Friday, March 7, 2014

From Cami to experienced teachers: Go to hell | Bob Braun's Ledger

From Cami to experienced teachers: Go to hell | Bob Braun's Ledger:



From Cami to experienced teachers: Go to hell

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 Cami to teachers: drop dead
Cami to teachers: drop dead
Cami Anderson, appointed by Gov. Chris Christie to run the Newark schools, has issued an email in which she lamely tries to explain while she will try to fire experienced teachers–who have high salaries–while retaining less experienced teachers who will cost the district less to pay and owe their jobs to Anderson’s regime and devotion to Teach for America (TFA).
She sent the email shortly after 11a.m., when many teachers were busy standing in front of their classes.  The full text is below but it coyingly informs men and women with children and mortgages and college tuitions and medical bills and elderly parents that, well, she just couldn’t do anything else–as if her own policies were not to blame for the drop in student enrollment and loss of public revenue: “Layoffs are difficult and I realize that some of you will be personally affected.”
Anderson doesn’t say how many teachers she will fire but she has told other media sources that as many as 1,100 of fewer than 3,800 instructors may be fired–about