The “Stockholm Syndrome”, the term for the strange development where hostages begin by turning the side of the hostages, comes to mind the other day when Mayor Eric Adams-Jeeh Teachers-Union Forest Mike Mulgrew creates to create 3,700 classes. “
This continues years When Adams correctly opposed the scandalous United Federation of the United Federation of the Law of the Size of the State Class backed by the teachers, for the excellent Realson that imposes huge costs in the city without Any Perspective of improving real education.
However, there was the mayor, Mulgrew by his side, who boasts that he gives the city education department already blocked more dollars for hiring, with more (waste) to come in the coming years.
Registration in the city’s schools has decreased, and this law (which applies only to the city) is the UFT scheme to ensure that the rows of the city’s teachers (its members who pay the fees) do not decrease.
And nothing more than that: the city sausage-The performance schools already have smaller classes; They are the best, including gems such as Stuyvesant HS and Brooklyn Tech, with many children crowded in classes taught by solid teachers.
And the hiring of warm bodies to comply with the meaningless mandates of the law only ensures that more children are “taught” by “educators” who do not know what they are doing.
The Legislature approved this law purely To appease the UFT: if legislators really believed in logic behind this, why do New York’s mandate?
The city already spends $ 41.2 billion, a complete third of its budget, in a school system where Troy is up and the test scores have fallen to the lowest levels in 30 years; Thanks to this law, it must now spend even more, without benefit, except UFTS.
Actually, improving public education is about eliminating (or reeducing) bad teachers and closing (or restructuring) bad schools and course, about opening more good Schools
But the UFT fights the teeth and nails to avoid the opening of the new Charter schools, whose record of success and academic excellence shames the union by showing that there is a better way.
We understand why Mayor Adams chose to presume complying with the law of class size: he has no choice but to obey; I could also try to obtain some political benefit.
Unfortunately, none or its main Democratic challenges show many promises to face the UFT, either.
But the fact remains: the impulse of “smaller classes” is about serving the interests of the union, not children, and pretending that the opposite is playing along with political thugs.
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