Teacher hiring spree isnt about students, its about pandering to the union

This week’s lesson plan is on great numbers, class — we’re getting 3,700 more teachers!But has anyone done the math?In truth, this lesson is not about learning, students, budgets or results — it’s about union power.And it’s about more — more teachers providing more bad instruction in more classrooms to more kids, more of the same.Mayor Adams announced on Wednesday that the New York City Department of Education — the state’s largest single employer, with 76,000 teachers — will hire an additional 3,700 teachers and 100 assistant principals.That’s just for starters.The initial hiring is merely a down payment toward a planned total increase of 17,700 teachers, costing about $1.9 billion annually — which Adams has said for years would be too costly.This extravagant increase is mandated by the controversial maximum class size law that the state legislature passed and Gov.

Hochul signed, ignoring parents’ protests and the DOE’s appalling record — all to pander to the teachers’ union.What could possibly go wrong with this intoxicated hiring spree?Especially when city and state fiscal problems loom, federal funding cuts are expected, and student population is declining.Not to mention the national shortage of qualified teachers that’s making states everywhere dumb down requirements to fill vacancies — what could go wrong with increasing NYC’s teacher ranks by a whopping 23%?Getting new teachers should be easy, as long as quality doesn’t matter.After all, the median New York City teacher salary is over $100,000, before adding generous benefits, vacations, pensions and tenure after four years — plus, no penalty whatsoever if kids don’t learn.(Assistant principals get more, as does the Chancellor, the highest-paid city employee.)But if Adams wants good teachers, he’ll have a big problem finding them.Experienced teachers are quitting the city schools, and qualified candidates are going elsewhere, as widespread left-extremist indoctr...