tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post1650754951212338598..comments2023-12-19T16:54:31.953-05:00Comments on SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: The Mistake Major Nelson MadePete Zuckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16708676684946013529noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-87185932351682975672012-02-08T04:47:21.017-05:002012-02-08T04:47:21.017-05:00I feel a strange connection to this post.
Larry H...I feel a strange connection to this post.<br /><br />Larry Hagman played Ed Gibson on the live CBS soap opera, "The Edge of Night," from 1961 to 1963. I was in elementary school at the time and watched the show religiously. It aired late in the afternoon.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEMPg8teLyI<br /><br />I met Barbara Eden in the early 1990s at Limelight disco in Manhattan. She was being honored with the "Nightlife Award."<br /><br />www.barbaraeden.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515738343772337569.post-21621971131013578532012-02-08T00:08:27.660-05:002012-02-08T00:08:27.660-05:00If we take an organizational look at the DOE, I th...If we take an organizational look at the DOE, I think we will find that 'networks' are the component that permits and even supports school failure. Yes, networks do perform some business functions, but in the Bloomberg scheme they have usurped the roles of School District Superintendents, especially in the area of quality control for schools. With them it is all politics since keeping their positions depends on politics.<br /><br />When the 'Mayoral Control Law' was updated, the legislature attempted to restore some power to District Superintendencies. The mayor pretty much laughed in their faces. He starved the offices of District Superintendents by underfunding them. In the case of Comprehensive Educational Plans for schools, the DOE chose to ignore the law and have them submitted to networks.<br /><br />The icebergs that may sink our schools are not natural but man made. They are steered by a skinny little man intent on destroying any school which stands in the way of his plans for charter schools or new high schools. Networks create the fog needed to obscure his course. Their only other role is to support Bloomberg's stooge Principals in their attacks on teachers and school communities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com