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In reply to the discussion: NY Dem majority passes Cuomo's ed bill "with heavy hearts". One even holds his nose while voting. [View all]madfloridian
(88,117 posts)19. "permanent licenses are no longer permanent, a backdoor way to dump senior teachers"
From NYC Educator blog:
Here Come the Independent Evaluators
I'm not often at a loss for words, but the depth and breadth of the Great Democratic Assembly Sellout of 2015 is hard for me to take. I watched Ron Kim, whose speech I admired at the Bayside forum, speak to the Assembly about how bad the bill was and explain he was voting for it anyway. He did so for the money, the money that is attached to the worsened APPR.
...And it certainly looks like they have their eye on getting rid of teachers who don't get those test scores. Get rated ineffective on test scores and you can't get an overall good rating. Who the hell is going to want to teach the kids I serve? And when an independent evaluator comes in, how will he or she know that the kid I'm not asking questions just came from China, or El Salvador, or Korea, or Egypt the day before yesterday, and that I'm trying not to humiliate her by putting her on the spot right away?
And then, of course, there is the fact that permanent licenses are no longer permanent, a backdoor way to dump senior teachers for no reason whatsoever. Forget to register, and who knows what the hell that will entail, and it's no more license, no more tenure, and no more job. I have seen that happen to people who didn't keep up with their paperwork, and it's no fun at all.
Then there is the failing schools model, and it looks like it's designed to create them. When you mandate that the bottom 5% are failures, there will always be failures. This is the idiotic system Microsoft used, the one that gave us such brilliant innovations as the ubiquitous Windows phone every teenage student of mine simply must have. The fact that all so-called failing schools contain large numbers of high-needs kids, like mine, is neither here nor there.
And Mulgrew was mistaken when he said receivership did not entail revocation of contract. It appears to be entirely possible.
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NY Dem majority passes Cuomo's ed bill "with heavy hearts". One even holds his nose while voting. [View all]
madfloridian
Apr 2015
OP
Well said, Peter Greene. "people who club baby seals feel a little bit bad about it"
madfloridian
Apr 2015
#5
They said it was better than Cuomo's original, and they didn't want budget to be late.
madfloridian
Apr 2015
#12
"permanent licenses are no longer permanent, a backdoor way to dump senior teachers"
madfloridian
Apr 2015
#19
It reminds me of watching the Iraq War Vote. Something died inside of a lot of Democrats
sabrina 1
Apr 2015
#26
The Democrats have become so spineless it is embarrassing. I remember fighting right wingers
sabrina 1
Apr 2015
#22
"Cuomo would have relented if they had taken a united position against this bill."
madfloridian
Apr 2015
#24
The Democratic politicians hold their nose while voting for legislation and the Democratic voters
liberal_at_heart
Apr 2015
#32