I’d LOVE to drag Bloomberg to MY classroom, strap him to a chair Clockwork Orange style and let my 150 students have their way with him. There might already be a room in Hell waiting for him in that design, waiting for him.

NONE of you right-wing anti-teacher morons who support the Mayor’s idiot views would last 5 MINUTES in a classroom. So shut the Hell up.

Bloomberg it is really time to get you out go do what you know best, business. How dare you suggest that 50 – 70 kids in a classroom with an excellent teacher would learn just as much as 25 kids in an “average” teachers classroom. I would like to see you control 70 4th graders in a classroom designed to hold 25 tops. You are a clown with your head up your butt! Why don’t you go back to wherever you were when the Christmas 2010 snowstorm hit and no one could find you all of us New Yorkers would be much better off!

Bloomberg claimed from the beginning that using his magic Business techniques that he would totally fix and reform all the problems in the NYC public schools system.

Bloomberg is now in his 3rd term (after he used his money and influence to have the term limits law changed to allow him a 3rd term instead of the old maximum of 2 terms) and he has failed to magically fix the schools system as he said he would

This trash talking is his frustration and implicit admission of his failure

Riki you are an ignorant jackass. I believe you need to get a proper education yourself. Teachers obviously did not have the guts to teach you.

Yeah, and you with them. Pack up all my cares and woes, there she goes, bye, bye, bloomberg.

The mayor’s solution is to fire everone he deems to be incompetent, yet the man who ran for mayor saying judge me by how well I fix the school system has failed miserably. Every one of his reforms has been a dismal failure. He hires incompetetent cronies and has bought into a reform philosophy that is worthless and counterproductive to improving the schools. The real agenda is to just cut the budget, and he has tipped his hand again with this latest statement. The best reform measure he could do right now is to fire himself.

Wow. Talk about losing touch with reality. Parents of all kinds have enough trouble disciplining their own couple of children. Who on earth would be capable of managing a class of 70 primary or secondary students? K-12 isn’t college. Students don’t just sit there politely as the instructor drones on about the Civil War. It should be enough to point out that a classroom of 70 students would in many cases be outright dangerous.

Others have made the obvious points about how hard it would be for a teacher to follow federal laws that REQUIRE differentiated instruction for students who have been determined to need it, much less attend to the needs of all of the other students. Even if you doubt the validity of differentiating instruction (studies back you up), the law requires it for many students, communities demand it for most students, and so districts have little choice but to provide it.

I’d like to add that if the teaching profession has trouble now recruiting and retaining teachers (half of beginning teachers quit within five years nationally), it become be even harder to recruit talented people to teach 70 students per class and upwards of 250 per day, with the doubling of time demands that would come with such an arrangement (planning, contacting parents, grading assignments, sponsoring before- and after-school clubs and activities, and the list goes on). Course offerings would also shrink drastically. The advanced courses would probably be the first to go since the majority of students don’t take them.

Bad idea. Obviously.

http://atomsofthought.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/teachers-are-lazy-hard-working-stupid-brilliant-indifferent-caring-rich-poor-where-did-all-the-teachers-go/

Wake up folks.

Don’t be sucked by the con man.

Bloombucks is determinded to destroy public education so that he and his pals can raked in billions more.

They could care squat about good public education. They only use the rhectoric of caring. Double the class size? Hahahaha! Can you imagine? 50 KIndergardeners? Or 50 Junior High School Students? Holy Smokes!

He’d have you waiting for Supermen and Superwomen forever with one excuse after the next after the next.

BTW — The Teach For America propagandists having an effect:

“Perhaps if Bloomberg allowed recent grads holding degrees in Education to get hired and forced older teachers who have no clue on how to educate using new and improved learning methods, students would have a better chance at actually attaining a higher education instead of dropping out.”

These young potential teachers have been brainwashed! They are already following the marketing plan of “we are better than the old timers” right until the day they flee the system in two years at light speed frustrated.

Mister Mayor. We know that you started at the bottom and became a Multi Billionaire. However, you are expected men and women in goverment, education and all other positions to work very hard at limited wages and poor cost of living increases that you yourself have created.
You can handle your Bloomberg international this way if you want, but not New York City.

You know what’s interesting? The fact that Bloomberg and most people commenting on this article have absolutely no idea how to not only teach a child, but also how a child learns. Anybody who thinks a child learns by plopping them in a seat and lecturing at them for 6 hours needs their head checked. I have three different levels of learners in my classroom, all of whom are categorized by their own specific needs. Every worksheet, every test, and every book is differentiated to fit the academic needs of that child. Do you think that’s easy for me? Do you think making 27 different copies of a test is EASY? Of course not, but I do it because I care enough about the well-being and success of each and every child in my classroom that I’m willing to get to school two hours early to lock myself in the copy room. And I only have 27 kids! Sure, cut the teachers. Increase my class size to 100. Do you think I’ll be able to pay attention to their specific needs anywhere near as well as I am now? Think again.

There are two problems here. First, the education system is a business. And guess what? It’s failing the students. Everyone pretends they care about the kids, but surely if you read an academic article, researched studies, observed a classroom, taught a class, or even spoke to a student, you’d surely find otherwise. Secondly, people who have absolutely no experience in the classroom are making the fundamental decisions that are absolutely imperative to the success of the children. Michael Bloomberg, get your ass out of office already. You haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.

I REALLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THIS MAN HAS MADE HIS MILLIONS. 50 FIVE YEAR OLDS IN A CLASSROOM DESIGNED FOR 20 CHILDREN ARE NOT GOING TO DO BETTER WITH AN AMAZING TEACHER. THE ONLY THING THAT WILL HAPPEN IS THAT TEACHER WILL QUIT! IT IS TIME TO GET RID OF HIM!

He’s insane: it is a well known fact, study for years, that class size has a great impact on learning; he just doesn’t care if the 99% gets educated. He probably views education for the masses as a very dangerous thing.

From the way Bloomy is looking at it, I can understand where he’s coming from. Look at the student/professor ratio in colleges. A professor can have 100 to 200 students, and if they are good, all the students do better. This also puts more responsibility to the student and well as to the parents. The school system is bloated with teachers who shouldn’t be teaching, yet they are there teaching your children. I mean, pretending to teach your children.
Frankly, if your child doesn’t want to go to school, doesn’t want to learn, your much better off teaching them to say “Would you like fries with that?”

What do you call a medical student that graduates at the bottom of his class?

Doctor

The mayor is dead right. The teacher’s union protects bad teachers from getting fired, not the students rights and needs.
http://teachersunionexposed.com/protecting.cfm

What in the hell are you talking about? That is by far one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. Not only am I offended that you have bashed females under 35 by calling them “little girls” but you have failed to realize how grueling of a task it is to put yourself through college only to be faced with one of the biggest hiring freezes in the DOE history.

Perhaps if Bloomberg allowed recent grads holding degrees in Education to get hired and forced older teachers who have no clue on how to educate using new and improved learning methods, students would have a better chance at actually attaining a higher education instead of dropping out.

I think he needs his head examined. We only have to get rid of one person, HIM!
Anyone who believes what he says also need to have their heads examined.

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Really? I’d like to turn your point around and blame it on the under 35 parents that have no job or means to raise their children. By the time I graduated college I had already been working for 8 years – at one time between 16 -22 I was working three jobs at once during vacations off of school. I will not have kids until I can afford to pay for them. That is the way it should be. Who cares if these women drink coffee and they are throughly trained in college and they have internships. If you really want to go there I think these insects that keep reproducing for financial handouts, without the means or ability to raise a child properly, should be fixed until they can. Most of the inner-city parents are the issue- who have no job or education and aren’t in a position to be bringing life into this world. They don’t care for their children or teach them morals- they are selfish and it is a vicious cycle that keeps repeating. The innocent kids who are the product of good parents have to sit in a class while the teacher is discipling the problem parent’s child. That is our issue. We should go back to corpral punishment… and stop giving handouts for popping out a baby. Problem solved- teachers would finally be allowed to teach and shape young minds rather than acting as ineffective prison wardens. (ineffective because they can’t touch or yell at disrespectful brats.)

The entire school system in New York and throughout the United States needs to be overhauled. Mayor Bloomberg comes at the DOE as a business man not as a humanitarian. When people become adults they find jobs that fit their skills…..yet in school each child is treated the same. They all have to learn the same things, the same way. It doesn’t work….why can’t we learn that? Why can’t the kids who show a talent for math early on be placed in a track that enhances that talent? And a child who doesn’t get the hang of math but is an avid reader be placed in a track where basic math skills are taught (like how to know how much change you get after paying for something at a store, or how much you’re going to pay for a $50 dress if it’s discounted 20%) and the arts are predominant. Then we wouldn’t have kids failing and acting out and making it impossible for teachers to handle them in a classroom of 30. Maybe the teachers would even like teaching the things they are most interested in to kids who are interested too. We are a diverse species. It makes us special. People like Mayor Bloomberg think there is one mold and everyone should fit into it. Let’s create a school system where children are prepared for success in a career that utilizes their natural talents or interests. Try looking at the Democratic Free school system. Success is built on high self esteem. Our school system focuses on a child’s weaknesses instead of his strengths. It’s not the teachers fault. Every teacher I’ve known and I know a lot of them are concerned about their students. They have things they want to teach to them and they are frustrated by a system that beats them down. Mayor Bloomberg should be ashamed of himself.

I have really had it with this jerk. He needs to stop pretending he is good at anything besides fattening his own pockets. Schools are as bad as ever, they are just covered in different names. Principals are forced to act like tyrants in schools, teachers are miserable, and students are not learning a thing. Walk through any public school that isn’t located in the richest sections of Manhattan and you will see students are way below grade level. This is what New Yorkers deserve but putting this jerk back in office.

You are an embarrassment Bloomberg. Take your billions and go live on an island with your parasitic investement class friends. You are a disgrace!

Bloomberg should get rid of the incompetent Administrators at Tweed and throughout the entire Dept of Education. If these incompetent fools were bounced from their high paying low-performing jobs then the NYC Teachers would be able to teach in ways that make sense. This, from a guy who hired a Magazine reject to run the school system. What an idiot.

In the history of this city, there’s never been a mayor who’s more out of touch with the realities of living and working here. How a billionaire from Boston ever got elected here will remain a mystery to me for as long as I live. He put parks in the middle of the street, excessively raised traffic ticket fines, property taxes, and fees for everything NY’ers have to pay the city for. He refused to get involved in mediating the MTA’s labor disputes. When MTA workers went on strike, he suggested that NY’ers ride bicycles to work. He overthrew term limits, after the people voted to maintain them. He said the city needed him to be mayor again because he would be best able to handle the financial crisis, and then during his re-election campaign, tried to make a case that he had already gotten the city out of this crisis. He cut out parking spaces and increased traffic by reducing car lanes and adding bike lanes on most every street. During his re-election campaign, he told NY’ers that he was sending out property tax rebate checks. After he got re-elected, he tried to stop those checks from being sent. I could go on, but there’s too much to list. This is undeniably one of the worst mayors in the history of NY.