tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post8846423029574492790..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: The GWB Is Not Chris Christie's Greatest SinDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-32407227916998897782014-01-17T09:55:45.757-08:002014-01-17T09:55:45.757-08:00Sorry I took so long - I in training for a new car...Sorry I took so long - I in training for a new career with Metro Public Adjustors - 4 former teachers in my class btw. As a trainee I can't speak for the actual job yet but the instructor is superb. <br /> I'll give you that the NJEA exhibited superior business sense and value when they negotiated benefits instead of $ for forward thinking people willing to deferr payt. The notion of tenure was critical to awarding "stripes for skills" to an entire profession that doesn't 'do this for the money'. And there's the rub. If the NJEA can't guarantee that one thing to hard working, underpaid, underemployed members, what good is it? Especially when you take the decade of high rate of teacher attrition before Christie came along and the losses that will continue long after he's history because the NJEA will not be held accountable for their losses. A factoid from M Rhee states that only 1 in 1000 teachers is dismissed for poor performance. Compare that to NJEAs 475 in 1000 rate of teacher attrition. If only 1 of them is actually a bad teacher, what's going on w/the other 474? And why isn't the NJEA taking the exit data from them to better serve/protect its membership?Mrs. King's music studentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05211235832988015448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-31379820625187748312014-01-12T08:22:12.616-08:002014-01-12T08:22:12.616-08:00I'm not saying the NJEA is perfect, it certain...I'm not saying the NJEA is perfect, it certainly needs to rethink the compensation for the NJEA hierarchy in light of frozen teacher wages, so many cut backs of teachers, their benefits and pensions. The enemies of the NJEA, like Christie, will always bring up the $275,000 (give or take a few thousands) salary of the NJEA president. That's not an accurate figure but it's close to what the head of the NJEA gets, more than the governor. But overall and on average, the NJEA has been a positive force for teachers and has done more good than harm. The NJEA is under constant attack by Christie, the media and NJ 101.5 in particular. All unions are under attack across this country, the unionization rate is down to 11.3% and that's not an accident. There is a well funded and well orchestrated war against unions.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-21694215637225168182014-01-12T05:32:33.542-08:002014-01-12T05:32:33.542-08:00How the hell has the NJEA caused decades of "...How the hell has the NJEA caused decades of "obscene rates of teacher attrition?" Is the NJEA in control of the school districts, the hiring and firing of teachers? Is the NJEA in control of school funding? Some people seem to think that the NJEA has the power and clout of the Koch Brothers+BillGates+Eli Broad+Michael DEll+Jeff Bezos+Carl Icahn. How is the NJEA in any way responsible for what happened in Highland Park? What could the NJEA have done? And who knows, maybe they did raise an objection and maybe the NJEA did advise and assist the fired teachers and union leaders. Oh wait, I forgot, the NJEA could have used its SWAT team of retired teachers to descend on Highland Park and make the school board an offer they could not refuse. It looks like certain people have NJEA derangement syndrome. Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-3868598770889741122014-01-11T11:52:51.945-08:002014-01-11T11:52:51.945-08:00Here's an idea: The Fort Lee Public School Dis...Here's an idea: The Fort Lee Public School District enrolls 3,721 students. <br /><br />The putzes involved in shutting down the lanes to/from the GWB mentioned that this would affect children, particularly since it was the start of the school-year. <br /><br />Uhm...they also willfully endangered the lives of 3,721 public school students for 4 days, since getting to and from school became dangerous.<br /><br />Let's see, 3,721 times 4 equals over 14,000 separate charges of "child endangerment." <br /><br />That prosecutorial possibility might encourage folks from the Christie administration to sing like entire species of birds. <br /><br />Yeah, it was and is child endangerment--but clearly, kids don't count in Christie's world, particularly if their parents are viewed as Buono voters. <br /><br />*SIGH!*Catherine Lugghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13569145800111520569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-91491491683100965642014-01-11T11:42:48.637-08:002014-01-11T11:42:48.637-08:00Zero sum game won't work here. You can't ...Zero sum game won't work here. You can't say that Christie's petty vindictive behaviors prove the NJEA is right. They've got to prove that themselves. Instead, they've indicted themselves for decades with obscene rates of teacher attrition. For example, Im still waiting for the NJEA to go to war for the union pres and vp who were terminated in the middle of negotiations in Highland Park!!! Were they expendable or did someone somewhere get something they liked better in return for throwing teachers like them under the bus?Mrs. King's music studentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05211235832988015448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-85645468402615518632014-01-10T05:46:05.191-08:002014-01-10T05:46:05.191-08:00I'm sure that some people will find a way to b...I'm sure that some people will find a way to blame teachers and the "EVIL" NJEA for the GWB scandal. Waa, waa, the nefarious NJEA made me do it. The mean NJEA alien force and mind meld capacities compelled me to betray what's left of my morals, sob, sob.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-62909415154581476482014-01-09T22:32:34.505-08:002014-01-09T22:32:34.505-08:00It's not about the gwb - its about the way Chr...It's not about the gwb - its about the way Christie handled an elected official who refused to negotiate. The hope is that an investigation into his tactics here will shed light on the actions of elected officials organizations across the state who did negotiate with him. That could cover the destruction of the horse racing industry, privatization of both the NJ Lottery and public schools, the $ "saved" by the cap on school funding - diverted to municipal govts and ultimately into Christie's campaign fund. Then, if anyone still has an ounce of energy left, it could even lead to investigations of appointed BOEs replacing thoroughly corrupt elected ones and their co-conspirators in the NJEA who 'spent the troops' (aka ignored the high rate of teacher <br />attrition) for decades in the poorest performing schools in the nation.<br /><br />The gwb has the capacity to peel this onion even for voters who normally pay little attention to these issues.<br />Mrs. King's music studentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05211235832988015448noreply@blogger.com