Parking for NYC Teachers

NYC Teachers have been denied the number of parking permits needed to accomodate all staff staff members who drive in (many from long distances) to do a thankless job. Under the new regime created by Mayor Bloomeburg, schools all over the city have been allocated a mere ten parking permits per school building. This has caused much trouble and has put a strain on many a teacher's budget (due to tickets and garage fees). We need to stand behind our teachers and accommodate all of those, ( who commute, what at times seems like endless hours) and who willingly come in early(without compensation) to prepare to help our children succeed. only to arrive at their school sites and be forced to drive around (sometimes in unsafe neighborhoods) in circles looking for parking instead of getting into school building early as intended and using this donated time to make certain the day's lessons are appropriate for all students or modify if not. I believe that teachers (in spite of all the negative perception) play a huge role in nurturing and molding future citizens. Teachers face countless of barriers in this endeavor and parking shouldn't be yet another distraction to this end. Please support our teachers and help alleviate this un necessary distraction.