The following letter supports the laziness charge :

October 15, 2004

Ms. Yvonne Adonai, Assistant Principal
Mathematics Department
Middle College High School at Medgar Evers College

Dear Ms Adonai,

Since the first day of school (9/13/04) I requested repeatedly a) textbooks for my classes : I received them three weeks later ; b) the curriculum for my M$2 class : On 9/20/04 you handed in an M$1 curriculum ( "That should cover one month of instruction ; I am open to suggestions") , on the ground that the double period was intended for both M$1 and M$2, which is not mentioned on the official roster. Yesterday you gave me a curriculum labeled M$1/M$2 + (sic). I am all the more puzzled because you teach a similar class (periods 4 and 5) and urge teachers to collaborate, especially when they are teaching the same levels, and yet you never met with me to discuss strategy and planning. This was particularly urgent since on 9/30/04 you observed my M$5 class -- created to alleviate crowded classes -- and rated it unsatisfactory. In a concerted effort, the same day, Dr. Wiltshire observed my period 5 class and rated it unsatisfactory. Therefore, it was your professional responsibility to help correct my alleged deficiencies by examples. Familiar with the math A curriculum, I hardly need your help , but I would rather have it originated from you -- for obvious reason.

What struck me about your M$1/M$2+ curriculum was its inconsistency with your one-month-worth M$1 curriculum :

Which sequence of lessons, from 5 to 12, did you teach in your own class ?
I am not alone : other colleagues have given up on you. Both students and teachers are paying the price for the cavalier manner you run the department.

Sincerely,

Boubakar S. Fofana, math teacher
( With the avalanche of adversarial letters Adonai and Wiltshire put in my file within two months, with U-ratings accumulating, I had to fight back -- the letter was not a provocation.)

I do not recall any faculty or one-on-one meeting with her in which Adonai articulated her pedagogical view (she may have none), or discussed concepts on how to convey them effectively to students -- evidently, you don't betray your ignorance when you say little. To assert herself, Adonai is always in and out of her targets' classrooms, not to informally observe lessons for subsequent productive discussion -- far from it -- but to intimidate. Mr. Dasgupta, a telecommunication engineer, a teacher fellow from India told me that Adonai visited his classroom 70 times : no feedback, just lesson observations with U-ratings that followed. We both agree that she must have some psychological problem. Let another teacher fellow described her experience with Adonai :
There are three specific incidents I recall where she came in unannounced and disrupted my class.(There are more, but these were the worst.)
1. A student who was often in trouble S.H. was being disruptive. Ms. Adonai was in the class, so she confronted him, and caused a huge disruption, so that I was not able to continue my lesson. I had no problems controlling this student, because I had built a good relationship with him. When she was not in the room, he would sit and take notes.
2. A second incident occurred with the same student.
3. During a 6th grade lesson a group of students were presenting a problem on the board. She came in and interrupted them by asking them why they were out of there seats, and began to talk to another group who was engaged in taking notes on the presentation. This incident took about 10 minutes out of the lesson, because I had to regain control of my classroom after she left.
On Friday May 26, 2006 I gave Ms. Adonai a response to a prior unsatisfactory observation. I told her that if she wanted to discuss it with me, we could discuss it later. On May 31, 2006 Ms. Adonai asked me if I wanted to speak with her about something. I told her that I had told her that if she wanted to speak with me about the observation we could meet to discuss it. She did not schedule an appointment with me, but rather started a conversation with me about the observation. During that discussion I told her that as a probationary teacher I am supposed to be given a pre observation meeting, and that we never had one. At the end of the meeting she asked me if I had any more questions; then she informed me that she would come into my 8 th period class to observe me that day.
She did, and gave my colleague an unsatisfactory rating.

My colleague went on and provided perhaps the ultimate clue about Adonai's behavior : As usual I have done nothing to get on her bad side except be a white female who has made friends with my black male colleagues. I have gone out of my way to teach Saturday school, volunteer for the incoming sixth grade interviews and grade the tests, cover her class when she had to be absent, etc.
Sexual frustration might be the ultimate explanation of Adonai's sick behavior, as hinted by this another example : she constantly harassed Deborah Kalloo , a (charming) colleague from the West Indies, to the point that she sought, and found, a school ready to accept her. The offer was withdrawn after the monsters learned of it and undermined her. She was "excessed" anyway at the end of the school year.
It would take volumes to describe Adonai's nefarious effect on our school.