The Chancellor Sends Us His Summer Message

Expensive Colleagues,

As we wrap up the school year, I want to acquire a moment to say thank you and congratulations to everyone at the DOE who produced this school 12 months a accomplishment, especially myself and the different spouse and children associates I have gotten on the NYC gravy practice. From all of us, enable me say it undoubtedly beats doing the job.

I have only been Chancellor for six months but in that short time period of time, we’ve attained a whole lot together. We’ve gotten billions of bucks from the feds, and nonetheless managed to reduce the budgets of your universities by hundreds of thousands of dollars. We have managed to confound not only the Metropolis Council, but also the State Assembly and Senate in their initiatives to reduce course measurements. In its place of viewing your class sizes go down, you are going to virtually undoubtedly watch them explode upcoming year. No skin off my apple, due to the fact I’ll be sitting down in my business office, undertaking Whatever.

We effectively navigated the Omicron surge, and cleverly managed to fall the mask mandate despite the most contagious pressure however. Certain, some of you got COVID even if you masked every single day, but I by no means got it. Now the mayor did. Enable me check with you this question—the mayor claims when he has swagger, the city has swagger. Therefore, if the mayor has COVID, does the town has COVID? (Just a joke, Eric. Retain that 350K a 12 months coming, and make sure you really do not fireplace my brother.)

We have refused to cooperate with potential lifeguards, resulting in a dire shortage. We are instead embarking upon a drowning awareness marketing campaign. That way, although you’re drowning, you are going to fully grasp entirely what is occurring to you suitable up right up until you drown. We’ve defunding public universities at the highest fee since the wonderful recession. We’ve elevated rents on stabilized residences by the best stage given that Bloomberg.

We introduced essential initiatives these types of as the expansion of Gifted & Proficient programs, which might or may well not necessarily mean some thing, given price range cuts. We built you sit through education on dyslexia, because that’s what the mayor has. If your students have some other learning disability, too poor for them. Permit them elect a frigging mayor who shares it. We also made you sit by an insipid on-line seminar about on-line privateness, due to the fact when and if it is violated, we intend to blame you. We’ll say, hey, we presented the education, so it is not our position, person.

All of these accomplishments are the end result of your hard operate!

In a faculty program as massive as ours, each and every one of you plays a important part in ensuring that our learners are well supported and thriving academically and socially. And you superior think when we max out class measurement, that is gonna be 1 hell of a activity! Superior thing we’ve weaseled our way out of equally metropolis and state initiatives to lessen class measurements, and can save tons of income by slashing your budgets. In fact, in our surveys, when we questioned what moms and dads most wished for their children, it was realistic class sizes. Very well, screw them and the subway trains they rode in on.

I come to feel tremendous gratitude to be working along with these sensible and passionate people. If it were being not for you, men and women like me would have to do this work, as opposed to sitting down in at ease workplaces at Tweed counting my blessings and paper clips I will glimpse for your advice and feedback, and believe me, I will give it valuable lip service at each opportunity.

Have a risk-free and enjoyable summertime. The ideal is however to occur as we advance toward the 2022-23 university yr! Wait until eventually you see what surprises the mayor and I have in shop for you, UFT!

Soaring higher,

Mister Chancellor David C. Banking companies