Mad World NewsSchool Can't Fire WAY Overpaid Teacher With History Of Failure, Here's Why
It’s six strikes and still not out for one New York state first-grade school teacher, despite six consecutive years of receiving “unsatisfactory” ratings and earning an annual income that is twice that of the national average for an elementary educator.
Her bosses want to fire her, but they can’t.
So now she’s falling back on claims of discrimination alleging it’s about her race, gender, national origin, and medical disability, rather than her repeatedly poor performance.
Ann Legra, 44, a first-grade teacher at PS 173 in Washington Heights, has repeatedly been given the worst rating she can receive, but the New York City school system is barred from firing her despite what city lawyers called her “six years of failing her students,” according to the New York Post.
“Six U-ratings is an outrage,” said Michael Mazzariello, a former chief prosecutor for the Department of Education.
“It’s a black eye on the system.”
Hearing officer Eugene Ginsberg upheld charges of Legra’s “inability to supervise students,” excessive lateness and absence, and poor lesson planning in the 2012-2013 school year.
She gets to keep her salary of $84,500-a-year, except for 45 days of earnings in which Ginsberg imposed as a suspension as punishment for her ongoing job failure...
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