The Chancellor Sends Us His Summer Message

Pricey Colleagues,

As we wrap up the school yr, I want to choose a second to say thank you and congratulations to absolutely everyone at the DOE who created this university year a success, specifically myself and the various spouse and children customers I’ve gotten on the NYC gravy coach. From all of us, enable me say it definitely beats working.

I’ve only been Chancellor for six months but in that brief period of time of time, we have attained a ton jointly. We’ve gotten billions of pounds from the feds, and however managed to minimize the budgets of your universities by thousands and thousands of bucks. We have managed to confound not only the Town Council, but also the State Assembly and Senate in their efforts to lessen course measurements. As an alternative of viewing your class measurements go down, you are going to pretty much undoubtedly view them explode up coming year. No pores and skin off my apple, because I will be sitting down in my workplace, doing Regardless of what.

We efficiently navigated the Omicron surge, and cleverly managed to drop the mask mandate even with the most contagious strain however. Positive, some of you received COVID even if you masked each and every working day, but I under no circumstances obtained it. Now the mayor did. Allow me ask you this question—the mayor suggests when he has swagger, the metropolis has swagger. Consequently, if the mayor has COVID, does the town has COVID? (Just a joke, Eric. Hold that 350K a 12 months coming, and please never hearth my brother.)

We’ve refused to cooperate with prospective lifeguards, resulting in a dire scarcity. We are instead embarking on a drowning consciousness marketing campaign. That way, though you’re drowning, you’ll have an understanding of entirely what’s taking place to you proper up right until you drown. We have defunding public schools at the highest fee due to the fact the fantastic recession. We have raised rents on stabilized flats by the best stage because Bloomberg.

We introduced crucial initiatives such as the expansion of Gifted & Talented applications, which could or may well not suggest a little something, given spending plan cuts. We created you sit as a result of teaching on dyslexia, simply because which is what the mayor has. If your college students have some other learning incapacity, also lousy for them. Enable them elect a frigging mayor who shares it. We also manufactured you sit by way of an insipid on the web seminar about on-line privateness, since when and if it is violated, we intend to blame you. We’ll say, hey, we provided the teaching, so it’s not our work, man.

All of these achievements are the consequence of your hard operate!

In a faculty system as large as ours, each and every one of you performs a critical role in ensuring that our learners are properly supported and thriving academically and socially. And you superior consider when we max out course size, that is gonna be a single hell of a undertaking! Excellent detail we have weaseled our way out of both town and state attempts to lessen course sizes, and can help you save tons of cash by slashing your budgets. In fact, in our surveys, when we questioned what mother and father most wanted for their young children, it was reasonable class sizes. Effectively, screw them and the subway trains they rode in on.

I come to feel enormous gratitude to be doing the job along with these sensible and passionate people. If it ended up not for you, persons like me would have to do this do the job, as opposed to sitting in cozy offices at Tweed counting my blessings and paper clips I will glance for your steering and responses, and believe me, I will give it worthwhile lip assistance at each individual prospect.

Have a harmless and enjoyable summer. The greatest is however to arrive as we progress toward the 2022-23 college yr! Hold out until eventually you see what surprises the mayor and I have in retail outlet for you, UFT!

Soaring higher,

Mister Chancellor David C. Financial institutions