Posted on 05/16/2016 8:40:54 AM PDT by sparklite2
In the manner of Ed Driscoll ...
Shot: Friedman, 61, paid for the books out of his own pocket — about $220 with shipping — then sold them to students for $2 apiece to recoup most of the expenses.
Chaser: He noted that students spent $6 for “Hamlet” at the school bookstore, triple what he asked to recoup his layout for “Frankenstein.”
Hangover: Friedman said the action by Midwood’s administrators was retaliation for his filing unfair-labor charges against the school in March of last year. He said he filed the charges to protest a new “dumbed down” curriculum and unfair evaluations.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Do not send your children to government schools.
Shakespeare and Shelley need their royalties...
Books? We don’t need no stinkin’ books. /sarc
arth ping!!
Who is Ed Driscoll?
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Sorry, I meant Todd Friedman . . . and it is obvious from the photo at the source he is the wrong color.
Individual teachers should not sell students books, supplies, food, or anything else. The price involved does not matter. The opportunity for conflict of interest is just too great.
You want to give away books? Fine, good for you. I’ve seen teachers buy books and supplies, then give them away. It’s not uncommon.
This teacher was stupid. Not firing offense stupid, but stupid nevertheless.
Ed is a blogger who also writes for instapundit.
The shot,chaser format is something he often uses.
The Department of Education did not supply these books. In fact, it is highly likely that Friedman asked for them and they either refused to supply them or made it so complicated that if he went through the procedure, the kids would have the books about the time the term ended, if then.
New York City's school system is famous for their "rubber rooms" where teachers who commit REAL offenses such as child molestation go to spend the next ten years or so surfing the internet, reading, playing cards or whatever floats their boat at FULL SALARY while the district goes through the union mandated termination process.
It is funny how quickly they can turn on an award winning teacher who has done nothing worse than get his kids books outside of their payola process.
My guess if it were Haley’s false Roots, he would get a raise.
Fall in line Todd or else. Start using the ladies bathroom too while you are at it.
Or “The Communist Manifesto”.
It doesn't matter. No teacher should sell anything directly to students. And I'm not just guessing about that. I've seen how such actions can lead to big problems. The teacher here didn't commit any crime that I can see. He just used poor judgment.
If I were his principal, I would have called him in for a little chat, and told him to refund the students' money. Case closed...except that I would have used some money from the school's discretionary funds to buy those books.
Thanks.
Perhaps if he’d provided them Bibles free of charge they’d be ok with that?
Yep, the bad thing here was going around established bureaucratic procedure.
If he bought them on his own, and gave them out to the kids at no charge, wouldn’t have been a problem.
It crossed a line to then turn around and charge the students for the books. Clearly he violated established policy to do so.
And, the way things are, if you violate established policy in a bureaucracy, you are in trouble.
"He noted that students spent $6 for “Hamlet” at the school bookstore, triple what he asked to recoup his layout for “Frankenstein.”
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"In a March 21 report, the DOE’s Office of Special Investigations ruled that Friedman violated Chancellor’s Regulation A-610.“Materials and textbooks supplied by the Department of Education for use in classes, shops or laboratories shall not under any circumstances be sold, nor shall any charge for them be made to the student,” the regulation says.
Seems a major contradiction there...why are students permitted to purchase Hamlet from the school but not Frankenstein from their instructor?
Public schools in my area hold two 'scholastic' book fairs each year as fundraising efforts for the PTA. Perhaps his sales interfered with PTA related fundraising efforts?
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