Comments on: Here We Go Again: Joel Tries an End Run http://www.edwize.org/here-we-go-again-joel-tries-an-end-run Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: jd2718 http://www.edwize.org/here-we-go-again-joel-tries-an-end-run/comment-page-1#comment-17074 jd2718 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:23:03 +0000 http://edwize.org/here-we-go-again-joel-tries-an-end-run#comment-17074 We should keep a careful eye on what they mean to do to tenure. But we cannot afford to stop looking there. While each of the organizational changes so far may have accomplished some limited objective of Bloomberg and his Chancellor, I believe their overall aim is served by frequent, rapid, unpredictable disruption. They are generating nervousness and insecurity. They are changing for change's sake. They are forcing people to change jobsite, or other work conditions. They have changed our schedules each year of the last (how many in a row?) They are subjecting all of us, including the most vulnerable, to the whims of untrained and erratic "principals." The principals have it as bad, if not worse (although my overall sympathy for them is of course tempered by how lousy some of them have treated us). I know that I don't want to rate them, not the way Bloomberg's Chancellor has proposed; I'm not for appealing to the might and justice of Tweed. For anything. But the schools themselves have it the worst. Consistency in staff? (Should we talk about high turnover, or ATRs here?) Consistency in curriculum? (new high school math courses starting in Septenber, btw. That's from Albany, and an improvement, though an improvement of an ugly mess of their own design). Schools opening? Schools closing? Extra help? Losing art and foreign language? Overcrowding? Incompetent administration? They are disrupting the system. At Tilden they manipulated a functioning school into a mess in order to close it down. Why are they manipulating the New York Public School System into a mess? Jonathan We should keep a careful eye on what they mean to do to tenure. But we cannot afford to stop looking there.

While each of the organizational changes so far may have accomplished some limited objective of Bloomberg and his Chancellor, I believe their overall aim is served by frequent, rapid, unpredictable disruption.

They are generating nervousness and insecurity. They are changing for change’s sake. They are forcing people to change jobsite, or other work conditions. They have changed our schedules each year of the last (how many in a row?) They are subjecting all of us, including the most vulnerable, to the whims of untrained and erratic “principals.”

The principals have it as bad, if not worse (although my overall sympathy for them is of course tempered by how lousy some of them have treated us). I know that I don’t want to rate them, not the way Bloomberg’s Chancellor has proposed; I’m not for appealing to the might and justice of Tweed. For anything.

But the schools themselves have it the worst. Consistency in staff? (Should we talk about high turnover, or ATRs here?) Consistency in curriculum? (new high school math courses starting in Septenber, btw. That’s from Albany, and an improvement, though an improvement of an ugly mess of their own design). Schools opening? Schools closing? Extra help? Losing art and foreign language? Overcrowding? Incompetent administration?

They are disrupting the system.

At Tilden they manipulated a functioning school into a mess in order to close it down.

Why are they manipulating the New York Public School System into a mess?

Jonathan

]]> By: xkaydet65 http://www.edwize.org/here-we-go-again-joel-tries-an-end-run/comment-page-1#comment-17062 xkaydet65 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:28:24 +0000 http://edwize.org/here-we-go-again-joel-tries-an-end-run#comment-17062 What we as a union must do is stand on the law that public employees can only be supervised by other public employees. What these people like Cerf and the Brits must be told is that they are not in our chain of command. They are not in our table of organization. They are not in our army! The law about public employees is clear. Stand on its principles. What we as a union must do is stand on the law that public employees can only be supervised by other public employees. What these people like Cerf and the Brits must be told is that they are not in our chain of command. They are not in our table of organization. They are not in our army!
The law about public employees is clear. Stand on its principles.

]]> By: Persam1197 http://www.edwize.org/here-we-go-again-joel-tries-an-end-run/comment-page-1#comment-17048 Persam1197 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:36:16 +0000 http://edwize.org/here-we-go-again-joel-tries-an-end-run#comment-17048 What scares me is that the damage caused Kleinberg's latest master plan might not be repairable. I'm a conspiracy theorist. I see Chris Cerf as the icing on the cake in this corporate raid of a public trust. How can the former head of Edison be the driving force in NYC education? Now management is being privatized and parcelled out to corporate interests. Even if the next chancellor is a real educator and is a person of the hightest integrity, what will he/she have to work with? Bloomberg and Klein have both stated that we wouldn't recognize the system they'll leave behind from what the B.O.E. was when they took it over. Oy! What scares me is that the damage caused Kleinberg’s latest master plan might not be repairable. I’m a conspiracy theorist. I see Chris Cerf as the icing on the cake in this corporate raid of a public trust. How can the former head of Edison be the driving force in NYC education? Now management is being privatized and parcelled out to corporate interests. Even if the next chancellor is a real educator and is a person of the hightest integrity, what will he/she have to work with?

Bloomberg and Klein have both stated that we wouldn’t recognize the system they’ll leave behind from what the B.O.E. was when they took it over. Oy!

]]> By: xkaydet65 http://www.edwize.org/here-we-go-again-joel-tries-an-end-run/comment-page-1#comment-17034 xkaydet65 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:07:39 +0000 http://edwize.org/here-we-go-again-joel-tries-an-end-run#comment-17034 Let's refill those DOs. If Cathy Powis tries to return to the old CSB 24 office in Atlas Terminals she'll find it's become a California Pizza Kitchen. Oh and the Queens super office will be located in the Region 3 HQ on Linden Place in Flushing. A location harder to get to than the green zone in Bahgdad. Let’s refill those DOs. If Cathy Powis tries to return to the old CSB 24 office in Atlas Terminals she’ll find it’s become a California Pizza Kitchen.
Oh and the Queens super office will be located in the Region 3 HQ on Linden Place in Flushing. A location harder to get to than the green zone in Bahgdad.

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