While a number of suspended teachers did commit some reprehensible acts -- impossible to miss it even if you are neither the New York Post nor The Daily News' reader -- , the unforgivable sins of the majority turn out to be standing for the children's welfare, being too independant-minded for the principal's taste,etc. One single word characterizes my case : "vendetta" waged by the principal, after I told my colleagues that I did unwittingly his computer programming project, part of his doctoral requirement at Teachers College, for $250 in Spring 1994.

To reach their goal, Wiltshire and Adonai built a phony case, "documented", rubber stamped by the Office of Special Investigation (OSI) after a semblance of investigation, and forwarded to the DOE legal department for administrative trial under 3020a Education Law in an effort to banish me to the DOE's Gulag and ultimately fire me. Thus, they methodically took the following steps where nothing was left to chance :

• Adonai would invite herself when I met with parents to discuss their child's behavior, turning the meetings into the teacher's trial : taking a cue from her, the student would explain how bad he was "mistreated". Adonai would write me a warning letter and placed it in my personal file : "evidence" to support the 3020a case on the making.
  
  
• Manipulation of parents concerned about their children's graduation, which was contingent on passing M$5, a math class I was teaching. They saw the writing on wall : I was unlikely to give passing grades to undeserving students, just because they were seniors-who-needed-only-one-class-to-graduate. I am not Wiltshire. This was a great opportunity for Wiltshire to settle old score thanks to a powerful allies. Adonai and the parent coordinator orchestrated a complaint letter campaign, by parents who never deigned to meet the teacher when their children were failing.Wiltshire collected a dozen letters from parents/students with delight as you can imagine. Attacking the teacher's character became central, students' academic performance peripheral. The trouble is the letters are so gross and pathetic, you wonder what Wiltshire was thinking by wielding them. I am submitting these letters here to the reader for appreciation.
  
  
• To top it all : fabrication of corporal punishment and verbal abuse accusation. More complex, that calls for a division of labor, where the Jamaican connection becomes handy to Wiltshire : Ms. Smith , Ms Thomas, and Ms. Lowe. Method : distort and amplify a couple of students complaints into written statements -- piece of evidence to be produced in the 3020a proceedings -- with corroborating students to be found in the pool of the disgruntled , i.e. the failing.
  

Predictably, I was removed from the classroom on 12/7/04 : no specific reason was given. In April 2005, in an interview with Robert Colon, OSI investigator, gave me some insight into the case that remained obscure in many aspects. It took two years and half before I knew exactly why I was suspended : reading his report, made available to me in December 2006, gives you an idea about the OSI professional standards.

This website is my response to this obscenity. Call it the new paradigm : teachers using the technology as the whistleblower law went into effect (over the mayor's objection), and making teacher abuse very costly. At the personal level, I might add, this website is cathartic -- a cleansing act. As you can imagine, the site was not of the DOE's taste.The initial allegations that sent me to the rubber room take a tiny part of the formal charges I received : my websites www.mathspell.com and www.teacherabuse.com have become the issue. The Special Commissioner Of Investigation (SCI) "investigated" them and issued this report sent to the chancellor-- content and ramifications are discussed here.

In an effort to shut it down, the SCI brazenly broke into the server hosting the site -- leaving electronic fingerprints recorded in the log files along with information pertinent to their activities --, retrieved student-related data I never posted , and presented them as evidence of a violation of students privacy protected by Family Education Right and Privacy Act (FERPA). In other words, the SCI violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and, to add insult to injury, used the stolen data to suppress this teacher's free speech. In its report they admitted of downloading data (actually entire folder contents residing in the server and never posted, not intended to be), although they remain silent on the method used to secure them,Google Hacking, and apparently unaware of the damning evidence they left behind.
"Computer hacking is not an acceptable discovery technique. Hacking, for whatever purpose, is unacceptable."
[Scott Christie, a former federal prosecutor who most recently headed the computer hacking and intellectual property unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey.]