Bronx School Evacuated After Teacher’s Threat

NY Times ^ | April 24 | Sewell Chan

[PghBaldy]

after a teacher made a bomb threat, ... The teacher was reported to have been barricaded inside a classroom...

The school, Junior High School 145, the Arturo Toscanini School, is at 1000 Teller Avenue, near East 165th Street, in the Morrisania section of the Bronx.

[PghBaldy]

Fox News has this off and on coverage of this.

[Carley]

Anyone want to bet on the ethnicity of the teacher.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I’m betting more on the ‘tenured position’. ;-)

[kinsman redeemer]

Pennsylvania Dutch?

[raccoonradio]

There’s a first...not a student but a teacher making a bomb threat!

[randog]

I’ll bet German Chocolate.

[Carley]

Amish

[NativeNewYorker]

the teacher was a union chapter chairman at the school and had received a letter Thursday informing him that that he was being reassigned to a so-called “rubber room” — a term for classrooms where teachers removed from teaching duties are assigned — as discipline for imposing corporal punishment on a student.

The teacher barricaded himself inside the classroom, saying, “I have a date with God,”

[ozarkgirl]

You know, I realize this is a serious situation here but if I had to teach kids in Jr. High, I think I’d be a little bit crazy too.

[r9etb]

Anyone want to bet on the ethnicity of the teacher.

Despite your apparent craving for this to be a Muslim or something, I'm guessing "white male."

[wastedyears]

PS 216 has the same name, on Ave. X between West St. and East 1st St. I went there for 2nd-5th grades.

This kinda hits close to home.

[rvoitier]

There’s a first...not a student but a teacher making a bomb threat!

Probably a student didn't want to have sex.

[Kimberly GG]

“where teachers removed from teaching duties are assigned — as discipline for imposing corporal punishment on a student.”

I agree...white male.

[Buck W.]

I went to PS 69 in Clason Point. The best part of being from the Bronx is that the word “from” implies “no longer”.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

This teacher will be appointed the title of ‘School Security Czar’ by Zero. /s

[LottieDah]

This teacher will get a fully paid sabbatical.

[TSgt]

Something really needs to be done about these troublemakers!

[PghBaldy]

QUOTES from article:

he had undertaken a hunger strike..

identified by union officials as Francisco Garabitos,..

Mr. Garabitos was a union chapter chairman at the school and had received a letter Thursday informing him that that he was being reassigned to a so-called “rubber room” — a term for classrooms where teachers removed from teaching duties are assigned — as discipline for imposing corporal punishment on a student...

The teacher barricaded himself inside the classroom, saying, “I have a date with God,”...

Mr. Garabitos is paid $100,049 a year...

[Go Gordon]

The teacher barricaded himself inside the classroom, saying, “I have a date with God,”

I thought teachers these days liked them a little younger, say 14 or 15 years old.

[Canedawg]

Hmmm, only about a half-mile from Yankee Stadium. Are they off to that poor of a start?