Posted on 01/13/2014 7:51:45 PM PST by GilGil
Students at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum, whistleblowers say. The 234 kids get no gym or art classes. Instead, they watch movies every day. “The kids have seen more movies than Siskel and Ebert,” a source said...
The principal — Marcella Sills, who joined PS 106 nine years ago — is a frequent no-show, sources say.
Sills did not come to school last Monday. On Tuesday, she showed up at 3:30 p.m.
On Wednesday, The Post found her at home in Westbury, LI, all day before emerging at 2:50 p.m. — school dismissal time. Wearing a fur coat, she took her BMW for a spin. She showed up at school Thursday, but not Friday.
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teaching and nursing used to be called “vocations”.....because you knew your work was for the good of the people...
Oh, how I’d love to write some ‘Laheyisms’ but I don’t know if the s word is acceptable. hahaha
“You know what a s*** barometer is Bubs?
[No.]
It measures the s*** pressure in the air. Feel it. Listen Bubs, hear that? Sounds of the whispering winds of s***. You hear it?
[No I don’t hear anything.]
Oh but you will my sorry little friend when the ol’ s*** barometer rises and you’ll feel it too. Your ears will implode from the s*** pressure. You were warned Bubs but you picked the wrong side. Beware my friend, s*** winds are a comin’.”
Her coat looks like it’s made of rats from housing projects. I’ve seen nicer-looking road kill, frankly.
And as far as your accusation of stealing, I really resent that. I've bought many of my own supplies for decades, as do many of my colleagues. I've maintained nice menageries of critters in school on my own dime. I've put in ung-dly hours writing lessons, grading papers, calling parents---AFTER I leave school, AFTER my official hours, on my OWN time. Right now, copy paper is sooo short in school that a colleague had to ask the KIDS to chip in so she could xerox their review questions for a big exam.
Stop making generalized and inaccurate accusations; they do not flatter you.
Yeah, but are you typical?
My God, it’s BIG MOMMA. And we thought that the Chicago Welfare Queen was something. Maybe her twin sister, huh?
She does have that Mooschelle O look, doesn’t she?
bttt for later
Typical for what? The VAST majority of teachers that I daily observe hardly ever stop working. Even eating their lunch is alternated with grading papers, calling parents, xeroxing handouts (when there is paper to do so!), etc. And the ludicrous Commie Core Curriculum and Danielson evaluation system (nothing but a time-leaching gotcha system) take away further time from the essentials, like WRITING LESSONS. Teachers have to be mainly concerned with jumping through the 22 hoops that the Danielson evaluation system demands, and offer “artifacts” of their teaching, to prove that they taught according to the 22 criteria. This is more important than spending time with students. There’s only so much time in the pie, and these new ridiculous things make each essential slice so much the thinner. Teaching in NYC high schools these days consists largely of having groups of kids read handouts and puzzle out questions among themselves, with the teacher only providing minimal assistance and very few notes. That’s what they want, from word on high. That’s supposed to be better than the teacher lecturing the students and the students taking notes. Which is what they WILL do in college, so they better get ready for the Big Fall.
Mo’ money.
She? Looks NY gender neutral by Village People standards.
How appropriate.
But things will now improve with the new mayor of S.H.
I,I, I mean N.Y. The big cra....pple. Oops hole.
Sorry for the spelling. P.S. 6 rudded off?
You know, there has been a lot of talk about people resigning from the Obama admin due to burnout after 5 years. Has anyone heard any rumors about the head of the Dept of Education leaving, ‘cause I think I just found the ideal candidate to replace whoever is in there now?
Criticizing Confession? What an odd comment. Catholic-bash much? Are you implying this principal claims to be Catholic? Good Catholics know you don’t live as you want, then confess just before dying to make it all okay. They know, for one, you might not get the chance.
Same as any other government-run school...salaries and benefits....and graft.
Thievin' unionRATs.
NO. ALL government salaries need to be a flat amount of money, and people can decide for themselves if they want to plan for the future and get a 401k or insurance or buy vacation time, whatever. Any citizen should easily be able to look at a government worker and know exactly what they are being paid, how much they are 'worth' and be able to make a clear decision as to if that government post needs to be filled or left vacant.
The only way to stop the embezzlement is to expose it to the clarity of day by ending all the hiding of benefits. Not to mention we'd save a huge amount of money not having human resource and insurance benefits managers.
Sensitive much? How does criticizing the abuse of the intention and established use of the confession amount to bashing Catholics?
I really do try to avoid hitting myself.
Self inflicted wounds; take away the teacher's unions and most of the dogma goes away, since it is proposed, pushed, and supported by the teacher unions themselves. I have never heard of any private NON-educational group which pushes for anything more than standardized testing to gauge performance. Certainly no conservative group which would push for daily reports of student progress according to 22 criteria.
All I want, what most anyone wants, is schools to turn out students who can read, do basic math, and think through a basic problem, and to think on their own without being told what the 'answer' is.
I must have missed those campaign speeches... 'If elected, I promise to make teachers who aren't under my control adhere to a learning tracking system which was developed by a teacher union funded think tank, and then, again, something not under my control, I'll expand the school day!'
Yeah, pretty sure it is a self inflicted wound, by teachers continuing to support the unions that are their own undoing. After all, if the work day is expanded, so must too the salaries, benefits, and most of all: union contributions.
There’s another side to this.
“Sitting in a room watching movies” is usually where they put the kids that absolutely will not stop disrupting a classroom.
Now, I’m not saying that’s the case here, but it is another aspect to consider.
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