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Oct 31Liked by Arthur Goldstein

Your article is spot on!!

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Thank you!

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Oct 31Liked by Arthur Goldstein

You should have added in the article that this is going to happen again next year when they expect teachers and families to come back on a Friday.

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Maybe I should have. I had no idea. Do you know whether or not there is any precedent for that? Have we closed when that occurred on a Friday before?

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Idk it just makes sense for people to come back Friday and then have weekend another 1 day week another Mulgrew failure he sees calendar before publishing

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As I'm sure you know, Unity's Very Smart People have Very Important things to do, and can't always attend to things like checking their work.

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LOL

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Oct 31Liked by Arthur Goldstein

Jeez! For anyone who's been following the issues, the dishonesty we're witnessing from Mulgrew and Adams is mind-blowing. While correcting the School Calendar makes perfect sense (I certainly signed the petition, and was appreciative to learn the problem should never have repeated after getting addressed years ago), it's sickening how these two figures, both trying to regain their images, are colluding in such PR displays. Thanks for always being so clear and on top of the madness Arthur.

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Thanks for your kind words Laura. Hopefully we can get rid of both of these guys.

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And a little child shall lead them. Maybe this child who loves calendars, according to his mom, also loves reading and could start a petition against the reading program. Maybe he has a HS connection to start one against 5he horrid math program. Let’s hire that boy to campaign against the mayor and Mulgrew next year. We adults might just win.

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It's indeed inspiring to see a 7th grader lead a movement. Less inspiring, by far, are the adults who fail to learn from experience.

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Exactly, because what could teachers possibly know about education?

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Oct 31Liked by Arthur Goldstein

I don't even know what to do at this point! It just keeps getting worse and worse

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Whatever you do, don't forget to vote every chance you get.

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Oct 31Liked by Arthur Goldstein

You can bet when they send out election material next May, there will be a bold bullet point stating how they restored December 23rd. They should state at the top that Unity always tries to solve problems they themselves create. If we win the final appeal, I am sure they will claim that. Medicare Advantage is gone thanks to their efforts alone. My next question is who will Unity support for Mayor?

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I don't know who they will support, but for decades now, it seems the UFT mayoral endorsement has been the kiss of death. Unity is kind of remarkable. They make awful, awful deals and then fear monger that their opponents can't do what they do. Lord, I hope not!

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Oct 31Liked by Arthur Goldstein

We education workers can't wait for a Department of Ed full of careerists, power-trippers, and circus clowns to grant us certain rights and powers. Those paradiscusión. nothing to gain and much to lose if we, the people , are really empowered. Our rights have be fought for by our own serves. How to do that is a matter for discusion.

Peter Senderowitz

New Delegate , RTC

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Oct 31·edited Oct 31Author

Thank you for being a delegate! I think it begins with a union leadership that represents our interests. Our current leadership is obsessed with health "savings" that go to the city. To my mind, union exists to improve the lot of working people, not Eric Frigging Adams. I've been to meetings where hacks push programs on us, telling us they were empowering us, when really they were trying to get us to be good little robots, pushing whatever new stuff was popular that year.

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