The current website for West Chester East High School, where Michael Berg was reportedly a teacher, lists faculty by subject category taught (i.e. Math, English, Science, Social Studies, Art, Music, etc). Since Berg is retired, he is no longer listed on that site. However, I was able to find the old school webpage via the Alexa web archive.org HERE, where he is listed with 8 other individuals under the category "Learning Support ".
According to the current website, The Learning Support Department is listed under the Social Services Office and is described as follows:
The Learning Support Department at East High School offers both direct and indirect services to students who are identified with a learning disability. Direct services consist of classes for academic instruction, co-teaching of classes, test-taking support, tutoring and assistance with organizational or study skills. Individual Education Plans (IEPs) are developed for all students in the Learning Support Program. Indirect services offered are monitoring of academic progress of learning support students by both formal and informal conferencing with regular education staff and generating written academic progress reports that are shared with parents. These reports are done a minimum of once during a marking period.According to the following post made at this website (I do not vouch for its authenticity), Michael Berg was also the East High School faculty advisor for Amnesty International.
I would like to nominate Michael Berg. He was in charge of the drop in center for dyslexic kids at East High School in West Chester, PA. You might know Michael because his son Nick was beheaded in Iraq. In the midst of his grief he had the courage to make a really cool and poetic gesture by placing a WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER sign in his front yard. In high school he was the faculty advisor for Amnesty International. He is now retired. He is still active in the peace movement. He was involved in protests against the first gulf war and he opposes this war as well. In high school they made a rule that males were not allowed to wear head coverings (at the time I was sporting a reverse mullet & head band. I do not know what I was thinking). The vice principal was a former FBI agent. Michael Berg would write me hall passes so I could hang pictures of John Edgar Hoover on her door everyday. Even after his sons death he still speaks out against oppression in all its forms.
[name deleted by me]
Monday, May 17, 2004 at 15:01:19 (PDT)
" Michael Berg would write me hall passes so I could hang pictures of John Edgar Hoover on her door everyday"....
Amnesty International!??
Okay...ya know, this is getting annoying. Don't most, if not all states, have a law stating no teacher, administrator, school can promote a political agenda...I know they are not supposed to spend public resources to do so. I also know Oregon breaks that law all the time. These whacky lefty "teachers" and professors are brainwashing our kids. It ticks me OFF! I don't even care what happened to Nick anymore, but I can tell you this, someone as radical as Michael Berg doesn't associate with a son who supports George Bush. If this email is true, especially the above quote,Berg was doing something no teacher should get away with. He was probably the first one to scream if some group wanted to have a Christian club at school or say the pledge of allegiance.
I'm done, don't feel any better. I felt so badly for Mr. Berg when they showed him as he got this horrid news. I really dislike disliking him.