I'm really confused I don't know what to do.

I'm in a grumpy mood today. Vacation is over and I am hitting a new school tomorrow. I needed a pick me up, something to get me laughing.

I decided to head on over to the UFT Solidarity Facebook page for some humor and boy did I find it but it left me so confused.


UFT Solidarity was having a happy hour/recruitment drive for all it's followers and future devotees on February 12. But something strange occurred. Not many people showed up.

In fact by the looks of things Abe Vigoda and Bozo showed. Well, not really. There is a policy here not to show the faces of UFT members so we decided to redact those mugs with Mr Vigoda and Mr The Clown.



Notice anything strange? Other than Abe Vigoda's face and the fact that he can't possibly be in Brooklyn because he is dead?

Yeah, all of the pictured (See original) are UFT Solidarity members as well as the officers running and hoping (PRAYING?) to get on the ballot. As we can see with the looks on Abe Vigoda's face this was not a very happy hour.

We here at SBSB have heard that UFT Solidarity is growing exponentially through the roof that UFT members are clamoring across the city to get some of that UFT Solidarity action and mojo.

Could it be that we heard wrong? We are so confused. The number of parents opting out through UFT Solidarity are mind boggling!!!

Just a little over a week ago on the UFT Solidarity Facebook page this was posted;


Four hundred parents is quite a lot. But just three days later it was reported on the ICE blog by Francesco Portelos himself (In what many are calling a major meltdown) that 100 more (Pardon the pun!) parents have signed onto the UFT Solidarity Opt-Out Nebulizer special thingy thing (Click to enlarge).


WOW! A 25 percent increase in just 72 hours. Using that math as well as pattern, and I am no math major, in 9 days that would equate to over 200 more parents signing up on the Special Super Duper UFT Opt Out Thingy. Wouldn't it? Let's do the math. What are today's numbers? Should be over 700 hundred, no? Ringo, Drum roll please.......





Dang. Still 500 members. We will give Portelos some kudos to sticking to his new story, but demerits on the reality his story entails.

This is just par for the course with Portelos and UFT Solidarity ends. The creation of their own reality in which their truth differs what from is happening around them. Those affiliated with Portelos and UFT Solidarity, it is not too late to break free and open your eyes. Think it out. Where does truth and make believe become the same? We here at SBSB understand that you might be scared to leave seeing what Portelos has done to others who have dared to question him.


To those on the fence and thinking about following UFT Solidarity, be wary, keep your guard up. As you can see above not many people care, or in particular, know about UFT Solidarity. You need to not only do what is best for yourself but for that teacher coming in after you. UFT Solidarity is not the way.

It can't be the way when it relies on one person, one mind to lead it and to make decisions. It can't be the way when people are too frightened to speak up and it certainly can't be the way when their is misinformation and fuzzy math.

A UFT caucus should not be dependent on any one personality, it should be dependent on it's members, it's ideas, it's principles,  and it's humanity.

Sadly, UFT Solidarity comes up empty time and time again. 

 More from the "You can't make this shit up department."

Oh my God! The wheels are falling completely off the bus at The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School. The fail is going to be epic, but unseen by those with their heads so deeply buried in the ground or the (CENSORED) sphincter.

How nutty have things gotten? The shit just gets crazier by the day!

A student, one of the oldest students at The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School, but for the sake of the blog we shall call him Abe Vigoda turned and ratted out a teacher, who we shall call Phil Esposito.

Now Abe is the type that never ever stays in his classroom, goes where he is supposed to be, or follows any rules but his. The (CENSORED) is scared of him, or worse, has given up dealing with him. Now this has not been going on just this year. It has been like this for Abe Vigoda at The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School for 4 years! Four years of getting away, and knowing he is getting away, with anything and everything.

Now there is a teacher at The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School, for the blog we shall call him Phil Esposito. Now Phil is a pretty decent guy, a good teacher, and has gone above and beyond for Abe numerous times in the past. But sadly, it has come to an end.

A while back Phil got a letter from of office of Equal Opportunity, or something like that, requesting a meeting with that office and a UFT rep. Why? Seems Phil was being accused of sexual harrassment. 

Phil Esposito wracked his brain trying to come up with whom he sexually harassed, or something that perhaps he said that was taken the wrong way. Nothing came to mind, not even when his UFT rep called him to tell him that all he was being investigated for was that he told a female student that she was wearing a nice dress.   

So he finally schleps out to Brooklyn for the meeting. Even the rep from EOE, whatever agency, tells him and the UFT rep this accusation is a joke and that he had nothing to be concerned with.

But, Phil Esposito did find out that it was Abe Vigoda that made the complaint. Now conjecture would lead one to believe that either (CENSORED) encouraged Abe to make the phone call (Which the Crack Team highly doubts) and complaint, or even more worrisome, that Abe Vigoda made the phone call on his on from his own home. 

There are any number of reasons why Abe did this. First and foremost is that Abe knows he can do and get away with anything he wants, whenever he wants. That is the culture of The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School. As long as he his happy, we all are happy. Just like that Twilight Zone episode with Bill Mumy.

But Abe Vigoda has the run of The Happy Good Time Emotion Response Place and School and he knows it and takes full advantage of it. But as long as he is happy and everyone else is miserable, well, that is all that matters.