The UFT-- the "lion of treachery"

[tonysam]

It's not enough that the city hires grad students, calls them "teachers" the first year on the job, and uses them to kill tenure and push veteran members out of their jobs. The UFT accepted that. It talks a good game, but it's positioning itself beautifully: when we lose tenure and the ATRs are all fired, they can claim it's not their fault.

And it's not enough that know-nothing administrators — sometimes unsuccessful, unmotivated, or unlicensed teachers themselves — get absurd freedoms to evaluate us. The UFT accepted that, too, and even gave up the right to grieve the truly wicked stuff.

And it's also not enough that the Steve Brills, Nick Kristofs and so many others of the capitulating press continue to heckle from the sidelines, passing off the EdDeform press releases as if they were real news. The UFT buys into the same jargon just as much as the press. It took them way too long to reject the profound deception of the school report cards and faulty test data.

Now the UFT has signed on big time to the new Gates project on teacher evaluation.

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These billionaires know absolutely NOTHING about education; they are trying to buy public opinion in order to destroy public institutions for private profit. It's sickening the unions are in cahoots with them and signing their own death warrants.

[Starry Messenger]

1. Thank you, that's a good blog.

Here's another reaction to the NYT article that he links to:

http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2010/03/elizabeth-greens-front-page-sunday-mag.html

It's a good one too.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. The UFT makes me nervous.

It's my union, but it makes me nervous.

K and R.

[Hannah Bell]

3. "When I first heard about this project, I thought Bill and Melinda were just bored in bed

and looking for a way to spice up their sex life. Why not hit teachers again. It was fun last time when we destabilized the system with those new small schools."


It's my opinion that gates doesn't have sex. his kids are bioengineered.


"Invited were such lions of education reform as New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, his Washington, D.C., counterpart Michelle Rhee and Bush Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, along with top advisors to President-elect Obama and AFT/UFT President Randi Weingarten."

It's my opinion too that randi weingarten is fully on-board with the programme. she's been too near too much of the action, and her statements in "defense" of the rhode island teachers were mostly milksop.

"This is not the outside press. This is our union rag calling Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee, and Margaret Spellings "lions of education reform.""

indeed. if you're in nyc, there's a meeting march 10:

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

4:00 to 7:00 PM

Bedford Library
496 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238
C Train to Franklin Ave.

Sponsored by:

GEM—Grassroots Education Movement and CAPE—Concerned Advocates for Public Education.

Grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com, capeducation.blogspot.com