Sue Edelman Draws Attention to the ATR Farce

Artist - Caroline Marine

     Sue Edelman has an article in the Post https://nypost.com/2019/10/19/doe-spends-100m-per-year-keeping-idle-teachers-on-the-payroll/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons concerning ATRs. I haven’t seen much about the ATR pool from any source, other than the UFT late last spring - which claimed it was down to between 600 - 300 teachers. Of course, most of us knew this was more BS from the fertilizer factory at 52 Broadway. Also amidst a silent teenage mental health and homeless crisis, that have been playing out concurrently for NYC public school students, there exists a tremendous shortage of guidance counselors and social workers. Of course, no one addresses that ATR social workers and guidance counselors are sitting in closets or defunct libraries with their thumbs up their asses watching each day pass like wet paint drying. But hey, they got it a lot better than ATR teacher/ babysitters. They’re the oft mentioned slave labor force of the DOE, with everyone treating them like untouchables in 19th century India - hey, they can clean the toilets, but definitely not use them.

   If you are an ATR, or former one, you have to support Carranza for discarding the dried up turds that Bloomberg defecated all over the DOE a decade ago. Now, what about the UFT? What has that group of Giorgio Armani wearing, quail eating, Gin &Tonic swilling, self-aggrandizing, greedy, manipulative Soprano wannabes done? Zero. I’ve said it many times, and will continue to do so (until they start performing their fiduciary duties), no ATR should be paying dues, until the UFT fights to place all ATRs (before new hires in a mutually agreed upon school).  Additionally, veteran  teachers will always have a target on their backs while the Fair Student Funding accounting scheme remains in effect. There will always be an ATR pool as long as it remains. The Executive Board should challenge that scheme, (as Ms. Hinds did years ago to rejection by Mulgrew) - instead their acquiescence is solidified by them pressing for 100% funding under that scheme. (As I read via Arthur’s minutes - thank you, Arthur, without you the Rank & File would know nothing). I questioned two district reps last year about FSF and they both admitted that the UFT isn’t fighting to end it, didn’t know why and that if FSF was eliminated the ATR pool and the underfunding of schools would end over night - all money would come directly from central, as per pre-Bloomberg days. And hey who wouldn’t want an experienced 50 something year old homeboy, over a Playboy bunny from OshKosh, who never heard of Harriet Tubman? Yeah, I know all Bloomy’s left over turds.

   One final note on our strange times - Bloomberg is seriously thinking of running for President of the United States. Now, as I’ve always said many times, I will vote for a ham sandwich over Trump. I will not however vote for Bloomberg over him. If Bloomberg gets the nomination, he will beat Trump.  If you worked in NYC under his ‘12 Years a Slave’ regime, you know what will happen to this country and to all unions. I may have to start actively campaigning for the anti-Christ Trump. I’m joking of course - I’ll move to Canada.