Fellow-ette's getting reckless
On Friday, day 3 of the "practice regents" we have been giving our sophomores, and coincidentally fellow-ette's birthday (now you know another piece of my identity. congratulations. go f*ck yourself). During the day, fellowette began sneezing, coughing, and feeling ill. Because of her weakness/usual incompetence, she had a very hard time keeping her students from celebrating her birthday FOR HER. She went home running about 102 degrees (see below) and swearing never to darken the door of baby Rikers (i.e her PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT) again. She kept that promise until (she assumes) tomorrow morning, when she returns to work with a normal temperature and a giant cavity where the chip on her shoulder used to be. Despite the birthday, she feels too young to be this grumpy.
Labels: Teaching from the trenches
posted by SarahMarian at 6:14 PM
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Followers of this site will do well to pick up the latest edition (Feb 20) of New York Magazine.
Read the "Save A School, The Hedge Fund Solution", article. All about P.S. 65 in Queens and how Joel Greenblatt shows you can take one of the worst performing schools in the city and turn it into a winner with only an extra $1,000 per student.
This school's students are mainly poor South American and South Asian immigrants. The school is housed in a former airplane parts factory. It is run by Beth Longo and formerly run by Iris Nelson.
Greenblatt is a wealthy Wall Streeter who runs a hedge fund -- Gotham Capital.
His second foray into running schools has taken him to Harlem Success Academy, a charter school in Harlem. Iris Nelson has been hired as a consultant and the executive director of the school is Eva Moskowitz.
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