Who Holds Success Academy Accountable for Child Abuse?
Nadya Miranda. the mother of the first grade child berated by her teacher in theinfamous video published by the New York Times, has spoken out for the first time by giving an interview to the Times.In the interview she reports how she has withdrawn her child from the school and how she felt her child had been robbed of her confidence as a learner in her Success Academy classroom. She also expressed her frustration that she only received an apology from the school and the teacher after the video became public and that her child had never received an apology from the teacher, Ms. Dial. Ms. Miranda feels like Success Academy rallied to the defense of the teacher and ignored the impact of the verbal abuse on her child. Please read the article for a sense of the shattered hopes and dreams of Ms. Miranda and her daughter.
One thing that stood out for me in the article was this paragraph at the end of the piece.
Seeking to hold someone accountable for what happened to her daughter, Ms. Miranda went into a Department of Education building in Brooklyn to ask about filing a complaint, but was told that Success was independent from the school district. She said that Ms. Nicholls, the principal, had given her information about how to reach Success’s board of trustees, and Russ on Reading: Who Holds Success Academy Accountable for Child Abuse?:
