Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Very Plainvew Blog is All Yours......":
Suzala, Please post this separately.
I wonder if our board will be using these guidelines as well. Perhaps if they did it would raise the low level of teaching that is evident in some classrooms.
" While state law outlines the general procedures for awarding tenure to teachers, the details are left to individual districts. “We’ve turned what had been a joke interpretation of the state law,” Mr. Bloomberg said, “to make it something that you have to work hard, earn, and show that you are better than the average bear” to get.
Under the city’s new standards, teachers are rated on a four-point scale as highly effective, effective, developing or ineffective, based on students’ tests scores, classroom observations, feedback from parents, and other factors. (Previously, they were simply rated satisfactory or not.) Principals, who make recommendations on tenure, and supervisors, who make the decisions, were allowed to give tenure only to teachers who were rated effective or better for two consecutive years.
But as city officials predicted that the new policy would improve the quality of the teaching force, the results raised questions about its current state since so many teachers up for tenure were not rated effective.
The teachers’ union, defending the performance of its workers, objected to the way some of the evaluations by administrators were performed, and said..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/nyregion/tenure-granted-to-58-of-eligible-teachers-in-city.html?src=recg
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
School Playground Safety, or, Lack Thereof...
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Bullying... Where to Go, and , What's Your Child's...":
It's rare that anyone is totally alone in whatever their issue or issues might be? How about this one?
Has anyone else noticed the lax supervision on the playground at Stratford Road? The gate by the kindergarten center walker entrance isn't locked and there are never any adults around there watching the kids. I know because I live right in that neighborhood. The kids play over there with nobody watching them. What's to stop some nut case from walking into that area and endangering the children?
There's a gym teacher in charge of that whole rec period. If something happens to one of those children, safety, medical, whatever, that teacher is liable. The administration doesn't respond to parent complaints about this. They might listen to the teachers' union though. That gate should always be locked and the support staff should be assigned to specific areas of the playground. Any area that is without an adult should be off limits to the children. The administrators should be making random visits to make sure everyone is where they are supposed to be. All that has to happen is for a child to be seriously hurt, or worse, and the teacher in charge will be held accountable. Mr. Rosenfeld, I hope you're reading this and are willing to take action in the interest of both teacher and child.
It's rare that anyone is totally alone in whatever their issue or issues might be? How about this one?
Has anyone else noticed the lax supervision on the playground at Stratford Road? The gate by the kindergarten center walker entrance isn't locked and there are never any adults around there watching the kids. I know because I live right in that neighborhood. The kids play over there with nobody watching them. What's to stop some nut case from walking into that area and endangering the children?
There's a gym teacher in charge of that whole rec period. If something happens to one of those children, safety, medical, whatever, that teacher is liable. The administration doesn't respond to parent complaints about this. They might listen to the teachers' union though. That gate should always be locked and the support staff should be assigned to specific areas of the playground. Any area that is without an adult should be off limits to the children. The administrators should be making random visits to make sure everyone is where they are supposed to be. All that has to happen is for a child to be seriously hurt, or worse, and the teacher in charge will be held accountable. Mr. Rosenfeld, I hope you're reading this and are willing to take action in the interest of both teacher and child.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Nassau Coliseum Bond Vote
Dear editor please put this as a new topic
NASSAU COLISEUM
Aug 1st there will be a vote on whether the county should take out bonds to support the new revitalization project .
The answer should be an overwhelmingly YES. Why?
The reality is that without this project the Islanders will be moving off the island and this site will just further decay. With this new project tax revenues will be created for the county which would help teaxpayers with our tax bills. Thousands of jobs would be created and this would just be the beginning of what could be a true revitalization of Nassau county, Something that is long over due. If this were not rebuilt you could almost forget about going to any concert or eevent as most people would opt to go to the new arena in brooklyn that will be accessible by the LIRR or MSG which is undergoing a major renovation right now . The last thing we want to see is a chain link fence around hundreds of acres of property that is just rotting away to which we would probably have to pay for cops to patrol to deter any crime being committed there .My interest in this project is only that I am a taxpayer. I do not work for the county or anybody that has any connection to this project
NASSAU COLISEUM
Aug 1st there will be a vote on whether the county should take out bonds to support the new revitalization project .
The answer should be an overwhelmingly YES. Why?
The reality is that without this project the Islanders will be moving off the island and this site will just further decay. With this new project tax revenues will be created for the county which would help teaxpayers with our tax bills. Thousands of jobs would be created and this would just be the beginning of what could be a true revitalization of Nassau county, Something that is long over due. If this were not rebuilt you could almost forget about going to any concert or eevent as most people would opt to go to the new arena in brooklyn that will be accessible by the LIRR or MSG which is undergoing a major renovation right now . The last thing we want to see is a chain link fence around hundreds of acres of property that is just rotting away to which we would probably have to pay for cops to patrol to deter any crime being committed there .My interest in this project is only that I am a taxpayer. I do not work for the county or anybody that has any connection to this project
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