There are still too many ATRs floating around with no classrooms, still on the city payroll, yet more and more new teachers are being hired daily.
I know of two young kids, fresh out of school who just got pretty plum jobs. One will be the program coordinator for the school that hired him. He won't even have to teach one class . The other will be teaching a subject that is overloaded with teachers, in a small high school in one of the five boroughs.
Both kids are good, bright kids who got their certification the old way, they earned it by taking odd jobs and completing rigorous masters programs. While I am happy for them, it is not fair to hire them when there are so many tenured teachers without schools. While the ATR must "audition" for their jobs, these two kids were hired on the basis of their transcripts and resumes. Put more money back to the classroom by letting the people on the payrolls already teach. Let's stop throwing out the old while there is still plenty of life left inside.
I know of two young kids, fresh out of school who just got pretty plum jobs. One will be the program coordinator for the school that hired him. He won't even have to teach one class . The other will be teaching a subject that is overloaded with teachers, in a small high school in one of the five boroughs.
Both kids are good, bright kids who got their certification the old way, they earned it by taking odd jobs and completing rigorous masters programs. While I am happy for them, it is not fair to hire them when there are so many tenured teachers without schools. While the ATR must "audition" for their jobs, these two kids were hired on the basis of their transcripts and resumes. Put more money back to the classroom by letting the people on the payrolls already teach. Let's stop throwing out the old while there is still plenty of life left inside.
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How is this even legal? In Texas veteran teachers have first refusal for any position they are qualified to teach.
A few years ago, we had far fewer 5th and 2nd graders that projected at the end of the previous school year.
1 5th grade teacher and 1 2nd grade teacher didn't have classes. No new teachers could be hired for in any position those teachers were qualified for until both teachers had a position.
They had to move to different campuses, but they had a class.
These young people are being used. This is a cynical policy designed to drive us veteran and experienced teachers out of the school system becuase they don't want to pay us our high salaries(in their eyes). In the young teachers coming into the system they have a reserve of cheap labor who they will work to death and manage like the Hitler Youth. With the looming budget crisis getting worse many of these young bucks who have a sense of entitlement and are being told they are the future of education are in for a rude awakening!
I know I have witnessed it in my school and now my school has maybe a year before it is officially labeled a failure. I never thought I would see officially sanctioned
discrimination by age, race and ethnicity by the city of New York. Thank you Mr. Bloomberg.
Excuse me for not knowing the lingo, but wht is ATR?
An ATR (absent teacher reserve) is a teacher whose school as closed and does not have any classes officially assigned. They are assigned to a school and do day to day subbing. It is a degrading experience.
It happpens legally because our wonderful union sold us out.
I hope the "Blogger Spies" read your post.
This si why I want to hire a lawyer--to hell with the UFT and their psuedo lawsuits!
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