tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370300591508959460.post3623832082774586208..comments2023-03-28T07:48:59.459-04:00Comments on NYC ATR: "Demagogic Rant" by Michael MendelNYC ATRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17780916909427584188noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370300591508959460.post-45909910162236634022011-11-30T15:41:38.093-05:002011-11-30T15:41:38.093-05:00I second the idea of a class action suit against t...I second the idea of a class action suit against the DOE and i would urge all ATR's and our supporters to take this idea seriously and make it a reality. The situation has become too absurd, outrageous and deeply offensive and humiliating sometimes. The DOE has been getting away with murder and it's time too stop this ridiculous outrage. No ATR who believes in himself/herself should retire until he/she has completed sufficient years of service. The DOE should also be sued for defamation against teachers with more years of service; many "new" teachers have been brainwashed into thinking that we ATR's are not "good" teachers; new teachers should not be able to have the freedom of telling an ATR that he should think about changing jobs when he has invested his whole life into teaching; there should be only one teachers union for all teachers and not a separate union for "new" teachers. THIS IS RIDICULOUS !!!!! Furthermore we should receive the same kind of professional training that is being offered to the "new" teachers. We are just as capable and "creative" as they are and with a greater work ethic, willing to undertake the new approaches to teaching contrary to what was stated by a "new" teacher who was interviewed by a reporter for 10/10 News a few weeks ago. Let's all get together and SUE THEM.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370300591508959460.post-57210934350369323052011-11-13T09:31:35.094-05:002011-11-13T09:31:35.094-05:00Rotating ATR's weekly for the sole purpose of ...Rotating ATR's weekly for the sole purpose of getting them to retire is a clear hostile work environment. Also this does not provide them with representation at the union. I suggest that you get an attorney and sue the Doe for hostile work environment and the Union for lack of representation. Futher Doe attempts to make things harder was to get ride of parking permit. Once the doe failed to get rid of senority (lifo) they decided to rotate ATR. There are enough articles out there; stop being afraid and sue the SOB'sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370300591508959460.post-83447919114461662422011-11-12T20:34:01.486-05:002011-11-12T20:34:01.486-05:00Every ATR should demand their union dues back, wit...Every ATR should demand their union dues back, with interest, for all the time spent as ATR's. They then should pool their monies to start a class action suit against the DOE, and yes, the UFT for putting them in this horrible situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370300591508959460.post-52587366207481588842011-11-12T19:37:33.974-05:002011-11-12T19:37:33.974-05:00[Editor's note: The following comment was edit...[Editor's note: The following comment was edited to conform to NYCATR's minimal standards of clean language and respect for those with whom we disagree.]<br /><br />Mendel is just another double pension, pinstripe wearing, blackberry toting, duplicitous thug. Let him have to report to a different school each week. Let us not get too misty-eyed over the prospect of having been rendered a subclass with absolutely no representation and no democratic rights. This has been engineered by those same pinstriped thugs who fleece us and continually sell us out. The UFT is the HR enforcement arm of the DOE, which we pay for. Mulgrew 'won' the election by a similar margin to that of Saddam Hussein's last election. Mendel is selling out the atr pool that any teacher could join at any time. It is very comforting to have a union that put us in to this situation, refuse to give us a voice or a chapter. The atr deal and the last two contracts and its attendant side deals were craven losses for the members,yet Unity spins them as victories. With the new evaluation system, tenure is meaningless. Seniority was disemboweled by Unity. It is merely an academic matter at this point. The profession is in its deaththrows, thanks to those charlatans at the UFT,especially vicious Mike Mendel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370300591508959460.post-64957877178222892292011-11-12T11:02:11.161-05:002011-11-12T11:02:11.161-05:00Are these issues dead now?Are these issues dead now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370300591508959460.post-29862285967727874652011-11-11T20:32:56.755-05:002011-11-11T20:32:56.755-05:00UFT Secretary Mike Mendel was a bully when he spok...UFT Secretary Mike Mendel was a bully when he spoke. He should be ashamed of his behavior. I am not an ATR, but I am a delegate. He should be fired for the way he spoke to the crowd. I do not like that my dues pays his salary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370300591508959460.post-63987132865458960962011-11-11T15:58:29.146-05:002011-11-11T15:58:29.146-05:00What support measures??? I want a teaching positio...What support measures??? I want a teaching position!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com