Arthur Goldstein teaches English language learners at Frabis Lewis High School in New York City.
In this post, he refutes attacks on teachers by Campbell Brown and the Wall Street Journal.
New York City has something called the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, consisting mostly of teachers whose jobs disappeared when their school was closed, through no fault of theirs. The ATR pool was created during the Bloomberg-Klein regime in 2005.
Outsiders like Brown and the WSJ are certain that these displaced teachers must be criminals, perverts, or incompetents.
Goldstein says they are wrong and explains why.
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http://nyceducator.com/2017/07/in-shocker-campbell-browns-website.html
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http://nyceducator.com/2017/07/in-shocker-campbell-browns-website.html
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Of course Goldstein makes a solid rebuttal here…..but everyone sees the basic problem right???
Campbell Brown in the WALL STREET JOURNAL….a global media outlet.
Goldstein in his great but “inside baseball” blog.
This is why the reform side is winning. It’s not because of the content of either message (the obviously awful Brown .vs the obviously correct Goldstein.). It’s because the reform side is well-organized and well-grounded on the central truth that those who control the narrative, win. Yes they have the money. They have the access. They have the wind at their backs….but all of that is because they are mounting, at bottom, an organized campaign. We are reacting. Always reacting.
So, another narrative “win” for Brown and the reform movement for this one.
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Thanks for your kind words. The piece I mostly referred to was not in the WSJ, but rather on Brown’s reformy website, the 74. It was not actually written by Brown. WSJ, of course, had similar sentiments.
Anyone who actually sees what goes on in the schools knows this is nonsense, and there are a lot of us out here.
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Campbell Brown is behind some of the press releases from ’74, a “non-profit” pro-privatization propaganda machine the regularly posts on Facebook as a paid advertisement. When I first started receiving these posts, many others and I started to refute the lies. While the ’74 continues to advertise on Facebook, the only option now is to share their propaganda with others. There is no way to respond to the lies and falsehoods.
Brown is a paid gun for hire for the the billionaires that want to privatize education. She will say anything for the right price. Nobody should feel slighted by anything she congers up in her warped psyche.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_74
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Brown is also now also working for Facebook in some capacity. I’m fond of Facebook, but now I feel a little dirty when I use it.
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Same here, but with friends and family scattered around, it is a way to catch up. I also would lose touch with my teacher friends without it. I also cross post some of Diane’s blogs in order for more people to hear the other side of the charter argument. I just wish somebody else owned Facebook.
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I quit FB, because Zuckerberg censors and sured the people on Kaua’i over Hawai’i’s Rights of Way Laws and Kuleana (responsibility) laws. Zuckerberg wants to own Kaua’i. I hope they run him off the island like the people on Moloka’i ran McAfee off their island.
These billionaires are SICK.
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Meant SUED. He has retrated that suit, but I think he is re-organizing and/or buying people off.
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Being categorized as “perverts, drunkards and other classroom miscreants” by liars, propagandists and other pressroom miscreants would seem to be a badge of honor.
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Maybe, but ATR teachers are not precisely feeling the love. They’re in a very tough position already and really don’t need that sort of external pressure.
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It would certainly seem that the Wall Street Journal ‘s broasd characterization of ATR teachers amounts to defamation of character.
Perhaps ATR teachers should look into a class action suit.
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The WSJ is a joke. 30 years ago it was a reputable source but it now resembles nothing of its former greatness.
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Like i said, a bunch of liars, propagandists and other pressroom miscreants.
Other than that, they are awesome.
“The Presstitutes”
The presstitutes
Dress up in suits
And go to work at Journals
While journalist
Is simply dissed
For cleaning out the urinals
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Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
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Yes, the ATR pool was created in 2005 with the approval of the UFT, then under the leadership of Bloomberg/Klein enabler Randi Weingarten.
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