The Chancellor Sends Us His Summer Message

Pricey Colleagues,

As we wrap up the school calendar year, I want to acquire a minute to say thank you and congratulations to everyone at the DOE who produced this college 12 months a accomplishment, specifically myself and the several family associates I have gotten on the NYC gravy practice. From all of us, permit me say it surely beats operating.

I’ve only been Chancellor for 6 months but in that short interval of time, we’ve accomplished a lot with each other. We have gotten billions of bucks from the feds, and nevertheless managed to minimize the budgets of your educational institutions by millions of dollars. We have managed to confound not only the City Council, but also the State Assembly and Senate in their attempts to minimize class dimensions. As an alternative of observing your course sizes go down, you’ll virtually definitely look at them explode next 12 months. No skin off my apple, considering the fact that I’ll be sitting down in my workplace, carrying out No matter what.

We efficiently navigated the Omicron surge, and cleverly managed to drop the mask mandate even with the most contagious strain nonetheless. Certain, some of you received COVID even if you masked just about every day, but I by no means received it. Now the mayor did. Permit me talk to you this question—the mayor says when he has swagger, the town has swagger. Therefore, if the mayor has COVID, does the town has COVID? (Just a joke, Eric. Continue to keep that 350K a year coming, and please never fire my brother.)

We’ve refused to cooperate with probable lifeguards, ensuing in a dire scarcity. We are alternatively embarking on a drowning awareness marketing campaign. That way, though you are drowning, you are going to understand completely what is happening to you proper up until you drown. We have defunding general public educational facilities at the optimum level since the excellent economic downturn. We have elevated rents on stabilized flats by the maximum level due to the fact Bloomberg.

We declared vital initiatives this kind of as the expansion of Gifted & Gifted programs, which could or may well not mean anything, presented spending budget cuts. We produced you sit via schooling on dyslexia, for the reason that that is what the mayor has. If your learners have some other learning disability, way too negative for them. Enable them elect a frigging mayor who shares it. We also produced you sit by an insipid on line seminar about on-line privacy, simply because when and if it’s violated, we intend to blame you. We’ll say, hey, we presented the teaching, so it’s not our job, person.

All of these accomplishments are the outcome of your tough work!

In a school system as massive as ours, each and every one of you performs a vital role in ensuring that our learners are well supported and thriving academically and socially. And you improved feel when we max out course measurement, which is gonna be one particular hell of a job! Superior issue we’ve weaseled our way out of both equally metropolis and state efforts to decrease course measurements, and can help you save tons of money by slashing your budgets. In simple fact, in our surveys, when we asked what mom and dad most preferred for their kids, it was sensible course dimensions. Well, screw them and the subway trains they rode in on.

I sense huge gratitude to be operating along with this kind of intelligent and passionate people. If it ended up not for you, folks like me would have to do this get the job done, as opposed to sitting in comfortable places of work at Tweed counting my blessings and paper clips I will glimpse for your steerage and feedback, and think me, I will give it useful lip support at every prospect.

Have a secure and exciting summertime. The ideal is still to appear as we advance towards the 2022-23 faculty year! Wait until eventually you see what surprises the mayor and I have in retail store for you, UFT!

Soaring higher,

Mister Chancellor David C. Banking companies