Gothamist: Not All Schools Were Created with Equal Parking for Teachers

JanetG

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:22:45 -0500

Until now, teachers with permits still weren't guaranteed a spot, and many would arrive at school at or about 7 AM (when the spaces open up) so as to get one. The plan to give each school only the number of permits as there are spots is going to have an unintended consequence: lots of teachers won't be donating that extra hour+ to the DOE every morning.

rachelblue

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:23:26 -0500

I teach in NYC. Many teachers at my school commute from Long Island, where they live, because it is next to impossible to get a teaching job on the Island. We don't give out any parking passes at my school...and I build an extra half-hour into my commute every morning to look for parking around my school. And I still manage to be in my office every morning by 7 am.

mhmath

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:06:45 -0500

I think people forget that many teachers don't live in the city because of the high cost of living and therefore commute by car from Jersey or some other far off places. For the ignorant commentators, unless you've been in a classroom full-time (not, 'oh, I know what it's like to teach.. I was a teacher's assistant when I was in college) in NYC, I suggest you all SHOVE IT.

EricRoberts

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:39:50 -0500

I am all for them revoking parking spaces for teachers, but there are a lot of aspects of teaching in the city that are absolutely terrible. For instance, the bureaucratic, incompetent, Duane Reade-like apathy that permeates human resources.

HughGass

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:17:26 -0500

"Someone call Tom Berenger." ????????????? Someone call Jim Belushi!! What's wrong with you.

JMH

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:12:17 -0500

glennQNYC - that's a fair point, but as I understand it, in many cases they're seen as an unofficial fringe benefit that's not listed as part of the compensation package. If it is, they should at least be paying income tax on the fair market value of parking in the city.

glennQNYC

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:02:13 -0500

If the permit was offered during the hiring process, I'd consider the "stripping away" of my parking permit a reduction in my compensation package!

Spiritof76

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:46:49 -0500

One block? The teachers wouldn't walk one block because it's unsafe? Why, in my day during the beginning of each semester before they issue subway passes, I would walk three miles to my high school through some pretty rough neighborhoods. In six feet of snow. Uphill. Both ways. Okay, only the first sentence was true.

LinkMan

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:28:46 -0500

In my neighborhood the teachers (or somebody) vandalized the signs near one of the schools so that they could get more parking spots. I haven't seen the DOT fix the signs yet.

mattcarman

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:01:07 -0500

Someone call Tom Berenger.

IvoryJive

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:58:04 -0500

I think the streets in the neighborhood might actually be safer if the teachers were walking around

arsguide

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:25:51 -0500

someone with time should pull up a statistic of how many teachers and or random people have been shot in that area during school hours....I bet its NONE or near abouts.

slyseekr

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:00:52 -0500

50,000 less cars on the road sounds pretty good to me! Plus, teachers should be more concerned about the other qualities of their jobs... such as how well they're educating their students. I'd imagine after some time, they'd be less worried about actually being shot coming out of the subway.

arsguide

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:55:21 -0500

teachers feel so entitled - there should be no special parking by schools its not a hospital, its not a fire department, if I can look for parking so can these teachers...