tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post594776594829702992..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: Message To MaryEllen Elia Over Those Teachers She Wants To Work In "Struggling Schools"reality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-23069238747263910802015-10-17T07:32:41.772-04:002015-10-17T07:32:41.772-04:00If you teach in a challenging school, as I do, the...If you teach in a challenging school, as I do, these remarks are an insult to our efforts and professionalism and are indicative of Ellia's complete and utter ignorance of why schools are "failing". To suggest that "great teachers" will somehow be able to counteract the damaging effects of family dysfunction, parental neglect, generational poverty, and the hopelessness it breeds shows just how little she understands the complex dynamics of working in such communities. <br />NY Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08292448959963091160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-82120539494655576042015-10-16T14:24:59.233-04:002015-10-16T14:24:59.233-04:00True also. But a nice MOSL score is helpful. If a ...True also. But a nice MOSL score is helpful. If a principal wants to be vindictive, he/she certainly can. But if you have a MOSL of 35 and just need 30 points out if 60 to hit a "Developing", it's a little harder for a principal rather than if your MOSL was 15 total. It's laughable to get an additional 50 out of 60 to hit 65. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-76485576071377416682015-10-16T13:40:55.960-04:002015-10-16T13:40:55.960-04:00"...any schmuck in Bronx Science teaching gym..."...any schmuck in Bronx Science teaching gym is riding the data wave". Test score data is only part of the evaluatiuon. A vindictive principal can use the Danielson Rubric as a sword and cut that teacher to pieces if he or she chooses. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-63048908605161259262015-10-16T12:29:52.363-04:002015-10-16T12:29:52.363-04:00This looks interesting:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/1...This looks interesting:<br /><br />http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/15/us/los-angeles-teacher-class-action-lawsuit-rafe-esquith/index.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-92230308677360798542015-10-16T12:05:00.812-04:002015-10-16T12:05:00.812-04:00Oh, and one more thing re Buffalo: Our Superintend...Oh, and one more thing re Buffalo: Our Superintendent/Receiver Overlord was hand picked for us by Mary Ellin Elia. Makes sense! Buffalo is the bullseye for Receivership and Education Deform politics. Cuomo has a particular interest in knocking this district to the ground. The plan is succeeding quite well, in case anyone else in NYS was wondering. We're cooked! Stick a fork in us.......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-55649757633201422462015-10-16T11:56:30.717-04:002015-10-16T11:56:30.717-04:00This false wish for "great teachers" and...This false wish for "great teachers" and "teachers who can rise to the challenges inside struggling urban schools" is just another Deform mantra. It is meant to shame teachers who are ALREADY "great" and who HAVE risen to challenges inside struggling urban schools. The dearth of teachers has been deliberately created by Deformers. They have shamed, demoralized and marginalized urban teachers. But they have done this for a very specific purpose. They want TFA's, alternate cetificates, and a general de-professionalization of teaching. So not be fooled by what they "say" they want. Look instead at what they are doing in urban districts. In Buffalo, teachers have recently been referred to as "dregs" and "the lowest form of human capital" by our superintendent/receiver. It doesn't get any clearer than that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-28621653324752990672015-10-16T10:53:54.999-04:002015-10-16T10:53:54.999-04:00Put the struggling schools in receivership, strip ...Put the struggling schools in receivership, strip the teachers in them of any union protection and suspend contracts then wonder why nobody will set foot in one of them. I am not sure how dumb Elia is but I am beginning to understand how dumb she thinks teachers in this state might be, Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-5613732293526074622015-10-16T10:33:29.689-04:002015-10-16T10:33:29.689-04:00"We're in the process now if looking for ..."We're in the process now if looking for teachers who really have that heart ......" What? Are you fukking crazy? If you gave me a 20K bonus to work in one of those receivership schools, I wouldn't take it. Why? Here's why. If you take it, your MOSL SCORES will be SHIT. In NYC where I teach, that's currently 40% or 40 points out of 100. Last school year I received a 17 and an 18 out of 20 for each piece. Obviously that's a total of 35 out of 40 which is very good. These shit schools that teachers with "heart" should go to are pulling 7's and 8's. That's around 15 out of 40. If you score below 65 total, which is very possible at one of these shit schools, you will be labeled "ineffective". You can be the BEST teacher in the world BUT if your at Lehman HS or Clinton HS or Any other, you literally have no chance. If you get 2 ineffectives in a row, a 3020-a process can easily remove you. You will be terminated. Your family, house, future, all destroyed because you were supposed to have "heart". What a FUKKING JOKE. I HOPE SHE READS THIS IR SOMEONE GETS HER MY MESSAGE. The goal, find a small school to jump into and do your job, get your MOSL scores that these schools produce. If they really want teachers to work at "these" schools, they must eliminate the evaluation procedure because it's not reflective of the truth. Then again, I'm a Physical Education teacher at a really nice small school in the Bronx. My MOSL is based off ELA, nothing to do with me. This is also ridiculous because any schmuck in Bronx Science teaching Gym is riding the data wave. All BULLSHIT. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-5179774771525440342015-10-16T10:26:21.699-04:002015-10-16T10:26:21.699-04:00My husband is an English teacher and he's curr...My husband is an English teacher and he's currently trying to figure out how to rig the system so that he will have an effective rating based on his students' test scores. He's thought about only this for two weeks while trying to write his SLO. I can't stand this profession.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-63747606309229919512015-10-16T10:21:23.666-04:002015-10-16T10:21:23.666-04:00She wants to "elevate" teaching the way ...She wants to "elevate" teaching the way a hanged man is "elevated" above the ground.Michael Fiorillonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-71514923708874669542015-10-16T09:59:06.007-04:002015-10-16T09:59:06.007-04:00Let us not forget our Chancellor herself retired f...Let us not forget our Chancellor herself retired from the DOENYC in July of 2006 and then was tapped to be the Chancellor in January 2014. She came back seven years later to the highest position in the NYCDOE. Mid career teachers with ten to fifteen years of experience with the DOE leave for two minutes and will not be able to get a teaching position due to being labeled as too old and too experienced- not able to be molded, might point something out to the administrators. As I have told people again and again unless you become an administrator and get tenured, ( which is now rare) everyday you work for the DOE as a teacher is a day closer to the end of your career and the end will now happen by year four since tenure is not being given. So who in their right mind would become a teacher unless the person thinks of it as a gig and there are better gigs to get with substantially less stress than be in a renewal school. Stay away from education.Former NYC DOE teachernoreply@blogger.com