{"id":434001,"date":"2022-04-19T01:45:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/letters-to-the-editor-april-19-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T01:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:45:22","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-april-19-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/letters-to-the-editor-april-19-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"#Letters to the Editor \u2014 April 19, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2910d7338cd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2910d7338cd\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/letters-to-the-editor-april-19-2022\/#%E2%80%9CLetters_to_the_Editor_%E2%80%94_April_19_2022%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Letters to the Editor \u2014 April 19, 2022&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CLetters_to_the_Editor_%E2%80%94_April_19_2022%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Letters to the Editor \u2014 April 19, 2022&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>The Issue: <\/strong>City paying principal fired for grade-fixing and cheating nearly $2 million over next seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Mas\u00adpeth HS cheating scandal isn\u2019t an isolated incident (\u201cCity Lets Cheater Principal Prosper,\u201d April 17).<\/p>\n<p>Grade-fixing and cheating go on at most city high schools. Just about every one has some version of credit recovery, where failing students can come in one day for an hour or two of busy work, say 10 Hail Marys and have their failing grades changed to passing marks.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s virtually impossible to stay honest. If principals failed every student who legitimately flunked courses or did not read on a secondary-school level, 50% of our kids would never graduate. What principal or assistant principal could retain their job if he or she graded with integrity?<\/p>\n<p>Ditto for teachers. Staffers without tenure would be terminated if they flunked too many kids. Teachers are constantly pressured by principals and assistant principals to up their passing rates.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Grandt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Manhattan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If new schools Chancellor David Banks is serious about moving more \u201caggressively and expeditiously to remove those people from our schools and payroll\u201d who commit \u201cegregious actions,\u201d then he should do the following: Assign offenders such as former Maspeth HS Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir to the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR). These are the people who make up the system\u2019s roving substitute teacher pool.<\/p>\n<p>Let Abdul-Mutakabbir\u2019s phone start ringing at five or six in the morning for a day\u2019s teaching work at some of the neediest schools in our city, and you\u2019ll see: he won\u2019t stick around for long.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/maspeth-principal.jpg?w=683\" alt=\"Former Maspeth High School Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir will be recieving nearly $2 million over the next seven years at a DOE desk job.\" class=\"wp-image-21948544\" width=\"340\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/maspeth-principal.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=672 680w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/maspeth-principal.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=504 510w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/maspeth-principal.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336 340w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/maspeth-principal.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=168 170w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/maspeth-principal.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\"\/><figcaption>Former Maspeth High School Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir will be recieving nearly $2 million over the next seven years at a DOE desk job.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.nyc\">http:\/\/www.mhs.nyc<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>He probably got into administration in the first place to escape teaching. As an ATR, he would be reliving his worst nightmare.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Sheridan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Bronx<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s headline and story were all you need to know about how completely broken the city\u2019s public school system is.<\/p>\n<p>For the DOE to pay this man another nickel \u2014 let alone almost $2 million over the next seven years \u2014 is incomprehensible. He betrayed every tenet of good education that our young people deserve.<\/p>\n<p>If Mayor Adams and Banks allow this travesty to stand, the system will never change, and they will have no credibility with the parents and students in the city.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a complete disgrace and an insult to every teacher and administrator who works hard to do the right thing for the kids. <\/p>\n<p><em>Robert DiNardo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Farmingdale<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I read yet another highly disturbing story like The Post\u2019s excellent expos\u00e9 of the Maspeth school scandal, I am inevitably left with the same nagging, disturbing question.<\/p>\n<p>When will supposedly sophisticated New Yorkers wise up to the embedded incompetence, unprofessionalism and self-serving corruption that has characterized the city\u2019s Department of Education and its leadership for so long?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the details of the current scandal involving Principal Abdul-Mutakabbir (enabled by the usual suspects), the DOE \u201cleadership\u201d in cahoots with the self-aggrandizing teachers\u2019 union bears the ultimate responsibility for this lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate oversight.<\/p>\n<p>All these outrageous displays of embedded DOE corruption ultimately amount to serial abuse of students and their taxpaying parents, who have every right to expect professionalism and competence.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>It seems the only remedy would be a top-to-bottom house-cleaning of the DOE. <\/p>\n<p><em>John Jaffe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Orefield, Pa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers are funding this cretin to the tune of nearly $2 million. Fake classes, fake grades: is it any wonder we\u2019re witnessing a decline in academia?<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s even more pathetic is that this isn\u2019t uncommon. So-called rubber rooms are holding on to teachers for eons, with high salaries no less, and the dumbing down continues ad nauseam.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kevin Judge, Naples<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shows you just how inept and corrupt the public school system is.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Leavy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Middle Village<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Unfortunately, the Mas\u00adpeth HS cheating scandal isn\u2019t an isolated incident (\u201cCity Lets Cheater Principal Prosper,\u201d April 17). Grade-fixing and cheating go on at most city high schools. 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