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   From: progressive-liberalism@schools.nyc.gov   
      
   Some will claim that the city Department of Education’s failure to fire   
   Karen Eubanks is a vindication of the system’s elaborate protections for   
   tenured teachers. We wish.   
      
   As Susan Edelman reported in Sunday’s Post, DOE brought Eubanks up on   
   charges for her reaction to an April 2016 after-school show by   
   cheerleaders at Manhattan’s HS for Environmental Studies.   
      
   The veteran dance teacher was filling in at the school when she watched   
   the performance, which, as she saw it, exposed the bottoms and/or genitals   
   of some of the 30 dancers. She spoke to the young women afterward, and   
   also to their coach.   
      
   And that left her subjected to an expensive investigation and an eight-day   
   trial on misconduct charges.   
      
   “It’s shocking that I was accused of wrongdoing after advocating for the   
   dignity of our students,” she told The Post.   
      
   Never mind that the routine was so risqué that eight to 10 boys were seen   
   videotaping it, or that another independent witness confirmed that the   
   show was “vulgar.”   
      
   The trial generated a 974-page transcript and a thick 42-page ruling by a   
   $1,400-a-day hearing officer — who ordered a reprimand rather than   
   termination.   
      
   This is madness: If Eubanks is correct, then the DOE bureaucrats who moved   
   to fire her should themselves get the ax. Alternatively, if some other   
   facts somehow justify the DOE effort, then the system failed.   
      
   None of it justifies a process that typically costs $300,000 to fire a   
   teacher.   
      
   Because if your school leaders are trying to oust educators who stand up   
   for decorum, then that school is being led to disaster.   
      
   Meanwhile, the same rules mean good leaders can’t get rid of bad apples.   
   They’re reduced to a “pass the trash” strategy — give a good   
   recommendation so some other school gets stuck with the lemon.   
      
   Even the disciplinary process leaves the “accused” running out the clock   
   in rubber rooms or other non-teaching posts, collecting paychecks and   
   boosting their pensions.   
      
   Consider the case of Sadie Silver, a Brooklyn principal who kept her job   
   after being arrested on charges of smuggling heroin into an upstate prison   
   in July 2014. She was finally dismissed — in March of this year.   
      
   As we noted Sunday, this school system simply isn’t designed to serve the   
   children.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2017/10/09/more-proof-that-this-school-system-isnt-   
   designed-to-serve-the-kids/   
      
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