The Hudson City School District (HCSD) has announced a Virtual Job Fair to take place on Friday, April 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The district has openings for these positions:
- Certified teachers
- Clerical staff
- School aides
- Spanish teachers
- STEM teacher
- Substitute teachers
- Student support
- Staff, etc.
It's sad: the new supt. cancels a program that consistently improved literacy -- and cost the taxpayer almost nothing -- but is now spending money hand-over-fist on self-promotion, speeches and powerpoints, and programs with dubious academic merit.
ReplyDeleteThe obvious call to action here is for community members to be more active on the school board. I believe some seats are up this year. Perhaps concerned citizens should think about running.
DeleteJohn, to quote a senior administrator in the New York City School District, "you don't get good schools from parent [community] engagement, you get parent [community] engagement from good schools." Our current board, like many boards, means well but knows nothing about education (specifically, what works and what doesn't work for kids) and thus hires superintendents who know little about education..... I have been an education journalist for over 20 years and have visited lots of school who have Hudson's demographics (high poverty, high diversity) and do outstanding jobs educating (reading, writing, 'rithmetic) their students. What community members have to start doing is demanding that our educators act like educators and take responsibility for educating our kids. --pbm
ReplyDeletePeter Myer, You have done what any greedy, narcissit would do in a situation like this. Turn it on others. Your program is based on a few small but important factors. 1.Objective, Content, Method and Evaluation. In all of those areas your programming is poor and dated. You were given that trough because Maria S. didn't want to deal with you. Notice how quiet you have been until we started to really look at your program 3 years ago and take the necessary steps of determining efficacy. You should go on the wagon and try to get a real job instead of living out of tax payers money. No one on the board has an axe to grind against you. But we do have a duty and a conscience and neither of those are for sale or in fear of your mouth.
ReplyDeleteThis is an appalling comment, in both tone and content, for a member of the School Board to take when speaking to anyone in a public forum, made worse by the miasma of spelling and grammatical errors through which the audience has to pore to make any sense of it. I suspect the writer has some anger management issues of their own to work out.
DeleteSitting through this little screed did inspire me to call HCSD in search of information community members might need if interested in petitioning for a school board seat. The requirement is 100 signatures, due by May 1. Interested parties should contact the District Clerk at 518-828-4360, ext 2101 to pick up a packet with all the necessary info.
Dear poetic justice, I would advise you to take one of our journalism courses so you would know how to get the facts right, starting with spelling my name correctly -- and using yours. Anonymity is no defense from liable, especially from a public figure, which you seem to imply that you are. Is your "we" a real third-person plural? Are you speaking for others? And how is your "duty" different than mine? Or anyone's for that matter?
ReplyDeleteWas that a first round knockout or will there be a round two?
ReplyDeleteThere is a saying in my business--though I don't teach this to the kids: you can tell a good journalist by the friends he/she doesn't have. Would you email me (pbmeyer@verizon.net) so we could have an executive session discussion? Seriously, I would like to revisit some of the facts about that alternative program. thanks --peter m
ReplyDeletep.s. I will learn to spell libel. pbm
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