[etni] [FWD: Is This Where We are Heading?!]
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Subject: Is This Where We are Heading?!
From: Margie Cohen <margiec@xxxxxxxxxx>
New York's Revolving Door of Good Teachers Driven Out
The New York Times - June 1, 2005
THEY knew from their children that there was trouble in the fifth grade
at Public School 111 in Manhattan. But it wasn't until teacher
conferences in late February that parents learned how badly the class
had fallen apart.
By then, the fifth graders were on their third teacher in seven months.
The first left before Christmas to get married. And though her
departure was widely known by November, the second teacher, a
substitute, Emebet Shiferraw, says she wasn't told about taking over
that class until she reported to P.S. 111 in early January.
The sub left after two months, she says, because she got little support
and things were not going well in class.
The third teacher, Millie Rodriguez, was pulled off her job as a reading
specialist at P.S. 111 and handed the fifth grade just days before
conferences. Parents were told their fifth graders would not get second
semester report cards. "Ms. Rodriguez told me she was just there a week
and had no work whatsoever to go on," said Reyna Soriano, whose son
Elmer is a fifth grader. "I was so upset. How could this happen? They
don't have report cards? Maybe they don't learn nothing
(To read the article, go to - www.etni.org/news/drivenout.htm )
Margie
Margie Cohen-Jackel
34/75 Yaakov Street
Rehovot 76262 ISRAEL
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