Queens NY School Principal Allegedly Guilty of Grad-Rate Fraud will Collect $1.8 Million over 7 years to do NOTHING

[jcgriff2]

A Queens, NY, principal accused of using fraudulent schemes to boost his school's graduation rate can never again work with city students — but will get a $1.8 million desk job!

$1.8M /7 years = $257,183 per year; $21,432 per month

Absolutely criminal and astonishing what our elected idiots agree to in contracts signed on our behalf.

The principal should be fired. PERIOD.

Queens principal booted for fraud will get nice paycheck for 7 years

 

[Corday]

NYC also has a "rubber room" for teachers they can't fire due to union contracts/tenure, so they get assigned to that location and get paid as long as they show up, which is usually when they reach retirement and collect their city pensions.

 

[Digerati]

Multiple issues there.

1. Does not appear to have been a "morality clause" in his contract.
2. He was tenured (see #1)
3. Staff refused to testify against him for fear of retaliation.
4. Students who were spoon fed and graduated without learning the lessons didn't want to testify either.

It's a rock and a hard place, Catch-22 thing. Society demands more and more from our educators, but voters refuse to vote for salaries that would attract the best qualified, or funds to reduce class sizes, maintain and build new schools, etc.

Then there are parents who fail to instill manners and discipline in their children but then expect the schools to do just that - but don't dare take a paddle to the kid or risk jailtime - or assault from the kid who goes unpunished.

In this particular case, I don't understand why the feds or local police didn't arrest him for fraud. Typically, those graduation numbers are fudged to increase funding - funding of taxpayers money.

 

[Gary R]

Surely falsifying things in this way is not just an internal disciplinary matter, but a criminal one as well.

As Bill says, this guy is guilty of fraud, and should be held criminally responsible for his actions. He's not just defrauding taxpayers, but also any potential future employers of those students who have graduated with grades they do not truly deserve.