I live literal feet from the 7 train right outside of Court Square. I see these kids all the time on the roof of the train while I'm sitting on my couch. We live on the third floor and at eye level with these kids. I'm dreading the day one falls 30 feet and dies on our street

Charter School teachers don't need to be certified.

I feel like people here think Success Academy is the only Charter. Many of them are not like that

Lol.

Yeah, if demand based content bothers you, stick to AP

Too many people just think "landlords and the rich " can cover it

They're allowed to report on more than one thing at once. You know that right?

They also get a lot of skilled workers because of the commonwealth.

Are you talking about me? My wife's parents were illegal immigrants.

Edit-lol you deleted your comment

Immigrants are different than illegal immigrants.

Let's see how Canada handles a massive influx of illegal immigrants

Especially if you left your family back home. You can't claim to fear for your life if you're fine with leaving your children there

Especially if you left your family back home. You can't claim to fear for your life if you're fine with leaving your children there

It became less relevant because of encroaching Germanic invaders. I don't agree with the previous comment that it was because of immigration, though.

It's kinda funny how much dehumanizing people do that are defending this, without even knowing. Assuming that all of them are from warzones and are only safe in the US.

There's a reason so many towns in Central America have so few men. They all come here to make money to send to their family. That's fine, but if the situation was really that dire, they wouldn't leave their children there.

I grew up in Sf and hope nyc doesn't become like that. The reason it can be so hyper liberal is that you have to be rich to live there. All the super progressives are so generous with their ideology because the thought of needing public assistance themselves never enters the equation. It's just something to pat themselves on the back. They don't care HOW these programs are run because their empathy is fake and they feel above it

Two things can be wrong at once.

I didn't blame the workers. Them not being there likely contributed to the death of the newborn, but they are striking and that's completely not their fault. You're making sweeping generalizations about what a management team is given the power to do and oversimplifying the process of reallocation of staff and funds. Especially when we're talking about highly specialized departments

Sounds like you're unwilling to entertain the idea that this issue might be more complex than "management bad and greedy." I provided several reasons why this goes beyond management not having the foresight to hire temporary nurses in anticipation for the strike. You just chose to immediately downvote and disregard what I said. If someone provides an argument against your points and all you can say is I'm wrong, you clearly aren't very confident in what you're saying.

Seriously. Do you read my comments, or do you just wait for a response so you can say the same thing again?

It is a tough place to be in. I agree. I just don't know if the maternity ward is the top priority in terms of vulnerable patients. Had the cancer center been understaffed and someone died, people blaming management would say they should have reallocated staff there, then the maternity ward would be understaffed. I'm having trouble understanding why the concept of limited resources is so difficult to grasp for people in this thread.

I don't think you read what I wrote, and you repeated what was said before. The argument you're making essentially says that there is an unlimited amount of nurses ready to work, and the hospital has the budget to hire at a premium. I'm assuming the follow up argument will be that the hospital should stop paying administration so much, but that isn't what we are talking about.

Should there be fundamental changes in the pay structure in these hospitals? Probably. Is that relevant? No. Management doesn't just manage its staff, it manages its budget and is working with its limited funds to find replacement staffing. They don't have the power to just pay temporary staff whatever they want. If it goes over budget, that's an issue that is blamed on management. What exactly are they supposed to do if they are unable to staff departments with the budget they have allocated for them. And no, the answer isn't "change the budget." That falls on the board who set the relatively inflexible budget for the year.

Like the entire maternity ward? If you try hard enough, you can blame anything on management, since theyre...you know...managing.

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. It seems like even mentioning the fact that theyre short staffed is perceived at criticism towards the nurses on this sub.

The fact of the matter is that striking is meant to disrupt the normal operations flow. It did, and a baby died from it. I'm sorry, but it's absurd to say "well, management should have hired nurses then!". Staffing issues aren't that simple. Yes, the strike was likely the cause of this babies death, but that doesn't mean it's the nurses fault. It's their right to strike, and in an industry like Healthcare, it should be very clear that it likely results in unnecessary deaths.

Yay less drinking water!!!