The report contends that Wiltshire "discovered" the website www.mathspell.com " after entering 'Middle College High School' into Yahoo Internet search engine " in 2006 . PURE LIE :


" The Arbitrator finds it striking that the Department has charged Respondent for having this website up in 2006 when it was aware of the website as early as 2004. The Arbitrator finds that the facts establish that Assistant Principal Adonai and Dr. Wiltshire [Principal] saw the website in 2004 and determined that there was nothing problematic with it." [Arbitrator's report ]

Did Wiltshire "discover" the website www.teacherabuse.com " after entering 'Middle College High School' into Yahoo Internet search engine " in 2006 ?

Absolutely not : the site, created as a response to impunity and unabetted mistreatment at the hands of rogue principals, was revealed to my colleagues on May 31, 2005. It became the talk of the town since then. Wiltshire could not miss it.

Michael Wiltshire , the complainant who triggered the SCI's investigation, admitted in cross-examination that he did not see any grades on the website, contradicting the report :

Fofana : Did you see student's grades on teacherabuse.com, yourself?

Wiltshire : No. (T859)

Therefore the tale about my posting student grades is fabricated by the SCI. The very person who filed the complaint never claimed he saw them. The SCI did -- by accessing password-protected data on the server.

Fofana : Okay. This investigation of my Web site took place in 2006, as the S.C.I. stated. Since then, did you try to look at the teacherabuse.com, to find out if, indeed, student's names and grades were posted? In other words, following the S.C.I. investigation, did you try to take a look at the teacherabuse.com, whether there are grades or not?

Wiltshire : No. (T860)

Fofana : Did you look the Web site at the time when the investigator found that there were grades, you know, alleged grades? Did you check yourself since then?

Wiltshire : No, I have not checked your Web site.

Fofana : Why not? You are a principal.

Wiltshire : Why should I check your Web site?
Fofana : I'm --.

Wiltshire : I have no interest in your Web sites. I don't want to check it. Why am I checking it?

Fofana : Well, sir -- okay. I'm going to put it this way. (T861)

Fofana : You're running a school, a teacher has been accused of posting, you know, 4 grades on a -- on a Web site.

Wiltshire : Yes.

Fofana : There's an investigation --

Wiltshire : Yeah.

Fofana : -- prompted by your own your complaint.

Wiltshire : Yes.

Fofana : And you're telling us that you did not --?

Wiltshire : Once I saw the information on the Web site, and I make a report, my job is completed. I saw the information there, it was alerted to me. I saw the rosters --. (T862)

The bottom line is SCI -- a supposedly independant agency busy doing the DOE's bidding -- hacked the server hosting www.teacherabuse.com, stole some student records (password-protected) and claimed that I disseminated them in violation of my students privacy.
The arbitrator ignored the evidence I produced and sided with the DOE. Why ? As a member of Teachers4Action, I was suing both the DOE and the UFT and " Hearing officers are chosen jointly by the DOE and the UFT, but are paid for by the New York State Education Department. With New York City officers making up to $1,900 a day, it's a lucrative part-time job, which some critics say leads these officers to overly compromising opinions. "You make a lot of money," says Julia Cohen, a lawyer who specializes in education law. "You want to satisfy both sides." The Village Voice, April, 24/2007

FULL REBUTTAL OF THE CHARGES