Chancellor Carranza Takes Flig...
“The King is dead. Long live the king!” That’s what they used to say centuries ago. It was meant as an...
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School Safety Agents: NYPD or ...
Should School Safety Agents ( whom the New York Post incorrectly calls “cops”) remain part of the NYPD or revert to...
read moreA Slick and Slippery Slope
Few slopes are as slippery as the controversy over permitted or forbidden speech:How are they defined? Where is the boundary...
read moreThe Pledge of Allegiance and B...
Children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance (Wikimedia Commons) I’ve taught in schools where the Pledge was a part of the daily...
read moreTeacher Survey: Get Me Out Of ...
The New York Post rushes at breakneck speed, like a tow-truck to collision carnage, to any site, whether or not on the main road,...
read moreNY Post Letter Page: Echoes of...
If a major league baseball player had several at-bats in all 162 games of every season for twenty years and his batting average was...
read morePEP Appointee Defies Borough P...
In his role as Staten Island’s Borough President James Oddo’s puppet on the Panel of Educational Policy marionette team,...
read more“Executive Disorder̶...
President Biden signed twenty-one executive orders in approximately one week. If I had the authority, I would have issues two...
read moreTalented and Gifted: No Studen...
Three school PTA presidents, whom the New York Post described as “bigs” , “slammed” the Department of...
read moreWe Wuz Robb-ed
The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel was fired within hours of President Biden taking his office. It might...
read moreScrap the Screen!
Mayor DeBlasio and Chancellor Carranza ( Mr. Independent-Minded) are highly critical of the Specialized High School Admissions...
read moreColor-Blindness Is 20/20 Visio...
Abolition of the infamous or celebrated (depending on whose ox is perceived to be gored) Specialized High Schools Admission Test...
read more“Fake News”
A Cobble Hill, Brooklyn school principal used that phrase to categorize credible and damning media accounts of her incompetence and...
read moreScreening Hypocrisy
The children of Mayor DeBlasio and incoming Secretary of Education Cardona attended public schools that screen for talented...
read moreSchool Principal Joe Clark: To...
What exactly does “tough love” mean and how much of it is tough enough when dealing effectively with intractably...
read moreAnother Dirty Feather in the D...
The latest frazzled feather in the mucky cap of the incorrigibly shameless Department of Education is their awarding grades to a...
read moreA Pandemic of Student Homeless...
During the winter’s spate of religious holidays, we traditionally flag for our immediate ephemeral attention certain dilemmas...
read more“Teacher of the YearR...
What does it mean to be named “Teacher of the Year”? Typically not a lot. The winner often models a particular ideology...
read moreCovid Testing,, Vaccine and Sn...
Down South there’s a quaint religious congregation that tests a passage from Scripture that according to their interpretation...
read moreRebutting and Embracing My Cri...
On his main point, I heartily agree with the reader who disagrees with me. He’s right that under mayoral control, ultimate...
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