SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL

 The APPR travails continue.  When last I blogged I shared how my principal, XXXXXXXX XXXXX of PS XXX did an end run around me. I was refused to be observed and rated through Advance. But, ho...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/07/lying-liars-of-nyc-doe.html

I just got rated U for the year. Here's the backstory. I had an accommodation for this year. Working with small groups. OK. I filed the proper paperwork with SOLAS and HR kicked it to the princ...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/06/open-letter-to-my-2022-23-principal.html

 Many don't know that Mike Mulgrew is an avid theater fan. And still many are unaware that Mulgrew leads a theater company known as "Mulgrew & Company." In fact, Mulgrew must always have the le...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/04/springtime-for-mulgrew-mike-mulgrew.html

 This is a repost. Figured since I'm on a roll with concert reviews why not revisit this concert? And I want to blog and still recovering from surgery on wrist and elbow and typing is a PIA. I...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-tribute-to-kings.html

 Sometime ago The Crack Team secretly embedded a microphone on Mike Mulgrew to get a first hand account of healthcare negotiations, meetings with members, and other inanity. This microphone was...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/04/mike-mulgrew-pulls-dwight-schrute.html

With all this talk of Mulgrewcare going on, the alternatives were never discussed. The Crack Team has come across information that Mike Mulgrew had seriously considered, in concert with Mayor Ad...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/04/pray-retirees-illnesses-and-maladies.html

 I had surgery on my left wrist and elbow yesterday so writing big long blog posts are not easy right now. However, I turned to OpenAI to write an essay in the voice of Mr Mackey from South Pa...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/04/why-uft-is-weak-by-guest-blogger-mr.html

I am at the Rivers Casino in Schenectady with some friends this weekend. Just finished watching FAU (I won some money!) go to the final four and went to my room due to having a thought about Mi...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/03/thoughts-on-mulgrew-whilst-at-casino-in.html

 On July 13 of lat year I had the privilege to see Jackson Browne  live for the first time ever.  The venue was the Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater  in Bridgeport CT. The venue was a for...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/03/take-it-easy_24.html

 Dear el Presidenté Mulgrew: Since you have unilaterally decided that those retirees 65 and over will be forced to into Mulgrewcare for their golden years, I have several questions and concer...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/03/dear-mike-mulgrew-will-i-die-become.html

 I might have found a calling for when I retire. I am going to review rock shows as a living. At least I'll finally have some fun working.  This review is a long time coming.  This past Se...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/03/mesh-and-lace-modern-english.html

Since the pandemic ended I have been on a big live music kick. The spring of 2020 I was planning on seeing Primus, The Pretenders, Hall and Oates, and Sammy Hagar and the Circle that summer. Wel...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/03/john-lodge-of-moody-blues.html

I just can't wait to get on Medicare (Dis)advantage with the issues I've been having with Emblem GHI the last month or so. BTW, that was sarcasm. About a year ago I was waking up, as well as re...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/02/look-what-ghi-is-doing-to-my-hand.html

 It seems that DC 37 has set the bargain for us all. Thank you DC 37! But is it all for naught? As per James Eterno's blog and The Cit y DC 37 agreed raises of: MAY 26, 2021: 3.00%  MAY ...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/02/dc-37-settled-what-next-for-uft-members.html

For those unaware there is an upcoming UFT Solidarity meeting this Thursday night, January 6, 2023 7 PM EST. The meeting is through Zoom. Here is the link .

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2023/01/next-uft-solidarity-meeting.html

 I got to give Mike Mulgrew credit for one thing. This passion he is showing to get his way with taking away the rights (and eventually the lives) of retired teachers shows that he can be passi...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2022/12/mulgrewcare-thoughts.html

 This story came to the SBSB news desk. This story just happens to come from the same school Lunch Teacher  where the ridiculousness happens non-stop.  Before I continue, I want to emphasiz...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2022/11/you-wont-believe-what-happened-to-this.html

My two cents on this health care thingy. Yes, it has been a while since I have last blogged, but I have been doing a lot of contemplation.   Here's my two cents: Mulgrew is full of shit and ...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2022/11/mulgrews-latest-bs.html

Back on July 3, 2022, I introduced to those who read this blog the new superintendent and overlord of District 7, Roberto Padilla. Just last week, the rather "everything the DOE does is good"...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2022/09/exclusive-first-time-publicly-civil.html

 So last when I blogged I shared how I got written up , with a week left in the school year, for telling a student that I will call home. Today I would like to share the contents of the letter...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-bullshit-meter.html

 On or about June 13, 2022, I received a 48 hour notice to meet with my principal concerning..."VERBAL ABUSE." For several days I wrecked my brain trying to figure out what I could have said. M...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2022/07/calling-home-can-be-career-ending.html

 I wish I could make this shit up. This is so inane.  Last month there was a mass prep that I covered. It was a beautiful outside. What a gift for the students as well as the staff covering t...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2022/06/shit-that-cant-be-made-up-part-3456900.html

 One more thing I want to add in regard to my most recent blog post of June 9 . There is one thing I did not get off my chest.  This accusation... > THAT I HAVE BAD MOUTHED COLLEAGUES...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-comedy-of-so-called-comity.html

 I've wrote a couple of posts in the last month or so about liars and talking smack behind one's back.  In fact I shared about how SBSB super groupie Trixie and how someone went behind her ba...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2022/06/dont-be-pinocchio.html

 Last year I was excited and looking forward to the end of the school year. For those that didn't know or are new readers to the blog, I was excitedly counting down the days to the last day . I...

http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-semi-stream-of-conciousness-about.html