Great: Sixteen teachers singled out for pervy conduct get to keep their jobs in New York City schools

Lewd comments, kissing, thrusting and personal calls were not enough to get them fired

Great: Sixteen teachers singled out for pervy conduct get to keep their jobs in New York City schools Imagezrq

Sixteen city teachers have been singled out by education officials for pervy classroom behavior — but they can’t be fired, the Daily News has learned.

One instructor allegedly bent a kid over a chair and thrust into him from behind, saying “I’ll show you what is gay.” Another couldn’t stop calling girls in his gym class “sexy.” And yet another is accused of telling a student: “I slept with your mother last night.”

Fourteen of the shady instructors are still working with city kids — and two of them have been yanked from the classroom after being accused again of inappropriate behavior.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott identified the teachers last month during a review of employee records prompted by this year’s rash of sex abuse arrests. The News requested information about them under the state’s Freedom of Information Law.

While the city announced in March that officials are moving to can eight other staffers, officials said state law prevents them from booting these 16 instructors because independent arbitrators already decided their offenses were not cause for firing.

“If I had my way, these teachers would no longer be in the classroom,” said Walcott, who added that “common-sense reforms” would grant him the power to fire instructors who misbehave.

The teachers identified by Walcott range from a 30-year veteran who earns just over $100,000 to a mid-career instructor with eight years on the job who earns under $70,000.

The actions of one of them — William Scharbach of Public School 299 in Queens, who allegedly rubbed male students and lifted them by their collars — “at best, give the appearance of impropriety, and at worst, suggest pedophilia,” wrote arbitrator Paul Zonderman.

The same could be said for many of the accused instructors, who were brought before independent arbitrators to decide their punishments.

The arbitrators — state-appointed attorneys who are paid daily rates of $1,000 to $1,800 — opted to let the instructors keep their jobs, and instead handed out a range of lesser punishments.

Teachers union president Michael Mulgrew said education officials could have taken additional steps to fire the teachers singled out by Walcott.

“If the Department of Education believes that the hearing officer has made an egregious error, it can appeal the arbitration decision to the state courts,” said Mulgrew.

But Education officials said that the legal standard for overturning an arbitrator’s decision is very difficult to meet — and none of the cases would have met that standard.

More: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/a-dozen-sexually-inappropriate-teachers-jobs-york-city-schools-article-1.1057113

Great: Sixteen teachers singled out for pervy conduct get to keep their jobs in New York City schools

Great: Sixteen teachers singled out for pervy conduct get to keep their jobs in New York City schools

Anarcho-Capitalist Non-Miscellaneous

Celebrate Evildoers' Inadvertent Contributions to AnCaps' Values!