The New York Times article, “New York City Redeploys Its Sidelined Teachers” (Aug 19 issue) is sometimes misleading and, what is more important, lacks context, unnecessarily undermining parents’ confidence in the city’s schools.
From the very first paragraph, the Times’s reporter paints a misleading picture of the members of the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) pool, ascribing their presence in the pool as “in most cases because of disciplinary problems, or bad teaching records, or they had worked in poorly-performing schools that were closed…”
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