Mother of Autistic Child on “Got to Go List” Publicly Confronts Eva Moskowitz
On Friday January 22, 2016, the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School hosted the 131st City Law Breakfast. The event speaker was the highly controversial Success Academies (SA) CEO, Eva Moskowitz.
The video for the event can be viewed here.
During the Q&A portion of the event, several individuals confronted Moskowitz about the manner in which she runs her schools.
One such individual was former SA Fort Greene parent, Shanice Givens.
Shanice Givens
I recognized the name because I have read and written about the lawsuit,Olgundiran et al. versus Success Academy Fort Greene et al., filed in US District Court (Eastern District of New York) against five defendants, including SA Fort Greene and its principal, Candido Brown, for his having created a “got to go list” of students whom he obviously intended to force out of SA Fort Greene. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the parents of four SA Fort Greene students whose names were on Brown’s list.
Shanice Givens is one of those four parents.
Here is her story as it appears among the charges in the lawsuit:
C.S., S.G.’s son, has been diagnosed with autism. While attending kindergarten at Success FG, C.S. did not receive an IEP. Repeatedly, while attending kindergarten, S.G. received calls from officials at
Success FG telling her to pick up her child from school. On one occasion, in or around January 2015, S.C. (typo) was told that if she did not pick up C.S. within 20 minutes, the ACS would be called to take custody of the child.On another occasion, C.S. was physically lifted out of a chair by a teacher forMother of Autistic Child on “Got to Go List” Publicly Confronts Eva Moskowitz | deutsch29:
