{"id":281878,"date":"2021-06-23T02:56:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T23:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/looks-like-nyc-is-stuck-with-less-than-stellar-teachers\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T02:56:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T23:56:04","slug":"looks-like-nyc-is-stuck-with-less-than-stellar-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/looks-like-nyc-is-stuck-with-less-than-stellar-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Looks like NYC is stuck with less-than-stellar teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Looks like NYC is stuck with less-than-stellar teachers<\/strong>”
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It looks like the death of the city Department of Education\u2019s Absent Teacher Reserve<\/a> pool, sometimes called the \u201crubber room,\u201d was greatly exaggerated,<\/a> Chalkbeat reports. And now teachers assigned to this pool, including some who really shouldn\u2019t be teaching at all, will be given positions back in front of classrooms.<\/p>\n

The reserve pool, for the uninitiated, is a place where teachers go when schools\u2019 budgets are cut and\/or when principals simply don\u2019t want them teaching but tenure rules obligate DOE to keep them on the payroll.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never announced to principals, superintendents or to press that the changes we are making mean the end of the ATR, full stop,\u201d snapp<\/a>ed a DOE spokesperson in response to questions from Chalkbeat. Actually, DOE has been trying to reduce or eliminate it altogether for years. Yet it should never have existed from the start.<\/p>\n

Ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg created the pool because he refused to place unwanted teachers back into classrooms, but the union contract wouldn\u2019t let him fire them. Yet now, under new policies, DOE will let those who got assigned to teach during the pandemic remain in permanent positions, even though they\u2019re not the ones principals necessarily want.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a terrible decision against the interest of children and families,\u201d said Dan Weisberg, a former Education Department official who helped set up the ATR under Bloomberg. \u201cIf they have a teacher who hasn\u2019t taught in a classroom, who hasn\u2019t taught in five years, are they going to disclose the fact that that teacher received an unsatisfactory rating and hasn\u2019t taught in five years?\u201d<\/p>\n

The move will help the DOE reduce class sizes, and principals have no gripes since the ATRs will be paid for by DOE rather than from an individual school\u2019s budget. <\/p>\n

During the pandemic, many schools faced staffing shortages as teachers were needed for both in-person and online instruction. In response, the Education Department placed ATRs in year-long assignments, which will now become permanent placements in the new school term.<\/p>\n

Under Mayor Bill de Blasio, DOE had indeed sought to reduce the number of people in the ATR pool by bringing fewer misconduct or incompetence charges against tenured teachers than during the Bloomberg years. In 2019, The Post noted that the number of termination cases brought and the number of teachers fired each year after disciplinary trials also dipped during the first six years of de Blasio\u2019s term.<\/p>\n

One reason the ATR is never likely to disappear is that some teaching positions may be axed, especially as school enrollment falls. And there will be teachers scoring unsatisfactory or poor performance ratings or facing disciplinary charges who cannot return to the classroom until the allegations of misconduct or incompetence have been investigated. If teachers can\u2019t ever be let go, there will always be a reserve.<\/p>\n

Yet those who aren\u2019t the very best shouldn\u2019t remain on the payroll, at taxpayers\u2019 expense. And those who shouldn\u2019t be in the classroom, well . . . shouldn\u2019t be in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Maybe the city will one day get a mayor who can manage to secure a teachers\u2019 contract that lets bad teachers be fired, rather than sent to rubber rooms or, worse, allowed to keep teaching. OK, that\u2019s a dream. But until that day, taxpayers and students will suffer.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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