They’re learning ’em good

Let them work at Taco Bell.

Maspeth High School created fake classes, awarded bogus credits, and fixed grades to push students to graduate — “even if the diploma was not worth the paper on which it was printed,” an explosive investigative report charges.

Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir demanded that teachers pass students no matter how little they learned, says the 32-page report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools, Anastasia Coleman.

NY Post

An investigation conducted by this office has substantiated that New York City Department of Education (“DOE”) employees Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir (“Abdul-Mutakabbir”), Assistant Principals (“AP”) Stefan Singh (“Singh”) and Jesse Pachter (“Pachter”), and Teachers Daniel Franchese (“Franchese”), Christopher Grunert (“Grunert”), and Daniel Sepulveda (“Sepulveda”), assigned to Maspeth High School (“Maspeth”) in Queens, committed various acts of malfeasance, including but not limited to failing to properly maintain dangerous property and contraband. Further, in the case of Sepulveda, this office substantiated that he physically assaulted a student, significantly smaller than himself, while ostensibly wrestling in a non-instructional manner, texted with a student during the day, and likely provided answers to students while proctoring a Regents exam,

NCSI

I’m not sure whether they’re evil or cynical; if they don’t know what they’re supposed to do or know only too well what they’re supposed to do. “It’s nobody’s fault, just the way it is.”