Posted on 02/13/2003 9:30:22 AM PST by Cagey
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The principal of a troubled city school was arraigned yesterday after cops caught her driving drunk - and urinating in a Bronx street - when she was supposed to be at work, police said. Evelyn Peralta-Tessitore, 41, principal of Public School 192 in Harlem, was charged with driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest. Cops said they spotted Peralta-Tessitore squatting and urinating beside the open door of her 2003 Mercedes-Benz about 2:40 p.m. Tuesday. Her car was stopped ata red light at 254th St. and Broadway. Peralta-Tessitore admitted she had been drinking, according to the criminal complaint. Cops said she reeked of liquor and her speech was slurred. She refused to get out of her car and started flailing her arms at officers when they tried to arrest her, police said. Her companion, school secretary Helen Torres, then jumped out of the car and tried to keep officers from arresting her principal, police sources said. Torres, 45, was arrested for obstructing governmental administration. Peralta-Tessitore declined a Breathalyzer test. She was arraigned yesterday in Bronx Criminal Court and released on her own recognizance pending a Feb. 26 court date. She did not return calls for comment. Peralta-Tessitore has been removed from her school pending the outcome of her criminal case, said Education Department spokeswoman Margie Feinberg. It wasn't Peralta-Tessitore's first brush with the law, sources said yesterday. She was arrested in 1982 for using marijuana, a violation, and again in 1990 on a shoplifting charge, the sources said. Since neither arrest resulted in a felony conviction, they may not have raised a red flag when she was hired by the school system in 1994, the sources said. Feinberg said officials had noknowledge of any previous arrests. Peralta-Tessitore, who lives in the posh Westchester community of Hartsdale, has been principal of PS 192 since 1999. Last year, only 26% of her students could read well enough to pass city and state exams. |
Perhaps it's considered to be "macho" behavior, and she is simply breaking down sexist barriers!
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Sounds very 1984-ish
lives in the posh Westchester community of Hartsdale
Last year, only 26% of her students could read well enough to pass city and state exams.
The problem is obvious - more students could read if we would just pay the teachers and principals more.
"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....
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Uh.. this doesn't suggest that we need teacher accountability in schools does it? I'm sure if we ask the teacher's union and/or the bloated school dist. administration, they will tell us that it's a lack of funding. After all, the poor thing had to drive an '03 Mercedes - the kind without a toilet in it.
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