will you be sayong ” do what you have to dp ” when he comes after your job , your pension , your benefits . Have you ever been in an urban classroom with a wet behind the ears teacher whose scared to death of the students and hasn’t really got the hang of teaching yet ? I would like my kids to have good teachers. The city , the country , needs tax adjustments , make the upper crust who pay the least PAY their share . OH they are friends of the Emperor of NYC , just like the know nothing about education chancellor he put in . What a mess , I didn’t vote for him ,can’t wait till he’s out.

Every year when he threatens to do this the number goes up. If he wanted to save money maybe he should not have swelled central DOE with the latest “restructuring” or hire a chancellor that forced the creation of yet another high tier DOE job. He doesn’t want good teachers. He wants cheap teachers.

That way he can funnel more ed dollars into places like Murdoch’s newest company which happens to be run by Klein and will specialize in ed tech, or into publishing (!) since you are going to need all those informational texts to address the new core standards (both part of the Race to the Top approval).

If the mayor wants to follow the private school model remind him that in private schools there are no more than 16 students in a class. He may also want to raise money for education by stop syphoning public money for the benefit of corporate profits in the way of charter schools. As a teacher who put twenty-six years into the NYC public school system let the mayor know that I was a much more effective teacher when I left than when I started.

This mayor thinks the city is his own personal buisness.He still doesnt get it.Goes to show just because you are a smart buisness man doesnt make you a smart person.If he thinks the city schools are in shambles just because of bad teachers he just doesnt have a clue.No discipline bad parenting and the whole liberal agenda is the reason the schools are so bad.

After reading the story on how many nyc teachers are just sitting in a room reading waiting for them to be assigned or their probation to be over… they should be fired.. sounds like to many teachers. I say get rid of the seniors and keep the new recruits and pay them less unless they are worth it. That is how they do it in corporate america.

The mayor consistently and erroneously compares education with the private sector, which is a fallacy, as any educated person easily recognizes. It’s apples to oranges. Business is concerned with generating the most profit for the least expense. Schools should get the money they need, period.

He’s just playing the new teachers against the old, trying to destroy any solidarity. I hope our educated public sees through this juvenile tactic.

Hate to say this but NYC spends way too much money on “Special Education”..about triple the amount spent on, dare I say..normal students. So why should my kid have to sit in a classroom short on desks and supplies while the “special ed” kids suck up all the resources? Has this town gone completely insane?!

Of Course Anyone Having To Really Work In A Real Job Know’s That This Is A Big Fat Lie Perpertrated By The 9-11 King Of Propoganda, Here Is Where I Can Use The Theme. That He Learned From The Master’s Propoganda Minister And His Leni Riefenstahl Approach To Policy!

Bloomberg will you ever quit? Maybe you can quit being mayor since you should not be the mayor anyway? Tell us again why are you still in office?

Americans must make do with less so that the bankers, corporations and their puppet politicians can have more.

Thank God I teach in a catholic school!

He keeps talking about the private sector. There is no way, a person hired today,would replace a long time employee. What does he want to do, tie up the courts in legal proceedings. I spent 35 yrs in a Teamster Union. The rule was, and is seniorority prevails. Who does he think he is? He feels he can change labor law to suit him, but he won’t be around to see the damage , he is attempting to do. He threaten layoffs, you didn’t believe him, so you voted him back in office, because he said, he was the only one that can manage. Just look outside your window, iff you want to see how good his management is

For many years the mayor and inept chancellor had touted rising scores and the fact that since standards were raised, our children were performing at higher levels. Over the summer along with all the rhetoric over teacher accountability came the sudden change in the scoring of the NYS exams and the mayor announced that teachers were to blame for the lower scores. Isn’t it convenient that when rising scores worked for the mayor he never felt the need to connect those scores to teacher accountability. Can’t anyone see through our “education mayor”? This is not about the children in the classroom, this is business as usual. Bloomberg is trying to equate teacher accounability with the new test scores. Not once has he ever addressed the challenges teachers face in the classroom every single day. He has never addressed what it is like to try to educate a child whose parents are absent or uninvolved, or too busy with their own life to give a care what their child is doing in school. He has never addressed what it’s like to try to prepare these children to take a NYS exam when they have no idea who they are going home to after school or if anyone will feed them dinner tonight. These are real situations that educators deal with on a daily basis. I wonder if his newly appointed chancellor has ever helped a child in a situation like this…I doubt it, yet she is our new leader! Enough with the teacher bashing Mr. Mayor! The bottom line is you do not want to pay the salaries for experienced teachers and you are trying to break the union.

here the mayor goes again with his arrogant bullying. If he doesn’t get his way, he threatens layoffs. What’s the city going to do? Put 45 kids in a classroom? Have them sit on the floors like they did 20 years ago.

When all you read about are teachers in rubber rooms, that haven’t taught in a decade receiving raises that bring their salaries to six figures there is definitely some bad public relations going on. Most every other job is performance based , why not teachers. If you do the job, you’re not at risk. We should retain the best of what we have not the longest tenured. Principals have to chose, they’re the only ones close enough to do it. It’s also in their best interest to keep the best if they want their performance bonus’. The Unions should want competency as well. Not just dues.

How ironic is it that this web page has a link on the far right side advertising a school where you can study to become a New York City teacher.

The mayor rattles on and on about this,but never admits what he really wants to do is eliminate the more experienced teachers because they have higher salaries and thus cost more. Of course,if these teachers are forced to retire then the mayor can carry on about how their hard earned pensions are draining the city budget.The mayor never mentions how some principals protect their favorites,those who always say yes to them and tell them how great they are at the expense of better teachers who do not kiss their behind. Does the mayor want these principals to have the decision on who stays. Oh., I forgot,for some teachers we can base the decision on totally inaccurate test scores after we publish teacher evaluations in the Bloomberg controlled tabloids.The sad part is that our education mayor has ruined the school system through test mania and charter craziness and has always looked to blame the teachers and the UFT for his disaster.

Get rid of bad teachers – schools are about kids not adults!!!!
Our schools are TERRIBLE – personally I’d like it if we fired every teacher who has been there more than 5 years – clearly they aren’t doing a good job and are to blame.

What is the point of being in a union if the mayor can make up the rules as he pleases?

I am so sick of hearing about this. Principals were always able to get rid of bad teachers. So big deal the teacher would file a grievance and if the Principal did their homework and had enough data and info showing the teacher to be poor, the teacher would be gone. Bloomberg acts like getting rid of bad teachers never took place. This actually isn’t about getting rid of bad teachers, it’s about getting rid of costly teachers whether they are good or bad. Veteran teachers are the ones who can handle the job. New young teachers either leave because they can’t handle it or go out on Maternity leave for years. There is consistency with us old bags. If he changes the law the DOE will go back to Nepotism Central and it won’t be a pretty sight.

I have 13 years of teaching experience, and the majority of new teachers are the ones who struggle with discipline in the classroom, delivery of lessons, and don’t want to listen to the tips and advice of veteran teachers. I have seen so many come and go throughout my teaching career. I think that if you put in the years and are an expert in your field, why should you get dismissed for a rookie with no guarantee that he/she will stay teaching. My question is this, “Why are teachers being singled out, I don’t see the NYPD, or the FDNY following that protocol, Last-in, First-out.” How would that sound if a rookie cop comes into the force and the veteran cop has to leave because he is no longer an effective cop? So please, for the love of God leave the Veteran teachers alone. We chose this career and are in it for the long haul, unlike the rookies that leave to the suburbs once they get the experience from the city schools.

Amazing how we continuously cut necessary services yet won’t place a fair tax on the wealthy. Again the top 2% get to slide right on by while the rest of the community gets shafted. Wanna balance the budget? Tax the folks not paying their share.

WRONG , the Emperor of NY wants to balance his budget by axing the senior teachers who have given their lives towards educating the city’s children . Who have the most experience and are better equiped to teach . He wants them out so he can hire newbies for half the price . Unioins have made this country strong and protected the backs of blue collar workers and their families . Do you think he will stop at teachers ? Next it will be the most senior ,experienced cops , firemen , nurses and YOU reader .

Mr Mayor.

Lay off whom you have to. Don’t let the Unions dictate to you on how you should do your job. The Unions are not helping you balance the budget and prevent tax hikes. On the contrary, if it was up to the unions, we’d see more tax hikes just to save their jobs.

All Unions do is suck the budget dry.

Once again Mr. Mayor. Do waht you have to do.

Best regards

He just wants to get rid of the teachers making top pay.

If the principal doesn’t like you, good bye.

15,000 who woud be left to teach the children.