If you're reading this post anytime around 7:30 AM when I had it scheduled to be posted, then you're reading it long after I left for my ELA Regents exam grading assignment.
You see, the NYCDOE sent the teachers in my department to a school almost as far away from our school on the island of Manhattan as you can get without being:
a) in the Bronx
b) in the East River or
c) on the FDR Drive in a little cubicle on a walkway over the road.
It's nice and cold too, so not only do I get to enjoy a commute that is three times my normal commute time, but I also get to enjoy a nice brisk half mile walk from the train station to the grading site.
In any case, I had to leave extra, extra early to get to the grading site and enjoy a half day of grading instructions and "norming" (how's that for an Orwellian term?) before we'll be sent back to our own school for, well, I don't know for what.
Then it's back to three days of the triple-time commute and the half mile walk to the site - all to grade an exam that many students, in both my estimation and the estimation of many ELA teachers I have talked to, are going to fail because the NYSED set it up that way (not unlike last year's Common Core tests.)
See you in a few hours.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Friday, December 18, 2009
Snow
It's supposed to snow tomorrow.
Earlier in the week, the man on my TV told me to expect about an inch of snow.
Tonight he says 6-10.
It will be all done by Sunday afternoon, so there's no chance of a snow day in the New York City public school system on Monday.
But you can be sure that even if it snowed until 10 AM Monday morning and there were 36 inches of white powder blanketing New York City with drifts so high they were up to Mayor Moneybags beady, bloodshot eyes, Chancellor Klein would wait until the last second possible to close New York City schools - like 6:30 AM after thousands of teachers were already on their way to work.
And of course he'd make that call from a comfy chair in front of his fireplace in his Park Avenue duplex apartment while sipping cocoa and watching his favorite hedge fund managers/education reformers on CNBC's morning show.
Cuz' that's the kind of guy Uncle Joel is.
Earlier in the week, the man on my TV told me to expect about an inch of snow.
Tonight he says 6-10.
It will be all done by Sunday afternoon, so there's no chance of a snow day in the New York City public school system on Monday.
But you can be sure that even if it snowed until 10 AM Monday morning and there were 36 inches of white powder blanketing New York City with drifts so high they were up to Mayor Moneybags beady, bloodshot eyes, Chancellor Klein would wait until the last second possible to close New York City schools - like 6:30 AM after thousands of teachers were already on their way to work.
And of course he'd make that call from a comfy chair in front of his fireplace in his Park Avenue duplex apartment while sipping cocoa and watching his favorite hedge fund managers/education reformers on CNBC's morning show.
Cuz' that's the kind of guy Uncle Joel is.
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