WHY DO PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND THE UFT LET ACRS/ATRS LANGUISH?
NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND
EVALUATIONS ARE UNDERWAY;
EXCESSED TEACHERS HAVE BEEN
SHUT OUT OF
ESSENTIAL NEW TRAINING!
Bloomberg has shut down schools; he has squeezed
new schools into other schools. In each case, teachers, counselors and
librarians are booted into weekly rotation in the Absent Teacher
Reserve.
· Unfair to
committed employees that have given their careers to working
in schools, sometimes in the more challenging schools.
·
Unfair to
students as they are deprived consistent service
by familiar faces, as class sizes rise to record levels, and many students go
without a regular counselor or librarian.
Training? Locked out
New teaching technologies are in use / New standards,
the controversial Common Core, are used throughout the curriculum / New
evaluations are under-way, yet:
·
DOE alienates excessed
ACRs/ATRs; UFT fails these UFT members.
·
The DOE and the private,
unaccountable CFNs shut us out of these trainings, or only selectively announce
them, while ATRs frequently cover
teachers who leave their classes for training.
·
The UFT stonewalls while many
ATRs appeal to them for better access to training.
Hiring? Locked
out
The UFT agreed to ending the seniority transfer
and weekly rotations, which expanded to include counselors and social workers
in fall, 2012.
The DOE/UFT defend rotation, saying that
principals get to learn about ACRs/ATRs. Yet, the DOE’s “Fair funding formula”
means that principals have disincentives to hire pricier veteran teachers. They
place new hires instead.
The DOE’s and the THSC’s job fairs are selectively announced; when in-service teachers do learn of them registration
is very complicated with new accounts and passwords to create.
ACRs/ATRs – Disenfranchised, dues without representation
800 – 1,400 ATRs have no elected
representatives. The UFT refuses to discuss remedying this.
Train the ATRs - Don’t Tread on
the ATRs!
Contact elected public officials: go to
atrnyc.blogspot.com for email links to Bill de Blasio, John Liu, Robert Jackson, and city
council members.
Email
these top UFT officers: Michael Mulgrew, mmulgrew@uft.org and
Leroy Barr, lbarr@uft.org and the appointed representative Amy Arundell
aarundell@uft.org
ATR Chapter Committee saferatr@gmail.com
Principals treat ATRS like servants. They assign us to do what no one wants to do. I was at a school where I was working at scanning, collecting phones, clerical tasks etc. I am a School Counselor who loves working with the students not make copies, stuff envelopes and answer phones etc. I am grateful that I have a job but, the system is broken and we are the ones paying the price.
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