The following story shows just why teachers' unions avoid representing teachers against false allegations: principals know they are well connected to power and can do pretty much what they want to anyone who attempts to thwart their wrongdoing. Certainly this alleged incident shows a principal who feels very connected to power!

However, the unions' choice of abandoning teachers rather than reporting white chalk crime is unacceptable. Unions must move from avoiding the truth, to standing up and speaking about it. Although Randi Weingarten, President of the UFT, made an alleged sympathetic statement, missing is her acknowledgement of an ongoing, organized practice of teacher abuse that thrives on false allegations, which includes soviet union styled psychiatric testing and preying on teachers' inability to fight in court against powerful tax subsidized adversaries.

This alleged incident is much more than about a principal who needs discipline and Weingarten knows that. Teachers have continuously begged Weingarten to help expose the white chalk crime that makes schools about power and perks and not education. As long as EducRAT$ have the power to bully their way above the laws as they do, and as Weingarten knows that they do, why would they stop at verbal bullying when they can simply assault someone in their way? Why would she speak of this type of bullying as wrong yet fail to report psychological bullying that has been rampant for years? We are waiting for the union leadership to speak the truth rather than manipulate a situation to make it look like they care about fairness and justice!!!!!
NAPTA

Posted at: The United Federation of Teachers

Brooklyn principal arrested for allegedly assaulting teacher

On May 21, the principal at PS 20 in Brooklyn was arrested by police from the 88th Precinct on assault charges for allegedly attacking chapter leader Robert Segerra in the principal’s office. Mr. Segerra, a 24-year veteran teacher, said the attack took place in front of an assistant principal and a teacher Mr. Segerra was representing regarding corporal punishment allegations. According to Mr. Segerra, when he questioned the veracity of the allegations, the principal rose from his desk and approached him as he sat in his chair and said, “I’m tired of you,” and began to poke him. When Mr. Segerra objected to the principal’s attempt to physically intimidate him, the principal then punched Mr. Segerra several times, knocking him to the floor, and then kicked him in the head. Mr. Segerra was treated for cuts and bruises at North Shore Hospital.

UFT President Randi Weingarten responded with the following statement:

Principals have to be held accountable to a code of conduct in schools just like teachers and students are. They have no right to harass or bully teachers, much less physically assault them. Indeed, they should be held to a higher standard. If the allegations are true that the principal at PS 20 in Brooklyn assaulted a teacher — who happens to be our union representative in the school — that goes beyond the pale, and he should be disciplined just as sternly as any teacher would be.

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