Comments on: Remainders: After Matt Damon, a smaller Save Our Schools rally

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:42:00 +0000

Exactly how it was meant to be read!

Thank you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:15:00 +0000

Consider it considered.

By: Nycdoenuts

Nycdoenuts — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:07:00 +0000

There’s a lot more to this, the story that doesn’t meet the eye. That’s a big reason why I’m a little relieved that GS et. al. missed the boat and that it never actually got to meet the eye.

I hope next year is awesome though! I sure would like to go.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:01:00 +0000

So, there seems to be more to this story that doesn’t meet the eye.

By: Mr. Flerporillo

Mr. Flerporillo — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:59:00 +0000

It was my impression that you were bemoaning the “lack of coverage of the SOS convention.”

I don’t know if using “rally” instead of “conference” in the headline qualifies as “shameful,” even if it may be misleading. And when you have a tiny editorial staff, you have to write copy, including headlines, very quickly. Just something to consider.

By: nycdoenuts

nycdoenuts — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:45:00 +0000

Suits me. The great SOS stories for the year has been who’s in charge and the momentum loss that has occurred because of the debate over Common Core (something I support) within the movement. I stayed home this year partly because I didn’t see a strong consensus around accepting people who don’t completely hate the Common Core.

If you ask me, the press, Gotham Schools included, did the movement a great big favor by completely ignoring the gathering this year. I hope some of the leadership and philosophies issues are resolved (in favor of a more inclusive ‘big tent’ approach) over the Fall and into next year.

Here are two pieces that show what I’m getting at.
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2012/05/is-sos-being-hijacked-by-corporate.html

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/05/critical_questions_about_the_c.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:26:00 +0000

Not just a gap. It’s the Remainders lead, yet it’s totally misrepresented.

Rather than a rally, it’s a convention for solutions and policy stands. That’s really the story.

By: Mr. Flerporillo

Mr. Flerporillo — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:14:00 +0000

Coverage gaps are likely due to the size of GS’s editorial staff, which appears to consist of two reporters and two editors.

By: GUest

GUest — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:01:00 +0000

The city has a literacy curriculum?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 04:12:00 +0000

http://nyceducator.com/2012/08/yes-virginia-there-are-good-meetings.html?m=1

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:37:00 +0000

Wow! Shamefully poor presentation and lack of coverage of the SOS convention!

It was a convention, not a march and rally with celebrities in protest! That in itself is not a story, and the scale of it is a misrepresentation of a non-story!

Are you guys asleep at the switches or showing your political/financial colors, in bright fluorescents?!

By: Turnaround Teacher

Turnaround Teacher — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:57:00 +0000

How come you didn’t include the Daily News article on Lehman?

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/lehman-high-school-teachers-pink-slips-june-arbitrator-reversed-firings-choose-flee-article-1.1128538?localLinksEnable

By: Sold Out

Sold Out — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:12:00 +0000

Superintendents now don’t need any teaching background in one state and a charter school can kick out pregnant girls in another state. Looks like the ed-deformers are cheering from their penthouses today as they further watch our public school system go to Hell in a hand basket.