NYC Educator tells the story: Teachers, denied parking permits, park on the street — legally.
School day starts. City crews show up, post brand new “no parking signs.”
Cops show up. Cops ticket teachers’ cars.
$150 to park for the day.
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Good teachers leave education every day. When I talk to them about it, these little insults boil up, and boil over. The small insults add up. These are the things that, left uncorrected, hammer away at the foundations of education. Does New York respect teachers, and want good schools? Let New York show it.
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More information is needed before specific solutions can be proposed. If I had a dog in the fight (AKA principal of school, school board member, teachers’ union) I might want to know:
1. How many teachers at each school commute and where from? Can I reduce the amount of teachers commuting by promoting a job swap program to locate teachers closer to where they live?
2. Can the PTA take on a share-the-ride project for the school and group potential riders together? Along with that can we reserve some spaces strictly for share-the-ride vehicles?
3. What other parking solutions are available and how do we get that info in the hands of the teachers?
4. What transportation solutions (other than driving) are readily available and how many teachers can switch?
5. If all the above are exhausted, do we still have a large problem at our school? Then let’s go seek an exception and argue our case with information we have gleaned from the other approaches.
Just my initial thoughts.
I am confident that there will be somebody who cannot utilize any proposed solutions but they would be unique situations and may require
a unique solution. Perhaps the nearest neighbor would permit one car to park (in their driveway, hotel parking lot, fast food joint, whatever) if they new the unique nature of the situation and the lack of other alternatives.
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Self-help is legally valid — that’s what Repo Men do.
Do you suggest the teachers put a “No Parking” sign on Mayor Bloomberg’s space, and ticket him?
It seems to me that, since this is a government-created problem, the just solution also involves government.
But simply from an organizational efficiency view, allowing such stuff to happen to teachers hurts kids. Teachers are the people who do the front-line work in our once-declared War on Ignorance. We can’t win without them. We need to keep them happy, satisfied, and motivated.
I’m all ears: What non-governmental solution exists here?
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Need cars in New York City?
I surmise that the teachers live someplace else and commute to NYC. Perhaps that is the root of the problem that should be addressed.
I am not confident that government intervention is desired.
Over and over again, the collective ‘we’ are proposing solutions for specific groups of ‘victims of the system’ when the victim is merely inconvenienced.
Job? Check!
Paid good money? Check!
Equal freedom and workplace opportunity? Check!
Perhaps that is sufficient for teachers who commute to NYC instead of live there.
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