Inthis story I want to highlight the use of arbitration. I am no expert in this matter and I share below only based on my own experience. There is a reason that so many large corporate players make us sign fine print that binds us to arbitration. This saves our court...
How can the NYCDOE so blatantly ignore the rules while falsely substantiating charges to justify their general claims of my of being “loose with the rules,” an allegation they have failed to substantiate in front of an ‘impartial’ arbitrator? The answer is that they...
One great overriding example how how adult professional bullying is “fuzzy around the corners” as I previously wrote is incompetence. Despite an operating budget of over $25 Billion, the NYCDOE administration is well known for simple incompetence regardless of who the...
I am a high school principal in New York City. Well, kind of. But that’s not the point. The point is that after fifteen years in Education, I have known about the link between reading and writing because some of the best ELA teachers in NYC worked for me and they...
I am torn when thinking of early childhood education. Children’s’ experiences in their first three years of life are the most crucial to their longtime life outcomes. Ideally, all young humans would be allowed to spend those early years with one or more loving...