Next South Bronx School Internet Radio Cast

This Tuesday night, August 9 at 9 PM EDT is sure to be a barn burner.
 
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bronx-teacher/2011/08/10/the-mind-of-a-bronx-teacher
 
Joining us again is Queens Science teacher, blogger, Chaz of Chaz's School Daze; http://chaz11.blogspot.com  

Chaz has written extensively and quite astutely of the fallacy of the NYC DOE, school choice, and education deform. Chaz, a former denizen of the Rubber Rooms under trumped up charges, fights for the rights of educators and students.

Joining Chaz, is Tea Bagger, self proclaimed candidate for Congress, VA-5 in 2009, and fork lift operator, Bradley S Rees.

Brad who was home schooled after 5th grade is staunchly anti-Public Union, believes in school choice, vouchers, but is curiously silent on the federal government's involvement in local education matters. Brad has also been heavily influenced by Ayn Rand.

You can find Brad at his Son Of Liberty blog; http://sonofliberty2k10.wo​rdpress.com/ and catch him on Blogtalkradio, Fri and Sat nites at 10PM-Midnight EDT on the CB Radio Network; http://blogtalkradio.com/C​BMedia-Network

CALL IN # 917 932 8721

Michelle Rhee Answers Your Reform Questions

Bless you Michelle Rhee for the video on your all about you, Michelle RheeFirst.com website. Thank you very much for taking the time to sift through the all the questions and have a true spontaneous conversation with America's teachers.

One thing that struck us here at SBSB as breaking news was the MichelleRheeFirst moved its headquarters from Washington DC to Sacramento CA. One would assume this was done to keep better tabs on husband and known chaser of 16 year old girls, Kevin Johnson.

We here at SBSB were appalled by the softball questions and the seemingly faux well thought out responses.

Earlier this afternoon the crack team here at SBSB clandestinely gained access to the MichelleRheeFirst mainframe computer and downloaded all the questions and responses to these questions in its original ACS II form. After hours of encrypting, deciphering, and transcribing we present to the readers of SBSB what we consider the best of the best.


Michelle, thank you for your reform initiatives. However, what would you do to reform Judasim?
Shlomo Levine, Williamsburg, NY

Thank you Shlomo for taking the time with that very thought out question. Like Moses Mendelssohn, I too am a reformer, and believe that there have been rabbis that come to shul and don't really work. Many rabbis have been at their shuls for too long, and tend to get lazy. Too many rabbis just come to shul, are seen doing nothing but reading the Torah, leave right after services and don't stay for the sponge cake and grape juice and refuse to mingle with the congregation.

Michelle, you are so wonderful. I am having problems with my 1st grade class. They talk too much when online. I wish to duct tape their mouths, but I am unsure what kind of duct tape I should use. Can you recommend a good duct tape?
Rose Tortelli, Boston MA

Great question Rose! Thank you so much for asking! What you want to do is by 3M brand duct tape. I prefer the 1110-A Morris Costumes Duct Tape. This is absolutely the best and will keep their little mouths from moving. It comes in silver and they kids just love the way it glitters in the light. Remember, leave room for the students to breath through their nose. We don't want any unnecessary deaths!

I just gave a 4th standardized test to my 4th grade students. I am not sure how they will do, but since I live in Florida and up to 50% of my pay is tied to the exams and I have a family to support, I want to go back and erase wrong answers and wish to not leave any obvious erasure marks. What do you suggest?
Maude Findley, Tuckahoe NY

Thank you Maude for a very thoughtful and lucid question. Be sure that when you erase, you erase in a horizontal fashion, but not too hard for you wish not to tear the paper. Remember, then to match the fill in pattern of the answer you replace it with the same as the other questions.


My boyfriend is a former NBA basketball player and currently a mayor of a city. What I want to know is which nights for the next two weeks will you be out of town?
Anonymous 16 year old, Sacramento, CA


Oh let's see. I will be out of town from August 10-15. Good luck to you and your boyfriend!


Michelle, I have been teaching for 5 years. On the side I am a stand up comedian. I wish to imitate the voices and dialects stereotypically of inner city African-Americans as you did. How do you suggest I go about it and be as successful as you were?
Rich Little, Las Vegas, NV

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Thank you for wanting to imitate me as well as your students. I suggest you look at some old Saturday Night Lives with Eddie Murphy. Not only is it funny, but once you get it down, you'll have people laughing just as I did. Let me know when you perform, would love to see it.


Michelle, I have been teaching for 23 years, I am 49 years old, I was wondering.....
Gabe Kotter, Brooklyn NY

Please, stop there. How dare you be in teaching for 23 years? What do you think? Teaching is a lifelong profession? Please, I do not have time for a teacher with the amount of years you have in. Good-day!

And there you have it. Question and responses that Michelle Rhee does not want us to see.

Matt Damon Beefcakes Michelle Malkin

I think I am developing some sort of man crush on Matt Damon. In fact, I feel almost chivalrous, as if I am defending his honor.

I was warned last night by noted rabble rouser, and defender of the righteous, Rita Solnet that arch-conservative Michelle Malkin was to have a column in today's bastion of the English language, The New York Post, concerning Matt Damon.

So this morning after I had my morning coffee, I bent down and grabbed today's Post from under my cat's litter box. I sat down and read Michelle Malkin's convoluted, stupidity, stereotyped, Roger Ailes talking point column of hers.

Of course there are no facts, just opinions and hatred written by Malkin masquerading as what she conjures up in her mind as facts. Malkin blabbered; Government workers and Hollywood entertainers are impervious to economic incentives.

Honestly, has anyone gone into working for the government done it to be rich? I think there as always been a give and take. We will take less money, in return all we ask for his good benefits, a well funded and managed pension, and worse of all....due process. Not much to ask for. Oh, and maybe a pat on the back once in a while.

...the liberal box-office star addressed a “Save Our Schools” march in Washington at the behest of his mother, a professor of early-childhood education.

Wow, seems that Malkin must be hacking Matt and Mom Damon's voice mail. But seriously, how do you know that Michelle?

He attacked standardized tests.

As well he should.
 

He praised all the public-school teachers who “empowered” him and unlocked his creative potential by rejecting “silly drill- and-kill nonsense.” Damon decried the demoralization of teachers by ruthless, results-oriented free marketeers whom he mocked as “simple-minded.”

The bastard! How dare he say such things!!!

What Damon’s superficial tirade lacked, however, was any real-world understanding of the deterioration of core-curricular learning in America.

Michelle, you went to Oberlin, what do you know about real world? When was the last time you went to a Sox game, had a Fenway Frank, and chugged a beer? His mom is a teacher, you kind of figure that at least once they had a conversation about teaching.

Besides, what the hell do you know about core curricular learning?

Students can’t master simple division or fractions because today’s teachers -- churned out through lowest-common-denominator grad schools and shielded from competition -- have barely mastered those skills themselves.

So it has nothing to do with really, really bad curriculum forced upon teachers, where if teachers even deviate one iota from the "script" they can be brought up on charges?

Un-educators have abandoned “drill-and-kill” computation for multicultural claptrap and fuzzy math, traded in grammar fundamentals for “creative spelling” and dropped standard civics for save-the-earth propaganda.

No, not from real teachers. Seems like you just described "save the world" TFA's.

Consequence: bottom-basement US student scores on global assessments over the last two decades. Blaming the tests is blaming the messenger.

No. Please do not compare the US to other countries. Other countries do not have the poverty we do. Your country of origin, as are most others, are very homogenous. We are not.

The liberal education establishment’s response to its abject academic failures? Run away. This is why the Save Our Schools agenda championed by Damon calls for less curricular emphasis on math and reading -- and more focus on social justice, funding and “equity” issues.

Good God, where does Malkin think of this stuff? Never once have I ever heard this crap. Where did SOS or Damon say this? Prove it!

....Damon lashed out at a young reporter who had the audacity to ask him about the negative impact of lifetime teacher tenure. “In acting, there isn’t job security, right,” Reason.tv's Michelle Fields asked Damon. “There is an incentive to work hard and be a better actor because you want to have a job. So why isn't it like that for teachers?”

So explain all the years that Marlon Brando acted like a dick on the sets of movies and got whatever he wanted. Fields asked dumb, talking point questions with no basis in fact.

It's elementary that people will work longer and harder if they know they will be rewarded.

Want to know how teachers wish to be rewarded? Better working conditions, smaller classes, support from administration, non-moronic curriculum, etc... I do not know one teacher that went into education for the money.

But Damon's hinges came undone when confronted with the mild question.

“You think job insecurity makes me work hard?” he retorted. “That's like saying a teacher is going to get lazy when she has tenure.” Damon unleashed crude profanities on Fields. “A teacher wants to teach,” Damon fumed with his mother next to him. “Why else would you take a sh- -ty” salary and really long hours and do that job unless you really loved to do it?"

Of course his hinges came undone! It was a false question, loaded with false pretenses, that wasn't thought out by a false reporter.

Never mind that most out-of-work Americans would find nothing “sh- -ty” about earning an average $53,000 annual salary plus health and retirement benefits for a 180-day work year.

Where does Malkin get this $53K figure? Average pay in Mississippi is $40K! besides, we are now being denied or having altered health and retirement benefits. But, the 180 days is more because teachers take work home. How many cops take work home? Pizza makers? Custodians? Deli clerks? UPS drivers? Nurses?

And when the young reporter's cameraman pointed out that there are bad apples in the teaching profession as in any profession, Damon called him “sh- -ty,” too.

No, he inquired as to whether or not he was a shitty cameraman, and said he does not know.

Go on Malkin, go ahead and just quote the LA Times, which allowed it's reporter, Jason Felch, to write biasly, and falsely about a teacher, and didn't blink an eye  when that teacher killed himself. Go ahead and quote the Goebbels propaganda film, Waiting for Superman, and all that nice stuff about lawyers and doctors and learn that it is false.

Of course Malkin should continue to make false and misleading assumptions about education and teachers. Everyone is the same, all are interconnected, and all are guilty by association.

But, since Malkin takes a pay check by News Corp, which is technically Murdoch, should we link her and associate her with all of Rupert's transgressions? Survey says, YES!

Whitney Tilson Attempts To Defile Matt Damon

Looking back, I had noticed that the name Whitney Tilson has only graced the pages of this blog only twice in the last 4 months. For those of SBSB's readers who come here looking for a good laugh, we here at SBSB do apologize profusely. We have been attempting to live by the words of my mothers, "always wear clean underwear in case you are hit by a car, and never argue with egotistical, attention seeking hedge fund managers." But sometimes mom's are wrong.

This past weekend, there was a thing called the SOS March in Washington DC. Whitney, in one of his latest ADD written emails decided to take time before a flight to Nashville for a some KIPP or Amway convention, decided to spend the time at the airport bashing Matt Damon instead of doing what Whitney usually does in airports. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean? Just an aside here, I am happy that Whitney is always traveling somewhere. It makes me think optimistically what former Yankee pitcher Dock Ellis said about George Steinbrenner in 1977.

So Whitney, like the lonely bully we all knew as children blabbered; The Rally to Continue the Insanity (formally known as the Save Our Schools March) took place last Saturday in DC and was the farce and joke I knew it would be.  They called for 1 million people – and got 8,000 – LOL! 

LOL! You called Netflix short and lost people money. Anyway, yeah it billed itself as the million dollar march, and only 8,000 showed up. Hey, to get 8,000 teachers to show up and agree on something is in itself quite an accomplishment. But, this is a true grass roots effort and people on the organizing committee having something known as lifes so I can imagine how difficult it could have been. But, I have a feeling this is not the only march, and lessons will be learned and word will seep out and then you'll see.

So Whitney decided to blabber on, but not use his words, but the words of some entity known as the Education Action Group, which is some front group for billionaire hedge fund managers and dolts that live on 5th Ave. No real educators run the darn thing.

So anyway, since Whitney has decided to parrot the Education Action Revolutionary Group, we here decided that their words therefore are Whitney's words. Quid pro Whitney.

So Whitney blabbered on;  Some wondered if Damon would draw more people to this rally than he did to his recently flopped film “Green Zone.” The answer was a definite no. And he got a little temperamental when pressed by a reporter from ReasonTV.

He completely p3wned the bubble head. The bubble head, asked a question that was meant to provoke, not meant to be thoughtful. Why is what she asked OK, but assuming that all Jews are good business people not OK? We as teachers are being sterotyped and Matt threw back her assumptions in her face.

So Whitney's sycophantic, clueless assistant, Leila Jerusalem, bloviated for her boss, Like Damon, I had a public education in a high school that in retrospect was quite subpar. It was a high school someone else chose for me, with a reputation of being “good enough.” Although I was lucky enough to skip a grade and be tracked into the gifted and talented program, I still had a few teachers who were duds.

So if the high school was so bad, why do you think you did so well? You claim that your high school education was subpar, yet according to your Facebook page, you graduated from Edison High School which is a California Distinguished and Digital High School. In fact, the median income for a household in the city of Huntington Beach is $76,527 and has been ranked one of the top places to live in the United States.  Yeah, I had a few dud teachers as well. But, they were just boring. But Princess Leila, describe dud teachers.

But Whitney gives credence to the idiocy of the Daily News in which he parroted; "I moved to Cambridge, Mass., when I was 10 years old because of the alternative schools there that my mother ... really wanted me to go to, and I got in."

See here is the thing Whitney, and I can't truly comment because I do not have all the facts, and unlike you I do not make opinions or assumptions facts.

Alternative schools are public schools. Charter schools aren't. Now I am assuming, and I could be wrong, but perhaps Matt Damon went to The High School Extension Program in Cambridge. But even if he didn't there is a huge difference between this school and charters.

One, the alternative high school, and I am assuming all the alternative schools in Cambridge, MA take a student whether or not that student will do well in standardize tests, there is no creaming. Second there is small class size, the students are thought of as individuals, and it appears that actual learning, not rote memorization is the norm and what is expected. Also, and most important, the district is not losing funding nor is funding going to pay for the private education of a student. Oh yeah, forgot a biggie. There is accountability!

I think I know why Whitney Tilson has decided to defile the good name and work of Matt Damon. Both went to Harvard, but both have had different experiences both at Harvard and after they left.

Matt probably had many friends, was a swell guy to be around, and was just a regular guy. Whitney, had no friends, had his nose up in the air, and was a snot.

Matt helps out the downtrodden out of the goodness of his heart, is not an attention whore and is generally well liked and respected. Whitney, helps out those to gain validation and to show only a rich white man knows what is best for boys and girls of color, and is generally despised by many, and respected by none.

Keep on going Whitney, you are a wonderful source of material.


  

Racist Principal Frank Borzellieri Should Have Worked For The NYC DOE

Last week, the Daily News reported that Frank Borzellieri, principal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel elementary school in the Bronx espoused some rather racist views. That was July 30, only 5 days ago. Yesterday, August 2, the Daily news reported that Borzellieri was terminated as principal. We here at SBSB, though we still support Borzellieri's right to due process, are pleased at the swift end to Borzellieri's tenure as principal and applaud Rev. Eric Rapaglia and the Archdiocese of New York for doing the right thing even though Rev. Rapaglia was warned about Borzellieri two years ago.

But being a racist principal was not Borzellieri's biggest mistake. His biggest mistake was not being employed as a principal by the NYC DOE.

Wait just a minute you ask. Isn't being a racist principal bad enough? Yes, but he was a racist principal for the Archdiocese of New York but once, Borzellieri appeared on the front page of the Daily News, he was going to be toast.

Now, if he worked for the DOE, what would have happened? Of course the investigative body, OSI, or SCI, would have dragged its feet for months if not years. All during this time Borzellieri would have still been spewing is racist views on the world.

But, let's make believe for a minute that SCI, or OSI did its job, and even let's make believe that the Daily News, or even the New York Post were to put Borzellieri on their front page (yes, I know its a stretch) as a racist principal in the NYC DOE. What would happen?

Probably the same that happened to serial masturbator and former LIS DR Mychael Willon. To be fair, DR Mychael Willon not only had issues pleasuring himself, but falsified documents that he received a PhD.

What became of DR Mychael Willon? It seems that in reward for his service as a LIS, once word leaked out (pardon the pun) of his indiscretions, he was moved into a job at Tweed.

So, what would have become of Frank Borzellieri? Yeah, he would have probably been removed as a principal, but he would have had a soft landing. A nice cushy job as a network leader, or in charge of something at a Children's First network, or a plumb job at Tweed. Good thing he isn't a racist teacher. Then he would have been in big trouble.

So good bye and good riddance to a racist, and probably anti-Semitic dirtbag. Don't let the door hit you on the butt as you slink away. But let's all keep in mind what is now transpiring at A. Philip Randolph High School. What will happen to Principal Henry Rubio??

Chalk Duster On Next Mind of a Bronx Teacher

Before I go on and give information about tonight's radio show, I want to put a blog in for a new blogger, a new Tweeter, and one hell of a smart person, and someone we should be happy that is on the side of goodness, and not badness.

Chalk Duster is somewhat new to the blogosphere. She is just now getting her bearings in this crazy world of blogging and implore all who read this to not only check her blog out, but link to it, and share it with anyone and everyone.

The blog, America's Future: The Inside Story is hard hitting and honest. Chalk Duster really has a penchant for exposing the BS behind standardized testing and the hypocrisy of administrators. While you are at it, follow her on Twitter, @LilyDuster.

Now onto tonight's show....


http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bronx-teacher/2011/08/03/the-mind-of-a-bronx-teacher

This Tuesday night, August 2, 2011 at 9PM EDT we welcome back Chalk Duster, author of America's Future: The Inside Story http://americasfutureinsidestory.blogspot.com/

Coming of her resounding thumping of Neil Haley last week, Chalk Duster will face off against Education Deformer Jolyn Brand.

Joyln is a graduate of University of Houston where she received a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA).  She then went on to earn a Master’s of Education (M.Ed.) from University of Houston-Clear Lake. She taught Reading and English in public middle and high schools in Houston, TX for more than seven years. She was also a public school administrator and college adjunct instructor for several years.

Jolyn launched and directs Brand College Consulting, which identifies and provides resources for high school students to attain their higher education goals.

Listen and learn as Chalk Duster takes on and triumphs over another education deformer. www.brandcollegeconsulting​.com

Subject matter to be covered, standardized testing, teacher evaluation, and literacy.

The call in # is 917 932 8721

The Princess of the Rocky Mountains

One thing I like about cops is that they look out for one another. They are not rats. I can't quite say that about teachers. Not all will look out for you, and there are one too many that will stab you in the back the second they get a chance.

I believe that any issues between teachers should be handled by teachers themselves. If the problem is too much, have an intermediary, preferably a union rep, mediate any and all disputes. I will never, ever rat out a teacher. That is, and this is big, I am thrown under the bus. I believe in the old saying, "don't ever come between me and my direct deposit."

In this blog, yes I admit, I have written about some colleagues, but that was several years ago and their names were changed. I even let off steam about a colleague this year, but except for one teacher, I felt all plunged a knife in my back.

Of course there are other exceptions to the above rule. The Ruben Brosbes, the Evan Stones, E4E's etc... all fall under that rule as far as I am concerned. They, in their own way are all trying to separate us from our direct deposit and deserve no quarter.

But what is sad is when a teacher that is supposedly on your own side, part of the team take the time and effort to throw you under the bus. Particularly, when this teacher has never met you.

The Princess of the Rocky Mountains is such a teacher. All prim and proper, akin Dana Carvey's Church Lady the The Princess of the Rocky Mountains has several, or many problems and issues, all somehow emanating, in my opinion from control and anger.

Now, I am not saying my hands are clean. I did make an off-color joke on Twitter once, and The Princess of the Rocky Mountains got her knickers all in a snit, and even after profusely apologizing backed out on her word. OK.

But a few weeks later, we did kiss and make up, and the The Princess of the Rocky Mountains decided that she needed more control, that she was the purveyor of decency on Twitter and decided that she would comment on a inside joke I made to someone other that The Princess of the Rocky Mountains.

Well, we went back and forth. Forth and back. I made the mistake of reaching out to a mutual friend, this person being from where they brew Genesee Beer and other fine Genesee alcoholic beverages. This person at one time seemed to have no problem calling me every day, several times a day (including emails), to report issues in a school district in the land of Genesee beer.  It seemed to me that The Princess of the Rocky Mountains had some type of mental condition. I asked in a rather innocently way. There were no known mental problems.

Well, this got the The Princess of the Rocky Mountains in a bigger knicker snit than ever. Boy, did she have a cow man! She accused me of continuing the tweeting even when she was the aggressor, she even asked why I would contact the person from Genesee beer country. But one thing has always bothered me. Why did the The Princess of the Rocky Mountains tweet me to begin with, in a conversation that did not even mention her nor had anything to do with her? Worse, not only did she have nothing better to do than to tweet her piety, but the tweet she was referencing was two days, 48 hours, old!!!!!

But as far as I was concerned it was over. That is until I found out something interesting several weeks ago. It seems that The Princess of the Rocky Mountains couldn't let sleeping dogs lie. The Princess of the Rocky Mountains needed for some perverse reason to bad mouth me, my blog to all on a certain committee that was organizing a big, big teachers event in some capital of a country.

We here at SBSB find it ironic that the The Princess of the Rocky Mountains would contradict her own edict about manners....

I am not sure why you believe it is acceptable to belittle and demean other people. 

But I am sure that the The Princess of the Rocky Mountains has no such issues doing it to others. Which brings me to my other point. What is this obsession that The Princess of the Rocky Mountains has with moi, and my tweets? I am quite flattered, but if I were to be with another woman other than my wife, I would want someone less manly.

According to sources close with a big, big teachers event in some capital of a country, The Princess of the Rocky Mountains did what she could to bogart the committee of a big, big teachers event in some capital of a country. That her prissy and controlling attitude was anathema to those and some felt her dangerous. In fact, Fletcher Christian ain't got nothing on The Princess of the Rocky Mountains.

But this is what one would expect from a prissy, control freak, angry Princess of the Rocky Mountains. The Princess of the Rocky Mountains leads a live of entitlement, what else can you expect from someone who was Main Lined?

What else makes you think why the The Princess of the Rocky Mountains is no longer in education, and has saw the dreams of becoming a principal squashed.

Is The Princess of the Rocky Mountains someone we want in our foxhole fighting against the deformers? At what point will the The Princess of the Rocky Mountains decide unilaterally that someone is expendable and throw that person under the bus?

The Princess of the Rocky Mountains is in it only for The Princess of the Rocky Mountains. The Princess of the Rocky Mountains has no substance, no real beliefs, no reality other than what The Princess of the Rocky Mountains creates.