Harlem principal got tenure after deadly beach trip where student Nicole Suriel drowned
Friday, July 16th 2010, 10:29 AM
The Harlem principal whose school went on a deadly beach field trip faces only a slap on the wrist since officials granted him tenure just days after the girl's death.
While a teacher was fired and an assistant principal demoted after the June 22 drowning of 12-year-old Nicole Suriel, officials could only seek to put Principal Jose Maldonado-Rivera on probation because his tenure became effective July 1.
The decision to grant him the job protections had been made in April, months before a series of tragic missteps led just three chaperones to take 24 students from Columbia Secondary School toLong Beach, which had no lifeguards on duty.
But no one revisited the tenure decision after the disastrous outing, even though
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