Over the past 24 hours I have received two text messages from the UFT on behalf of the Department of Education. The first, came yesterday at 12:14pm:
Even though schools in Philadelphia, DC, and Baltimore got days off school for a similar amount of snow, residents of NYC had to shlep their kids to school (or send them on subways that may or may not be working). Teachers all across the city had to leave earlier or circle their schools for 45 minutes looking for parking (like my co-teacher did this morning). Then, out of the blue, we received this information in the afternoon today:
According to a few colleagues, apparently the teachers who worked in far east New York City (past the 7 train) were unable to get to work due to challenges with the Long Island Railroad and plowing past the city limits. Therefore, some schools were closed today due to lack of educators being able to come to their buildings. Then, even though it was not truly equitable per se, the rest of teachers in the city receive a "give back" of PD time that we don't have to go to.
It seems strange that if some teachers cannot get to school that a) the rest of us are expected to, and b) that the 100 minutes we get after school would be equivalent to the day these teachers did not have to use from their sick/personal leave. Weird, huh?
It seems strange that if some teachers cannot get to school that a) the rest of us are expected to, and b) that the 100 minutes we get after school would be equivalent to the day these teachers did not have to use from their sick/personal leave. Weird, huh?
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