The one-sided, agenda-pushing tone of this front-page lead on a Monday was another insulting PoS by the Boston Globe, folks.
Related: School's Out Forever For Some Boston Teachers
Yup, the Globe has forgotten the tears and trauma of the people who wanted to be there and is NOW OFFERING MORE PAY and BETTER CONDITIONS to NEW PEOPLE!!!
The saddest thing is the OBFUSCATION INHERENT in the whole piece after you read what I posted above.
"Mass. hunting for star teachers; Recruits would go to toughest schools" by James Vaznis, Globe Staff | May 10, 2010
State education officials plan to announce today an aggressive campaign to recruit hundreds of successful teachers to work in underperforming schools in Boston and eight other troubled school districts, in hopes those teachers can spark a turnaround.
The recruitment effort is believed to be the first-ever partnership between the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and local school districts to find teachers for specific schools. Past state recruitment drives, such as awarding signing bonuses to a select few new teachers, have been typically open to all the state’s schools.
“We want to put the best and most talented teachers in front of children who need them the most,’’ said Mitchell Chester, state commissioner of elementary and secondary education.
No apple for that "teacher."
How many $30,000/year teaching jobs would that have saved?
State officials do not yet know how many positions will be available at the 35 schools identified as underperforming, with chronically low test scores. But officials anticipate that a significant number of current teachers will be dismissed or leave on their own, creating openings.
They already have, Globe.
WTF, hey?!!!!!!!!!!!
At least two school districts will be using a federal turnaround strategy at some of their underperforming schools that calls for dismissing at least half the staff.
The recruiting campaign will kick off with the start-up of a website, amazingteachers.org, where interested teachers can learn more about teaching opportunities at the 35 schools in need. Information will also be available on Facebook and Twitter.
Well, I guess you can SEE WHICH SIDE the AGENDA-PUSHING GLOBE comes down on, 'eh, Boston teachers?
Chester said he is on a mission to erase the notion that working in an underperforming school carries a negative stigma about teacher performance; instead, it should be seen as an opportunity to improve student achievement, he said....
He says that after 125 PEOPLE that WANTED TO BE and WERE WANTED THERE were FIRED?
What nerve!
While many of the state’s urban districts struggle to recruit and retain qualified teachers, attracting top-notch candidates to the underperforming schools, where the complexity of urban education is more magnified, could prove even more difficult.
Yup, I'm going to LEAVE a GOOD, SAFE SCHOOL to go teach in one of those inner-city holes, yup.
But WHY SHOULD THAT SPOIL the AGENDA-PUSHING ASPECT of the story, huh?
For instance, 1 in 4 students at the underperforming schools are still learning to speak English — well above the statewide average — and the state has been experiencing a persistent shortage of qualified teachers for these students, state officials said.
But if you mention the illegal immigrant haven this state is you are a.... sigh.
Related: Boston's Budget
Yeah, THEY GET an INCREASE in FUNDING, teachers and taxpayers!
WTF, huh?
A host of other issues might make underperforming schools unappealing to some teachers, from the possibility they would have to work an extended day to having fewer job protections because of recent changes to state law.
Yes, JUST SKATE RIGHT BY THAT, Globe and KEEP on GOING!
But
Yup, BUT!
other teachers are attracted to the immense challenge of reversing years of poor results at an underperforming school, while school districts are developing incentives to attract teachers to these schools, promising such things as additional pay or opportunities for leadership roles in overhauling curriculum, state officials say.
Does the Globe ever get tired of shoveling shit?
And JUST AS the SCHOOL SYSTEM is CUTTING STAFF, LAYING OFF TEACHERS, and FIRING THEM while increasing work hours with no pay they are going to OFFER RAISES to THESE PEOPLE?
Un-flipping-f***ing-real!!!!!
I'm GLAD I DID NOT TAKE MY COLLEGE ADVISER'S ADVICE and go into teaching.
WHO WOULD EVER WANT to be a TEACHER after being DUMPED ON BY EVERYONE?!!!!!
The website will also include video testimonials of teachers at underperforming schools speaking of the rewards of working there. A private foundation in Boston provided funding for the site.
Yeah, it's a GREAT THING, see, teacher?
State and local officials are hoping to attract teachers from Massachusetts and elsewhere and are even trying to encourage talented teachers who work at high-performing schools in the nine targeted school districts to transfer to one of their district’s underperforming schools....
Yeah, right.
I'm leaving my good job in a good school and coming to Boston to get shat on by the press and shot by my students who can't understand a word I say.
Yeah, that is going to work.
Like everything in this state, this government program will be another failure.
They all are, folks.
That's why this state is in such terrible shape.
Boston is ahead of the other eight districts in developing recruitment strategies for the underperforming schools, state officials said. The city plans to bring in teams of teachers to three of its underperforming schools, where they will constitute at least a quarter of the teaching staff and receive additional pay for working an extended school day or year.
And yet the PEOPLE IN THE SYSTEM or THOSE FIRED are being told NO ADDITIONAL MONEY!!
Looks like ANAL RAPE is not something you find only in the priest's confessional, 'eh, Boston teachers?
Now it is the STATE doing it to YOU in the CLASSROOM!!!
WHERE is YOUR PARAGRAPH or TWO anyway?
So far, the district — working in partnership with Teach Plus, a three-year-old nonprofit in Boston dedicated to supporting urban teachers — has received more than 150 applications. The majority of the applications have come from teachers currently assigned to other Boston schools who are looking for a new challenge....
Is this a organizational flyer or an agenda-promoting newspa.... that answers itself at this point, teach!
Keep hucking, Glob, only faster, faster!!!!
Administrators from the seven schools ultimately rejected 125 letters of intent from employees who wished to return in the fall, forcing them to go elsewhere.
Like WHERE?
They are JUST FORGOTTEN, aren't they, agenda-pushing PoS!?
Not like those people had lives.
Hey, everything must be sacrificed so bankers, corporations, war-profiteers, and "public servants" can live lavishly.
That's the AmeriKan Way, folks.
And so is OBFUSCATING ANYTHING that might conflict with the feel-good, this-is-great, agenda-pushing slop that passes for "news" here in New England.
At the same time, 166 requests to stay on were accepted. Dozens of teachers didn’t reapply.
I love that.
Yeah, they DO NOT KNOW HOW MANY did not reapply.
Yup, GLOBE or STATE can NOT EVEN DO SIMPLE MATH and they are telling the teachers they failed?
I guess they did at that considering who is helming the ships-of-state at all levels of AmeriKan society.
So WHAT OTHER BULLSHIT AWAITS us in the NEXT SENTENCE, readers?
Most teachers not returning to their schools will probably find placement at one of the district’s 128 other schools, officials have said.
Ummm, WHY?
WHY when SCHOOLS are ALREADY CUTTING STAFF and THESE TEACHERS were SINGLED OUT as having FAILED?
WHO is going to HIRE a FAILED TEACHER, Glob?
Then again, I'm sure the newspaper industry will stop cratering and PROBABLY make a roaring comeback.
At least, that is what their money-losing, self-serving, shit-selling papers will say.
Can you TELL I'M ANGRY about the OBFUSCATION, DISTORTIONS, DECEPTIONS, and INSULTS THIS MORNING, teacher?
Heck of way to start homeroom, huh?
Carol R. Johnson, Boston school superintendent, said the state’s effort could assist the city in attracting even more quality teachers.
“There’s nothing more exciting and rewarding for a teacher than seeing great results and their work pay off,’’ Johnson said.
Now here is your pink slip as we pay others more to take your place.
“They want to see students do well in class, on assessments, and in life. We want to take advantage of those teachers who really want to see those results.’’
In other words, you lucky 125 were a bunch of lazy deadbeats!
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Yeah, I guess the KIDS, PARENTS, and TEACHERS CRYING is OVER, huh?
