Doesn’t this just beat everything? Even in New York City.
The New York Daily News reported today that the Harlem school principal whose school went on a deadly beach field trip faces only a slap on the wrist since officials granted him tenure just days after the girl’s death. After the girls death, that he is largely responsible for causing.
While a teacher was fired and an assistant principal demoted after the June 22 drowning of 12-year-old Nicole Suriel, officials could only seek to put Jose Maldonado-Rivera on probation because his tenure became effective July 1, even after he acknowledged authorizing a beach field trip as a reward for fund-raising.
His lame excuse was that he was unaware of deadly riptides at Long Beach and didn’t realize there would be no lifeguards there that day.
Another completely tone deaf school official, Columbia Secondary School parents association co-president Maria Herrera, said there’s support for the principal staying as school leader. The mind boggles at who this lame principals supporters might be.