Cathleen Black Is Out as City Schools Chancellor

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Cathleen Black stepped down as New York City school Chancellor last week after NYC's mayor Michael Bloomberg urged her to resign after being in the position for only several months.  Black originally worked as a chairwomen for Hearest Magazines.  The position of school chancellor will be filled now by Joel Kline who is a formal federal prosecutor but has worked in the past as a chancellor for over 8 years.  Kline has been involved in many of the education system for many years and informed on what should be happening and is a fighter for kids.
We discussed thing issue a bit in class last week and the topic of being asked to resign or getting the letter that you won't be coming back in the fall.  It is something that every teacher worries about for months coming up to the time it happens.  I can already see myself not sleeping because I won't know if I will have a job.  With the economy like it is today it is so hard to find a job that it's the scariest thing in the world.  I watched my father who is very well educated and has a incredible resume and portfolio get laid off his job he had been at for 25 years.  Then he struggled with and is still struggling with getting a job that was equal to what he was at.
I don't think that a employer should ever urge you to resign but in many occurrences that is the case.  It is easier for them to do that then coming up with an excuse to fire you.  In the long run you know you are basically being fired and that is what will hit you emotionally.  There just isn't that word after your name "Terminated."   In cases like the one this story has it is very clear that the education system in NYC needed some help.  But I still don't understand why they would hire someone like Black when she had no experience in the first place in such a large education system like New York City.