Posted on 09/15/2024 4:37:40 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
Six Department of Education employees used “forged permission slips” to take their own kids and grandchildren to Disney World and on other city-funded trips meant for homeless students, investigators alleged.
The secret perks robbed some of the city’s most disadvantaged kids of a chance to enjoy the Magic Kingdom — a trip that cost $66,000 for 50 or so adults and kids, a staffer said — and other multiple-day trips in 2016 to 2019 to Washington, D.C; New Orleans; Boston; upstate Rocking Horse Ranch Resort; and Frost Valley YMCA campground, according to a newly released report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools.
Linda M. Wilson, a Queens supervisor of DOE’s “Students in Temporary Housing,” took her own two daughters on trips, and encouraged colleagues to take their sons, daughters and grandkids, but tried to cover up the shady practice when SCI started asking questions, the SCI report said. “What happens here stays with us,” Wilson allegedly told co-workers.
“She said everyone should stick to the same story that we did not take our children on the trip,” an employee told The Post. “She told us to lie to the investigators.”
While some homeless students attended the trips, the staffers’ kids took up valuable spots.
One DOE educator “had to beg Wilson to allow him to add two of his students” on a trip to Disney World while Wilson and several staffers she supervised brought family members, the SCI said.
“Taking money meant for homeless students is extremely inappropriate,” said Naveed Hasan, a Manhattan public-school parent and member of the city’s Panel for Educational Policy who advocates for students in need of housing. “I’m shocked.”
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Educators have to be honest right????? .
democrats
This is a simple theft of benefits that should have went to disadvantaged youths.
How many millions, if not billions have been stolen by these same government workers but they know how to hide their crimes better!
Bidenland......corruption, cheating......just par for the course.
They were just trying to get over
They were just trying to get over
I think trips to Disney World are a luxury to which homeless children are not entitled. Better to use the money to find them food, shelter, clothing, health care, and education.
Calling DoE employees “educators” is the Mount Everest of misstatements.
You need to think like a liberal. They really don’t care about homeless people. They just want to virtue signal.
pigs at the trough will continue to eat as long as there is food available - Government employees have the same mindset, enough is never enough.
Unexpected! What a surprise!
A report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for NY city schools indicated:
<><>the trips cost $66,000 tax dollars for 50 or so adults and kids to Disney,
<><>plus other multiple-day trips in 2016 to 2019
<><>to DC; N/Orleans; Boston; Rocking Horse Ranch Resort; and Frost Valley YMCA campground.
Call Congress.
<><>If you know your rep, use website contact forms.
<><>Clerk of the House has addresses/phones of House members and Committees.
<><>Or call (202) 224-3121, the US House switchboard operator.
<><>mention state and zip for quick connection.
THESE are your ‘oh so Liberal’ teachers and administrators, who REALLY care about the ‘underserved’
Back in the 1980s, NYC had a jobs program for poor kids in which they can work for money during the summertime. It paid minimum wage. Slots were limited. The program still exists today.
The local news media did a story back then which revealed that quite a few ineligible well to do kids from well to do families had joined the program because they were related or connected to local politicos. Those rich kids had to be kicked off the program and replaced with actual poor kids.
The idiocy of a government funding expensive trips to Disney for “homeless” kids is best explained by those approving and planning it expecting to make family vacations of it for themselves from the start.
Think of the HALF BILLION THE FORMER MAYOR’S WIFE stole from the city of nyc
Totally agree, but my guess is they were just the cover for the administrators taking their families on vacation.
Agree. Placement in safe good orphanages. Socialization skills and trade school.
66k. EACH!??
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