Friday, January 20, 2012

Breaking: Harlem Drug Bust Snares Charter School Secretary

UPDATED: Sat. Jan. 21, 12pm

This came in unverified from a contact so I am removing the name of the charter school:
"Just found out about some huge drug bust in east harlem. There were four big honchos. One of whom was the secretary of a Harlem charter school located down the street at PS 185 and 208.  !!!!!!! She was busted and arrested. "
This story reminds me of another story I heard a few years ago about PAVE - a well-known Brooklyn charter school A bag full cocaine was found in a desk in the office. Somewhere along the way the story changed and in the police report the bag had migrated to a table in the lunchroom.

Now this may very well happen in a public school too but the consequences are so much greater than they would be for a school run by a private entity even though they use public money. Exactly why charters are not public schools.

The people at the public school are sort of holding onto the info for future use.


2 comments:

Betsy Combier said...

I suggest that the conclusion in this article, that the consequences are so much greater than they would be for a charter school than for a public school is a little misleading, as the "NYC Investigators", if you can call them that, randomly and arbitrarily decide who to go after, and who to leave alone, no matter which school the miscreant works at.

Betsy Combier

ed notes online said...

Yes Betsy but a given is that charter schools are politically favored and protected if at all possible, esp those with polit connections though we know public schl ldrs with connections are also protected.

Teachers however in public schools are never protected unless someone with heavy union connections.