6. Filing Alleged Corporal Punishment Ten Months Late

Walters postponed the filing of the A-420 report, from February 10, 1998 (deadline) to January 20, 1999, causing considerable delay of my case : it is disengenuous to blame the UFT for the lengthy disciplinary proceedings . The OSI letter reminding her about deadline rolled off her like water off a duck's back.
The last draw : teachers like to be in the rubber room because, we are told, they receive full pay doing nothing. From my experience, a sizable number of colleagues have been framed by roguish principals like Walters and Joel Shapiro, Canarsie HS (forced to retire last december : Amen). Many feel profoundly demeaned and violated.This teacher draws inspiration from Claude Mc Kay's sonnet.

Chancellor's Regulation A-420 reads : The A-420 Form, completed as instructed, and bearing an original signature of the site administrator, must be filed with the OSICPU, no later than five workings from the report of the incident.

They do not respect their own rules

By introducing an adversarial innovation, the new DOE administration established itself as the most anti-teacher ever : in a confidential 61-page memo to principals, it provides step-by-step how to fire tenured teachers : from rating lesson observations unsatisfactory, to the handling of student abuse complaints against teachers.