When the US Supreme Court basically legalized political corruption in 2016 in a unanimous decision, the ICEUFT blog was one of the places that sounded the alarm.
A little over a year later we have more evidence that corruption is acceptable as the convictions of former New York State Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son have been overturned on appeal. Just as with former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the prosecution says there will be a second trial.
This comment is from former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara:
“As with Sheldon Silver, (federal prosecutors) will retry Dean and Adam Skelos,” said Bharara via Twitter. “(The Supreme Court) made it harder to punish corruption, but justice should prevail here.”
I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for justice for corrupt politicians. Pay to play is the law of the land. Our leaders just cannot give absolutely direct quid pro quos and they are on sound legal ground.
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Please forgive me, I hate to go off topic. However, a student stabbed and killed another student today in a high school history class in the Bronx. Apparently, it is the first murder inside a NYC public school in over 25 years. This story needs publicity. These are our working conditions. This is what we have to see. This is who we teach. All the pundits and rag newspapers who continue to trash teachers need to wake up and understand what it is like to walk a mile in our shoes. (The student who murdered the other student was apparently being bullied. A second student caught in the fray was seriously wounded) Just imagine what the teacher in the class will be like every day for the rest of his or her career.
Typical you know who. They are targeted? Nah. They just commit most of the crime.
College ready rate, 27%. cant say im surprised.
From UFT.org Black and Hispanic students in New York City most likely to be arrested and handcuffed, data shows. i wonder why.
I have no desire to get into anything regarding the race of the kids involved in this horrible stabbing. However, the fact that this high school is co-located with an elementary school is a huge part of the story and it is being reported in the press. NYC is probably one of the only places in the United States where public high school kids share a building with elementary students. I work in the exact same type of co-location and this story sends shivers down my spine. Just imagine if the stabbing happened in a hallway, cafeteria, library, or gym where elementary kids were present? The backlash would be massive if an innocent elementary kid got caught up in the stabbing. I saw numerous elementary parents raising hell about this on the news tonight and I agree with them 100%. Co-locations with elementary, middle, and high school students are plainly wrong.
Farina said her top concern is safety. Then why did she allow the stabber to get bullied all year so he would have retaliate?
I posted Farina's email. Go there please.
If there were metal detectors this wouldn't have happened. If there were suspensions the kid wouldn't have been constantly bullied. If the staff was trained to do anything to stop bullying this wouldn't have happened. This is all on the NYCDOE because it has made metal detectors optional, pulled them out, stopped suspensions and arrests and hasn't trained its staff on restorative justice or anti-bullying procedures.
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