Comments on: Turnaround schools’ job postings offer window into city’s plans

By: A High School Student

A High School Student — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:11:00 +0000

Indeed, the teachers are distracted. At my high school (Newtown), teachers and students have been left in confusion by the myriad of nonsensical reforms and reforms of reforms by the DOE; so much so that the time left has caught up on us and two days from now (6/11/2012) all work is to be handed in, which leaves us students (along with our teachers) having to work all this weekend just to make deadlines.

In fact, for the first time, the Regents are hardly on our radar because of all the developments around us.

THIS IS HAPPENING IN THE LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE U.S.??!!

In my personal opinion, it can only go down from here.

By: ASTRAKA

ASTRAKA — Sun, 13 May 2012 19:07:00 +0000

I found these long names very representative of the DOE’s reforms in general. They lack common sense. They convey a phoney attempt to change the character of the school that does not represent reality. They are indicative of reformers who are impressed by titles with no substance.

By: R.I.P. Richmond Hill

R.I.P. Richmond Hill — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:16:00 +0000

Let’s hope that lawsuit is somehow successful. If Bloomberg can get away with this turnaround bullcrap he will start doing it all the time just to make staffs unstable and it’s his best move yet in his war against tenure.

By: jeff s

jeff s — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:54:00 +0000

….and the UFT is cooperating with the process (as probably is CSA). Nice going Michael and Ernie. Great ways to protect your members! (While I certainly undertand the dilema of the younger teachers as to whether or not to re-apply for jobs they legally hold and their tenure rights they supposed hold, older teachers, who are not going to get hired anyway, you should not cooperate with this farce. Let them throw all of them into the ATR. If I were within a few years of retirement, I certainly would rather go into the ATR, as demeanng as it is, than playing the game by their rules. But the UFT and CSA don’t have the cahonies ,sp.> to put up a fight.

By: Turnaround Teacher

Turnaround Teacher — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:47:00 +0000

While the postings are not unreasonable they certainly are going out of their ways to make this difficult for us. We are being forced to not only reapply for our own jobs, not only go through an interview process, not only make detailed portfolios, but also give up part of our summer. Thank you Mike.

By: R.I.P. Richmond Hill

R.I.P. Richmond Hill — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:55:00 +0000

You know what is the biggest disgrace? Look at the D.O.E. website and wait for the next press conference… “with these 24 turnaround schools, this brings the number of new schools opened under Mayor Bloomberg to 613…” Oh really? These 24 turnaround schools are new? The ones with the same students? Basically the same names, just add a couple b.s. words at (Richmond Hill Campus, John Adams Campus, etc.). This is of no benefit to the 30,000 students in these 24 schools. It’s certainly no benefit to the teachers, administrators, secretaries, or any of the union members who now must focus on resumes, cover letters, and portfolios, using precious time better served preparing students for regents exams and graduation, etc. You know who benefits the most? The political careers of people like Bloomberg, as these 30,000 low performing students will not count in the all important stats next year. You may be able to fool the public and the two anti-public education idiots who regularly post on here, but you aren’t fooling us.