Comments on: The Newark Teachers’ Union Infuriating Ad Campaign

By: Rushing to Your Death? | The Daily Newarker

Rushing to Your Death? | The Daily Newarker — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:08:19 +0000

[...] this was the strangest billboard I’d seen in Newark — goodness knows, we’ve had our fair share of odd ones — but, it certainly had the effect of puzzling my wife and I on our way into the [...]

By: charles

charles — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:23:55 +0000

Shine the light NTU, shine the light.

By: charles

charles — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:19:56 +0000

Dear IB resident:
I agree that Teach 4 America is questionable. Let me remind you that they are people not from here and they come to civilize Newark kids. They don’t stay long enough to become NTU members. They come here, really, to make enough money to pay off their student loans, then they leave. Remember that many of them could not find work in their own communities so they joined Teach 4 America to get it done. Good teachers have always come to Newark when they wanted to make a difference. For every bad example you can give I can give you 10 good examples. Ask kids who the good teachers are. They will tell you that they come early, stay late, call homes, visit homes attend wedding, funerals, and baptisms. They spend from their own pockets and put themselves in harms way to make a difference. They coach,and teach and reteach as many times as is necessary for the weakest to get it, they administer, medicate, parent, and encourage the weakest among us to be a better person. Test scores are not the only measure of good teaching. When is the last time you divided a fraction by another fraction? The NTU is good.

By: charles

charles — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:57:34 +0000

Dear condo owners of 1180 Baymond Blvd:
Too bad you can’t rent those over priced condos, you didn’t ever intend them to be purchased by Newarkers, too bad the money you spent is not returning as quickly as Corey Booker and his pals promised, too bad that the same greed that is crashin Wall Street is the same greed that drives the poor and the uneducated to kill or die trying to succeed, too bad that you are learning what it feels like to be a Newarker.

By: charles

charles — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:40:33 +0000

Keep shining the light Joey Delgrosso. Mayor Booker’s people have the solution to the problem: * Move them out, *shut down low income housing, *raise taxes, *make the city unaffordable to life long residents, *more unfair police tactics, *invasion of public privacy, *take over public schools and set up charter schools to bleed away succeeding students and leave the problems that at-risk and special needs students bring for the public schools to solve,* Close down public schools, *Act like they don’t exist and they will go away to East Orange and Irvington, *Act like people over 50 don’t exist and don’t need jobs,and redevelopement, employment opportunities and retraining, *Whiten up the downtown by any means necessary, * Make Corey Booker bigger than life as the next candidate for county, state or national office, *claim all the successes of previous administrations as your own, *

By: Teacher’s Union Reforms Newton Street School | The Daily Newarker

Teacher’s Union Reforms Newton Street School | The Daily Newarker — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:02:06 +0000

[...] Part of the Solution. Hey, look, it’s a story about the NTU doing something other than political maneuvering. While I’m glad to see the union undergoing some reform at our schools, the priorities of [...]

By: Turning the Page | The Daily Newarker

Turning the Page | The Daily Newarker — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:34:33 +0000

[...] contentious ‘Stop the Killings’ billboards (paid for by the Newark Teachers’ Union) which were plastered throughout the city and drew [...]

By: saint

saint — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:13:54 +0000

The only way the schools will become accountable is if more parents take the same interest in their children as you do, Lady. It’s a shame you had to move out to help your son get ahead, but if the schools don’t shape up, a lot of parents should consider following your example.

By: Lady

Lady — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:46:46 +0000

I was born and resided in Newark mostly all my life. When my son entered Barringer High School in 2005, I saw drastic changes toward my son. My son was not attending school and I was very concerned. To my surprise, my son was absent approximately 45 days in one semester. I found this information because I had called the school. I questioned the secretary as to “Why didn’t anyone called me to inform me of my son’s absenteeism?” Her response was that there was a shortage within the secretarial staff. I was furious because I didn’t receive any calls from any teacher, truant officer, or even from the Principal!!! My solution to my problem was to move out of Newark. I tried every possible solution to find that special someone to make a difference in my son’s life and help him succeed through some coping skills in order to obtain a High School diploma. I am proud to say that he did graduate at another High School. But it saddens me that if I’d stayed in Newark my son would’ve been another statistic of being a “drop-out student”. That’s why when I read the billboard it didn’t surprised me at all.

By: Edward A Steed

Edward A Steed — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:16:21 +0000

If the non-profit org is trying to please the eye…its working. My issue isn’t so much with the NTU spending money on ads when it could’ve went elsewhere, its more like how the ad is presented. HELP STOP THE KILLINGS IN NEWARK seems more like a police crime watch ad. I don’t even recall this ad leaving any kind of contact or any info related. The president said he tried more subtle ways to bring Newark murders to light as if it was some sort of long-standing secret.