Sunday, April 10, 2011

SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Jabba The Hut Lives In The NYC DOE

SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Jabba The Hut Lives In The NYC DOE

Jabba The Hut Lives In The NYC DOE


They used to say those who can't teach, teach phys ed. In the New York City Department of Education, those who can't teach become administrators.

These administrators, actually not a full administrator with all the trappings, or perks, that befall a full administrator, but rather one without that power permeates the ranks of these type of administrators. These, as we shall call them, "perkless administrators," write a check to some college and get their supervisor's certificate and just lay around like Jabba The Hut, and go through their perkless career, without making a true decision, without leadership, and without bringing anything to the table, except onion rings.

When they are teachers, they can't teach. They do the bare minimum, teach in a subject area they have no clue about, and just coast and drift through the day and the school year. How? Seems it helps