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Thursday, December 20, 2012

NYC Educator: UFT Comes to Tentative Agreement Over Evaluations

NYC Educator: UFT Comes to Tentative Agreement Over Evaluations:


UFT Comes to Tentative Agreement Over Evaluations

UFT President Michael Mulgrew announced that, despite the preposterous demands of Tweed, there may be a road to a new evaluation process after all.

"As you know," stated President Mulgrew, "there's been a lot of talk about arming teachers. We've seen this come up, most recently in Michigan, and we think there may be a compromise here. You've probably heard the expression an armed society is a polite society. We at the UFT believe that an armed teacher may inspire a polite administrator."

An administrator, speaking on conditions of anonymity, told us, "I'm not giving a bad evaluation to an armed teacher. If I think some teacher is crazy, and that teacher has a gun, I'll just give a good rating and