Posted by finelinebob on September 7, 2006, at 23:09:32
In reply to Work, stress, self esteem, posted by rfs on September 3, 2006, at 18:28:23
> Any suggestions
Organize.
Are school psychologists in the union? Get your fellow SPs together and talk to your steward. Any sympathetic parents? Get them involved. If you teach in a Democratic ward, get the council member, state rep and state senator involved. Get everyone worked up enough to have a rally about the state of children-at-risk because of what Bloomberg is doing to the schools.Then call NY1 and let them know when and where it's going to take place, and who's gonna be there.
You think a CNN affiliate wouldn't LOVE to take Mr. Bloomberg News down a few notches?
But organize. I **know** there's a state association for school psychiatrists -- my best friend back when I was on Fordham's faculty was president of it one year. There has to be a NYC chapter. You think other SPs in NYC don't feel like you do?
If I was in your position, I know **I** wouldn't be able to do all this. That's why you need co-conspirators, partners-in-er-um-crime-(figuratively, not literally), colleagues. Unions. Professional organizations.
If there's an avalanche out there waiting to drop, all it takes is a little yodel in the right direction.
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