Posted on 02/09/2002 9:16:15 AM PST by NativeNewYorker
Plummeting high school enrollment is reportedly prompting the Board of Education to eliminate hundreds of teaching positions throughout the city.
The Board recently cut 350 positions citywide with Queens taking the worst hit, losing 110 teachers.
According to the New York Post, there are about 2,400 fewer high school students this year as compared to February 8 of last year.
Total enrollment hovers just below 290,000 citywide, which the Post blames on September 11.
The Board of Education told the Post that more immigrant families are relocating to their home countries or other parts of the U.S.
The teachers will be reassigned to substitute pools and continue to get paid, the report said.
Perhaps they could have their patrons (the DemoRAT party) ship them here to school teacher paradise (South Jersey).
Total job security, outrageous benefits, obscene pensions, summers off (of course), absolutely NO ACCOUNTABILITY, and an average salary of $60,000 -- and they still bitch!!!
How is this a "cut"? Looks like a great deal for the teachers to me. It seems that when it comes to education in this country, we'll never learn.
Hmm. This sounds like a major resentment. What's the matter? Didn't do too well in high school?
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