Contraband Teacher Union Jewel...
Brooklyn’s Bright Horizons Daycare takes a dim view of labor relations. Fearing their staff might be pricked in the heart by a...
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If You Can’t Stand the H...
“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!” That is former President Harry Truman’s advice...
read moreLetter to the NY Post
Yesterday’s cover story about the New York City teacher who has been in a so-called “rubber room” for 20 years ...
read moreAre You Talking To Me?
“Is carotid artery pulsating? Is subject making any oral clicking sounds? Any deep sighs? Is there any darting of eyes or...
read moreTeachers Run ( Don’t Wal...
The New York City Council has the interests of all New Yorkers at heart and is public school-friendly. For that it enjoys...
read moreDeVos Top Aide Fires Himself
When politicians talk about “reaching across the aisle”, they never explain what they’re reaching to do. In...
read moreFiring of NYC Pupil Transporta...
Alexandra Robinson, the dysfunctional, clueless and intemperate former executive director of the Office of Pupil Transportation, who...
read moreSobering Rush To Judgment
In one of its whimsical “Weird but True” tidbits, the New York Post recently included a teacher in Australia who...
read moreSesame Street: Kids and the Le...
Sesame Street has grown up more over the last 50 years than have many of its first-generation viewers. A six-year old named Karli...
read more“Bring Your Bible To Sch...
“Bring Your Bible to School Day’ came and went around a week ago.Who knew? I’d never heard of it before, but it...
read moreNew US Labor Secretary
The US Senate recently confirmed our new (anti) US Labor Secretary, Eugene Scalia. He is a malevolently pious opponent of rest...
read moreSuccess Academy: Sequel of a S...
There’s no charm like coercion. It induces “voluntary” compliance. It has the power of suggestion that cannot be...
read morePolice and Educator Suicides
September is National Suicide Prevention Month. The month is almost over but awareness of the tragic toll must stay with us. Eleven...
read moreStudent Youth Climate Change D...
If you’re going to be a prophet of doom, you might as well have fun doing it. That’s what critics of last...
read moreRon Isaac’s Letter to th...
The Maspeth High School scandals are more the rule than the exception in our current school system although it is a particularly bad...
read moreHigh Life For A Low Life
I would nominate Geoffrey Girnum, a university-level teacher and researcher, as a candidate to receive “cruel and unusual...
read moreLive By the Data, Die By the D...
In the 1950s, there was a very popular television show called Naked City. It began something like this: “There are eight...
read moreChild Murdered in School: Refl...
When the Department of Education is asleep at the wheel, it is more by policy than accident. If a tragedy results, they will jump...
read moreTalented and Gifted Controvers...
There is needless strife surrounding the proposed abolition of traditional “gifted and talented” programs in our schools....
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