The Chancellor Sends Us His Summer Message

Pricey Colleagues,

As we wrap up the school 12 months, I want to just take a second to say thank you and congratulations to everyone at the DOE who manufactured this school 12 months a accomplishment, specially myself and the various family members I have gotten on the NYC gravy educate. From all of us, enable me say it unquestionably beats doing work.

I’ve only been Chancellor for 6 months but in that small period of time of time, we have accomplished a ton with each other. We’ve gotten billions of dollars from the feds, and however managed to reduce the budgets of your educational institutions by thousands and thousands of dollars. We have managed to confound not only the Town Council, but also the Condition Assembly and Senate in their attempts to minimize class sizes. Instead of viewing your class sizes go down, you will almost absolutely check out them explode future year. No skin off my apple, considering that I will be sitting down in my office, performing Whichever.

We successfully navigated the Omicron surge, and cleverly managed to fall the mask mandate in spite of the most contagious strain nonetheless. Absolutely sure, some of you got COVID even if you masked every day, but I in no way got it. Now the mayor did. Let me request you this question—the mayor states when he has swagger, the town has swagger. For that reason, if the mayor has COVID, does the city has COVID? (Just a joke, Eric. Keep that 350K a yr coming, and be sure to never fireplace my brother.)

We’ve refused to cooperate with probable lifeguards, resulting in a dire lack. We are as a substitute embarking on a drowning consciousness marketing campaign. That way, although you’re drowning, you are going to fully grasp completely what’s going on to you correct up till you drown. We have defunding general public schools at the maximum amount given that the wonderful economic downturn. We have lifted rents on stabilized flats by the best stage because Bloomberg.

We declared important initiatives this kind of as the expansion of Gifted & Gifted packages, which might or may well not imply one thing, supplied finances cuts. We created you sit by schooling on dyslexia, for the reason that which is what the mayor has. If your students have some other mastering incapacity, as well negative for them. Let them elect a frigging mayor who shares it. We also produced you sit as a result of an insipid on the net seminar about online privateness, mainly because when and if it’s violated, we intend to blame you. We’ll say, hey, we supplied the education, so it’s not our work, male.

All of these achievements are the result of your tricky function!

In a college procedure as significant as ours, each and every one of you plays a vital position in ensuring that our students are nicely supported and thriving academically and socially. And you superior believe when we max out class measurement, that is gonna be a person hell of a undertaking! Very good issue we have weaseled our way out of each town and condition initiatives to decrease course dimensions, and can save tons of revenue by slashing your budgets. In actuality, in our surveys, when we requested what dad and mom most wanted for their youngsters, it was sensible course sizes. Effectively, screw them and the subway trains they rode in on.

I really feel massive gratitude to be operating together with this kind of sensible and passionate people. If it were being not for you, men and women like me would have to do this get the job done, as opposed to sitting in cozy places of work at Tweed counting my blessings and paper clips I will glance for your guidance and feedback, and imagine me, I will give it beneficial lip service at each and every opportunity.

Have a safe and fun summer season. The greatest is but to occur as we advance towards the 2022-23 university calendar year! Wait around until finally you see what surprises the mayor and I have in retail store for you, UFT!

Soaring high,

Mister Chancellor David C. Banks