Thursday, October 28, 2010

NYC Public School Parents: An NYC Teacher's Diary - in 2015

NYC Public School Parents: An NYC Teacher's Diary - in 2015

An NYC Teacher's Diary - in 2015


October 2, 2015 (Friday)


Dear Diary,


Well, here I am again, back for the 2014/2015 school year with my fifth graders at P.S. 912. That’s P.S. for Public School, dearest diary. Maybe only half of NYC’s primary schools are still public, but those of us who are left are holding the fort pretty well, thank you. No thanks to our “shadow chancellor” Eva Moskowitz, though; I hear she’ll be up to fifty-two Apple Success charters before the year’s out. Look out, Newark!


Speaking of thank you’s! I met with Principal X two weeks before school started (on the sly, heh heh) to talk about the coming year. Now that President Obama’s 2011 Readiness for College and Work (RCW) Act