
How is it possible to let a person like this handle the future of our kids….. Please analyze his job from day 1 and sincerely rate him according to his own ways of rating people that chose teaching because of their vocation knowing that teachers don’t have a high pay salary.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:34:00 +0000

Principals around the state have higher caliber teachers on average. We have to deal with the neglectful hiring and tenure practices of the past when the system hired anyone. And it is well documented that poor children do not have equal access to the same quality of teacher as their suburban counterparts

By: kryptonite

kryptonite — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:54:00 +0000

Superman, what you fail to acknowledge is what this whole thing is about. Clearly you’re the naive, political neophyte here. This agressive move is a transparent ploy to pressure the UFT into an accepting an evaluation system with no appeals process, an evaluation system which I should add, that the large majority of school leaders around the state believe is highly flawed.

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By: guest

guest — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:13:00 +0000

Thankfully I was able to leave one of the 33 failing schools because of our LIFO policy, and I have to admit that a great deal of the staff I worked with don’t deserve the protection our union provides them. These individuals should be nowhere near children, but, they’ve got tenure so they’ll be plaguing the system for years, keeping our scores low.

I’m not saying that Bloomberg is correct, but every comment I read on this page fails to acknowledge that there are too many awful teachers in the system and no means of getting rid of them. Isn’t it sad that no matter how hard I work, I’m just as valuable, if not less, than the “seasoned, experienced” teacher who simply doesn’t care? And please, don’t suggest that these individuals leave the profession willingly, they’ll collect a paycheck until their 25 years are up. Let’s cut the naive discussion and be able to view BOTH sides of this debate.

By: Ms. Real Talk

Ms. Real Talk — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:04:00 +0000

“We” have already lost the future….

By: guest

guest — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:47:00 +0000

It is time that administrators and teachers everywhere come together and defend our profession. The end of TENURE is their true goal. Please remember all the sacrifices made by those who thought to question the “system.” Without TENURE we lose more than just job protection, we lose the future.

By: Tiredofyou

Tiredofyou — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:34:00 +0000

The two boo boo brothers one thinks the sky is falling and the other thinks he knows everything.
Could it be that they are the same person?
What does all this have to do with Bloomberg speech?

The hidden agenda twins.
The lawyer without any clients
The banker without any money
Gloom and Doom twins

By: Invictus

Invictus — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:32:00 +0000

Now that the ball is thrown at the UFT’s court, it will be interesting to see how Mulgrew and Company will deal with it, defensively or offensively.

It is also interesting that even the Principal’s Union president is also calling the system of schools that are labelled failing, the way it is….because he also knows that his small union membership will also be decimated with what the Supreme Leader has proposed…

North Korea and leadership change=newly developed crackdowns and reshuffling of the upper echelons for 2012.
NYC Public schools and the same old leadership=just new propaganda and a new excuse to send more people to the re-education camps for 2012.

By: Vote NO!

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

Does anyone really think that wholesale firing of teachers will really improve a school, or school system? These 33 “PLA” schools have been screwed up so badly by these foolish SIG grants. Why would anyone want to continue taking the Federal money just to perpetuate a disaster?

By: Dana DiCostanzo

Dana DiCostanzo — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:51:00 +0000

He suffers from delusions of grandeur…

By: I noticed that...

I noticed that... — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:18:00 +0000

Mayor Bloomberg, please shut up. We the people of NYC are tired of you.

By: I noticed that...

I noticed that... — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:17:00 +0000

If John Liu wins his case before the start of the primary and make it to the election for next year, he will kick Christine’s “slush” right out of the polls! We need John Liu!

By: Vote NO!

Vote NO! — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:11:00 +0000

If teachers were to be rated “Highly Effective” under Danielson, They would have to teach in an elite school, or AP classes. For everybody else they will be like “Big Foot” sightings…Talked about but never seen.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:57:00 +0000

when was the last time the mayor had a physical including a brain scan – like an MRI or a CAT scan – maybe he really is in the early stages of dementia .. for truly believing in all of the sludge that spills from his filthy mouth (maybe a dental visit would be in order too)

By: jteach

jteach — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:29:00 +0000

More scare tactics… When the King finally leaves office in 2 years. every one of us teachers who have made it through should get T- Shirts made up that say “I survived Bloomberg’s Reign of Terror” to show him how ineffective his inquisition against teachers has been over the last 12 years.

By: Pogue

Pogue — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:25:00 +0000

If Christine Quinn is to be taken seriously after her “slush-fund” issues and allowing Bloomberg’s against-the-peoples’-wishes 3rd term, then I agree with Los Flerpos…

John Liu for mayor!