In NYP oped, new Students1stNY director, Anna Hall, calls for eliminating “automatic tenure” as though this exists in NY http://goo.gl/usJDF
 
Pathetic; more chorus of teacher blame; does anyone know about her former school, Bronx Letters?
 
Her
school’s latest survey results are highlighted in light red in all
categories, meaning below average.  Under half of all parents were very
satisfied with the education their kids received. 
 
Only 20% of teachers strongly agreed that the school helps students find the best ways to achieve their learning goals.
 
Less
than half of students strongly agreed that the school lets them know
what they need to do to graduate and even fewer strongly agreed that
they felt safe in school. 
 
49% of teachers disagreed with the statement, “The principal at my school participates in instructional
planning with teachers.”
 
Given
that this is a new school and she was the founding principal, who
presumably selected all her teachers, these are really poor results.
 
Survey_2012_X551.pdf (application/pdf Object) – http://goo.gl/3VEc7

Then again, I guess it is a man bites dog story that an “educator” would be associated with Michelle Rhee’s front group.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/8th-graders-bronx-school-district-7-public-amp-charter-schools-top-score-state-english-exam-article-1.1121624?localLinksEnabled=false

take care of their children instead of sending them to live with ex-spouses or other relatives for the sake of “freedom” or convenience;

spend as much of their free time as possible nurturing their children;

place the needs of their children before their own.

If they are teachers, do they

prefer to be in the classroom where they can serve the children directly;

spend their time in graduate school learning how to be better teachers instead of going after the more lucrative administrative degree;

spend most of their evenings, weekends, summers getting ready for the next day, week, year;

spend more of their own money on their classrooms than the federal government spends?

Actually it’s easy to tell who puts students first. They are the people who choose to be with the children each day! Please support teachers, parents and others who give their time and money directly to children. People who truly put students first need your help.

The Education Commission did not choose to hear my testimony, nor Carol Burris —- Lauren Cohen

Lauren Cohen comments on her “testimony” never heard by Cuomo
Mis-Education Commission from our last post as faux educators from
Students Last and E4E get priority.

Your kind words help keep me going, Norm. The Education Commission
did not choose to hear my testimony, nor Carol’s. They did however hear
from $tudentsFirst’s Anna Hall and not one but TWO representatives of
E4E (with nearly-identical testimony – tenure protects ineffective
teachers, the teaching profession suffers because teachers remain in the
classroom for 20+ years, the state needs to impose an evaluation system
on any districts that have not approved one)

The most baffling part is why this nonsense continues to surprise me.

…and that was after security stopped us because “no more people
[were] being allowed upstairs” (even though somebody already inside had
just texted that there were plenty of seats). Then a uniformed guard and
a beefy guy in a suit came down and announced that people “on the list”
could go up. I handed him my ID, and he took a cursory glance at the
list and informed me I wasn’t on it. “Yes I am! I can see my name on it!
It’s right there!” I pointed to my name and he flipped the script to,
“oh, only people on THIS part of the list can go up…” Then Suit Guy
raised his voice and ordered me to leave the building and get on the
line that was still outside. After a couple of minutes of Uniform Guy
barking at us to make our line single-file, they announced that they
would let us inside 5-at-a-time.

One of the more demoralizing mornings in recent memory. (Up there with Day 3 of the 3rd grade ELA test.) 

Oh wait, I’m not on the panel….

Those who can’t administrate and pretend to lead.

They talk ad nauseum about the ineffective teachers. However, these ineffective teachers were granted tenure by ineffective administrators?

Where is the plan to get rid of them? They just continue to be promoted….maybe the game plan is to keep them away from the children.

“we must put the children first and reward great teachers”
“we must put the children first and reward great teachers”
“we must put the children first and reward great teachers”

Got it, can you remember that, okay, you are now the RheefirstNYC representative.