Jersey City teachers absent from all-day back-to-school festival

Jersey Journal ^ | September 6, 2014

[SMGFan]

Jersey City schools kicked off the new school year with a festival today, but noticeably absent were teachers.

The school district's "I Love Jersey City Public Schools Back to School Festival" was a bash held between the Statue of Liberty and the soaring Goldman Sachs Tower in Liberty State Park on Saturday. The second annual event was an opportunity for the entire school community "to get together and have fun," said Dr. Marcia Lyles, superintendent of Jersey City Schools

[SMGFan]

They were home preparing Monday's lessons.

[ErnBatavia]

[Sooth2222]

Ron Greco, president of the Jersey City Education Association, said earlier this week that the 4,800-member teachers union was boycotting the event because of a retaliatory atmosphere in the schools, the crumbling conditions of the buildings and more.

Nothing that can't be solved with oodles of money. (So it's all the racist Republicans' fault.)

[Cen-Tejas]

........If it were in mine and Ronald Reagan’s power we might decide to “fire every damn one of them permanently”..............that didn’t show up for school Monday!

Unions have many other tools in their box to extort more money from the taxpayers. They should not put their paycheck before the children.....EVER.........by striking.

[Mastador1]

I am going to with “Who didn’t get paid to attend for $500” Alex.

[Theodore R.]

People in Jersey City truly believe in all that is wrong with the USA.

[kearnyirish2]

“They were home preparing Monday’s lessons.”

That’s hysterical!

Jersey City is one of those urban toilets where predominantly white public employees make a killing out of the poverty industry at the expense of the non-white residents; none of them will ever appear there unless it is to work a shift. In the meantime, nobody is learning and the place is very unsafe...

[SMGFan]

Up on Kennedy BLVD & Seaview the JC Education Assoc slogan on building “First in Quality Education” Depends on what your definition of “first” “quality” “education” is.

[kearnyirish2]

Public schools are nationalized daycare, and the urban districts are more heavily subsidized than the rest. I couldn’t imagine what is learned in JC’s public schools. From my own experience (in terms of my children), unless the kids are in “honors” classes, they are basically written off; those “honors” classes are what our standard classes were 25 years ago. The schools basically dedicate resources to those students looking for an education, and leave the rest of the students with tenured “buddy” teachers who will ask little of them throughout their school years...