Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Follow-up to the bully principal case exposed last week by Channel 7 Eyewitness News Team, a brave teacher and other people that came forward.
On February 9, 2015 the media exposed
to the public that an abusive and troubled principal was entrusted to return to
work as a leader to a school and in charge of children while the
teacher/mandated reporter whom reported the abuse was terminated from his job
weeks prior to becoming tenured.
On February 13, 2015 (five days later)
the media exposed to the public that the abusive and troubled principal is now out
of the school building. According to the superintendent, (who is a higher
administrator to the school), she “is no longer in the building”.
Technically, the superintendent, nor
any other school official, mentioned whether the abusive and troubled principal
was terminated from her job, charges were filed against her, or whether she is prohibited
from ever working with children. The reality is that this abusive and troubled
person can easily be reassigned to work and lead a different school with
children.
Apparently, her removal from the
school building (not even referred to as a termination) was implemented solely
in the best interest of public relations and not, in the least, a decision made
in the best interest of the safety and welfare of children. This is a decision
made by higher school administrators.
What I want to know, and want everyone
else to want to know, (especially parents, politicians, and law makers), is
exact what words, sentences, ideas,
and concepts came together in the higher administrative meeting(s) which
eventually resulted in the school system’s higher administrative agreement
and decision to allow such abusive and troubled worker to return and
continue to lead a school and continue to work with children?
What I want to know, and want everyone
else to want to know, (especially parents, politicians, and law makers), is what exact words, sentences, ideas, and concepts
came together in the higher administrative meeting(s) which eventually resulted
in the Child Protective Services’ (CPS) higher administrative agreement and
decision to not investigate this clear case of child abuse and endangerment
when it was reported to them as alleged by the former school therapist that
testified in the news video and whom claims that she quit her job because of
the principal’s behavior and neglect of higher administration.
These essential
questions probe at higher and more powerful entities which are instrumental in
perpetuating such vicious cycle of abuse in the school system which, for the
most part, professionals fear to report and no one in leadership roles seem to
care enough to investigate and put an end to it, even for the sake of
children.
Keep in mind that the
school system’s neglect to properly and fairly address reported cases of abuse
directly causes professionals to quit their jobs.
When professionals
quits their job because of a leaders’ abusive behavior and higher
administrators’ neglect to justly address such abusive behavior - the children
are the ones left behind, exposed to further abuse that continues to remain
undetected.
When professionals get
fired for reporting a leaders’ abusive behavior and higher administrators’
neglect to justly address such abusive behavior - the children are the ones
left behind, exposed to further abuse that continues to remain undetected.
In addition to lack of funding, public school children, teachers, and
education itself are all grossly deteriorating because of a toxic culture of
abuse, harassment, and bullying by administrators that are allowed to openly
infringe upon others' basic constitutional rights and allowed to engage in
immoral and unethical practices, completely immune to any form of
accountability.
This behavior unbecoming of a leader,
especially to children, is condoned and even rewarded by higher administrators.
The abuse of power will not end until
we have strong enforceable laws which hold people in leadership roles
accountable for engaging and/or enabling immoral and unethical practices.
The abuse of power will not end until
we have strong enforceable laws that honor, respect and protect well intended
advocates from being persecuted.
Think about it –
Would you want employees of a
school
to feel free to stand up against
abuse
imposed upon your own child
and/or love ones?
or
Would you want employees of a
school
to keep quiet about abuse
because they fear being terminated and
blacklisted from ever working in
the school system?
Click Below For Follow-up Video -
Monday, February 16, 2015
Unity
“Is a piece of history
that we all should know, once we get all that stuff that we know about one
another, …, once we get this done, we start to heal, cause we need each other
to save this planet. There’s a lot of stuff in the way.”
- Louis Gossett Jr.,
February 16, 2015
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Public Schools Lack a Just System of Checks & Balances
Public Schools Lack a Just System of
Checks & Balances
In 2006 former Mayor of New York City
Michael Bloomberg and former Chancellor of The New York Department of Education
(aka Board of Education) Joel Klein announced the implementation of an “Empowerment”
program in our public schools, where principals are empowered to “run their
schools the way they see fit”. Upper management completely “washed their hands”
from intervening and dealing with the issues that precipitate within the
schools. The consensus held that if anything were to go wrong in a particular
school, the principal of that school will be held solely responsible. On the
other hand, principals are given monetary rewards for “achievements” in their
schools, indicated by test scores.
There are two monumental problems
with this empowerment program:
(1) Said allocation of power is, and
was, never properly supervised nor tamed from potential abuses. This
unfortunately paved the way to a culture where administrators today incessantly
engage in blatant harassment, intimidation, and smear campaigns against anyone
who raises questions and challenges their unethical and immoral business
practices and dare to advocate against the abridgment of the basic
constitutional rights of teachers, students, and parents.
(2) Administrators are not, and have
not been, properly held accountable for this conduct unbecoming of a leader to many
children and to what is supposed to be safe and nurturing learning
environments. Instead, administrators have been openly rewarded and conditioned
to continue their reign of abuse.
Today, with the new Honorable Mayor
Bill de Blasio and the new Honorable Public School Chancellor Carmen Fariña,
there is a push to return to the “old-school” way of doing things where upper
management (District Superintendants) will be “re-introduced” into the power
scene with the hope that they will properly supervise principals and with the
hope of better identifying who should be held accountable for what problems.
The setback with this current approach
is that we have “been there & done that” and moved away from this caliber
of power distribution because conditions were deplorable.
In the mean time, we continue to
neglect to incorporate into this distribution of power one of the most
essential and fundamental assets to the Department of Education (Board of
Education); The Empowerment of
Educators.
Such empowerment of educators need not
consist of allowing teachers to “run their schools the way they see fit”. This
would be irresponsible.
Such empowerment of educators can be
actualized by hiring, training, and supporting administrators well versed in
content areas, planning, conflict resolution, and people skills so that they
can provide some level of intellectual stimulation, support, and inspiration to
their subordinates.
Such empowerment of educators can be
actualized by hiring, training, and supporting administrators to genuinely
place the interest of children and the process of teaching before any personal
and/or social political agendas.
Such empowerment of educators can be
actualized by hiring, training, and supporting administrators to reframe from
blindly following and enforcing rules that make no sense, are not in the best
interest of the children and that are dictated by higher administrators that
only know our students, parents, and teachers as mere numbers on a page.
Such empowerment of educators can be
actualized by hiring, training, and supporting administrators to be advocates
against the infringement of the basic human rights of the people which they
once took an oath to serve in good faith.
Such empowerment of educators can be
actualized by creating strong laws, policies and procedures that will protect
educators from any form of retaliation for engaging in good faith
advocacy.
Such empowerment of educators can be
actualized by having a strong transparent training and disciplinary system that
holds all levels of administrators accountable for abuse of power and deceptive
malicious practices design to muzzle, harass, and get rid of well intentioned
educators that advocate.
Such empowerment of educators can be
actualized by making teachers a crucial part of the decision making process
that goes into creating policies and procedures for the public schools.
Such empowerment of educators can be
actualized by Creating and enforcing a strong and transparent democratic system
of “Checks & Balances”, similar
to our three-branch-government. Instead of having the three current
pseudo-branches, (namely, 1- The Governor/State Department of Education, 2- The
Chancellor/Department of Education/Board of Education, and 3- The
Principals/Administrators/District Superintendents), whom typically
deflect accountability by pretending to be oblivious to what the other
pseudo-branch is up to,
We should actually –
merge pseudo-branches 2 & 3 into one official branch and honorably and
officially appoint the remaining branch of this governing body to the very
people in the public school system that are the closest to the needs of our
children, Honorable Educators. Thank you.
Monday, February 9, 2015
Student Advocate Gets Terminated, Bullying Leader Keeps Her Job
The Teacher's-Aid Advocate, Who Stands Up to Defend Students, Gets Terminated & The Bully, Physically, and Psychologically Abusive Principal is Allowed to Keep Her Job Around Children. Click The Link Below To Get A Glimpse Of The Level Of Abuse Overlooked.
http://7online.com/education/exclusive-rockland-principal-recorded-cursing-at-threatening-students/510037/
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