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July 5, 2012
Spread the word
We sent the original email about this blog to every email on Bryant's web site (except for Dwarka, but we're sure she'll find out), but some of the emails bounced. If you are in touch with others from Bryant, please tell them about the blog.
Be silly to think one of her toadies or lackeys would not tell her. Don't forget some people have dropped out of the system. I will say it here, if we do not stick together as a chapter, we will die. There may be the odd person that "that switches sides" and in all honesty, while I would hate that, I do get it. Hopefully this board will allow us to stay connected, and know what everyone else is going through.
This principal has violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act– on behalf of its members over 40 years of age, who have been harmed by the DOE's discriminatory use of the disciplinary system, through the issuance of Unsatisfactory annual performance ratings to such teachers, as well as the DOE's discriminatory pattern and practice of coercing, threatening, and harassing teachers over 40 years of age to “encourage” those teachers to leave their assigned schools under the turnaround model. Also she has harassed assistant principals to rate veteran teachers unsatisfactory who did not deserve it.
Hey Inside Scoop, I know it is only the first week of vacation, and I know that it might be hard to write stuff, but you have a lot of views in a short time, even if it is the same people checking over and over if there is anything new. Whoever you are, this is a good idea that won't work if you do not write, even old stories from the past year on here a couple of times a week. It will keep the discussion going and people returning.
We were hoping the stories would come from everyone. So far the writing in the comments is outstanding. Even if a new story appears as only a comment, there can be replies to comments. It's a limitation to the blog format (as opposed to a group) that only we can put in a "new" post, but it shouldn't limit the dialog, i.e., this blog does not have to be neat and orderly for it to be effective.
And yes, it appears that many of the views are coming from a few people; maybe Dwarka herself is revealing her paranoia.
I know, about the posting new thing, that is why I made the comment. Neat and orderly does help. I do not know about paranoia, but there is no question that she will be a regular viewer trying to figure out who is posting what.
She's partial to the good looks. How would you explain Fishedick getting canned while Rotondi was saved even though Rotondi had "relations" with her arch-rival Lourdes Cuesta????
You are sick. How about Dwarka trying to get into Sean's pants and Guy screwing a business teacher - married, a English ISS teacher and A.P. and who knows countless others. Chris screwing a secretary drooling all over himself while her mother was also a secretary. Bryant should be x rated.
This is Fischedick. Please keep my name off this slanderous vitriolic site. And for the record I wasn't let go I made the choice to leave and put my efforts into finding another school, instead of reapplying. I made the choice not to work with Dwarka not the other way around.
Add Kutsu. You should have heard him on the phone begging Dana to come back. He would go out the doors by 121 and cry to her to forgive him. He used to still send her flowers and beg her. She was so smart to get away from him. Tanalski never approved of him marrying her. Maureen and Emily went to the wedding.
When he came to work he took off his wedding band off and left it on his desk. Didn't take long before he was chasing skirts again. Who's the baby daddy???????
Is this a high school blog for high school students. Really guys, grow up. Obviously, you don't have much going on in your life. It is obvious who is acting this way. You should really evaluate yourselves and understand why it makes you feel good to behave in this fashion. Very ugly. Such nonsense.
This is nonsense, this is supposed to be a place where come together, isn't Bryant (and all schools for that matter, ask around) already Peyton Place. For crying out loud, can we have honest discussion here? The gossip (some true and some not) has all been discussed, by me included, but the point here was to take the building back, and not have to go around with our heads on swivel sticks to see if the "GOTCHA SQUAD" was around the corner. Leave the Page Six stuff off of here. Fact is she only took 30% because she could not figure out a way to make it by with less.
yep. finally some normal professionals on this site. Like i really care who Guy is having sex with or who Cuesta has been having sex with for years. This is not about petty gossip, it is about Bryant H.S. The only person embaressed should be the people writing the gossip. No one really cares.
Memo to all the sanctimonious preachers among you: this blog was not created for a noble cause to help rally the troops. It is a mere happenstance that might vanish at any time and unless actively moderated by its creator anyone and everyone can post what ever nonsense the feel. If you don't like it excercise your rights and DON'T READ IT! Truth be told regardless of what is expressed on this blog most of you are cowardly sheep and the useless Sam Lazarus will escort you straight to the slaughter house. What is going to happen when all the counselors return and their offices have been evacuated to make room for Pelly's fat ass and Jackie's Prozac? What about Sonia Buszwatiuk and Pat Troll? After a year of being bullied by Bitchface Dwarka are they going to be Lourdes Cuesta #2 and #3????? STAY GOLD
Sam did you sift through that birds nest of a mailbox of yours yet? How long are we going to wait til you have this "negotiation" with bitchface Dwarker? Wow you are a clown and fit in with the rest of the miscreants at Bryant. We're going to get rid of you right after we take down that whore Dwarka.
People like your with your bully and harassing comments has now put this blog under investigation. How do you consider youselves educators when you youselves bully others. Disgusting! This blog is worthless and pathetic. No wonder noone checks it anymore. Destroyed by people who have no respect and are miserable. I cant wait until these people who bully certain people get called in to investigations. YOU will then be the clown and bitchface. You must have been raised in the garbage.
This blog is hysterical. I was a student at Bryant and was told that teachers and secretaries were attacking each other. This really is funny. Ms. Dwarka must really be envied if so many people talk about her. I heard Ms. Cuesta got the boot. These commoents must be from her. Heard they hated each other. I tell ya, I have to agree with the previous comment, this blog is pathetic. I think professionals need to act professional. I always thought a lot of the Bryant staff were mentally unstable, well, this proves it.
Please a student could have written this comment because everyone knows that the students hate Dwarka!!!!! This is probably pathetic Dwarka herself!!!!! Dwarka isn't even important to her children!!!!! Even she admitted that her son hates her!!!!!! BTW Cuest
Ms. Cuesta took the opportunity to get away from the most inappropriate, unprofessional and incompetent she-devil she had ever entcountered!!!!!!!!!!!! People buy a clue!!!!!!!!
What a waste of 2 hours! Thank you Wally for reminding these fools about the events of June 27. When mayhem ran through our school as friends snd colleagues were learning of their excessing. In typical brainless herd mentality everyone now wants to help the school on the QR? Hello????? We are going to fail the QR. diesnt matter what we vote. But at least send the message that this was the direct result of how Dwarka treated her teachers. We were treated like garbage. Oh yeah. Now it's coming back to you? Morons. And Sam is the biggest sellout of them all. He's out right begging you to save Dwarka! You make me want to vomit in your face! Where was Georgia??? People, sheep,whoever: stop listening to Sam. He's trying to save his own corrupt ass! He needs to go right after Dwarka!
Never forget 6-27-12 !!!!!!! Dwarka must FAIL so that we can WIN.
April needs to shut her big mouth. It was bad enough Sam pulled a bait-and-switch advertising a "vote" to get us there. It was torture listening to her go on and on about her stupid law program. Shut up!
Personal attacks against people are not right, that is why she has been able to push a lot of good professionals out. The more you attack eah other the problem becomes bigger.
Diane Martone will lose tomorrow. Why? Because the complacent pathetic cockroaches of Bryant are braindread drones who can't muster enough thought to overthrow our corrupt union rep.
whoever you are, why don't you run. it is easy to talk behind a curtain. if you can do better put your money where your mouth is or shut the f up. Buy the way, I realized you can't run - how is retirement you pathetic old witch
Yes. Yes. Yes. 80% of this blog is written by Sherry. Sad isn't it. She needs to start enjoying her retirement rather than write on a blog all day. We all need to stop reading this pathetic blog and stop entertaining the 5 people who write these disgusting comments. Let them entertain themselves.
Awww.. Did you get upset? Sherry? Cuesta? Jesus. you guys aren't even in Bryant anymore. Why continue badmouthing Bryant staff.? Does it make you feel better about yourself?
You are fools to think Sherry and Lourdes are the only ones with an axe to grind. There are a lot more of us among you. And we're watching all the sheep and puppets dance and jump for Broomhilda. We are laughing and waiting for the end of the shit show. It's coming....
How did Rocco Rotondi get a dean's position after flaunting his sexual affair with Cuesta in Dwarkzulla's brown piglet face? Poor Kevin Smith got a horrible schedule instead. I guess it pays to be a low life scumbag. Ha ha ha
I just received a phone call while visiting a relative in the hospital telling me I am being accused of writing on this stupid blog.
TO ALL YOU DUMBASS FOOLS:
1. I am enjoying my retirement - and YES I retired exactly the way I had planned and no one pushed me out - especially the administrators. I caught them by surprise when I turned in my terminal leave papers the same day they had other plans for me. So, who were the losers: Dwarka and Yacovone were trumped, I gave them my paperwork before they could do anything to me. 2. Anyone who could retire and continues to work at Bryant deserves everything they get and more. Anyone who doesn't apply to get out deserves whatever they get. 3. After reading some of the blogs I have to say, you need to take an English class your grammer and spelling is atrocious. 4. I enjoyed working on the 4th floor - I able to breath and Dwarka didn't know I was sitting around doing crossword puzzles. 5. Trumped those two idiots again when they broke into my desk and file cabinets and found nothing but paperclips and a pencil. I would have loved to seen the expression on their stupid faces. What were they looking for?
So to all you fools, write all you want about me because STICKS AND STONSs MAY BREAK MY BONES BUT WORDS WILL NEVER HARM ME.
I wake up every morning and don't have to circle around looking for parking, see all your faces as you have to deal with Sam (who I said was useless a long time ago), Dwarka and whatever is left of her cabinet. You are just One Big Happy Family from what I just read.
As someone wrote previously, you are nothing but a bunch of PUPPETS and need permission to breath and take a crap during the day.
WHOEVER IS WRITING ABOUT ME SIGN YOUR NAME AND STOP BEING A COWARD. HAVEN'T YOU FIGURED IT OUT YET - I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE ONE OF YOU.
Told you guys.. this whole blog is Sherry. This was confimation Sherry. You really need to enjoy being home Are you bored? I am sure. And by the way, no one really cares if you like us because, guess what, we never liked you. You are a mean miserable woman that needs to find a hobby. You deserved getting pushed out. Your writing really gives it away that this whole blog was you and Cuesta. By the way, maybe YOU need an English class instead of poking fun of us teachers.. stones not stonss. And by the way, obviously, you do care about us because you are on this blog and have been since day one. You act as if we care what you think about Sam and Yacovone and dwarka... and all the other teachers and APs you have been putting down for months. No one cares! You have been giving details of secretaries personal lives and others in Bryant as a way to hurt them but they are still there and really are not embaressed they work and happy you are not there. Get off this blog. You have destroyed it and it is not meant for negativity but for a constructive purpose. You poke at people's personal lives and put down people. What are you? I know you resent getting pushed out and in a sick way miss looking for parking but your time was up. Bryant does not care for your comments and does not miss your nasty comments either.
Maureen everyone knows that this you and you have no business talking about anyone! Don't you realize that everyone sees you for what you are " White Trash"!! You are a disgusting, uneducated classless slut!!!!
It is not Maureen, you idiot Sherry. It is a teacher. Don't you know, NO ONE likes you. We teachers never liked you and dreaded going in payroll to hear your voice. And by the way, YOU are the white trash for speaking so ugly about someone innocent. You keep on showing your true colors. Get the hell off this blog you miserable gossipping old lady. Stop your petty nonsense and badmouthing everyone. Get a life and get the hell out of Bryant's life.
Maureen is trash!!!!!!!! Whatever teacher would defend the lowlife of Maureen needs help!!!!! Maureen is disgusting and by the way Sherry may have been many things to a lot of people but one thing that she was competent!!!!!! The same can not be said for the loser of Maureen!!!!!!!!
No ,,,, Sherry is trash. Maureen gets everything done and atleast is respectful to the teachers. She doesn't talk behind their back and act like a disgusting human being. When we approach her, she is nothing but professionaly and kind to us. So, Sherry just get off this blog. Move on already! And by the way Sherry, it is not Maureen we are defending, it is anyone YOU put down. You have bashed us all way too much and you and Cuseta should be embaressed on what you have done to this blog.
Maureen it obvious this is you!!!!!! Stop you are embarassing yourself becuase everyone knows how disgusting you are!!! Enjoy yourself for now because it won't last long!!!!!!
Maureen you are a low life and everyone knows it!!!!! Don't fool yourself into believing that just because you are currently getting to tell people what to do that you are anything greater then a "low life"!!!! That who you are and that is what you always will be!!!!!!
This is how stupid Sherry and Cuesta are. It is not Maureen, you fools. NO ONE LIKED EITHER OF YOU! We couldn't stand you. There are over 100 teachers in Bryant who thank God you are gone. We are grateful that you both got pushed out. And By the way Sherry, no one thinks Maureen is a lowlife BUT we do think YOU are. ONLY trashy people talk the way you do. Obviously, as you, yourself have said, you are a dumbass fool for not realizing NO ONE liked you.
LMAO.........this extremely pathetic!!!!!!! Stop because you are only showing people who this really is!!!! Denial is not just a river in Egypt!!!!! Low Lives!!!!!!! You three know who you are!!!!!!
Tweed has no clue of what they are doing, sending leadership principals to destroy schools like Ms. Dwarka of W.C. Bryant High School, rating veteran teachers u who are satisfactory while using the Danielson Model to rate the teachers when the UFT has not agreed to this model.
Yo Cunt Dwarcula, you still think we're stupid. We're not bullying each other We are doing everything possible to see you FAIL. And don't think we can't see through your tough bitch bravado. You're crying inside its so obvious. The school under your "mis"guidance is really a fuckhouse (one if your favorite words) because you have no clue what you are doing! You scared little piglet! We don't need to reflect about shit. We do care about the students and our profession. And we're trying to protect them from your evil clutches. You need to reflect about your disgusting face and behavior. You are a monster to your core. A Tweed transfer is awaiting you! And your red hair matches the devil you worship.
It's very sad to read all the comments on this blog. It's a shame that it's become a forum for anonymously bashing fellow employees. The real enemies, who need to be vanquished if the children of New York City are going to ever receive a quality education again, are Michael Bloomberg and his minions. Bryant was once a wonderful place with a very dedicated and professional faculty. We were a family- staff, students, and alumnni. I was fortunate enough to be offered a position elsewhere (at the 11th hour in August). I agonized over leaving the school that I loved and had given my heart and soul to for two decades, but I know in my heart that it will never be the same place again. Although I'm no longer a teacher at Bryant, I'll always be an Owl, and so many of you people will always have special places in my heart. GOLD AND BLUE FOREVER!
I agree with you. I still am at Bryant and am embaresssed of this blog as well. I have been there for many many years and feel like it is my home. Bryant will always be a part of me. Reading this blog is truly disgusting and it makes me sad. Sorry we lost you.
I feel bad for those of you who are still there. I spent two months second-guessing my decision to leave, but this blog has convinced me that I made the right move. The "old Bryant" is dead and gone- swept away by arrogant politicians and inept administrators. I spoke to an alumnus yesterday who had recently visited the school. She told me that it was like walking into a place where she'd never been before. It's changed that much! God bless you guys who are sticking it out there. See you all at retirement parties!
I can't wait until Tara and Maureen get knocked off their high horses when Guy gets transferred out. It will be great to see them get a taste of humble pie.
Hellooooooo Bryanters.......!!!!! Who helped Broomhinda come up with this absurdity? Did you all enjoy getting belittled by her? That fat cunt couldn't resist accusing us for her "C". Poor Georgia got the honor of unleashing her true beastly nature. And don't forget that spineless beak nose Sam who barely got to whisper a few syllables in our defense. What should have happned was a room full of boos and hissing. But the lame ducks (brain dead teachers) were applauding her pathetic attempts at flip-flopping between verbal abuse and praise. What a FUCKED UP SICK IN THE HEAD TWAT she is! Someone needs to bring the straight jacket and ambulance for her.
Stay Gold
P.S. I hope you all are happy with your elected union rep who was enjoying a mutual ego massage with Dwarcunt. Suddenly she thinks he's the master of "questioning"! Did she come to this realization before or after she fired his brown nose in June.
Why didn't you brave anonymous soul start the booing? Why don't you confront Sam privately or openly in a union meeting with your concerns? He can not fire you. And where were you last year when about ten people, in truth really three, run around trying to organize to save the school? You probably don't even know what was done last year because you, like most stayed in a save distance. Any way, enough said, and because, unlike you, I do have the courage of my opinion, you probably guessed right, it is Georgia. Don't bother with a response unless you have the integrity to sign it.
Another vote??? Well, Bryant cockroaches, do what you do best: vote for the scabs and miscreants that will help Dwarker fire your spineless asses and wreak havoc on the school. Ha ha ha
Sam is a useless crooked nose bastard. Maureen is a trashy slut. Guy is sex addicted balding misogynist. Dwarfungus go back to John Bowne to your Jewish lover mentor Howie Kwait. Pelly and Jackie call up Nancy and Weight Watchers. Henry take an ESL class.
Are you all going to the "voluntary" meeting tomorrow at 3:30? Lets guess what will happen. Ape face dwarzilla will shoot her haterade tirade against all of you for her failed QR and the sheep of Bryant the teacher cockroaches will sit in silence and bend over while she vocally rapes you. Personally I'll be secretly jumping for joy. You'll get exactly what you deserve for helping this maniacal bitch decimate the school. I suggest we bring eggs and tomatoes to toss at her baboon face. Who's with me?
How much more of that ratty hair do you think she lost just this week? She will be as bald as old Guy any day now. Maybe he'll lend her his fake-hair-in-a-can aerosol! Bwahahaha!!!!!!
Mr. Montalvo, latest victim of Dwarka's regime. Little by little you are all going to be abused in one way or another. She came to clean house and she gets away with everything. Pressuring teachers to pass students, asking APs to rate veteran teachers unsatisfactory and teachers she does not like. Discrimination against veteran teachers by rating them u, intimidation with younger teachers, she treats the assistant principals like puppets. There are still some APs left, the ones left of course are going to oushed out, and everbody basically takes the abuse and look the other way.
RIP Ralph Montalvo... Dwarzila's latest victim. When will this house of horrors finally end? You are all to blame. All you had to do is make a stand with your vote. But instead you believed the lies this psychopath fed you about helping the school. I hope you're happy. Idiots! Watching Tara and April and the rest of you space cadets laughing at Dwarkblojob's lame attempts at humor. Disgusting! If she took a shit and fed it to you you'd say thanks ma'am can I have some more. Her proclamations of being a Bryant "success story" are disgraceful and embarrassing. This schizophrenic shit-for-brains is leaving a legacy to Bryant like Hitler left to Germany. Thank you Rose Depinto, Adam Tanalski, and Chris Pelletierri for creating this beast and ushering her to our once wonderful school. I truly hope and pray your children and loved ones suffer in the exact same way the students and staff are suffering as a result of this plague you inflicted on us.
This is a sad day. Intelligent and well-seasoned professionals are pushed out while pathetic scabs like Pelly and Rocco are taking their place. You two couldn't mentor or nurture teachers let alone exemplify good teaching to save your scavenger lives. You think dressing up for a change and cleaning a cubicle makes you matter? You and the rest of chimpmunk face Dwarker's "coordinators" are just her personal instruments of destruction. You are only tools. In the sense of assholes just to be sure both your low IQs get it. She and Yacadoofus bankrupt the budget so they can't spend funds they don't have on APs. Do you think any of you would be given any chance at a real school??? With your track records??? Maybe if the application was for ass-licking. Or should I say pussy-licking? Why don't you take Dwarka to Henrietta's Pelly where you Laura and Luke can show her a good time? The entire school is revolted by all of you and on their behalf I hope you go fuck yourselves!!!!!
Amother AP out Ms. Buswatiuk, she rated veteran teachers unsatisfactory even though she did not think they were, and now after doing everything she was told to do she is also out/
I want to remind everyone that it is ALL your fault for not crushing Broomhilda and her puppets when you had the chance. She would have been rendered powerless and severely handicapped if she had no comp positions to dole out to creeps like Rocco and Pelly to help her destroy the school. Save the school? No you did it because you are a building full of brainless dummies. Or you had your own cushy periods off to protect. And let's not ignore our great "protector" Sam Lazarus. You also voted for this useless self-serving prick. Everytime this mentally deranged Dwarkzilla tried pulling one of her stunts he should have raised bloody hell. He should be inciting riots against her! He recoils in fear pushing his tiny penis farther back into his balls everytime she opens her mouth. And Georgia the only one with any balls and a sliver of intelligence would rather pick the garbage than replace him. Oh ya! This school is sure full of winners.
The worse is coming, you keep fighting with each other instead of uniting and she is winning. She is making everybody miserable and pushing everybody out and most of you are looking the other way. The worse is yet to come.
Their crime growing old and working hard in a system that discriminates you instead of rewarding you for loyalty and hard work. That is the reality we are losing and have lost many good people because they maybe at times too outspoken for an administration that was to control everything. Too much power in only one person is never good. Those of you who got rehired, please do not let the new administration manipulate or intimidate you. Stand for yourself or forever be part of the silent majority. Good luck to all of you!
Cooruption and discrimination wins when we do not fight back together. Are we going to continue to attack each other or are we going to stand up with dignity? And please all of you stop mentioning names of people that work there or have worked and stand up together for once against the top who is ruining the place in front of your noses.
Across the United States, veteran educators are facing a growing problem of age discrimination.
Last year, Tempe Elementary School District No. 3 in Tucson, Arizona, discriminated against employees on the basis of age when it applied an early retirement incentive plan which granted greater economic benefits to younger employees based upon their age.
In North Carolina, a public school teacher was denied a promotion to assistant principal because of her age. She eventually won a $25,000 settlement after a lawsuit was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
In 2009, EEOC filed an amicus brief in a case from Oklahoma City, successfully arguing that the trial court was wrong to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit by an older educator who had been demoted because of her age.
The National Education Association denounces blatant age discrimination as more and more veteran educators are targeted for dismissal by school superintendents and administrators. In many cases, school officials use the guise of “improvement plans” to harass veteran educators without taking into account the countless contributions they have made to public education.
Educators who have been discriminated against because of their age can find solace and legal protection in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects teachers age 40 and over against age discrimination. Under this act, age may not be the sole factor when a school district terminates the employment of a teacher. If a teacher charges a school district with age discrimination, the school district has the burden to show that some factor other than age influenced its decision.
This law, administered by EEOC, helps to protect this group of educators who either apply for a position or are already employed. In accordance with ADEA, it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because of his/her age with respect to any term, condition, or privilege of employment. This includes, but is not limited to, hiring, firing, promotion, layoff, compensation, benefits, job assignments and training. The Older Workers Benefit Protections Act amended several sections of the ADEA.
In Tucson, a lawsuit by EEOC against Tempe Elementary School District alleges that the school district maintained an early retirement incentive plan that was unlawful. Specifically, the EEOC charges that the school district’s plan is discriminatory because it grants more favorable benefits to younger employees based on their age. Under the school district’s retirement plan, employees are reimbursed for accumulated leave based on their age at retirement, with those retiring at a younger age being treated more favorably than those who retire after age 60.
“Early retirement incentive plans which discriminate on their face based upon age are illegal and need to be changed,” said EEOC Regional Attorney Mary Jo O’Neill. “People in their ‘60s should not be penalized merely because they want to continue working.”
Are Principals Practicing Age Discrimination When Hiring ATRs For Their Vacancies? According To Me They Are
I have previously written on how principals are either hiding their vacancies or are selectively interviewing the youngest and cheapest of the ATRs when they cannot hide their vacancies. Of course if you ask the union or the DOE, they will claim that no such age discrimination is occurring. However, very few, if any older ATRs are getting any interviews. Now I read an article in Educationnext that showed that in Chicago, the younger principals do not like to hire older teachers and since many of the new generation of principals are younger and come from the infamous "Leadership Academy", they rather not have older teachers on their staff. In the article by Brian A. Jacob, a professor of education policy and economics at the University of Michigan, wrote the following:
Finally, I find evidence that younger principals are more likely to dismiss older teachers than they are to dismiss younger teachers. There are no obvious explanations for this pattern, although one might speculate that younger principals may value different characteristics in a teacher than older principals. Regardless, this pattern does seem to warrant further exploration.
While I am sure both the union and the DOE have statistics that can support my claim, I don't expect them to publish them as not to embarrass each other. The DOE for allowing principals to practice age discrimination and the union for turning a blind eye to the practice. However, there is anecdotal evidence to support my claim. I have spoken to many ATRs and a few Chapter Leaders who have told me that the principals were looking for younger and cheaper teachers to fill their vacancies. Part of the reason is their tight budgets but it is increasingly obvious to even the casual observer that the more senior ATRs are not even given interviews. Other principals are hiding their vacancies in the vain hope that the hiring freeze is rescinded at the end of August or that they can gain an exception as some principals were able to do in the last two years when Joel Klein was the Chancellor. Of course, many principals will simply let the "Children First Network" assign an ATR to them and let them fill the vacancy without taking on their salaries. Whatever the reason, the senior ATRs are not being selected to interview for the fewvacancies listed.
The only way that the DOE can save the $43 million dollars that they promised Bloomberg is to make sure every vacancy is listed and that the ATRs fill them. I am not holding my breath waiting for that to happen anytime soon.
I taught math at Bryant for 16 years and am recently retired. I have gotten reports from the math teachers about what is happening in the math department. There is no question that senior teachers are being targeted by the principal for U ratings at the end of the year so that they can be replaced in the turnaround as being not-qualified. These are teachers who have never received U ratings and have outstanding credentials and outstanding achievements with the students that they have taught. After 10 or 15 or 20 years of being rated as satisfactory teachers they are suddenly being rated by the same assistant principal of mathematics Sonia Buzwatiuk as being unsatisfactory? Please believe one thing: what we have here is the verdict first and then the trial. The principal told Buzwatiuk who she wants out, and this woman goes about it by writing mindless observation reports to do the prrincipal's dirty work. Now Ms. Buszwatiuk also got sacrificed. and this is coming to all of you in one way or another.
Federal and state laws prohibit job discrimination based on someone’s age. This means an employer cannot fire, demote, transfer, deny benefits or opportunities, or otherwise take any adverse action based on an older employee’s age.
The federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protects workers 40 and older from age discrimination on the job. It is also unlawful to retaliate against anyone who opposes employment practices that discriminate based on age or who files a lawsuit under the ADEA. New York state law prohibits age discrimination under the New York Human Rights Law.
Despite these strong protections against age discrimination, New York employers continue to violate the law. In fact, New York age discrimination cases are known to produce some of the highest verdicts and settlements.
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The many guises of age discrimination
Employers who want a younger workforce resort to a variety of tactics in discriminating against older workers, typically those 40 or older. Here are some of the more common age bias scenarios: You didn’t get hired because the employer wanted a younger-looking person to do the job; You received a negative job evaluation because you weren’t “flexible” in taking on new projects; You were fired because your boss wanted to keep younger workers who are paid less; You were turned down for a promotion, which went to someone younger hired from outside the company because the boss says the company “needs new blood”; As part of company layoffs, most of the employees laid off were older, and younger workers with less seniority and less on-the-job experience were retained; Before you were fired, your supervisor made age-related remarks that you were “over-the-hill,” or “ancient.”
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She will continue to harass teachers and rate veteran teachers unsatisfactory, intimidate new teachers and discriminate because Tweed is giving her permission to do so, and you the staff are going to suffer because you are not united. Haven't we seen 7 assistant principals being pushed out and harassed already? She will use anybody and them push them away, eben the kids are seeing this.
How can we stck together or avoid attacking each other??? Puppets like Papputsis, Rotundi, Skordass, Huezo, Exarwhore, Franksin etc know exactly what landmine they were stepping into. This Is a battle and they chose the wrong side if they thought their histories and reputations were off-limits. They are now her instruments of destruction and they are paying the price in public humiliation. As the saying goes, all is fair in love and war....
The NYC-DOE is one of the only organizations that is so shamelessly reckless that the would empower a brainless, evil, unprofessional as well as proven incompetent idiot like "Namita Dwarka" Children are ultimately being hurt in the process!!
The staff of W. C. Bryant will get their respect back when they unite, so stop blaming each other. A lot of assistant principals were doing what she wanted and collaborated with her to destroy the morale of the school, change teachers' observations so they would look unsatisfactory, pressure teachers to pass students, even lie and they became the victims themselves. Using bad words or putting people down and screaming loud will never get any of you anywhere.
The Danielson Model is used in Bryant High School as an excuse to push out veteran teachers by rating them unsatisfactory,the Union has not agreed to this system of evaluation. Nine teachers got rated unsatisfactory last year, all of them over 40 years old. Just after Bloomberg announced that they will closing the school, what a coincedence? It is called age discriminination, that simple! How many assistant principals left or were forced out that were complying with the principal?
Only one Assistant Principal complied with the she-devil!!! It is never ok to sell your soul to the devil which is why most of them didn't do it!!! Although there are two incompetent idiots that are still sitting there with her doing her work!!!!
There is no way we can do a good job in this environment of nonesense, like giving unsatisfactory to veteran teachers sho do not have a lesson plan when giving a test.
Tweed has no clue of what they are doing, sending leadership principals to destroy schools like Ms. Dwarka of W.C. Bryant High School, rating veteran teachers u who are satisfactory, while using the Danielson Model to rate the teachers when the UFT has not agreed to this model. Forcing good assistant principals out the door, this is outrageous.
Sam is a crooked brown nose parasite. He has the time and money to go to Dwardoofus' Cavo party but he has no time to advocate for our rights AGRESSIVELY or buy a new shirt so that he doesn't look like a homeless person. I have no doubt he's in cahoots with Hippo Ass and is helping her weaken our solidarity. Sam you are a Benedict Arnold, a lazy jackass, and a fugly motherfucker.
Maybe he is not agressive enough because he does not have the backimg from the UFT headquarters, but you are not doing us any favor by insulting him. And we do not want people like you here because you are doing more harm than good.
Sam, was voted in his position. If you know how to handle this better why didn't you run? What is the matter with all of you so brave on the blog. Why couldn't you or any of those who agree with you run with a real agenda, real issues other than vitriolic personal attacks of the worse kind? Who are you? In my opinion, You are such a filthy slime ball that no, you do not belong in the classroom. Have the balls, step up, speak up, because right now all you are is a cyber bully. Don't you understand that you are receiving the treatment cowards deserve? I hope you are not one of the people I talk to in school because you nauseate me. This is Georgia, what are you going to do now? start the personal attack against me?
Tweed has no clue of what they are doing, sending leadership principals to destroy schools like Ms. Dwarka of W.C. Bryant High School, rating veteran teachers u who are satisfactory while using the Danielson Model to rate the teachers when the UFT has not agreed to this model.
We must all put a stop to this nonsense of flushing out good professionals and good teachers, that should be our focus and not disqualifying people. There is suspicion that these personal attacks are coming from the administration itself, so ignore personal attacks and focus on the problem ahead of us. We need to do our best job for the kids and we need to neutralize the abuse and the nonsense of this principal that is driving everybody crazy with the Danielson Model which the UFT has not approved. If she does not change we need to stop collaborating with her, but at the same time we need to continue doing our best for the kids.
Yes, the key is to stop collaborating with her. I agree. We must fight back silently. But that means targeting the turncoats Jackie, Pely, Sam, Basil, Tara, April, Jay, Luke, Michelle, Laura, Henry, and even Goofball Guy. Stop obeying these dirty rats.
Our principal is not fit to supervise people, period. She has an extreme micro-management problem and gives excessive orders and nonsense in an attempt to make all teachers act exactly the same way like robots. And she is petty and vindictive to those who don't go along. She came to please Tweed and to destroy careers, also to drive veteran teachers and veteran assostant principals out, and basically to destroy the school.
Constantly rude and disrespectful to the hard working staff,she lies and seems to get a sense of power thinking that she is an ultimate leader. And to make matters worse, she even pressures her AP's and coordinators to do the same and treats them as puppets.
We need your input about grade changes, falsifying data, and falsifying observations by lying about what she saw in people's classrooms, like claiming rubrics weren't used when they were, so she could fire this person she saw as a threat to her regime or the way some of you have been harassed. We need proof that your AP was ordered by Ms. Dwarka that you were rated unsatisfactory even though it was a good lesson.
Who is "we"????? Is there a secret underground society of vigilantes against Bullyarka and her Puppets of Destruction? Is there a password? Secret handshake? Don't let Sam know or he'll run back to his Guyanese Gorilla Girlfriend and squeal like the dirty rat that he is.
We need to all stop looking at this blog and let the bullies of this blog entertain themselves. Putting down staff of Bryant does nothing for this blog or for me. So, good for you Georgia for writing your name. I agree with you 100%. Just so you know, most of it is Sherry. But, i am afraid it may be another sick individual in our school. This is why noone is united. We know about the blog and don't know who is abusing us, therefore, we can't trust eachother. It is quite sick that this is an adult.
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, with its subsequent amendments, provides protection for teachers over the age of 40 against age discrimination. Under this act, age may not be the sole factor when a school district terminates the employment of a teacher. If a teacher charges a school district with age discrimination, the school district has the burden to show that some factor other than age influenced its decision.
Leadership Principals like Ms. Dwarka is engaging in tactics of age discrimination because that is what Tweed wants, she was ordering the assistant principals to rate teachers over 40 years old unsatisfactory. How else can you explain that these teachers never got rated unsatisfactory before and most of these assistant principals that were rating them were forced out? During 2012 nine assistant principals have left W.C. Bryant High School. How can our Union negotiate with Tweed? When these teachers were making 30000 dollars they were satisfactory teachers, now that they are make more sll of the sudden and overnight they became unsatisfactory teachers.
Wishing you all happy holidays and enjoy your vacation time. You are all working hard and doing a great job at Bryant. Enjoy your time off with your loved ones.
Hello My Bryant Family! This is your Principal speaking! Try to make sense of what I'm saying I try my best but with all the weed I've smoked I have few brain cells left. I try to make myself sound like I'm not the idiot I really am by faking my British accent although its just a twang left from my Indo-slavery roots. I must take this holy day of Xmas to thank my puppets for helping me decimate what once was Bryant HS and is now my empire of indentured servants. Thank you Alonso Westbrook for terrorizing all my targets in English and ISS. Dont worry about Jackie she will never amount to anything more than a glorified school aid as long as I am here. I'll try to keep her on her meds. Even though you've never been a supervisor before you are learning quickly how to intimidate and harass our victims. Thank you Maria Troianos for convincing me to manipulate April, Luke, and Laura since they are easy to dispose of later on. Thank you Rotundi, Morales, Frankson, Papoutsus, and Scordas for being illiterate morally bankrupt moronic weaklings that will jump as soon as I snap my ugly brown fingers. Thank you to all my new teachers who I hired out of desperation to replace all the poor souls who dared to question my supremacy. You are a bargain to my budget and look at me like the goddess I believe I am. And thank you Sam Lazarus for double-crossing all the innocent hard working teachers I am trying to U-rate and harass. Your incompetence made it so convincing! And thank you Guy for hiding in your office while I bankrupt the school. Finding sex victims is what your talent is. Too bad I'm not your type. And Lisa, you know you're next on my hit list. Enjoy your last few weeks. At least I'm giving you time to say your goodbyes. Have a SAFE week off my Bryanters! I'll be ready with my Danielson Rubric to catch you when we get back. Nevermind that I have no idea how I would teach one of these stupid lessons. Haha! All that matters is that no one would challenge me to! Merry Christmas you fools! Even Jesus himself can't save you from me! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....
This is your Emperess Dwarka again! I would be remiss to forget the most amazing floor mat Henry who enjoys being screamed at while I go through my schizophrenic temper tantrums every day. He legitimizes my idiotic policies with his bullshit data presentations. I know you can't really understand a thing he says and I know he's a joke but he came highly recommended from my godfather Adam Shrek Tanalski and I can never betray my godfather Adam who still shows me how to play games with all your miserable lives. I have to run now. I must call Henry and ask him how to manipulate the latest statistics so I don't look like the failure I really am. Life is amazing when you run a school full of idiots! Ha ha ha ha!
Sorry, but the scary thing is, you are the schizophrenic one not Dwarka. God, just the idea that you have nothing else to do in your life but put everyone down must be depressing. Pretending you are Dwarka, god, get a life. You sound like a fool. Your put downs are so old, it actually bores me.
You sad, sad creatures to think that people who left the school actually sit around thinking about you, let alone write on this blog. WE ARE THE LUCKY ONES - you have to fact those deplorable administrators every day. HA HA HA THE JOKE IS ON YOU - GET A LIFE.
By the way, the social studies department with April, Tara and Jay are backstabbers - do not trust any of them.
No, actually, the joke is on you. You do care, you sad, sad creature! You are on this blog all day long and get off on the idea that maybe someone is getting affected by your put downs. You are simply a cyber bully hiding behind this blog. We have a life. We go to work and do our job and don't think of you. But, obviously, you do. You are so hurt, angry and depressed that Dwarka pushed you out that you feel the need to hurt others. Get over it and move on. You may need to see a therapist for your hurt feelings. You post comments such as who not to trust in Bryant, April, Tara and Jay. But, we do not care what you think. Get a life, move on, and schizophrenia is a mental condition so you may need medication. Take care of yourself!
There is no Bryant "Family" so you can STFU. You are a Bryant House of Horrors. Once your lord and savior Trashmita gets her walking papers the entire school will cheer and throw you and the rest of her used tampons in the toilet where you deserve to be. Hugs and Kisses, The Bryant Silent Majority
Leadership Principals like Ms. Dwarka is engaging in tactics of age discrimination because that is what Tweed wants, she was ordering the assistant principals to rate teachers over 40 years old unsatisfactory. How else can you explain that these teachers never got rated unsatisfactory before and most of these assistant principals were forced out? During 2012 nine assistant principals have left W.C. Bryant High School. How can our Union negotiate with Tweed? When we were making 30000 dollars we were satisfactory teachers, now that we make more overnight we became unsatisfactory.
People this is not about Age-Discrimination this is about have placed someone in a leadership role that had been there before and has an extensive track record of incompetence, unprofessionalism and inappropriateness!!! There is a conflict of interest as she has personal vendettas with people and that just demonstrates her psychosis as some of these people she didn't even know! She truly has deep seeded mental health issues and needs professional help. An important note is that all the people that help to put her there knowing that she had no business in a leadership role are actually more criminal then she is!!! One doesn't allow the insane to run the asylum and unfortunately that is what has occurred at Bryant HS!!!!!!
If you keep concentrating on what is not only incorrect but you can't prove. You will never defeat her!!! Its her unprofessional misconduct that you need to focus on!!!!
This principal has violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act– on behalf of its members over 40 years of age, who have been harmed by the DOE's discriminatory use of the disciplinary system, through the issuance of Unsatisfactory annual performance ratings to such teachers, as well as the DOE's discriminatory pattern and practice of coercing, threatening, and harassing teachers over 40 years of age to “encourage” those teachers to leave their assigned schools under the turnaround model. Also she has harassed assistant principals to rate veteran teachers unsatisfactory who did not deserve it.
I am furious. We just got an e-mail that we should not review with our students for the midterm exams. They give us the usual mandra, let the students bring the questions and review the last ten minutes of the lesson. Do these administrators know the level of the students we work with? Our students do not know what to ask because they do not know what they do not know. Why don't these useless administrators stay in their offices to deal with their useless paperwork and let us teach? LET US TEACH.These e-mails are only to cover their back for when the Ursoulas of DOE come to our classes and they catch us on review. I can not believe the level of cowardish and insanity. Teachers,ignore them. Do what you think is best for your students. Our responsibility is to them. Take a risk, TEACH.
The union's failure to protect their senior teachers is disgraceful and for the UFT to allow Tweed to practice ageism in the teacher removal process is aiding and abetting the DOE practice of age discrimination.
If you have been subjected to improper treatment at work based on your age, race or sex, contact a civil rights lawyer to learn about your options. Also, always make sure to keep detailed records to document all of the disparate treatment. You have been targeted constantly to receive unstisfactory observations reports while other ofyour colleagues are not being observed at all or you were forced out.
A lot of good experienced veteran teachers are being rated unsatisfactory and others are being chased out with the purpose of hiring out of college teachers who may not be proven effective.
We want the discrimination against veteran teachers in schools like W.C. Bryant High School to stop. Veteran teachers are being unfairly rated unsatisfactory when they are doing satisfactory work. The UFT cannot negotiate with the DOE, until the DOE puts a stop to age discrmination. This abuse needs to be stopped.
A Budd Lake lawyer has won a $509,000 award for a former Jefferson teacher who claimed she was forced out of her job because of her age.
A Morris County Jury found on Friday, Jan. 6, that Jeanne O’Neill, now 63, of Sparta, was a victim of age discrimination and a hostile work environment. The jury awarded O’Neill $300,000 for emotional distress, $130,000 in back pay and $79,000 in lost wages and benefits.
She was represented by attorney Robert A. Scirocco.
“I thought it was an appropriate amount,” Scirocco said. “She was a phenomenal teacher but the whole experience was very bitter for her. She truly loved her job.”
O’Neill taught chemistry in the district for 22 years, most recently leading advance placement chemistry classes. Scirocco said O’Neill’s students consistently scored higher than the national average for advance placement chemistry and that the teacher had never received a bad review.
But that all changed three years ago.
Retirement Plans
O’Neill had told the district she planned to retire from her $81,000 a year post at the age of 60 at the end of the 2007-08 school year.
But her husband became very ill and had to quit his job. As the now, sole bread winner, O’Neill decided she had to continue working.
After she notified the Jefferson Board of Education of her new plans in January 2008, she allegedly became the target of the administration’s attacks upon her.
The district set up a “corrective action plan” in which they would come into her classroom on a regular basis and criticize her way of teaching, telling her that her methods were antiquated and too traditional, and that she was dramatically regressing within the period of January to May, Scirocco said.
“She told them she finally had enough and would resign at the end of the year, even though she needed to continue to work for the salary and benefits,” Scirocco said.
O’Neill retired in June 2008 and her husband died last year.
During the week-long trial, a former student who recently obtained a doctorate degree in chemistry testified that O’Neill was the best teacher she ever had, Scirocco said.
The district superintendent, principal, curriculum director and chemistry supervisor, all involved in the classroom observations and corrective action plan, all testified for the district.
“They said all their observations and criticisms were legitimate and valid,” Scirocco said.
Scirocco said the case took three years to bring to trial and involved thousands of pages of documents, numerous depositions and review of various records, including assessments of colleagues and of O’Brien.
All of the people that sold their souls to the devil in effort to obtain an Assistant Principal position, you pay an extremely high price and the in end you will no obtain what you want!!!! Don't you get it the devil doesn't play fair!!!!!! I can't wait until hear about the heartache and the tears......for it's what you all deserve!!!!!
These wretched traitors aren't really "AP"s!!! She can't afford to pay AP salaries to anyone since she bankrupt the school. These fools are coordinators still getting paid a teacher's salary and not teaching classes. All they do all day is scratch their asses and delegate delegate delegate. Trashmita's teaching them her favorite game of hoisting her work on others. And guess who picks up the slack? The overworked under appreciated TEACHERS. So they already are being played like fiddles. But look at them, one by one, these were all crappy teachers. They don't care about anything except doing less ( or having what they consider more power)and getting more time away from students. SHAME SHAME SHAME
Can someone translate "we are behind the 8 ball" that this twat face thought she sounded authoritative saying? Yep it's all our fault again! The school will close unless we raise those statistics! More scare tactics, no support or encouragement. Can't wait until she gets her walking papers. She had other opportunities (plural) she turned down??? Hahahahaaaaa!!!!!!! Delusional. Get the straight jacket folks! Stay Gold
You have to have rigour in the classroom but make sure the statistics go up. Even though students cut class, find a way to bring them in, or in any way, find a way to make them pass, so we can keep the statistics up, because after all if they do not come to your class is your fault to begin with. We do not want the students to get the impression that they can easily pass to the point that we do not even review for their midterms, but we give boot-camp and apex for credit recovery only to keep the passing rates up. I think even the special ed students (no offence to anybody) have figured the insanity already. Maybe we should keep an audio record of these meetings, because I do not think anybody will believe us.
Best Line of the meeting: ...and Jackie Exarhis is in charge of of of filing the IEP's..... HA A HA HA HA So Jackie you backstabbed Nancy and Sherri so that you can be in be the coordinator of folders and file cabinets. You got exactly what you deserved.
What a sham, assistant principals forced to change the rating of the satisfactor veteran teachers observed, and then most of them except one got pushed out. This is outrageous that she can get her way to destroy so many careers.
Notice how Guy was missing? He diesnt stroll in until 9am and don't you dare dusturb him while he's stuffing his fat belly with breakfast from 9 to 9:30. And you'll have to get through his ugly pitbull Maureen to see him. He might be too preoccupied getting a blowjob from Bardatsos.
I am still waiting for a class action lawsuit on age discrimination and /or at least a grievance en mass filed by the UFT on behalf of its members. Is there are "correlation" between U-rated teachers and age? Let's form our own stats: Let's call it the "Dinosaur Group" and see what comes up. When a school is failing its because the "dinasours" are earning too much. But its' okay for a principal to be a"dinasour" and earn a high salary. It's okay that he/she can retire on his her own timetable. For the record: Any teacher that has 10 years or more they want you out! The new "seniority" is 5 years. And the new teachers won't be there long enough to get tenure, they will leave before it. They don't want you to be there long enough to collect a pension or health benefits. In other words "Bloomberg and Baldie" want you to work for free.
The National Education Association denounces blatant age discrimination as more and more veteran educators are targeted for negative ratings and dismissal by school superintendents and principals. In many cases, school officials use the guise of “improvement plans” to harass veteran educators without taking into account the countless contributions they have made to public education.
Educators who have been discriminated against because of their age can find solace and legal protection in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects teachers age 40 and over against age discrimination. Under this act, age may not be the sole factor when a school district terminates the employment of a teacher. If a teacher charges a school district with age discrimination, the school district has the burden to show that some factor other than age influenced its decision.
It's pathetically sad that even though Dwarka - the she-devil is one of the dumpest people on the planet she was still smart enough to know exactly the lacking self-esteem and pathetic individuals to select for those ridiculous coordinator positions!!!!! Only real self-loathing people would due a job with no extra pay, no real title and no real authority!!!!! Enjoy yourself idiots because there is a hiring freeze on hiring new AP's so if those were your aspirations......too bad......it's not going to happen!!!!!!! Your all mentally challenged!!!!
What you pathetic idiots failed to realize is that she and her clones are not respected by anyone because everyone knows that she and they are incompetent, inappropriate and unprofessional so who is going to give you a recommendation to a another position???? Don't look to your former supervisors because they will not recommend someone that has no integrity!!!! Disgusting.......I hope you are all proud of yourself for being participants in the destruction of children's lives!!!!!
Personal attacks against people are not right, that is why she has been able to push a lot of good professionals out. She is getting away with everything because you are not united.
The union's failure to protect their senior teachers is disgraceful and for the UFT to allow Tweed to practice ageism in the teacher removal process is aiding and abetting the DOE practice of age discrimination.
What a sham, assistant principals forced to change the rating of the satisfactor veteran teachers observed, and then most of them except one got pushed out. This is outrageous that she can get her way to destroy so many careers.
The administration at Bryant or maybe I should say the lack there of.....has such low self esteem that they are walking around wearing blue and gold ties!!!! Way to go Dwarka....keep letting your incompetent, inappropriate and idiotic flag fly!!!! Your such a moron and so are all those fools that follow you!!!!
Coordinators whose positions have not been voted by a SBO cannot act as assistant principals to do Ms. Dwarka's dirty work going after hard working veteran teachers. THE UFT IS BECOMING A JOKE. Remember actual coordinators, she pushed out 8 good assistant principals and that is why the tone in the building is getting worse. She wanted chaos and she is going to get is if she doesn't change course.
Lowlife is too kind. She's a sadistic pig. She's a twat with a zero IQ. Dwarkzilla's only asset is giving Howie Kwait Principal of John Bowne a mean blowjob.
I have no doubt she's not a member of Pelly, Luke, Jay, and Laura's queer club. She was after Gianakouris because she wanted Shaun Brandeis for herself.
The people writing this stuff about respected staff memebers obviously have nothing else to do with their lives and that is why they are trying to tarnish the reputations of great people
Pelly is a Wiesel....there is no defending her!!!! I hope she's proud of how she's stabbed her supervisor and Wally her mentor in the back!!! Wasn't she crying and carrying on about how hurt she was for him...,take the knife that you put in his back!!!! So sad..,,Pelly you are pathetic!!! There are no words for you!!!
Although you are right to call Yacovone a dirtbag but I think dirtbag is too kind! He's sad pathetic hollow poor excuse for a man! Of course what does that say for the woman that have been willing to sleep with him!!'
Henry is an ugly smelly four eyed English-challenged RAT. Tanalski handed him this make-believe "job" because he hates students and is too lazy to teach. I've heard for years that like his King Jabba Tanalski the Hut, he passes all his students but his passing results on the regents are 50%. Uhmmm hello. You do the math! He has no humanity or compassion like his reptilian mentor Dwarkhilda. Oh and he has a bush growing up his fat oily nostrils.
Huezo would sell his children into slavery to get out of being a real teacher. He loves administration because he knows administrators don't do anything and get paid a lot more. The Yak better be prepared for a transfer to the basement or 147 once Huezo gets his fake certification. Too bad his mother brought him and the rest of the litter she gave birth to over from the slums of South America.
This is racist but just a true demonstration of how people at Bryant High School really feel....I'm absolutely not defending Huezo because he a clueless, spineless, mindless jerk!!! How interesting that you guys are concentrating where he's from rather then his actions!!!! How come your not talking about how Yacovone has got every job because his daddy has given it to him like the DOE is the mafia!!!! Yacovone deserves to be in jail for all the years he's been stealing from children for years by not working.....cheating the system!!!! That man is disgusting and embarrassment to man everywhere!!!!!
Btw true administrators do work and if you idiots would have realized that way back when....,Bryant HS won't be run by a moron.....it would run by a true leader!!!! People buy a clue!!!!
Personal attacks on each other with names will not get you anywhere. We want to know how you are being abused or why you are treated in a discrminatory way by the administration?
Be silly to think one of her toadies or lackeys would not tell her. Don't forget some people have dropped out of the system. I will say it here, if we do not stick together as a chapter, we will die. There may be the odd person that "that switches sides" and in all honesty, while I would hate that, I do get it. Hopefully this board will allow us to stay connected, and know what everyone else is going through.
ReplyDeleteThis principal has violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act– on behalf of its members over 40 years of age, who have been harmed by the DOE's discriminatory use of the disciplinary system, through the issuance of Unsatisfactory annual performance ratings to such teachers, as well as the DOE's discriminatory pattern and practice of coercing, threatening, and harassing teachers over 40 years of age to “encourage” those teachers to leave their assigned schools under the turnaround model. Also she has harassed assistant principals to rate veteran teachers unsatisfactory who did not deserve it.
DeleteMaybe the person who created this blog can do the same for Flushing High. I've heard it's crazy there, too.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good idea. Same for anyone who knows folks in the other places, especially if they are going through the same crap.
ReplyDeleteHey Inside Scoop, I know it is only the first week of vacation, and I know that it might be hard to write stuff, but you have a lot of views in a short time, even if it is the same people checking over and over if there is anything new. Whoever you are, this is a good idea that won't work if you do not write, even old stories from the past year on here a couple of times a week. It will keep the discussion going and people returning.
ReplyDeleteWe were hoping the stories would come from everyone. So far the writing in the comments is outstanding. Even if a new story appears as only a comment, there can be replies to comments. It's a limitation to the blog format (as opposed to a group) that only we can put in a "new" post, but it shouldn't limit the dialog, i.e., this blog does not have to be neat and orderly for it to be effective.
DeleteAnd yes, it appears that many of the views are coming from a few people; maybe Dwarka herself is revealing her paranoia.
By "views" we meant "page views".
DeleteI know, about the posting new thing, that is why I made the comment. Neat and orderly does help. I do not know about paranoia, but there is no question that she will be a regular viewer trying to figure out who is posting what.
ReplyDeleteHer mentor is the devil himself, Howard Kwait, Principal, John Bowne HS. She learned from the best how to humiliate, torture and retaliate.
ReplyDeleteyea, after she got done bl---ng him
ReplyDeleteHey dwarker how was it tossing his ring across the hall ?Wasn't that him?Affairs are no good in the educational system!!!
ReplyDeleteShe's partial to the good looks. How would you explain Fishedick getting canned while Rotondi was saved even though Rotondi had "relations" with her arch-rival Lourdes Cuesta????
ReplyDeleteYou are sick. How about Dwarka trying to get into Sean's pants and Guy screwing a business teacher - married, a English ISS teacher and A.P. and who knows countless others. Chris screwing a secretary drooling all over himself while her mother was also a secretary. Bryant should be x rated.
DeleteThis is Fischedick. Please keep my name off this slanderous vitriolic site. And for the record I wasn't let go I made the choice to leave and put my efforts into finding another school, instead of reapplying. I made the choice not to work with Dwarka not the other way around.
DeletePersonal attacks against people are not right, that is why she has been able to push a lot of good professionals out.
Deletenames please...very interesting to say the least.
ReplyDeleteThis explains the demise of Yacajerkoff's marriage to Tanalski's cousin. Maybe poor Guy needs sex addicts anonymous????
ReplyDeleteTanalski's niece not cousin.
DeleteThis was his second divorce
Stavroulakus is the Business teacher, Bardatsis was the ISS teacher, and Toskos was the AP.
ReplyDeleteAdd Kutsu. You should have heard him on the phone begging Dana to come back. He would go out the doors by 121 and cry to her to forgive him. He used to still send her flowers and beg her. She was so smart to get away from him. Tanalski never approved of him marrying her. Maureen and Emily went to the wedding.
DeleteWhen he came to work he took off his wedding band off and left it on his desk. Didn't take long before he was chasing skirts again. Who's the baby daddy???????
Is this a high school blog for high school students. Really guys, grow up. Obviously, you don't have much going on in your life. It is obvious who is acting this way. You should really evaluate yourselves and understand why it makes you feel good to behave in this fashion. Very ugly. Such nonsense.
ReplyDeleteseems like someone is embarrassed, sorry charlie
ReplyDeleteThis is nonsense, this is supposed to be a place where come together, isn't Bryant (and all schools for that matter, ask around) already Peyton Place. For crying out loud, can we have honest discussion here? The gossip (some true and some not) has all been discussed, by me included, but the point here was to take the building back, and not have to go around with our heads on swivel sticks to see if the "GOTCHA SQUAD" was around the corner. Leave the Page Six stuff off of here. Fact is she only took 30% because she could not figure out a way to make it by with less.
ReplyDeleteWell said but will go unappreciated and most likely insulted by petty minds
DeleteThis is all so disgraceful and perfect for The Post
yep. finally some normal professionals on this site. Like i really care who Guy is having sex with or who Cuesta has been having sex with for years. This is not about petty gossip, it is about Bryant H.S. The only person embaressed should be the people writing the gossip. No one really cares.
ReplyDeletelike dwarker was quoted, " what is this a fuck house?"
ReplyDeleteStay gold
Memo to all the sanctimonious preachers among you: this blog was not created for a noble cause to help rally the troops. It is a mere happenstance that might vanish at any time and unless actively moderated by its creator anyone and everyone can post what ever nonsense the feel. If you don't like it excercise your rights and DON'T READ IT!
ReplyDeleteTruth be told regardless of what is expressed on this blog most of you are cowardly sheep and the useless Sam Lazarus will escort you straight to the slaughter house.
What is going to happen when all the counselors return and their offices have been evacuated to make room for Pelly's fat ass and Jackie's Prozac?
What about Sonia Buszwatiuk and Pat Troll? After a year of being bullied by Bitchface Dwarka are they going to be Lourdes Cuesta #2 and #3?????
STAY GOLD
Sam did you sift through that birds nest of a mailbox of yours yet? How long are we going to wait til you have this "negotiation" with bitchface Dwarker? Wow you are a clown and fit in with the rest of the miscreants at Bryant. We're going to get rid of you right after we take down that whore Dwarka.
ReplyDeletePeople like your with your bully and harassing comments has now put this blog under investigation. How do you consider youselves educators when you youselves bully others. Disgusting! This blog is worthless and pathetic. No wonder noone checks it anymore. Destroyed by people who have no respect and are miserable.
ReplyDeleteI cant wait until these people who bully certain people get called in to investigations. YOU will then be the clown and bitchface. You must have been raised in the garbage.
Awwweeeee Sam has a guardian angel! Adorable! Namita is sharpening her fangs....
DeleteWe have cordinators that have not been voted by an SBO, and acting like assistant principals.
DeleteThis blog is hysterical. I was a student at Bryant and was told that teachers and secretaries were attacking each other. This really is funny. Ms. Dwarka must really be envied if so many people talk about her. I heard Ms. Cuesta got the boot. These commoents must be from her. Heard they hated each other.
ReplyDeleteI tell ya, I have to agree with the previous comment, this blog is pathetic. I think professionals need to act professional. I always thought a lot of the Bryant staff were mentally unstable, well, this proves it.
Please a student could have written this comment because everyone knows that the students hate Dwarka!!!!! This is probably pathetic Dwarka herself!!!!! Dwarka isn't even important to her children!!!!! Even she admitted that her son hates her!!!!!! BTW Cuest
DeleteMs. Cuesta took the opportunity to get away from the most inappropriate, unprofessional and incompetent she-devil she had ever entcountered!!!!!!!!!!!! People buy a clue!!!!!!!!
DeleteHello Dwarka puppet in training! Tell us your name so we can rip your credibility to pieces.
DeleteWho is running against Worthless Sam?
ReplyDeleteWhat a waste of 2 hours! Thank you Wally for reminding these fools about the events of June 27. When mayhem ran through our school as friends snd colleagues were learning of their excessing. In typical brainless herd mentality everyone now wants to help the school on the QR? Hello????? We are going to fail the QR. diesnt matter what we vote. But at least send the message that this was the direct result of how Dwarka treated her teachers. We were treated like garbage. Oh yeah. Now it's coming back to you? Morons. And Sam is the biggest sellout of them all. He's out right begging you to save Dwarka! You make me want to vomit in your face! Where was Georgia??? People, sheep,whoever: stop listening to Sam. He's trying to save his own corrupt ass! He needs to go right after Dwarka!
ReplyDeleteNever forget 6-27-12 !!!!!!!
Dwarka must FAIL so that we can WIN.
April needs to shut her big mouth. It was bad enough Sam pulled a bait-and-switch advertising a "vote" to get us there. It was torture listening to her go on and on about her stupid law program. Shut up!
ReplyDeletePersonal attacks against people are not right, that is why she has been able to push a lot of good professionals out. The more you attack eah other the problem becomes bigger.
DeleteVOTE NO TO EVERYTHING!!!!
ReplyDeleteDiane Martone will lose tomorrow. Why? Because the complacent pathetic cockroaches of Bryant are braindread drones who can't muster enough thought to overthrow our corrupt union rep.
ReplyDeleteShame on all of you.
whoever you are, why don't you run. it is easy to talk behind a curtain. if you can do better put your money where your mouth is or shut the f up. Buy the way, I realized you can't run - how is retirement you pathetic old witch
ReplyDeleteYes. Yes. Yes. 80% of this blog is written by Sherry. Sad isn't it. She needs to start enjoying her retirement rather than write on a blog all day. We all need to stop reading this pathetic blog and stop entertaining the 5 people who write these disgusting comments. Let them entertain themselves.
ReplyDeleteYou are just upset because you are a loser!!!!! Stop blaming Sherry for all your short comngs!!!!!! LOSER!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteStop trying to control people........when you cant even control yourself!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAwww.. Did you get upset? Sherry? Cuesta? Jesus. you guys aren't even in Bryant anymore. Why continue badmouthing Bryant staff.? Does it make you feel better about yourself?
ReplyDeleteYou are fools to think Sherry and Lourdes are the only ones with an axe to grind. There are a lot more of us among you. And we're watching all the sheep and puppets dance and jump for Broomhilda. We are laughing and waiting for the end of the shit show.
ReplyDeleteIt's coming....
How did Rocco Rotondi get a dean's position after flaunting his sexual affair with Cuesta in Dwarkzulla's brown piglet face? Poor Kevin Smith got a horrible schedule instead. I guess it pays to be a low life scumbag. Ha ha ha
ReplyDeletePersonal attacks against people are not right, that is why she has been able to push a lot of good professionals out.
DeleteHey dumbasses, Sherry is retired so look at someone else's axe. She's moved on to a better life than Bryant. Maybe you should too.
ReplyDeleteI just received a phone call while visiting a relative in the hospital telling me I am being accused of writing on this stupid blog.
ReplyDeleteTO ALL YOU DUMBASS FOOLS:
1. I am enjoying my retirement - and YES I retired exactly the way I had planned and no one pushed me out - especially the administrators. I caught them by surprise when I turned in my terminal leave papers the same day they had other plans for me. So, who were the losers: Dwarka and Yacovone were trumped, I gave them my paperwork before they could do anything to me.
2. Anyone who could retire and continues to work at Bryant deserves everything they get and more. Anyone who doesn't apply to get out deserves whatever they get.
3. After reading some of the blogs I have to say, you need to take an English class your grammer and spelling is atrocious.
4. I enjoyed working on the 4th floor - I able to breath and Dwarka didn't know I was sitting around doing crossword puzzles.
5. Trumped those two idiots again when they broke into my desk and file cabinets and found nothing but paperclips and a pencil. I would have loved to seen the expression on their stupid faces. What were they looking for?
So to all you fools, write all you want about me because STICKS AND STONSs MAY BREAK MY BONES BUT WORDS WILL NEVER HARM ME.
I wake up every morning and don't have to circle around looking for parking, see all your faces as you have to deal with Sam (who I said was useless a long time ago), Dwarka and whatever is left of her cabinet. You are just One Big Happy Family from what I just read.
As someone wrote previously, you are nothing but a bunch of PUPPETS and need permission to breath and take a crap during the day.
WHOEVER IS WRITING ABOUT ME SIGN YOUR NAME AND STOP BEING A COWARD. HAVEN'T YOU FIGURED IT OUT YET - I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE ONE OF YOU.
Sherry
Told you guys.. this whole blog is Sherry. This was confimation Sherry. You really need to enjoy being home Are you bored? I am sure.
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way, no one really cares if you like us because, guess what, we never liked you. You are a mean miserable woman that needs to find a hobby. You deserved getting pushed out. Your writing really gives it away that this whole blog was you and Cuesta. By the way, maybe YOU need an English class instead of poking fun of us teachers.. stones not stonss.
And by the way, obviously, you do care about us because you are on this blog and have been since day one.
You act as if we care what you think about Sam and Yacovone and dwarka... and all the other teachers and APs you have been putting down for months. No one cares! You have been giving details of secretaries personal lives and others in Bryant as a way to hurt them but they are still there and really are not embaressed they work and happy you are not there.
Get off this blog. You have destroyed it and it is not meant for negativity but for a constructive purpose.
You poke at people's personal lives and put down people. What are you?
I know you resent getting pushed out and in a sick way miss looking for parking but your time was up. Bryant does not care for your comments and does not miss your nasty comments either.
Maureen everyone knows that this you and you have no business talking about anyone! Don't you realize that everyone sees you for what you are " White Trash"!! You are a disgusting, uneducated classless slut!!!!
DeleteIt is not Maureen, you idiot Sherry. It is a teacher. Don't you know, NO ONE likes you. We teachers never liked you and dreaded going in payroll to hear your voice. And by the way, YOU are the white trash for speaking so ugly about someone innocent. You keep on showing your true colors. Get the hell off this blog you miserable gossipping old lady. Stop your petty nonsense and badmouthing everyone. Get a life and get the hell out of Bryant's life.
DeleteMaureen is trash!!!!!!!! Whatever teacher would defend the lowlife of Maureen needs help!!!!! Maureen is disgusting and by the way Sherry may have been many things to a lot of people but one thing that she was competent!!!!!! The same can not be said for the loser of Maureen!!!!!!!!
DeleteNo ,,,, Sherry is trash. Maureen gets everything done and atleast is respectful to the teachers. She doesn't talk behind their back and act like a disgusting human being. When we approach her, she is nothing but professionaly and kind to us. So, Sherry just get off this blog. Move on already! And by the way Sherry, it is not Maureen we are defending, it is anyone YOU put down. You have bashed us all way too much and you and Cuseta should be embaressed on what you have done to this blog.
DeleteMaureen it obvious this is you!!!!!! Stop you are embarassing yourself becuase everyone knows how disgusting you are!!! Enjoy yourself for now because it won't last long!!!!!!
DeleteMaureen you are a low life and everyone knows it!!!!! Don't fool yourself into believing that just because you are currently getting to tell people what to do that you are anything greater then a "low life"!!!! That who you are and that is what you always will be!!!!!!
DeleteThis is how stupid Sherry and Cuesta are. It is not Maureen, you fools. NO ONE LIKED EITHER OF YOU! We couldn't stand you. There are over 100 teachers in Bryant who thank God you are gone. We are grateful that you both got pushed out. And By the way Sherry, no one thinks Maureen is a lowlife BUT we do think YOU are. ONLY trashy people talk the way you do. Obviously, as you, yourself have said, you are a dumbass fool for not realizing NO ONE liked you.
DeleteLMAO.........this extremely pathetic!!!!!!! Stop because you are only showing people who this really is!!!! Denial is not just a river in Egypt!!!!! Low Lives!!!!!!! You three know who you are!!!!!!
DeletePersonal attacks against people are not right, that is why she has been able to push a lot of good professionals out.
DeleteDo you not have a life that you keep picking on someone who doesn't give a rats ass about you. Go pick your nose instead.
ReplyDeleteTweed has no clue of what they are doing, sending leadership principals to destroy schools like Ms. Dwarka of W.C. Bryant High School, rating veteran teachers u who are satisfactory while using the Danielson Model to rate the teachers when the UFT has not agreed to this model.
DeleteYo Cunt Dwarcula, you still think we're stupid. We're not bullying each other We are doing everything possible to see you FAIL. And don't think we can't see through your tough bitch bravado. You're crying inside its so obvious. The school under your "mis"guidance is really a fuckhouse (one if your favorite words) because you have no clue what you are doing! You scared little piglet! We don't need to reflect about shit. We do care about the students and our profession. And we're trying to protect them from your evil clutches. You need to reflect about your disgusting face and behavior. You are a monster to your core. A Tweed transfer is awaiting you! And your red hair matches the devil you worship.
ReplyDeleteIt's very sad to read all the comments on this blog. It's a shame that it's become a forum for anonymously bashing fellow employees. The real enemies, who need to be vanquished if the children of New York City are going to ever receive a quality education again, are Michael Bloomberg and his minions. Bryant was once a wonderful place with a very dedicated and professional faculty. We were a family- staff, students, and alumnni. I was fortunate enough to be offered a position elsewhere (at the 11th hour in August). I agonized over leaving the school that I loved and had given my heart and soul to for two decades, but I know in my heart that it will never be the same place again. Although I'm no longer a teacher at Bryant, I'll always be an Owl, and so many of you people will always have special places in my heart.
ReplyDeleteGOLD AND BLUE FOREVER!
*alumni
DeleteI agree with you. I still am at Bryant and am embaresssed of this blog as well. I have been there for many many years and feel like it is my home. Bryant will always be a part of me. Reading this blog is truly disgusting and it makes me sad. Sorry we lost you.
DeleteI feel bad for those of you who are still there. I spent two months second-guessing my decision to leave, but this blog has convinced me that I made the right move. The "old Bryant" is dead and gone- swept away by arrogant politicians and inept administrators. I spoke to an alumnus yesterday who had recently visited the school. She told me that it was like walking into a place where she'd never been before. It's changed that much! God bless you guys who are sticking it out there. See you all at retirement parties!
DeleteAnd yes, I wrote the 10/25 post. I think "Former B.U. Person" makes it clear who I am.
DeleteBarbara Frohman for chapter leader!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSam you are a fucking dipshit!
Stay Gold
Tara did your house float out to sea?
ReplyDeleteI can't wait until Tara and Maureen get knocked off their high horses when Guy gets transferred out. It will be great to see them get a taste of humble pie.
ReplyDeleteKeep us posted when he is given his walking papers.
DeleteFocus on the problem
DeleteSoneone needs to shut Katechis big mouth. She embarrasses herself. Bad influence on Whitmer.
ReplyDeleteHellooooooo Bryanters.......!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWho helped Broomhinda come up with this absurdity?
Did you all enjoy getting belittled by her? That fat cunt couldn't resist accusing us for her "C". Poor Georgia got the honor of unleashing her true beastly nature. And don't forget that spineless beak nose Sam who barely got to whisper a few syllables in our defense. What should have happned was a room full of boos and hissing. But the lame ducks (brain dead teachers) were applauding her pathetic attempts at flip-flopping between verbal abuse and praise.
What a FUCKED UP SICK IN THE HEAD TWAT she is! Someone needs to bring the straight jacket and ambulance for her.
Stay Gold
P.S. I hope you all are happy with your elected union rep who was enjoying a mutual ego massage with Dwarcunt. Suddenly she thinks he's the master of "questioning"! Did she come to this realization before or after she fired his brown nose in June.
Why didn't you brave anonymous soul start the booing? Why don't you confront Sam privately or openly in a union meeting with your concerns? He can not fire you. And where were you last year when about ten people, in truth really three, run around trying to organize to save the school? You probably don't even know what was done last year because you, like most stayed in a save distance. Any way, enough said, and because, unlike you, I do have the courage of my opinion, you probably guessed
ReplyDeleteright, it is Georgia. Don't bother with a response unless you have the integrity to sign it.
Another vote??? Well, Bryant cockroaches, do what you do best: vote for the scabs and miscreants that will help Dwarker fire your spineless asses and wreak havoc on the school. Ha ha ha
ReplyDeleteHi Sherry.
DeleteSam is a useless crooked nose bastard.
ReplyDeleteMaureen is a trashy slut.
Guy is sex addicted balding misogynist.
Dwarfungus go back to John Bowne to your Jewish lover mentor Howie Kwait.
Pelly and Jackie call up Nancy and Weight Watchers.
Henry take an ESL class.
What was the result of the vote?
ReplyDeleteDwarka told spineless Sam Lazarus to postpone it because it would look bad for the mock QR. And of course he obeyed like the sellout that he is.
ReplyDeleteAre you all going to the "voluntary" meeting tomorrow at 3:30? Lets guess what will happen. Ape face dwarzilla will shoot her haterade tirade against all of you for her failed QR and the sheep of Bryant the teacher cockroaches will sit in silence and bend over while she vocally rapes you. Personally I'll be secretly jumping for joy. You'll get exactly what you deserve for helping this maniacal bitch decimate the school. I suggest we bring eggs and tomatoes to toss at her baboon face. Who's with me?
ReplyDeleteLets throw exit slips from the balcony.
DeleteHow much more of that ratty hair do you think she lost just this week? She will be as bald as old Guy any day now. Maybe he'll lend her his fake-hair-in-a-can aerosol! Bwahahaha!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteMr. Montalvo, latest victim of Dwarka's regime. Little by little you are all going to be abused in one way or another. She came to clean house and she gets away with everything. Pressuring teachers to pass students, asking APs to rate veteran teachers unsatisfactory and teachers she does not like. Discrimination against veteran teachers by rating them u, intimidation with younger teachers, she treats the assistant principals like puppets. There are still some APs left, the ones left of course are going to oushed out, and everbody basically takes the abuse and look the other way.
ReplyDeleteRIP Ralph Montalvo... Dwarzila's latest victim. When will this house of horrors finally end? You are all to blame. All you had to do is make a stand with your vote. But instead you believed the lies this psychopath fed you about helping the school. I hope you're happy. Idiots! Watching Tara and April and the rest of you space cadets laughing at Dwarkblojob's lame attempts at humor. Disgusting! If she took a shit and fed it to you you'd say thanks ma'am can I have some more. Her proclamations of being a Bryant "success story" are disgraceful and embarrassing. This schizophrenic shit-for-brains is leaving a legacy to Bryant like Hitler left to Germany.
ReplyDeleteThank you Rose Depinto, Adam Tanalski, and Chris Pelletierri for creating this beast and ushering her to our once wonderful school. I truly hope and pray your children and loved ones suffer in the exact same way the students and staff are suffering as a result of this plague you inflicted on us.
This is a sad day. Intelligent and well-seasoned professionals are pushed out while pathetic scabs like Pelly and Rocco are taking their place. You two couldn't mentor or nurture teachers let alone exemplify good teaching to save your scavenger lives. You think dressing up for a change and cleaning a cubicle makes you matter? You and the rest of chimpmunk face Dwarker's "coordinators" are just her personal instruments of destruction. You are only tools. In the sense of assholes just to be sure both your low IQs get it. She and Yacadoofus bankrupt the budget so they can't spend funds they don't have on APs. Do you think any of you would be given any chance at a real school??? With your track records??? Maybe if the application was for ass-licking. Or should I say pussy-licking? Why don't you take Dwarka to Henrietta's Pelly where you Laura and Luke can show her a good time? The entire school is revolted by all of you and on their behalf I hope you go fuck yourselves!!!!!
ReplyDeletePersonal attacks against people are not right, that is why she has been able to push a lot of good professionals out.
DeleteDo you people read what you typpe before you hit the publish button? I am ashamed to work with such vitriolic colleagues.
ReplyDeleteClearly, I didn't read before I hit the publish button. Type not typpe. Better a mispelled word than your angry rampant spews.
ReplyDeleteAmother AP out Ms. Buswatiuk, she rated veteran teachers unsatisfactory even though she did not think they were, and now after doing everything she was told to do she is also out/
ReplyDeleteI want to remind everyone that it is ALL your fault for not crushing Broomhilda and her puppets when you had the chance. She would have been rendered powerless and severely handicapped if she had no comp positions to dole out to creeps like Rocco and Pelly to help her destroy the school. Save the school? No you did it because you are a building full of brainless dummies. Or you had your own cushy periods off to protect. And let's not ignore our great "protector" Sam Lazarus. You also voted for this useless self-serving prick. Everytime this mentally deranged Dwarkzilla tried pulling one of her stunts he should have raised bloody hell. He should be inciting riots against her! He recoils in fear pushing his tiny penis farther back into his balls everytime she opens her mouth. And Georgia the only one with any balls and a sliver of intelligence would rather pick the garbage than replace him. Oh ya! This school is sure full of winners.
ReplyDeletePersonal attacks against people are not right, that is why she has been able to push a lot of good professionals out.
DeleteGod tests the content of ones character and many people have failed the test!!!!! Many God forgive all of you because most of us will not!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe worse is coming, you keep fighting with each other instead of uniting and she is winning. She is making everybody miserable and pushing everybody out and most of you are looking the other way. The worse is yet to come.
ReplyDeleteTheir crime growing old and working hard in a system that discriminates you instead of rewarding you for loyalty and hard work. That is the reality we are losing and have lost many good people because they maybe at times too outspoken for an administration that was to control everything. Too much power in only one person is never good. Those of you who got rehired, please do not let the new administration manipulate or intimidate you. Stand for yourself or forever be part of the silent majority. Good luck to all of you!
ReplyDeleteCooruption and discrimination wins when we do not fight back together. Are we going to continue to attack each other or are we going to stand up with dignity? And please all of you stop mentioning names of people that work there or have worked and stand up together for once against the top who is ruining the place in front of your noses.
ReplyDeleteAcross the United States, veteran educators are facing a growing problem of age discrimination.
ReplyDeleteLast year, Tempe Elementary School District No. 3 in Tucson, Arizona, discriminated against employees on the basis of age when it applied an early retirement incentive plan which granted greater economic benefits to younger employees based upon their age.
In North Carolina, a public school teacher was denied a promotion to assistant principal because of her age. She eventually won a $25,000 settlement after a lawsuit was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
In 2009, EEOC filed an amicus brief in a case from Oklahoma City, successfully arguing that the trial court was wrong to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit by an older educator who had been demoted because of her age.
The National Education Association denounces blatant age discrimination as more and more veteran educators are targeted for dismissal by school superintendents and administrators. In many cases, school officials use the guise of “improvement plans” to harass veteran educators without taking into account the countless contributions they have made to public education.
Educators who have been discriminated against because of their age can find solace and legal protection in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects teachers age 40 and over against age discrimination. Under this act, age may not be the sole factor when a school district terminates the employment of a teacher. If a teacher charges a school district with age discrimination, the school district has the burden to show that some factor other than age influenced its decision.
This law, administered by EEOC, helps to protect this group of educators who either apply for a position or are already employed. In accordance with ADEA, it is unlawful to discriminate against a person because of his/her age with respect to any term, condition, or privilege of employment. This includes, but is not limited to, hiring, firing, promotion, layoff, compensation, benefits, job assignments and training. The Older Workers Benefit Protections Act amended several sections of the ADEA.
In Tucson, a lawsuit by EEOC against Tempe Elementary School District alleges that the school district maintained an early retirement incentive plan that was unlawful. Specifically, the EEOC charges that the school district’s plan is discriminatory because it grants more favorable benefits to younger employees based on their age. Under the school district’s retirement plan, employees are reimbursed for accumulated leave based on their age at retirement, with those retiring at a younger age being treated more favorably than those who retire after age 60.
“Early retirement incentive plans which discriminate on their face based upon age are illegal and need to be changed,” said EEOC Regional Attorney Mary Jo O’Neill. “People in their ‘60s should not be penalized merely because they want to continue working.”
Are Principals Practicing Age Discrimination When Hiring ATRs For Their Vacancies? According To Me They Are
ReplyDeleteI have previously written on how principals are either hiding their vacancies or are selectively interviewing the youngest and cheapest of the ATRs when they cannot hide their vacancies. Of course if you ask the union or the DOE, they will claim that no such age discrimination is occurring. However, very few, if any older ATRs are getting any interviews. Now I read an article in Educationnext that showed that in Chicago, the younger principals do not like to hire older teachers and since many of the new generation of principals are younger and come from the infamous "Leadership Academy", they rather not have older teachers on their staff. In the article by Brian A. Jacob, a professor of education policy and economics at the University of Michigan, wrote the following:
Finally, I find evidence that younger principals are more likely to dismiss older teachers than they are to dismiss younger teachers. There are no obvious explanations for this pattern, although one might speculate that younger principals may value different characteristics in a teacher than older principals. Regardless, this pattern does seem to warrant further exploration.
While I am sure both the union and the DOE have statistics that can support my claim, I don't expect them to publish them as not to embarrass each other. The DOE for allowing principals to practice age discrimination and the union for turning a blind eye to the practice. However, there is anecdotal evidence to support my claim. I have spoken to many ATRs and a few Chapter Leaders who have told me that the principals were looking for younger and cheaper teachers to fill their vacancies. Part of the reason is their tight budgets but it is increasingly obvious to even the casual observer that the more senior ATRs are not even given interviews. Other principals are hiding their vacancies in the vain hope that the hiring freeze is rescinded at the end of August or that they can gain an exception as some principals were able to do in the last two years when Joel Klein was the Chancellor. Of course, many principals will simply let the "Children First Network" assign an ATR to them and let them fill the vacancy without taking on their salaries. Whatever the reason, the senior ATRs are not being selected to interview for the fewvacancies listed.
The only way that the DOE can save the $43 million dollars that they promised Bloomberg is to make sure every vacancy is listed and that the ATRs fill them. I am not holding my breath waiting for that to happen anytime soon.
I taught math at Bryant for 16 years and am recently retired. I have gotten reports from the math teachers about what is happening in the math department. There is no question that senior teachers are being targeted by the principal for U ratings at the end of the year so that they can be replaced in the turnaround as being not-qualified. These are teachers who have never received U ratings and have outstanding credentials and outstanding achievements with the students that they have taught. After 10 or 15 or 20 years of being rated as satisfactory teachers they are suddenly being rated by the same assistant principal of mathematics Sonia Buzwatiuk as being unsatisfactory? Please believe one thing: what we have here is the verdict first and then the trial. The principal told Buzwatiuk who she wants out, and this woman goes about it by writing mindless observation reports to do the prrincipal's dirty work. Now Ms. Buszwatiuk also got sacrificed. and this is coming to all of you in one way or another.
ReplyDeleteAge Discrimination
ReplyDeleteFederal and state laws prohibit job discrimination based on someone’s age. This means an employer cannot fire, demote, transfer, deny benefits or opportunities, or otherwise take any adverse action based on an older employee’s age.
The federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protects workers 40 and older from age discrimination on the job. It is also unlawful to retaliate against anyone who opposes employment practices that discriminate based on age or who files a lawsuit under the ADEA. New York state law prohibits age discrimination under the New York Human Rights Law.
Despite these strong protections against age discrimination, New York employers continue to violate the law. In fact, New York age discrimination cases are known to produce some of the highest verdicts and settlements.
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The many guises of age discrimination
Employers who want a younger workforce resort to a variety of tactics in discriminating against older workers, typically those 40 or older. Here are some of the more common age bias scenarios:
You didn’t get hired because the employer wanted a younger-looking person to do the job;
You received a negative job evaluation because you weren’t “flexible” in taking on new projects;
You were fired because your boss wanted to keep younger workers who are paid less;
You were turned down for a promotion, which went to someone younger hired from outside the company because the boss says the company “needs new blood”;
As part of company layoffs, most of the employees laid off were older, and younger workers with less seniority and less on-the-job experience were retained;
Before you were fired, your supervisor made age-related remarks that you were “over-the-hill,” or “ancient.”
If you have experienced any of these or similar situations, you may have suffered age discrimination. Depending on your situation, you may be entitled to past and future lost wages and benefits, as well as emotional distress and punitive damages.
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Contact The Ottinger Firm today to discuss your legal rights by calling 888-449-5390 or using our online form. Find out if your rights were violated on account of your age. Our experienced attorneys have handled many of age discrimination over the years involving employers in New York and northern New Jersey, and we can determine if you have a case. We handle cases on a contingent fee basis, which means we don’t get paid until you receive a jury award or settlement.
She will continue to harass teachers and rate veteran teachers unsatisfactory, intimidate new teachers and discriminate because Tweed is giving her permission to do so, and you the staff are going to suffer because you are not united. Haven't we seen 7 assistant principals being pushed out and harassed already? She will use anybody and them push them away, eben the kids are seeing this.
ReplyDeleteHow can we stck together or avoid attacking each other??? Puppets like Papputsis, Rotundi, Skordass, Huezo, Exarwhore, Franksin etc know exactly what landmine they were stepping into. This Is a battle and they chose the wrong side if they thought their histories and reputations were off-limits. They are now her instruments of destruction and they are paying the price in public humiliation. As the saying goes, all is fair in love and war....
ReplyDeleteThe NYC-DOE is one of the only organizations that is so shamelessly reckless that the would empower a brainless, evil, unprofessional as well as proven incompetent idiot like "Namita Dwarka" Children are ultimately being hurt in the process!!
ReplyDeleteThe staff of W. C. Bryant will get their respect back when they unite, so stop blaming each other. A lot of assistant principals were doing what she wanted and collaborated with her to destroy the morale of the school, change teachers' observations so they would look unsatisfactory, pressure teachers to pass students, even lie and they became the victims themselves. Using bad words or putting people down and screaming loud will never get any of you anywhere.
ReplyDeleteThe Danielson Model is used in Bryant High School as an excuse to push out veteran teachers by rating them unsatisfactory,the Union has not agreed to this system of evaluation. Nine teachers got rated unsatisfactory last year, all of them over 40 years old. Just after Bloomberg announced that they will closing the school, what a coincedence? It is called age discriminination, that simple! How many assistant principals left or were forced out that were complying with the principal?
ReplyDeleteOnly one Assistant Principal complied with the she-devil!!! It is never ok to sell your soul to the devil which is why most of them didn't do it!!! Although there are two incompetent idiots that are still sitting there with her doing her work!!!!
ReplyDeleteMore than one, if they would have taken a stand things would have been much better now.
DeleteThere is no way we can do a good job in this environment of nonesense, like giving unsatisfactory to veteran teachers sho do not have a lesson plan when giving a test.
DeleteSam you never had balls or a penis much like Yacovone.
ReplyDeleteTweed has no clue of what they are doing, sending leadership principals to destroy schools like Ms. Dwarka of W.C. Bryant High School, rating veteran teachers u who are satisfactory, while using the Danielson Model to rate the teachers when the UFT has not agreed to this model. Forcing good assistant principals out the door, this is outrageous.
ReplyDeleteSam is a crooked brown nose parasite. He has the time and money to go to Dwardoofus' Cavo party but he has no time to advocate for our rights AGRESSIVELY or buy a new shirt so that he doesn't look like a homeless person. I have no doubt he's in cahoots with Hippo Ass and is helping her weaken our solidarity. Sam you are a Benedict Arnold, a lazy jackass, and a fugly motherfucker.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he is not agressive enough because he does not have the backimg from the UFT headquarters, but you are not doing us any favor by insulting him. And we do not want people like you here because you are doing more harm than good.
DeleteSam, was voted in his position. If you know how to handle this better why didn't you run? What is the matter with all of you so brave on the blog. Why couldn't you or any of those who agree with you run with a real agenda, real issues other than vitriolic personal attacks of the worse kind? Who are you? In my opinion, You are such a filthy slime ball that no, you do not belong in the classroom. Have the balls, step up, speak up, because right now all you are is a cyber bully. Don't you understand that you are receiving the treatment cowards deserve? I hope you are not one of the people I talk to in school because you nauseate me. This is Georgia, what are you going to do now? start the personal attack against me?
ReplyDeleteI have a very good feeling that this person is part of the administration.
DeleteWe do not need to spaeak up, we need to fight back silently. Remember how one teacher was chased out because she spoke her mind.
Deletewho?
DeleteGIANAKOURIS
DeleteTweed has no clue of what they are doing, sending leadership principals to destroy schools like Ms. Dwarka of W.C. Bryant High School, rating veteran teachers u who are satisfactory while using the Danielson Model to rate the teachers when the UFT has not agreed to this model.
DeleteBy the way, why don't you tell us who you are, so we can check how your nose looks like?
ReplyDeleteVery unhelpful comment, we do not need people like you in this blog. Remember most of us have suffered this year and you are not helping.
DeleteWe must all put a stop to this nonsense of flushing out good professionals and good teachers, that should be our focus and not disqualifying people. There is suspicion that these personal attacks are coming from the administration itself, so ignore personal attacks and focus on the problem ahead of us. We need to do our best job for the kids and we need to neutralize the abuse and the nonsense of this principal that is driving everybody crazy with the Danielson Model which the UFT has not approved. If she does not change we need to stop collaborating with her, but at the same time we need to continue doing our best for the kids.
ReplyDeleteYes, the key is to stop collaborating with her. I agree. We must fight back silently. But that means targeting the turncoats Jackie, Pely, Sam, Basil, Tara, April, Jay, Luke, Michelle, Laura, Henry, and even Goofball Guy. Stop obeying these dirty rats.
DeleteThey want to keep destroying thr school.
DeleteOur principal is not fit to supervise people, period. She has an extreme micro-management problem and gives excessive orders and nonsense in an attempt to make all teachers act exactly the same way like robots. And she is petty and vindictive to those who don't go along. She came to please Tweed and to destroy careers, also to drive veteran teachers and veteran assostant principals out, and basically to destroy the school.
ReplyDeleteConstantly rude and disrespectful to the hard working staff,she lies and seems to get a sense of power thinking that she is an ultimate leader. And to make matters worse, she even pressures her AP's and coordinators to do the same and treats them as puppets.
We need your input about grade changes, falsifying data, and falsifying observations by lying about what she saw in people's classrooms, like claiming rubrics weren't used when they were, so she could fire this person she saw as a threat to her regime or the way some of you have been harassed. We need proof that your AP was ordered by Ms. Dwarka that you were rated unsatisfactory even though it was a good lesson.
ReplyDeleteWho is "we"?????
ReplyDeleteIs there a secret underground society of vigilantes against Bullyarka and her Puppets of Destruction? Is there a password? Secret handshake?
Don't let Sam know or he'll run back to his Guyanese Gorilla Girlfriend and squeal like the dirty rat that he is.
We kmow who you are.
DeleteWe need to all stop looking at this blog and let the bullies of this blog entertain themselves. Putting down staff of Bryant does nothing for this blog or for me. So, good for you Georgia for writing your name. I agree with you 100%. Just so you know, most of it is Sherry. But, i am afraid it may be another sick individual in our school. This is why noone is united. We know about the blog and don't know who is abusing us, therefore, we can't trust eachother. It is quite sick that this is an adult.
ReplyDeleteThe Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, with its subsequent amendments, provides protection for teachers over the age of 40 against age discrimination. Under this act, age may not be the sole factor when a school district terminates the employment of a teacher. If a teacher charges a school district with age discrimination, the school district has the burden to show that some factor other than age influenced its decision.
ReplyDeleteLeadership Principals like Ms. Dwarka is engaging in tactics of age discrimination because that is what Tweed wants, she was ordering the assistant principals to rate teachers over 40 years old unsatisfactory. How else can you explain that these teachers never got rated unsatisfactory before and most of these assistant principals that were rating them were forced out? During 2012 nine assistant principals have left W.C. Bryant High School. How can our Union negotiate with Tweed? When these teachers were making 30000 dollars they were satisfactory teachers, now that they are make more sll of the sudden and overnight they became unsatisfactory teachers.
ReplyDeleteWishing you all happy holidays and enjoy your vacation time. You are all working hard and doing a great job at Bryant. Enjoy your time off with your loved ones.
ReplyDeleteHello My Bryant Family! This is your Principal speaking!
ReplyDeleteTry to make sense of what I'm saying I try my best but with all the weed I've smoked I have few brain cells left. I try to make myself sound like I'm not the idiot I really am by faking my British accent although its just a twang left from my Indo-slavery roots.
I must take this holy day of Xmas to thank my puppets for helping me decimate what once was Bryant HS and is now my empire of indentured servants.
Thank you Alonso Westbrook for terrorizing all my targets in English and ISS. Dont worry about Jackie she will never amount to anything more than a glorified school aid as long as I am here. I'll try to keep her on her meds. Even though you've never been a supervisor before you are learning quickly how to intimidate and harass our victims.
Thank you Maria Troianos for convincing me to manipulate April, Luke, and Laura since they are easy to dispose of later on.
Thank you Rotundi, Morales, Frankson, Papoutsus, and Scordas for being illiterate morally bankrupt moronic weaklings that will jump as soon as I snap my ugly brown fingers.
Thank you to all my new teachers who I hired out of desperation to replace all the poor souls who dared to question my supremacy. You are a bargain to my budget and look at me like the goddess I believe I am.
And thank you Sam Lazarus for double-crossing all the innocent hard working teachers I am trying to U-rate and harass. Your incompetence made it so convincing!
And thank you Guy for hiding in your office while I bankrupt the school. Finding sex victims is what your talent is. Too bad I'm not your type.
And Lisa, you know you're next on my hit list. Enjoy your last few weeks. At least I'm giving you time to say your goodbyes.
Have a SAFE week off my Bryanters! I'll be ready with my Danielson Rubric to catch you when we get back. Nevermind that I have no idea how I would teach one of these stupid lessons. Haha! All that matters is that no one would challenge me to!
Merry Christmas you fools! Even Jesus himself can't save you from me! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....
This is your Emperess Dwarka again! I would be remiss to forget the most amazing floor mat Henry who enjoys being screamed at while I go through my schizophrenic temper tantrums every day. He legitimizes my idiotic policies with his bullshit data presentations. I know you can't really understand a thing he says and I know he's a joke but he came highly recommended from my godfather Adam Shrek Tanalski and I can never betray my godfather Adam who still shows me how to play games with all your miserable lives. I have to run now. I must call Henry and ask him how to manipulate the latest statistics so I don't look like the failure I really am. Life is amazing when you run a school full of idiots! Ha ha ha ha!
ReplyDeleteSorry, but the scary thing is, you are the schizophrenic one not Dwarka. God, just the idea that you have nothing else to do in your life but put everyone down must be depressing. Pretending you are Dwarka, god, get a life. You sound like a fool. Your put downs are so old, it actually bores me.
ReplyDeleteYou sad, sad creatures to think that people who left the school actually sit around thinking about you, let alone write on this blog. WE ARE THE LUCKY ONES - you have to fact those deplorable administrators every day. HA HA HA THE JOKE IS ON YOU - GET A LIFE.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the social studies department with April, Tara and Jay are backstabbers - do not trust any of them.
No, actually, the joke is on you. You do care, you sad, sad creature! You are on this blog all day long and get off on the idea that maybe someone is getting affected by your put downs. You are simply a cyber bully hiding behind this blog.
ReplyDeleteWe have a life. We go to work and do our job and don't think of you. But, obviously, you do. You are so hurt, angry and depressed that Dwarka pushed you out that you feel the need to hurt others. Get over it and move on. You may need to see a therapist for your hurt feelings.
You post comments such as who not to trust in Bryant, April, Tara and Jay. But, we do not care what you think. Get a life, move on, and schizophrenia is a mental condition so you may need medication. Take care of yourself!
Love,
The Whole Bryant Family
There is no Bryant "Family" so you can STFU.
ReplyDeleteYou are a Bryant House of Horrors. Once your lord and savior Trashmita gets her walking papers the entire school will cheer and throw you and the rest of her used tampons in the toilet where you deserve to be.
Hugs and Kisses,
The Bryant Silent Majority
ReplyDeleteLeadership Principals like Ms. Dwarka is engaging in tactics of age discrimination because that is what Tweed wants, she was ordering the assistant principals to rate teachers over 40 years old unsatisfactory. How else can you explain that these teachers never got rated unsatisfactory before and most of these assistant principals were forced out? During 2012 nine assistant principals have left W.C. Bryant High School. How can our Union negotiate with Tweed? When we were making 30000 dollars we were satisfactory teachers, now that we make more overnight we became unsatisfactory.
People this is not about Age-Discrimination this is about have placed someone in a leadership role that had been there before and has an extensive track record of incompetence, unprofessionalism and inappropriateness!!! There is a conflict of interest as she has personal vendettas with people and that just demonstrates her psychosis as some of these people she didn't even know! She truly has deep seeded mental health issues and needs professional help. An important note is that all the people that help to put her there knowing that she had no business in a leadership role are actually more criminal then she is!!! One doesn't allow the insane to run the asylum and unfortunately that is what has occurred at Bryant HS!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo why are so many people over 40 forced out or rated u? You got to be kidding!
DeleteIf you keep concentrating on what is not only incorrect but you can't prove. You will never defeat her!!! Its her unprofessional misconduct that you need to focus on!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat was thge average age of teachers in the school in 2010, and now. It's about discrimination.
DeleteThis principal has violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act– on behalf of its members over 40 years of age, who have been harmed by the DOE's discriminatory use of the disciplinary system, through the issuance of Unsatisfactory annual performance ratings to such teachers, as well as the DOE's discriminatory pattern and practice of coercing, threatening, and harassing teachers over 40 years of age to “encourage” those teachers to leave their assigned schools under the turnaround model. Also she has harassed assistant principals to rate veteran teachers unsatisfactory who did not deserve it.
DeleteDid you think that this sentence was so well thought and profound that you had to post it twice?
ReplyDeleteI am furious. We just got an e-mail that we should not review with our students for the midterm exams. They give us the usual mandra, let the students bring the questions and review the last ten minutes of the lesson. Do these administrators know the level of the students we work with? Our students do not know what to ask because they do not know what they do not know. Why don't these useless administrators stay in their offices to deal with their useless paperwork and let us teach? LET US TEACH.These e-mails are only to cover their back for when the Ursoulas of DOE come to our classes and they catch us on review. I can not believe the level of cowardish and insanity. Teachers,ignore them. Do what you think is best for your students. Our responsibility is to them. Take a risk, TEACH.
ReplyDeleteThey just want to make everything worse for everybody, and it is all nonsense.
DeleteThe union's failure to protect their senior teachers is disgraceful and for the UFT to allow Tweed to practice ageism in the teacher removal process is aiding and abetting the DOE practice of age discrimination.
DeleteIf you have been subjected to improper treatment at work based on your age, race or sex, contact a civil rights lawyer to learn about your options. Also, always make sure to keep detailed records to document all of the disparate treatment. You have been targeted constantly to receive unstisfactory observations reports while other ofyour colleagues are not being observed at all or you were forced out.
ReplyDeleteA lot of good experienced veteran teachers are being rated unsatisfactory and others are being chased out with the purpose of hiring out of college teachers who may not be proven effective.
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ReplyDeleteWe want the discrimination against veteran teachers in schools like W.C. Bryant High School to stop. Veteran teachers are being unfairly rated unsatisfactory when they are doing satisfactory work. The UFT cannot negotiate with the DOE, until the DOE puts a stop to age discrmination. This abuse needs to be stopped.
ReplyDeleteA Budd Lake lawyer has won a $509,000 award for a former Jefferson teacher who claimed she was forced out of her job because of her age.
A Morris County Jury found on Friday, Jan. 6, that Jeanne O’Neill, now 63, of Sparta, was a victim of age discrimination and a hostile work environment. The jury awarded O’Neill $300,000 for emotional distress, $130,000 in back pay and $79,000 in lost wages and benefits.
She was represented by attorney Robert A. Scirocco.
“I thought it was an appropriate amount,” Scirocco said. “She was a phenomenal teacher but the whole experience was very bitter for her. She truly loved her job.”
O’Neill taught chemistry in the district for 22 years, most recently leading advance placement chemistry classes. Scirocco said O’Neill’s students consistently scored higher than the national average for advance placement chemistry and that the teacher had never received a bad review.
But that all changed three years ago.
Retirement Plans
O’Neill had told the district she planned to retire from her $81,000 a year post at the age of 60 at the end of the 2007-08 school year.
But her husband became very ill and had to quit his job. As the now, sole bread winner, O’Neill decided she had to continue working.
After she notified the Jefferson Board of Education of her new plans in January 2008, she allegedly became the target of the administration’s attacks upon her.
The district set up a “corrective action plan” in which they would come into her classroom on a regular basis and criticize her way of teaching, telling her that her methods were antiquated and too traditional, and that she was dramatically regressing within the period of January to May, Scirocco said.
“She told them she finally had enough and would resign at the end of the year, even though she needed to continue to work for the salary and benefits,” Scirocco said.
O’Neill retired in June 2008 and her husband died last year.
During the week-long trial, a former student who recently obtained a doctorate degree in chemistry testified that O’Neill was the best teacher she ever had, Scirocco said.
The district superintendent, principal, curriculum director and chemistry supervisor, all involved in the classroom observations and corrective action plan, all testified for the district.
“They said all their observations and criticisms were legitimate and valid,” Scirocco said.
Scirocco said the case took three years to bring to trial and involved thousands of pages of documents, numerous depositions and review of various records, including assessments of colleagues and of O’Brien.
All of the people that sold their souls to the devil in effort to obtain an Assistant Principal position, you pay an extremely high price and the in end you will no obtain what you want!!!! Don't you get it the devil doesn't play fair!!!!!! I can't wait until hear about the heartache and the tears......for it's what you all deserve!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThese wretched traitors aren't really "AP"s!!! She can't afford to pay AP salaries to anyone since she bankrupt the school. These fools are coordinators still getting paid a teacher's salary and not teaching classes. All they do all day is scratch their asses and delegate delegate delegate. Trashmita's teaching them her favorite game of hoisting her work on others. And guess who picks up the slack? The overworked under appreciated TEACHERS.
ReplyDeleteSo they already are being played like fiddles. But look at them, one by one, these were all crappy teachers. They don't care about anything except doing less ( or having what they consider more power)and getting more time away from students.
SHAME SHAME SHAME
Can someone translate "we are behind the 8 ball" that this twat face thought she sounded authoritative saying? Yep it's all our fault again! The school will close unless we raise those statistics! More scare tactics, no support or encouragement. Can't wait until she gets her walking papers. She had other opportunities (plural) she turned down??? Hahahahaaaaa!!!!!!! Delusional. Get the straight jacket folks!
ReplyDeleteStay Gold
If we stay united and use the press to explain how she harassed and push out good teachers and professionals she will never win.
ReplyDeleteYou have to have rigour in the classroom but make sure the statistics go up. Even though students cut class, find a way to bring them in, or in any way, find a way to make them pass, so we can keep the statistics up, because after all if they do not come to your class is your fault to begin with. We do not want the students to get the impression that they can easily pass to the point that we do not even review for their midterms, but we give boot-camp and apex for credit recovery only to keep the passing rates up. I think even the special ed students (no offence to anybody) have figured the insanity already. Maybe we should keep an audio record of these meetings, because I do not think anybody will believe us.
ReplyDeleteBest Line of the meeting: ...and Jackie Exarhis is in charge of of of filing the IEP's..... HA A HA HA HA
ReplyDeleteSo Jackie you backstabbed Nancy and Sherri so that you can be in be the coordinator of folders and file cabinets. You got exactly what you deserved.
What a sham, assistant principals forced to change the rating of the satisfactor veteran teachers observed, and then most of them except one got pushed out. This is outrageous that she can get her way to destroy so many careers.
DeleteNotice how Guy was missing? He diesnt stroll in until 9am and don't you dare dusturb him while he's stuffing his fat belly with breakfast from 9 to 9:30. And you'll have to get through his ugly pitbull Maureen to see him. He might be too preoccupied getting a blowjob from Bardatsos.
ReplyDeleteI am still waiting for a class action lawsuit on age discrimination and /or at least a grievance en mass filed by the UFT on behalf of its members. Is there are "correlation" between U-rated teachers and age? Let's form our own stats: Let's call it the "Dinosaur Group" and see what comes up. When a school is failing its because the "dinasours" are earning too much. But its' okay for a principal to be a"dinasour" and earn a high salary. It's okay that he/she can retire on his her own timetable. For the record: Any teacher that has 10 years or more they want you out! The new "seniority" is 5 years. And the new teachers won't be there long enough to get tenure, they will leave before it. They don't want you to be there long enough to collect a pension or health benefits. In other words "Bloomberg and Baldie" want you to work for free.
ReplyDeleteDwarka is getting very old very fast.
ReplyDeleteAND YOU ARE DORIAN GRAY, I PRESUME. WHO CARES HOW SHE LOOKS. MEAN IS MEAN. PRETTY OR UGLY.
Delete3 0R 4 VETERAN TEACHERS GOT RATED U RECENTLY. IT'S ABOUT DISCRIMINATION, I AGREE WITH YOU.
ReplyDeleteActing on prejudice in the wrong way is definitely discrimination and should not be tolerated.
ReplyDeleteThe National Education Association denounces blatant age discrimination as more and more veteran educators are targeted for negative ratings and dismissal by school superintendents and principals. In many cases, school officials use the guise of “improvement plans” to harass veteran educators without taking into account the countless contributions they have made to public education.
ReplyDeleteEducators who have been discriminated against because of their age can find solace and legal protection in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects teachers age 40 and over against age discrimination. Under this act, age may not be the sole factor when a school district terminates the employment of a teacher. If a teacher charges a school district with age discrimination, the school district has the burden to show that some factor other than age influenced its decision.
Preplanned unsatisfactory ratings and using and harassing assistant principals to follow her plans to push veteran teachers out should be illegal.
ReplyDeleteIt's pathetically sad that even though Dwarka - the she-devil is one of the dumpest people on the planet she was still smart enough to know exactly the lacking self-esteem and pathetic individuals to select for those ridiculous coordinator positions!!!!! Only real self-loathing people would due a job with no extra pay, no real title and no real authority!!!!! Enjoy yourself idiots because there is a hiring freeze on hiring new AP's so if those were your aspirations......too bad......it's not going to happen!!!!!!! Your all mentally challenged!!!!
ReplyDeleteIsn't Bryant closing again?
DeleteWhat you pathetic idiots failed to realize is that she and her clones are not respected by anyone because everyone knows that she and they are incompetent, inappropriate and unprofessional so who is going to give you a recommendation to a another position???? Don't look to your former supervisors because they will not recommend someone that has no integrity!!!! Disgusting.......I hope you are all proud of yourself for being participants in the destruction of children's lives!!!!!
ReplyDeleteShut the fuck up. You are a fucking asshole.Hiding in anonymity.
DeleteNo need to use that type of language because you can't handle the truth!!!!
DeleteLosers!!!
DeletePersonal attacks against people are not right, that is why she has been able to push a lot of good professionals out. She is getting away with everything because you are not united.
DeleteThe union's failure to protect their senior teachers is disgraceful and for the UFT to allow Tweed to practice ageism in the teacher removal process is aiding and abetting the DOE practice of age discrimination.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sham, assistant principals forced to change the rating of the satisfactor veteran teachers observed, and then most of them except one got pushed out. This is outrageous that she can get her way to destroy so many careers.
DeleteThe administration at Bryant or maybe I should say the lack there of.....has such low self esteem that they are walking around wearing blue and gold ties!!!! Way to go Dwarka....keep letting your incompetent, inappropriate and idiotic flag fly!!!! Your such a moron and so are all those fools that follow you!!!!
ReplyDeleteThese puppets should wear a rats tail sticking out of their asses as a sign of their servitude to their leader and master Dwarka. Fucking idiots!
ReplyDeleteShsmeless idiots....it's sad to see grown people have no respect for themselves!!!!
ReplyDeleteCoordinators whose positions have not been voted by a SBO cannot act as assistant principals to do Ms. Dwarka's dirty work going after hard working veteran teachers. THE UFT IS BECOMING A JOKE. Remember actual coordinators, she pushed out 8 good assistant principals and that is why the tone in the building is getting worse. She wanted chaos and she is going to get is if she doesn't change course.
ReplyDeleteShe is a low life and so is everyone that follows her!!!!
ReplyDeleteLowlife is too kind. She's a sadistic pig. She's a twat with a zero IQ. Dwarkzilla's only asset is giving Howie Kwait Principal of John Bowne a mean blowjob.
ReplyDeleteWith her questionable sexuality...I'm not sure that she's even good at that!!
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt she's not a member of Pelly, Luke, Jay, and Laura's queer club. She was after Gianakouris because she wanted Shaun Brandeis for herself.
ReplyDeleteBiSexuality folks......I have you ever heard of it!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe people writing this stuff about respected staff memebers obviously have nothing else to do with their lives and that is why they are trying to tarnish the reputations of great people
ReplyDeleteBeing queer is not "tarnish". I'd rather be queer like Pelly than straight like Durtbag Yakavone.
ReplyDeletePelly is a Wiesel....there is no defending her!!!! I hope she's proud of how she's stabbed her supervisor and Wally her mentor in the back!!! Wasn't she crying and carrying on about how hurt she was for him...,take the knife that you put in his back!!!! So sad..,,Pelly you are pathetic!!! There are no words for you!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's not a shock. She's a child of a broken home. White trash!!!!
DeleteFYI: YACOVONE IS FUCKING BARDATSOS THE HEALTH TEACHER
ReplyDeleteJust like he was doing Stavalikis, Kutsu, Dana ( Tanalski's relative )!!!! He's gross but they are worse!!!!
DeletePersonal attacks against people are not right, that is why she has been able to push a lot of good professionals out.
DeleteAlthough you are right to call Yacovone a dirtbag but I think dirtbag is too kind! He's sad pathetic hollow poor excuse for a man! Of course what does that say for the woman that have been willing to sleep with him!!'
ReplyDeleteHenry is an ugly smelly four eyed English-challenged RAT. Tanalski handed him this make-believe "job" because he hates students and is too lazy to teach. I've heard for years that like his King Jabba Tanalski the Hut, he passes all his students but his passing results on the regents are 50%. Uhmmm hello. You do the math! He has no humanity or compassion like his reptilian mentor Dwarkhilda. Oh and he has a bush growing up his fat oily nostrils.
ReplyDeleteIsn't he an illegal alien..they should deport his ass back to the dirty place he was born.
DeleteHuezo would sell his children into slavery to get out of being a real teacher. He loves administration because he knows administrators don't do anything and get paid a lot more. The Yak better be prepared for a transfer to the basement or 147 once Huezo gets his fake certification. Too bad his mother brought him and the rest of the litter she gave birth to over from the slums of South America.
DeleteThis is racist but just a true demonstration of how people at Bryant High School really feel....I'm absolutely not defending Huezo because he a clueless, spineless, mindless jerk!!! How interesting that you guys are concentrating where he's from rather then his actions!!!! How come your not talking about how Yacovone has got every job because his daddy has given it to him like the DOE is the mafia!!!! Yacovone deserves to be in jail for all the years he's been stealing from children for years by not working.....cheating the system!!!! That man is disgusting and embarrassment to man everywhere!!!!!
DeleteBtw true administrators do work and if you idiots would have realized that way back when....,Bryant HS won't be run by a moron.....it would run by a true leader!!!! People buy a clue!!!!
DeletePersonal attacks on each other with names will not get you anywhere. We want to know how you are being abused or why you are treated in a discrminatory way by the administration?
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