The utter failure of Chancellors Klein and Walcott to protect our children from abuse
I will be on WNBC news at 11 PM tonight, talking about the total failure of the DOE to protect our children from sexual abuse and harassment. After a flood of reports recently revealed there were staff who continued to work in our schools years after charges of misconduct had been filed and substantiated against them, with no one outside Tweed alerted to these facts, Chancellor Walcott promised to review all such cases in his files.
Today, Walcott released another file of eight substantiated reports from the Special Investigator's office, showing sexual misconduct of school staff, in some cases going back many years, with multiple witnesses attesting to multiple incidents. One individual had substantiated reports about his behavior from students going back to 2001, described in a sickening SCI letter to Chancellor Levy, and again in 2009, with more incidents described in a letter to Klein, and then again, in 2012, with a letter to Walcott. And yet for eleven years, nothing was done! In all these cases, these individuals were allowed to stay on or to transfer to new schools, with the records kept secret.
According to GothamSchools:
Walcott told reporters today that he personally examined about 250 cases and concluded that in some of them, appropriate
According to GothamSchools:
Walcott told reporters today that he personally examined about 250 cases and concluded that in some of them, appropriate