Management By Intimidation, Jack Welch and The New York City Public School System Now that Mr. Joel Klein (he is not Chancellor, legally) is changing the NYC public school administration for the third time in 5 years, the disaster of the Mayoral reign of Mike Bloomberg, Joel, and his sidekicks is becoming more obvious to everyone. The Jack Welch Leadership Academy is, we believe, the seed of the destruction.
In New York City, public school children, parents, teachers, school personnel and everyone else are watching their backs. They know that under Joel Klein's police state administration, a false allegation can send any one of them to a suspension center (from which there is no re-entry to the school system), to prison, to a re-assignment center or "rubber room", foster care with ACS, or termination and on the no hire list. You will have to move out of New York State to get a job. Times are bad, folks. By Mary Hoffman http://parentadvocates.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=7335
Regarding your answer to the person looking to make a career change from corporate sales and needing advice on how to become a NYC teacher – you’re a broken record and inaccurate.
Sean *********** Dear Sean,
Yes, Sean, my advice was – NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
The Goal of College Teacher Certification programs is to make $$$$ and fill up the quota of matriculated students to feed into the system. Your money allows them to thrive. Bottom line is, only fellow cronies are given PERMANENT jobs. They just want all your MONEY which enables them to continue to suck the life blood out of new teachers. You will be left in the dust. Over 40? Human rights laws do not apply to teachers, and they will not TENURE you. Believe me.
Do not waste tens of thousands of dollars and precious years of your life to work for your Masters in Education! They will no longer pay for ultra-qualified teachers when they can hire disposable 22-year-olds at bottom pay. This is now the education game. "TENURE" and "AT WILL" employment laws make it all possible and are designed to work for those at the top who hire and fire. People are beginning to catch on to this sick and twisted school system.
You cannot discourage me from telling the story about what really goes on in the family owned and operated school districts. I worked in the Massapequa/Amityville area for 8 years and have eyes to see and ears to hear! It is one big organized crime cartel.
You can try to slander me so others won’t listen! The truth is people ARE listening. Denis Dillon listened. Kathleen Rice is listening, Betsy Combier is listening, Barbara Meskill is listening, Eliot Spitzer is very interested, Andrew Cuomo is listening. All have contacted me for info. So stop trying to prevent me from educating the taxpayers about the truth of our Public NOT Schools!
My name can be now be accessed on Google because broken records are the only ones who finally get heard. My mouth will keep on going, and going, and going, and going..................
E. Belfiore Fighting New York School Corruption from the SWAMPGRASS
I think there is a special place in hell for Joel Klien. The Leadership Academy is a joke. I don't know why the media, (newspapers and tv stations) aren't interested in exposing what goes on with some principals in the schools. Our last principal drank too much and was promoted. The new "ice queen" blames the teachers for everything and does not believe in discipline. When we complain about not having a SAVE room, she tells us that if our lesson plans were better, we wouldn't need a SAVE room. She put her hands on me last year and I pitched a fit. I am now on her list. I engaged an attorney in order to fight back. Sometimes I wish a news agency would just put a wire on me so the public could see how their tax dollars are being used. Students wander the halls, screaming obscenities. The DOE attendance policy is a joke. Keep up the good fight. readkitty
I disagree. I have taught recently in other states and they are nothing like NYC. I have also heard that upstate schools and schools on Long Island are much different. There is no reason to believe Klien is the trend. Teachers in the south don't have a union to protect them, but, believe me, there is not the contempt of teachers there that there is here. In some school districts, teachers and administrators actually work together and help one another out. I know it's hard to believe after some experiences teachers have had here in NYC, but there are better places to teach. readkitty
No. You need to read about trends in other states. Eli Broad "academy" graduates are filling superintendent jobs all over the country; teacher protections are being subverted in order for states to get "Race to the Top" money. This is fact. So is the reality teaching is being deskilled everywhere.
I worked for Washoe County School District out in Nevada. It is as corrupt as any district in the country. The only difference is it is smaller than NYC.
ALL districts are being affected, not just New York City or D.C. What goes on there will go on in every single district in the country. We also have a Secretary of Education who is big on privatization and charters.
I don't think it necessarily means the entire country will follow NYC. Also, the battle over health care shows how Americans feel about the federal government involving itself in state/local matters. It's called speaking out. The more we do it and the more politically invovled we become, I believe we CAN fight the "trend". readkitty
Yeah, it does. School districts are doing it EVERYWHERE. They are being taken over by interests wanting to either destroy public schools altogether or putting in a system of charters.
My former district now has an Eli Broad Academy "graduate." He's nothing but a privatizer.
I joined this site hoping to find people who were willing to fight; complaining is fine, but there comes a point where you either have to fight back or just carry a grudge around forever. We are registered voters; we can form public action groups; we can write letters to the editor; we CAN fight back if we develop a plan of action and organize. readkitty