New York City teacherlost his job thanks tocontroversial budget cutsand at another school I'm struggling to find a job.
Park Slope's music teacher, Paul Trust, is let go of him and other music instructors at the Brooklyn school.
"Currently, there is no music program next year," Trust said. "I don't know if the school didn't have a music program."
Some of the booted teachers aren't exactly in the wheelhouse, but they're finding new positions.
At Brooklyn Elementary School, which has a bilingual program, two teachers who were otherwise abandoned were vacant for kindergarten learners of English and Spanish.
The problem is that neither teacher speaks Spanish.
"It's not uncommon for people to teach off-campus," said another teacher in the program. "But it is unusual to teach a bilingual program and not speak Spanish."
The school principal acted so that the evacuated teachers did not have to go elsewhere, sources said.
Municipal Ministry of Education officials tell the post the exact number of teachers recently dismissed or "excessed" from Big Apple schools due to budget cuts due to lower enrollments. did not. Past years.
Some members of the city councilhave removed education cuts —despite voting to approve them as part of Big Apple's overall budget ..
School Secretary David Banks is finally in the press The week insisting on the roundtable, "We expect all those extra teachers to come to pick us up," or soon be assigned to another post.
"There are hundreds of teachers in excess. We plan to hire thousands of teachers this year," he said.
However, some "excessive" teachers, and the city's school supervisors and managers' council, say that no matter what the bank claims, fewer people will be hired than usual. He said he was expecting it.
Currently, DOE is in the current "excessive" employee placement. We are working on vacant lots instead of hiring external candidates.
"Excessive teachers" are still paid by taxpayers, at least for now.
"Excessive teachers will be picked up first, many of them will be picked up in the coming weeks," the bank claimed.
Department manager, Nathaniel Styer, and more , "This is done so that the system can continue to teach talent.
" Every year, we regularly monitor vacancies and excesses and if necessary We will adjust recruitment restrictions so that all schools have qualified teachers in September, "he said.
Meanwhile, trusts and other internal candidates who have not yet posted are currently applying for positions at schools in the city.
"It's a little scary to do a preliminary survey," Trust said. "There seem to be a lot of candidates for very few positions because of this budget situation ... and art is always the first thing to go."
Former 75 Mortons in West Village, Manhattan. Jessica Beck, a junior high school English teacher, secured the next gig through the process, but said teachers were not exchangeable with the school community.
"I'm thinking of the children who have left," Beck said. "There are students who worked hard to build relationships. Some of them went up the wall soon after hearing that I was about to leave. Some of them cried. Some asked junior high school questions such as "Why can't I be another teacher?"
"They need some stability, which shakes their world to lose the adults they have built trust in," she said.
Beck's teacher, who has 18 years of experience, but only a few years at Big Apple's public school, said he was fired based on seniority. She said she was told that the school would lose a total of 12 or 13 positions.
Educators said it was up to the principal to make difficult decisions about who would go.
"I don't tell any principal what the teacher does," Banks said. "We simply say,'This is your budget,' and the decision about who goes and who stays is made by the principal of the school.
School managers are doing what they can to keep teachers on staff, sources said.
At Brooklyn Elementary School, which has a bilingual education for children, the teachers who attended the program sympathized with the principal and decided to have two non-Spanish teachers with her. did.
She said, "Principals are being forced into this position. I don't think the principal is deliberately undermining this program."
Meanwhile, the Trust wondered what would happen to the school's new drums if the staff didn't use the drums.
"They were used a bit because I used them for graduation," he said.
"But now they are stored in the closet, and no one knows when they will come out again if we aren't there."
