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Thursday, September 18, 2014

9-18-14 Ed Notes Online

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UFT Caucuses and Loyalty Oaths - How About a UFT Cut-the-Strings, Free-the-Puppets Caucus?
Arthur Goldstein has another assault on Unity Caucus at NYC Educator (How About a UFT Cut-the-Strings, Free-the-Puppets Caucus?)Arthur is often focused on the Unity Caucus loyalty oath. I believe this is the wrong terminology. Unity Caucus follows democratic centralism, a staple of the left since Lenin but also adopted by right wingers as a way to control the message and the membership. Lenin said

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PS 147 Mini-Reunion
Schools are wonderful places to work when you work with wonderful people. We had our differences but always had good times with each other -- and as pointed out tonight, we partied together as a school - custodial workers, kitchen workers, teachers, paras, secretaries.Tonight we went back to an old haunt in Williamsburg -  Bamonte's, where we used to go open school night. The place was packed. Som
9-17-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: MY TIP and IPC Story - by John Elfrank-DanaAP: The evaluator chooses if video will be used. (She points out rightly that the UFT gave the discretion of video to the evaluator instead of the evaluated. Way to go Mulgrew!)... JED Another gem from John. Isn't it great to be on F-You time?Warning – Kids don’t try this at your school. This teacher has one year to go before retirement.T