also interestingly, back when I was in school (and a long time before it), it was not at all unusual for two married teachers to work in the same school. whenever this was the case, it seemed to be a really good thing for both teachers.
I also remember that when I first started working at the NYCBE, the tests were all devised by the Board…
also interestingly, back when I was in school (and a long time before it), it was not at all unusual for two married teachers to work in the same school. whenever this was the case, it seemed to be a really good thing for both teachers.
I also remember that when I first started working at the NYCBE, the tests were all devised by the Board itself and were considerably more difficult than the state exams. and at the Placement Department (where a friend's mother worked after she retired), you could mention a teacher ANYWHERE in the whole huge system, and someone in that office could give you a capsule bio of that teacher. it was pretty remarkable. and, of course, it was trashed.
NYC Board of Education, which was taken over and re-named as The NYC Department of Education (suddenly under complete mayoral control) by Bloomberg who, whatever one might otherwise think about him, was a chaotic force in NYC public education (as well as being in the oversized pockets of the very wealthy Charter School people).
that this chaos was real (and this is literally true) became obvious within about a week of Bloomberg taking his oath.
I'll grant that in a few other ways, Bloomberg might have been a more or less decent mayor; god knows, he was a mountain of likeability and decency compared with the scumbag he replaced. and Bloomberg wasn't especially likable or decent. sort of like Al Franken on Ted Cruz ("I like Ted Cruz more than anyone else in the Senate does, and I HATE Ted Cruz")
also interestingly, back when I was in school (and a long time before it), it was not at all unusual for two married teachers to work in the same school. whenever this was the case, it seemed to be a really good thing for both teachers.
I also remember that when I first started working at the NYCBE, the tests were all devised by the Board itself and were considerably more difficult than the state exams. and at the Placement Department (where a friend's mother worked after she retired), you could mention a teacher ANYWHERE in the whole huge system, and someone in that office could give you a capsule bio of that teacher. it was pretty remarkable. and, of course, it was trashed.
Wow! (What's the NYCBE?)
NYC Board of Education, which was taken over and re-named as The NYC Department of Education (suddenly under complete mayoral control) by Bloomberg who, whatever one might otherwise think about him, was a chaotic force in NYC public education (as well as being in the oversized pockets of the very wealthy Charter School people).
that this chaos was real (and this is literally true) became obvious within about a week of Bloomberg taking his oath.
I'll grant that in a few other ways, Bloomberg might have been a more or less decent mayor; god knows, he was a mountain of likeability and decency compared with the scumbag he replaced. and Bloomberg wasn't especially likable or decent. sort of like Al Franken on Ted Cruz ("I like Ted Cruz more than anyone else in the Senate does, and I HATE Ted Cruz")