Bashing public school teachers won’t solve schools’ problems By Letters to the Editor/Staten Island Adva... April 20, 2010, 8:10AM By TERESA LADNER, ELTINGVILLE Once again it is open season on teachers and Assemblyman Lou Tobacco has joined in the hunt. Another call for charter schools. Another scheme for moving money to the rich. If they have the secret to better schools, they hide it well. If your child gets sick in school, send her to Ms. Moskowitz, the charter school front makes $400,000 while they are firing school nurses. Every school pays tens of thousands to educational consulting firms fronted by retired administrators; however, they’re laying off thousands of teachers. Bloombucks defends spending $722 million on a company which has been banned from doing business with the federal government, and since 1998, has produced nothing. Shocking! With two teacher’s licenses and nothing but excellent observations, my husband was out of work every June until he got tenure. That’s seven summers of guessing how we would pay the rent. Knowing your livelihood ends if the principal’s cousin graduates from the College of Staten Island doesn’t build stable families. To live that way indefinitely, for that salary, is moronic. Competent teachers aren’t morons. I assume I can now spit on Lou and threaten his family, or is that right available to right-wing trash only? © 2010 SILive.com. All rights reserved.
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