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Friday, August 23, 2013

NYC Educator: The Campbell Brown Show

NYC Educator: The Campbell Brown Show:

The Campbell Brown Show

Some people simply call this place earth, but for legal expert Campbell Brown, it's a forum for her to shock us with her spectacular and lurid accusations. There are 128 teachers who were accused of some sort of sexual offense. Why can't Walcott fire them? The short answer, of course, is that arbitrators, chosen jointly by UFT and DOE, found them not guilty.

But for legal expert Campbell Brown, who's married to some Students First bigshot, which surely has absolutely nothing to do with her crusade, that answer is just not good enough. So she made it a point to confront UFT President Michael Mulgrew about it. You can see the video here.

Gotham Schools had originally written it was about "teachers who have sexually harassed students," but to their credit, they changed it after I complained. The fact is, not all these cases were about that, and I know of only one. In this case no such thing happened. However, Campbell Brown did not like it when I objected.





You see how this goes, don't you? You can only answer two ways. Yes, I think it's harrassment, and I'm therefore