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‘Racist’ Long Island Athletic Director Fired for Enforcing Eligibility Rules: Lawsuit
New York Post ^
| August 30, 2015
| Kathianne Boniello
Posted on 08/30/2015 3:48:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Long Island educator says he was labeled a racist and fired for enforcing academic eligibility requirements for student athletes.
Students who are failing two or more classes are ineligible for sports, teacher Robert Cincotta, who served as athletic director for the predominantly black Hempstead school district between 2005 and 2013, said in a Brooklyn federal lawsuit.
In February 2013, he began checking grades for all the kids participating in winter sports in the district, such as basketball, wrestling and indoor track, and informing coaches of who would not be allowed to play
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TOPICS: Education; Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: education; newyork
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To: nickcarraway
and you may want to reconsider blacks on baseball teams. No telling what they will do when you tell them to “take the field”.
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posted on
08/30/2015 3:54:19 PM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: nickcarraway
Hempstead High has a 41% graduation rate so I'm surprised any student was allowed to play on a team.
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posted on
08/30/2015 4:00:18 PM PDT
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: CaptainK
We need more money for education, please cut defense again.
By the way I never met a retarded military service man.
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posted on
08/30/2015 4:02:34 PM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/30/2015 4:08:42 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: wastoute
don’t tell them to swing either.
To: Palio di Siena
Especially at low pitches...
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posted on
08/30/2015 4:14:32 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: EEGator
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posted on
08/30/2015 4:21:52 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: digger48
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posted on
08/30/2015 4:25:05 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: nickcarraway
Cincotta is seeking unspecified damages in his discrimination claim against the district, which declined to comment.This case is a slam dunk...
The guy gets fired for enforcing the school's rules regardless of race..
Taxpayer gets the green weenie...
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posted on
08/30/2015 4:26:10 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
To: nickcarraway
Hell yeah my n-word! We can shoot dem hoops now! I ain’t tryin’ to be learnin’ about no Foundin’ Fadders...s—t I ain’t got no Fadder my own self!
To: nickcarraway
So it’s now ok to call Black kids stupid....but at least they can play ball and run fast?
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posted on
08/30/2015 4:45:28 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
To: longfellow
By the way I never met a retarded military service man.
Rare, but they do exist. For example, General Wesley Clark, the imbecile Democrat (but I repeat myself) who nearly started World War III.
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posted on
08/30/2015 4:50:58 PM PDT
by
peyton randolph
(I am not a number. I am a free man.)
To: wastoute
yup, they might think you want them to pick cotton
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posted on
08/30/2015 4:53:12 PM PDT
by
thesligoduffyflynns
(Shrimp Egg Foo Young- A tasty dish! gravy on the side please)
To: nickcarraway
Disparate impact dontcha know.
To: Eagles6
Wasn’t that the whole point of no pass no play, to encourage the kids to keep passing?
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posted on
08/30/2015 5:03:59 PM PDT
by
tbw2
To: wastoute
Never discuss anything baseball related to “swing”.
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posted on
08/30/2015 5:27:37 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: CaptainK
Hempstead used to be a center of Ivy League recruitment. DeCommieo’s fault.
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posted on
08/30/2015 5:30:11 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: tbw2
Yeah but it’s having a “disparate impact”.
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posted on
08/30/2015 5:33:49 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: longfellow
I don’t know, butterbars are pretty close...
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posted on
08/30/2015 5:52:04 PM PDT
by
Molon Labbie
(Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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