This country is heading toward a real class war thanks to the billionaires like Bloomberg. The problem is that there are so many mindless morons out there who actual believe the pablum that the Bloombergs spout. If you don’t believe me, look at how popular Ronald Reagan is today.

Greg
Is it any wonder why we can’t compete with other countries from around the world in regards to education? Whenrver thare is a fiscal shortfall in the buget our education system is always the first to take a hit.Mean while we have these empty suits in the City Council making a base salary of about $112000. a year plus perks for a part-time job and they alone get to vote on their own pay raise.This is why Johnny can;t read!

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING IN THIS WORLD, THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK NEED’S
TO GET REAL AND BACK OFF, LETTING GO OF TEACHERS, NYPD, NYFD
WHAT WE NEED IS A BETTER MAYOR, HE REALLY HATES THE TEACHER’S.
I THINK WHEN HE WAS A CHILD NONE OF THE TEACHER’S DID NOT LIKE HIM.
I ONLY HAVE TWO WORDS FOR THE MAYOR “GET OUT”

You know what, I am a teacher and I have had it. For over 20 years I have beaten my head against the wall to try andfind ways to help your kids. Now, some snot nosed crook named Bloomberg comes along and decides he knows better. Fine, fire us all, and you and he can teach all your children. Let’s see how great you do. Call us in 10 years, let us know how it’s going. If you want us back, the salary will be 3 times what it is now. You union and teacher bashers deserve Bloomberg. You all smell the same: BAD.

Amazing! And yet, the bankers and Wall Street are all free! Tax cuts for the wealthy have been extended and A-Rod only has to pay $1200 in property taxes. Something is definitely wrong with this picture. You knew when they started opening up these charter schools that Public Education was slowly being destroyed!

Why are educators the first to go. Why not ask the politician to do some sacrificing once in a while they have the best medical care in the country make decent money. I don’t see politicians sacrificing a thing. What selfish people they are. They are elected to represent us the people not their own pockets. There is something wrong with this picture……

He has the nerve to call himself the education mayor. Not one of his chancellors came from the rank and file, they all needed waivers. From the outset, you might not think so, but his plan was to de-educate the students of the city. Just closing schools, was not the answer. That’s why half the students cant tell you anything, about how the gov’t is structured, no technical, or vocational education., and he wants to call himself the education mayor, thats why he wanted mayoral control. A sorry excuse for a mananger, and worse as a mayor.

If the achievement of the students was only based on the teacher’s hard work then go with a new system. If you have a lack of parental participation in not only academic matters, but also in behavioral matters then you will have a poorly performing class no matter what teachers do. Student achievement is not only based on our work, but also the work of parents and the children themselves. You can say it is blaming the victim, but the only constant factors in a child’s education are the child and their parent. Each teacher only has them for less than a year, and if they come with problems that teachers have to solve as well as teach them new material, they will achieve just so much. The parents are the child’s first teachers. Teachers are not the only ones responsible for what and how a child learns, and they should not fear losing their job each year based on the performance of the children.

The billionaires among us want us to turn on our teachers and all unionized workers so they can make even more–tax cuts for billionaires, lay off teachers. This country has gone insane.

the best thing to do is a 10% cut in all things inc. all employees,starting at the top. to me that would be the fair thing to do. but it’s not a fair world when the mayor is a millionaire, now is it?

The problem here is who decides which teachers should go, the principal who doesn;t like you or the male principal who only wants young and cute in his school.

Why do we have to lay off the teachers? Whyis education always the first to go and then people wonder why our youth is so troubled? They need to lay off all those useless city workers like the ones that left us with unplowed streets in December. I had a visit from a DEP inspector last week that gave me a duh moment. I said to myself that’s why the city’s crying broke because they have these complete yahoos on the city’s payroll.

Im a teacher and I hate the seniority system. I am not in trouble of losing my job, however, I have watched many of the best teachers get let go while mediocre and horrible teachers get to keep their jobs. I understand tenure is to protect us from an administrator that doesnt care for you or doesnt like it when they cant get you in the sack( Lord knows there are plenty of those), but it needs to be reworked. Some of the teachers are there for summers of and the pension and it makes hard working teachers who spend a lot of their own money sick. It is time to change the system!

Todays kids are very hard to handle so we should keep the teachers who are the best at it. What we need in the schools is more discipline so the teachers who stay have to be really tough or else the kids will just run over them.

If the teacher is doing a good job, why fire them. Instead, get rid of the lousy teachers and give the kids the best avalible. They deserve it (a good education).

This is sad, but what is going on in NY, Wisconsin, California, etc, etc, etc…it is what it is. We cannot bleed the taxpayers dry anymore. All politicians from both sides of the aisle have kicked the can down the road as far as it can go. It is time to suck it up and do what we have to do. It is time for the U.S. to show some of the backbone that created this country and realize that all publically funded jobs need to be reviewed, and some ‘essential’ ones will have to go. Folks…we honest, truly, can’t ignore it anymore…are BROKE. Can’t borrow anymore. The feds won’t bail out the states, the states won’t bail out the counties or cities. IT truly is the end of the cash cow line.

This has always been the flaw in the lib/democratic vision of government. In their ideololgy they just assumed that government could magically grow ever bigger. Well, it cannot.

This has nothing to do with the quality of teaching. He wants t save money by getting rid of the higher paid teachers. So if it has nothing to do with money then the same amount of teachers will be laid off by quality of teaching and not tenure. 4600 gee i wonder how many will have time on? Bloomberg Liar? Answer Yes.

This reminds me of Bloomberg’s remaking of Lower Broadway where he took one lane of traffic out and made a bus lane of one of the others. Result, a major traffic Jam. It reminds me of Coney Island. He swiped the life out of Coney Island and replaced it with Corporate Presence. Now he will take away parts of education that are important in a child’s development. I don’t like Bloomberg and resented his paid slaves coming to my home during the election time.

THERE IS NO BLOOMBERG BUDGET CRISIS ONLY A BLOOMBERG BUDGET INCOMPETENCE. IT’S TIME TO RECALL BLOOMBERG BEFORE IT’S TO LATE.

RECALL BLOOMBERG, RECALL BLOOMBERG, RECALL BLOOMBERG

BEFORE HE DESTROYS THIS CITY AND DRAGS US ALL BACK TO THE 19 th CENTURY.

Kids in the US don’t learn anything anyway. Give them all Iphones and let them read.

lets lay off more teachers.. and still complain how bad the schools are. by closing more schools, laying off teachers, funding etc. we are making the schools worse. We are facing budget crisis taht no one is able to us out of. One big solution: more parents need to get off the streets and work. We have hardworking earners who are paying for other parents to send their kids to school. No one seems to address the bigger problem that is effect on the NYC city schools.

YCYTeachers rock. I am a teacher and I agree…get rid of the bad ones and keep the good ones…seniortiy or not. But here’s the thing: what’s constitutes a “good” or “bad” teacher? Is it ONE standardized state exam? Or is it a combination of things to get a fair judgment of the teacher? And how exactly will this evaluation be done…over the course of several years? Several months? Several minutes?

Let’s cut everything equally, get rid of ALL entitlement programs, farm subsidiaries, oil subsidaries , cut 5% from all (police, fire, etc) rather than protecting some. If we’re going to feel the pain, let it be spread equally. This is for city,state,federal.

Go to the Times Herlad Record for Southern Orange County, NY and go to page 11 of todays (Monday 2/28/11) and read the article about NYC teachers and pay and Union duties, can them all!!!!!!! Enough is enough. To all you Union people in the public sector, get it though your thick skulls you work for us, the taxpayers!!!!!!!!! We are your bosses, we own you butts!