tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post8089736707145191741..comments2024-01-15T15:23:15.700-05:00Comments on B-LoEdScene: Cuomo and King Get Their Fraud On, Pamela C Brown Puts Her Paws in the Air as NYSED's Girl in B-LoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-6376251188843888632013-04-28T22:24:51.964-04:002013-04-28T22:24:51.964-04:00You guys and gals have pretty much covered the rot...You guys and gals have pretty much covered the rotten situation that is festering here and now.<br />So, just a thought that may rile some parents enough to to make some noise.<br />When parents become informed about how Cuomo has violated their best interests by turning over the private records of their children to the publishers, test makers , data collectors and any business that requests them ( for a fee), perhaps they will go ballistic as the gun owners have done.<br /><br />New York's Governor is the ONLY one so far who has agreed to turn every students' records over to inBloom. That private company has announced that the records will be stored in the "cloud" and they cannot guarantee their safety when they are transmitted all over the planet.<br /><br />If teachers and parents keep taking this crap without a fight...then they ( not their children) deserve the s#&t sandwhiches that the Governor, King, ReFormEd, the Chameleons and their cohorts are serving them.<br /><br />Public school boards and political appointees should take an oath to serve the interest of our democratic public schools that are open to all children. They should not be conniving to turn them over to private businesses. Is it even legal?<br /><br />When only five or ten children out of every 100 applicants are accepted to the Charters, the parents of the 90 who were refused or "counseled-out" might wake up to the fact that they have been fleeced. ( Their taxes will pay for the Charter students).<br /><br />I feel sorry for the children who are the pawns in this shell game. Guess where their zip codes are. That is where the rich guys concentrate the swindle machines... and enlarge their bank accounts and campaign war-chests.<br /><br />Integrity anywhere?...just hoping...Pegnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-76465314287480277402013-04-28T20:14:14.031-04:002013-04-28T20:14:14.031-04:00You notice too Carl is using the decentralization ...You notice too Carl is using the decentralization meme on his little list of must dos right after destroying the other members and kicking Phil out of town. Is anyone going to tell him that Phil is elected by Buffalo teachers not board of ed members? You know the suburban schools will come along as soon as they realize it's cool to fight city hall. Kind of the way their students mimic everything ours do except usually a year or so later? I am not worrying about Clarence or Lakeshore jumping into the fray alongside us. They will when they start to feel the heat which will be sooner than later the way King was seen in White Plains explaining to everyone there how awful they really are they just don't know it yet. In the meantime our best attack would be to follow the lead of Chicago and others like them who are fully engaged in the battle and are seeing some very marginal signs of victory against these corporate scum. They have been able to fool some of the people all of the time but they aren't doing victory laps and trotting around the bases as they were a while back. Now they find themselves having to fight hard and their opponents are growing in number. We have no choice but to fight and that's why I want to throw a big union monkey wrench into their precious fucking Regents exams in June. Public Relations ? Really ? What do we have left to lose? They are calling us frauds, we can't even correct our own exams, they are making Learning Disabled kidas take exams 5 levels above their cognitive abilities and saying that it's to keep school districts and teachers from claiming kids are learning disabled to boost their test scores? If there was a better time for a June strike than now I want to know when it was or when it will be. How many more punches do we take before we throw one back at these spineless pricks? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-61036562852489736032013-04-28T16:40:08.334-04:002013-04-28T16:40:08.334-04:00Uplifting and inspiring. Thanks!
But like I said, ...Uplifting and inspiring. Thanks!<br />But like I said, here in Buffalo, our parent group is run by Buffalo ReformEd. They are STILL pushing the "parent tricker" law to CLOSE our public schools and privatize them, meaning: give our buildings to those who seek to profit, like the Chameleons and Polowitz and Sampson. Sad. <br />Sam Radford has done such a disservice to our parents and children by allying with elitists at BuffaloEdDeform. James Sampson is the Board President there. He is also on the board of the West Buffalo Charter, the group that includes the Chameleon Polowitz. Mr Sampson was AT the meeting where the deal to give 4 of our schools to the charter privatizers was revealed in 2011. He has been in on all of the Polowitz/Chameleon deals from the very beginning.<br /><br />We do not have strong leadership for our public schools from our Superintendent. She is a remote, robotic follower of anything that anyone with $$$$ says. When Wilmers wanted to give our jobs to TFA'ers earlier this year, she said "Alrighty, Sir". When Polowitz/Chameleon attempted to steal Waterfront and East High School earlier this year, she was silent. (If it had not been for some community members, in conjunction with the Board of Ed, our East and Waterfront teachers would be getting their haircuts right now.)<br />She has created chaos with respect to the APPR. Her new organization chart, (on the district website) removes her even more from the "fray" of running an urban district. Why should she get her PhD mussy or her pearls in a knot when Say Yes is willing to do her job for her. She has no connection to the people or the children of Buffalo. The reorganization comes to us from Say Yes and it mirrors a document from the Eli Broad Foundation of School Deform. Say Yes is a Broad advocacy group. PCB is their vassal. They hired her AND they are doing her job, so in effect, they are running our school district.<br />The decentralization of our district budget comes right out of the Broad playbook. Fund schools that have the most students, add a little more to that pot by using test scores as a sweetener, and watch the minority community schools start closing. Maybe then our parents will see what is happening. Too bad it will take down some schools and students along the way.<br />Maybe then, as in the link above, our parents will be in the streets, along with teachers, pleading for mercy for our public school children.Pineapple Harenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-56073564811546607502013-04-28T15:00:46.796-04:002013-04-28T15:00:46.796-04:00http://youtu.be/J9DnhaYccPwhttp://youtu.be/J9DnhaYccPwAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-90206941293360004102013-04-28T08:29:44.158-04:002013-04-28T08:29:44.158-04:00I was hoping that the URBAN teachers were not goin...I was hoping that the URBAN teachers were not going to have to fight this battle alone. I was hoping that when the silent majority of SUBURBAN teachers realized that the APPR was going to unfairly affect their jobs, as well as ours,<br /> we would then achieve some solidarity and strength in numbers. THEN it would be "game on". Two of our local suburban districts, admins and board members, have publicly and in writing complained about testing and tying the tests to evaluation of teachers. THOSE are the districts where the parents are also complaining about the <br />effect of the insane testing on their students. They GET IT. And as soon as they would begin to see their beloved teachers mysteriously disappearing from the profession due to high stakes test data, they would call a halt to the Commissioner Boy's silly games.<br /><br />But no. Once again, the urban teachers will have to fight this battle and suffer the legal consequences. Don't forget, we will have a new Board made up to teacher bashers and haters. They, and Albany are hoping (salivating, actually) that Buffalo will strike, so they can swoop in and waterboard us. Maybe make us sit in a hot summer school cafeteria and listen to Bob Bennett and his Commissioner Puppet do their ventiloquist act via skype? (Because we all know that the Little Commissar, er Commissioner, is afraid to travel to Buffalo without his Daddy Bob.)<br /><br />Urban parents have had their leadership, DPCC, hijacked by Buffalo REform Ed and the like. The leader of Buffalo ReformEd, James Sampson, will possibly be on our School Board. The Chameleons Polowitz and Friedman are highlighted in is fundraiser photos on his facebook page. Here is a blurb form one of Sampson's supporters:<br /><br />"We will never change public schools from a gulag of sub par education until we make the purpose of public schools education rather than a secure jobs program for people not qualified to teach."<br /><br />We urban teachers now need strength and solidarity. We need to ally with our other urban districts so as to not make this just about BUFFALO. We need to make this a STATE issue. We need allies and support. We need informed teachers.<br /><br />I'll end now. In the eyes of our new Board members, I am just another Sub Par Gulag worker who is not qualified to teach. <br />Pineapple Harenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-57243415300083823412013-04-27T23:49:10.272-04:002013-04-27T23:49:10.272-04:00OR - I agree we never should have danced with the ...OR - I agree we never should have danced with the devil and we should never agree to common core or any more of this bullshit testing from a company who can't find their number 2 pencil with both hands or this appointed little hack King sitting in Bob Bennetts lap talking shit. I am all about a pre Regents week strike. Let it draw out who really gives a fuck at this point?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-542838013041407522013-04-27T23:46:19.462-04:002013-04-27T23:46:19.462-04:00RBE I found some amazing stuff on the head of his ...RBE I found some amazing stuff on the head of his Joint Commission of Public Ethics Chair a lady named DiFiore who has her own nannygate and a boatload of related dirty laundry attached to her. Real classy Andy. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-28936410949309288622013-04-27T19:27:34.784-04:002013-04-27T19:27:34.784-04:00Phil unfortunately was wrong the first time around...Phil unfortunately was wrong the first time around. We should NEVER have played their game. It's pathetic that we even signed the APPR in the first place. <br /><br />It better be on. Otherwise we sunk.Old Representativenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-86021690564921800682013-04-27T19:21:18.417-04:002013-04-27T19:21:18.417-04:00The Times has it's own "borderline fraud&...The Times has it's own "borderline fraud" story out tonight aimed at Cuomo over his patronage:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/nyregion/many-openings-at-state-agency-go-to-those-with-ties-to-cuomo.html?pagewanted=allreality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.com