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Thursday, May 10, 2018

David Pakter Opines About the High School of Art and Design

David Pakter sent me the following a few weeks ago. I am now finally getting around to publishing it.

For those who don't know who David is or have forgotten, please read here. David is the OG teacher of taking on the NYCDOE.Not only was he thrown under the bus but the bus backed up and forth several times over him.

David retired and left for points unknown. I have always thought of him as the Frank Serpico of teachers and figure he did like Serpico and moved to Europe incognito.

David had taught at the High School of Art and Design and must've read of the shit show that is happening there.

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE-

PETE SEEGER, 1955

I have read with much shock and sadness at SOUTH BRONX TEACHER, what has become of the High School of Art & Design and its UFT Chapter since I was illegally removed in Sept. 2004 on trumped up charges.

I had become a Whistle-blower of serious New York City, NY State and United States Federal Civil Rights Violations that had been taking place for years at the school, and with the full knowledge of both the Manhattan Superintendent's Office as well as the NYC Dept. of Education itself.

I strongly urge your readers to read the letter I sent to former Chancellor Joel Klein, Esq. in Sept. 2003 detailing my well documented allegations- because NOTHING has changed in all the years after I was driven out of the system, worn down from years of battling all the entrenched corruption in that 25 Billion dollar "Enterprise" euphemistically titled the NYC Dept. of Education.

Readers are strongly encouraged to read the Letter I sent to Chancellor Joel Klein and the reply I received in return which speaks volumes.

Please read now.

http://www.parentadvocates.org/nicemedia/documents/David%20Pakter's%20case%20and%20Chad%20Vignola.pdf

After my removal in Sept. 2004 and despite having been subjected to TWO separate 3020-a Kangaroo State Hearings, both of which I survived, I finally in 2010 arrived at the painful conclusion, that my career with the NYC DOE was effectively at an end.

Although at the conclusion of my Second 3020a "Trial" virtually ALL the knowingly Fraudulent charges against me were Dismissed and Thrown out, by that point my Award winning Medical Illustration Program had been utterly dismantled and destroyed.

It was clear to me that my illustrious 35 year career at the High School of Art & Design was effectively over.

Following my first 3020a Trial I was reassigned to a different HS but within 19 days I was once again removed- this time based on the Charge I had brought plants into the school building without official Permission.

Of course other similarly absurd charges were added to embellish the list of "allegations" against me.

This Second 3020a Trial was highly followed by the entire country and even by news papers in Europe including the FINANCIAL TIMES OF LONDON.

Some of the Hearings were even attended by a certain highly respected individual connected to the SOUTH BRONX TEACHER.

The trajectory of this years long campaign by the NYC DOE to drive me out of the "system" was Published in horrifying detail by all the important Teacher Blogs including SOUTH BRONX TEACHER, Norm Scott's legendary Blogs and Betsy Combier's equally legendary Blogs, especially at:

http://www.parentadvocates.org/nicecontent/dsp_printable.cfm?articleID=7501

But why am I taking the time to revisit these facts at this time.

It is because the "Past is always Prologue"

All the mind bending horrors that the NYC Dept. of Education visited upon my totally undeserving head, beginning 14 years ago have now returned to fall squarely on the undeserving heads of so many of the splendid Teachers at my former place of teaching, the High School of Art & Design.

Reading the letter that the UFT Chapter Leader, Jason Agosto sent to Michel Mulgrew, President of the UFT, nearly brought tears to my eyes.

For it is now clear to me that the sadistic plan to destroy my own celebrated Career (I was personally Decorated by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in City Hall), that same type of vicious behavior on the part of the NYC DOE is now being visited upon legions of present Dedicated NYC Teachers including at the HS of Art & Design.

Any teachers who expect and demand that their UFT Contract should be upheld and Honored by the system that agreed to that Contract, are attacked relentlessly and continuously and with a sick vengeance by forces emanating it would seem, from the deepest bowels of Hell.

And the once vaunted Teachers Union, the UFT stands by and does nothing.

Even worse the UFT appears to appease and even support the sadistic and illegal attacks on teachers who simply wish their Contractual Rights to be enforced.

So what has transpired over the past few Decades ???

And WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE ???

When I entered teaching in 1968 in the South East Bronx it was literally in the midst of one of the largest Teacher Strikes in American History.

A District in Brooklyn has mistreated UFT Members and UFT President Albert Shanker, called an IMMEDIATE City wide Strike. Almost 100,000 UFT Teachers walked out of their schools, here, there and everywhere in new York City. It was a spectacular and momentous event.

In those days no one in NYC doubted the clout the United Federation of Teachers wielded.   It was known nation wide the UFT was a titanic force to be feared and reckoned with and one violated the UFT Contract at their distinct Peril.  The NYC Board of Education knew this Fact well.

In every school in NYC every Principal and Assistant Principal knew the one Teacher they must always fear was the UFT Chapter Leader.

But over the years something changed. The Legendary UFT President Albert Shanker, as all things with time, moved on and passed the torch to Randi Weingarten. For a long time she appeared to walk in Al Shanker's footsteps. But gradually as time passed things began to change.

More and more it was clear that Principals were beginning to mistreat Teachers with impunity and without a "peep" from the UFT.

Principals gradually stopped having the least fear of the UFT and/or their local UFT Teacher Representative based at an individual school.

More and more Teachers and especially Senior, Veteran Teachers were starting to be mistreated, written up for nonsensical reasons, and more and more frequently given U Ratings for the year and then brought up on "Charges" based on the most flimsy and fraudulent allegations.

During the long years I was consigned to four different Rubber Rooms I met Teachers who had been pulled from their schools for reasons few would ever believe possible. One teacher I met, a 28 year Veteran with a perfect Satisfactory Record, was removed because a Second grader began running around the room and ran straight into the Teacher.

You guessed it ! The Principal decided it was the fault of the Teacher who apparently exhibited poor Classroom Management. That charge has been used hundreds of times to axe innocent Teachers. Perhaps thousands of times. During the years I spent in several different Rubber Rooms I heard stories so insane you did not know if you should laugh or cry--or perhaps both.

The war against NYC Teachers began in earnest after the year 2000.

I was once told by a well known Journalist, that the big purge of Senior teachers at the top of the Pay scale, was the result of a deal between the City and the UFT. The UFT would get serious pay Raises in exchange for closing their eyes to the purging of thousands of Senior Educators.

And indeed most of the Teachers I met in several Rubber Rooms were the more Senior Teachers. It was a fact as clear as day.

When I look at the Teacher signatures on Jason Agosto's letter to Michael Mulgrew I only saw one single name from the time I was removed from the HS of Art & Design in 2004.

Apparently most of my former colleagues were eventually driven out, harassed out or brought up on 3020a charges of one type or another.

This is the new NYC Dept. of Education protocol. Higher them young at dirt cheap salary prices, squeeze them dry and then set them up and harass them out after just a few years. These poor hapless Souls do not have a clue going in that they will never survive long enough to earn a serious Pension.

It is all Smoke and Mirrors. And during those few years they are in the "system" they learn early on to live in abject Fear with a capitol "F".

Eyes front, mouth kept tightly shut. See NO Evil, Hear NO Evil, Speak NO Evil. Avert one's eyes from observing wrongdoing and blatant corruption of any and all kinds. And NEVER, NEVER consider for a second, saying or doing anything to "Rock the Boat"- as I did and for which I paid the ultimate price of seeing my celebrated Medical program destroyed and my enormously ultra Gifted students scattered here, there and everywhere who I could of gotten into Ivy League Colleges with full Scholarships.

From under what dark and clammy rocks do failed Human Beings like the present Principal of Art & Design come from. Sub humans who make the life of their dedicated Faculty a living Hell on Earth.

And how did a once venerated Teachers Union gradually fall from Grace and resort to the barbaric outlook that they have every Right to take the hard earned money of their Union Members and then abandon them, even spit in their face, when those dues paying Members have the nerve to expect their Union to Defend their Contractual Rights clearly written in Black and White.

What happened ?? How did New York City's hard working, Dedicated Teachers ever end up in this truly Tragic situation where on a daily basis they are caught, even trapped, between a hard place and a stone.

The human maggot who now serves as the Principal of the High School I proudly reported to every day for a quarter of a Century, is simply just another mindless, vicious lackey, stooge, enforcer for the NYC Dept. of Education. And the poor Faculty that must serve under this heartless, pathetic creature, have little say in the matter.

But what is most tragic of all is that their Union, to which they must pay their hard earned dues could NOT care less about the Trials and Tribulations and extreme Pains that the Teachers at Art & Design must endure every single day of the year.

I wish to here and now and most Publicly salute and state how Proud I am of people like UFT Chapter Leader at Art & Design, Jason Agosto et al. who despite having a multitude of reasons to openly rebel against the UFT, nevertheless stay in the game, attempt to work with the "hand they have been dealt" and fight for the Contractual Rights of their fellow Teachers.

All this in spite of the fact that it clearly appears to be the case that there is wide spread collusion between the UFT and New York City.

Why else would the UFT avert their gaze and attention from the desperate Plea of the Teachers at the HS of Art & Design, my former School of 25 years, to intercede and protect them and their trampled Rights from the ongoing, sadistic and Dictatorial behavior and dark agenda of a Principal from Hell. In a fair and Just world such a person would NOT be allowed to get anywhere Teachers or students.

And finally, looking at the present State of Public Education in America and the despicable forms of treatment to which Teachers today are subjected and must work under I find I must ask UFT President Michael Mulgrew a simple question- to wit:

"Have you no Decency?   Have you at long last no Decency at all and feeling of Obligation to Defend your Dues paying Members who pay your Salary ?"

What happened to the field of Education in NY and in all of America ?

What dark forces conspired to allow and cause 100,000  hard working Dedicated Teachers throughout our City to be forced to work under such despicable, failed Human beings as the present Principal at the High School of Art & Design ?

How do we, how can we get back to a place called Respect for Educators ?

And once again, why does the UFT, which collects millions of dollars in Member Dues, NOT step up to the Plate and Defend Teachers who are illegally attacked for Demanding that their Contract be adhered to. Has the UFT no understanding of their Fiduciary Responsibility to their 100,000 Members.

Has UFT President, Michael Mulgrew, at long last no shame at all ??

And "WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE ? "

The flowers that once graced the desks of so many proud Dedicated NYC Teachers.

And will they ever Bloom again ?
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David Pakter, M.A., M.F.A.

Former Teacher of the Year

Still Standing

Monday, September 20, 2010

David Pakter's Mind Redux

David Pakter wins one against the New York Post.

From David:

Never Surrender To Brute Force -

To do so only emboldens that force to act with ever greater degrees of Brutality.
Some of America's Teachers Unions have finally started to understand this fact.

But sadly, far too few.
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The Battle Against the Faux Chancellor, Joel Klein, Esq. continues.

The NYC Dept of Education, which never allows itself to miss an opportunity to indulge in despicably obscene behavior, may have gone too far this time and a NY State Supreme Court Justice does not intend to allow them to get away with it.

The Wheels of Justice Continue To Turn in David Pakter's quest to make certain that Joel Klein, Esq. and his hired thugs are called to account and made to answer for their past actions. - All of them.

"Though the Wheels of Justice grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding fine".

Please Remember fired UFT Reporters, Betsy Combier and Jim Callaghan -

......United in Courage - to tell the Truth, let the cost be damned.

...and the thousands of UFT members the Union failed to protect.

David Pakter - Still Standing
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Newspaper ordered to disclose the source

of alleged inaccurate information it published

to the individual suing for alleged defamation

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Newspaper ordered to disclose the source of alleged inaccurate information
it published to the individual suing for alleged defamation

Matter of Pakter v New York City Dept .of Educ., 2010 NY Slip Op 32451(U, August 20, 2010,
Supreme Court, New York County, Judge Cynthia S. Kern [Not selected for publication in the Official Reports]

The Court's decision is posted on the Internet at:

http://www.courts.state.ny.us/reporter/pdfs/2010/2010_32451.pdf ____________________________________________________________________________________________

David Pakter, a school teacher employed by the New York City Department of Education [DOE], was charged with misconduct and removed from his classroom teaching duties and assigned to one of the DOE'S reassignment centers also known as the "rubber rooms"

On March 21, 2010, the New York Post published an article titled "Bored of Ed. in Rubber Rooms".

A sidebar to this article featuring "notable rubber room residents" included Pakter and stated that he was charged with sexual misconduct.

Pakter, however, had not been charged with sexual misconduct and the Post subsequently ran a retraction.

Pakter, believing himself to have been defamed and intending to bring a lawsuit against the person or persons who provided the Post with the inaccurate information, asked the Post and DOE to identify the source of the incorrect statement.

When his request was denied, Pakter filed a petition in Supreme Court seeking a court order to compel the disclosure of the name or names of the person or persons involved with providing the information and any documentation that he had been charged with sexual misconduct. He also asked for a court order compelling the Post and DOE to preserve all "notes, emails, and electronically stored information" concerning the event.

Judge Kern ruled that Pakter was entitled to "pre-action disclosure of information" as to the identity of the source or sources who provided the Post with the statement as he had made a "strong showing that a cause of action exists" for a cause of action for defamation alleging a false statement, published without privilege or authorization to a third party.

Further, said the court, such pre-action discovery is permitted in cases, such as here, where an individual having a valid claim for defamation needs "to identify the unnamed source or sources who provided defamatory information to a newspaper in order to bring an action against them."

The Post was ordered to answer interrogatories limited to the issue of the name(s) of the source or sources who provided the Post with the statement that Pakter had been charged with sexual misconduct "as reported in the article and sidebar to the article entitled 'Bored of Ed. in Rubber Rooms' " and, in addition, both the Post and DOE were directed "to preserve any documents, reporter's notes, emails, and electronically stored information related to the statement at issue."

The decision is posted on the Internet at:

http://www.courts.state.ny.us/reporter/pdfs/2010/2010_32451.pdf

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email ).

Friday, July 2, 2010

Goodbye David Pakter, You Will Be Missed

David Pakter has fought the good fight. He did what many of have wanted to do. He gave a good, swift, hard kick into Joel Klein's testicles. Whilst Klein is writhing on the ground in pain holding his damaged goodies, Pakter is leaving with his head, and self-respect, held high.

From David Pakter:

At What Cost, Victory ?

Over, And Yet Never Over

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Some Thoughts Expressing the Idea That

Behind the Toughest Exterior the Pain Yet Lingers

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To My Legal Team

With Heartfelt Appreciation

Many thanks for following up on the idea to create a paper trail for the Hon. Supreme Court Justice Cynthia Kern to better recognize the NYC DOE's current intention to "circle the wagons" and put up smoke and mirrors to hide the Truth of what was done to me.

I trust the Bio I faxed was sufficiently readable for your purposes.
As students of human nature it might interest you to learn that despite the fact that on Tuesday last, I officially resigned my career as a New York City Educator after 41 years, 9 months and 20 days, my mind has not been as successful as the paperwork submitted in severing the Links.

At times I feel a great relief that I will never again have to sit in some God forsaken little "Hearing Room" at 49 Chambers Street and suffer the obscene humiliations visited there upon Theresa Europe, Esq.'s countless and helpless victims.

But several times a day, all the recollections of the past seven years come crashing back down upon my head like demonic memories from Hell that cannot be escaped. The years of being made to feel like a powerless victim at the mercy of a 23 billion dollar conglomerate controlled by pathological, sub humans like Joel Klein, Theresa Europe et al, are not easy to forget or bury.

And poor Mr. A, who first brought my case to your attention, not only was also ruthlessly victimized by these ghouls from some sick Underworld, but for the sake of his Family must continue to work for and be victimized in that sick world- may God have Mercy on his Soul.

I suppose when one finally escapes some Hellish nightmare that has continued for years beyond counting, one never fully recovers from or is able to escape all thoughts and memories of such an experience. And I fully suspect these memories will haunt me into my grave and into the next world.

And haunt me not only for what a depraved and clinically sick system did to me alone but the havoc and pain that was visited upon so many others as well.

One can only attempt to move on with one's Life as best he can and just learn to live with the memories that for years beyond number, one was a "victim", and try to concentrate on actions beneficial to our future days in our future lives.

But we must also accept the fact that the memories of our long nightmare will never be fully laid to rest and will always be there, existing just below the surface ready to be reawakened at a moment's notice.

I was removed from my Medical Room on Sept. 26, 2004, after a full year of never ending highly vicious Whistle-blower Retaliation, on ten minutes notice and unceremoniously "escorted"/ejected from the school building where I had taught with Distinction for a quarter of a Century.

My removal was intentionally staged, as if in a Theatre, orchestrated by uniformed guards, as if I were a common felon, and meant to be witnessed by hundreds of my students and fellow Teachers.

My "removal" was intended to be a "show" and perhaps a warning to others to "stay in line and do not rock the boat lest you suffer the same Fate as David Pakter".

From that day on I was catapulted into an endless nightmare of being Railroaded by the Dept of Education Medical office quacks and endless other indignities including going through two ""Kangaroo" trials euphemistically referred to as NY State Education Law 3020-a trial Hearings.

A process so twisted and devoid of any of the rights that obtain in a trial in a Real courtroom that it is no wonder people entering 49 Chambers Street must go through Metal detectors for fear some Teacher might just finally snap and start taking out the so-called DOE Prosecuting attorneys, all of whom should be lined up against a wall for the things they do every day of the week to end an innocent Teacher's career and source of livelihood to feed their families.

It was only due to the endless, years long efforts of a highly dedicated Defense attorney as well as a most courageous NY State Hearing Officer who refused to be intimidated, that Justice in the end prevailed.

I have actual proof that the Head of the NYC Dept of Education Teacher Trials Unit Chief, Theresa Europe, Esq. and Philip Oliveri, my DOE "prosecutor" knew the charges against me were bogus and concocted from Day One. I have recently been reading cases of US District Attorneys who eventually were disbarred for Railroading Defendants who they knew were 100 % innocent.

I absolutely want to see Theresa Europe, Esq., Philip Oliveri, Esq. and many other individuals, publicly disbarred for what was done to me, (not to mention so many others which continues even now today, as I write these words).

Please try to imagine, for a moment, your own wife, husband, son or daughter was a NYC Teacher and about to go through the seven year Hell I experienced after I wrote to former Federal Prosecutor Joel Klein, Esq. on October 2, 2003, informing him of egregious Federal, State and City, Civil Rights violations that were occurring in the NYC Public schools.

If there is anything positive to be gleaned from the long nightmare I experienced and managed to survive it is that along the way I met many courageous individuals of principle who refused to avert their eyes from what was being done to me and so many other innocent human beings who did not in any way deserve the Fates served up to them by such twisted human failures as former Federal Prosecutor, Joel Klein, Esq. and his "willing executioners".

God must look down approvingly upon any person who would spend his/her life defending those who cannot defend themselves from morally bankrupt, pathologically evil individuals.

Next to healing broken and diseased bodies, what could possibly represent a more worthwhile way to spend one's hours upon this Earth than standing up for what is Right and defending those Falsely Accused.

Everlasting Blessings on those people everywhere who have the courage of their convictions, and who refuse to capitulate to Evil for the sake of personal gain.

They are indeed the Brave,

and their selfless Courage makes up for all the depraved cowardice of others.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The Pakter Transcript

Read on......transcipt of Pakter's recording at the end.

Breaking News: For Immediate Release

You watched "Law and Order" and

learned about the Rubber Rooms that

David Pakter was kept in for years.

Now read a REAL Rubber Room story in

which Truth trumps any Fiction

Reporters, Journalists, Bloggers:

Please Post and cover this story

Public Schools Systems in New York City and nationwide are in peril.

There is a big reason the NYC Dept of Education is fighting tooth and nail to not allow a tape of the attached Verbatim Transcript to be played at the

Open to the Public

State Teacher Trial of Whistle-blower, David Pakter.

The NYC DOE has brought one "Witness" after another, against David Pakter, who have committed knowing Perjury.

Pakter fought to protect the Constitutional Rights of the City's more than 1,000,000 school children.

Key witnesses for the DOE told one story.

But the attached verbatim transcript of the Tape the DOE does not want you to hear tells a very different story.

You can read it all in 15 minutes but

you will never forget this conversation,

between a Teacher and a Principal.

After all the grotesque and obscene

Lies, the Libels, the Smears, the Dirty tricks,

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There is the Truth.

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Today, May 25, is David Pakter's Birthday.

The best gift anyone can give him is to

READ the attached Verbatim Transcript Evidence

that the NYC Dept of Education maintains

they can stop the Public from hearing.

If they are right--

then I was never born and

the world is flat,

Charter Schools are Non Profit Charities

and

Justice for Teachers in America is no more.

The David Pakter Charges

Exclusive from David Pakter.

The reason the NYC DOE is terrified to have a secretly made tape of a meeting with Principal Hilda Nieto played at an OPEN TO THE PUBLIC TRIAL is because the tape proves that the charges were intentionally fabricated by SCI and the NYC DOE when it was known by the NYC DOE I had discussed my decades long Academic Incentive Awards initiative program in great detail with Principal Nieto during a (tape recorded) Meeting in her Office.

The Incentive Awards were also discussed in numerous letters to the Regional NYC DOE office at 333 Seventh Ave. in Manhattan.
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Below are the actual Charges made against David Pakter

by the NYC DOE and the responses to each "Charge".

Please note my response to each charge appears in CAPITAL LETTERS.

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OFFICIAL NYC DEPT OF EDUCATION CHARGES AGAINST DAVID PAKTER

SPECIFICATIONS

( Important Note: Virtually all of the following charges, (except the charges relating to attendance at the small windowless Rubber Room located in Harlem), will be shown and proven at Trial to be either outright lies or distortions of fact to such an extreme degree as to make the charges little more than knowing falsehoods.)

NOTE ALL MY RESPONSES & COMMENTS ARE IN UPPER CASE/CAPS

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Below is a Verbatim Copy of ALL NYC DOE Charges against David Pakter

DAVID PAKTER (hereinafter referred to as "Respondent") is a tenured teacher, under File # 407530, Social Security # XXX-XX-XXXX, formerly assigned to The High School of Fashion Industries in Manhattan. During the 2006-2007 school year, Respondent engaged in misconduct and was neglectful of his duties as follows:

In Particular:

SPECIFICATION 1: In or about October and/or November of 2006, Respondent promoted his and /or his family's watch business during school hours.

I INFORMED STUDENTS (AS I HAVE FOR 3 DECADES) THAT ANYONE WITH A 90% AVERAGE WOULD EARN A WATCH DESIGNED BY PAKTER

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SPECIFICATION 2: In or about October and/or November of 2006, Respondent gave watches as gifts to students during school hours.

YES, YES AND YES- LIKE JOEL KLEIN GIVING OUT CELL PHONES

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SPECIFICATION 3: In or about October and/or November of 2006, Respondent gave a watch to School Aide during school hours.

ABSOLUTELY YES- I GAVE A WATCH TO A MINIMUM WAGE SCHOOL AIDE DURING MY LUNCH BREAK FOR HER SON AS I KNEW SHE HAD A VERY LIMITED BUDGET TO BUY HIM A BIRTHDAY GIFT.

ISN'T THAT MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OR DO I NEED THE PERMISSION OF THE NYC DOE EVEN TO GIVE SOMEONE A GIFT.

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SPECIFICATION 4: In or about October and/or November of 2006, during class time, Respondent:

(a) Talked about his and/or his family's watch business.

(b) Provided the watch website address.

(d) Said words to the effect that he would give a watch to any student who achieved a gradepoint average of 90% or better.

(e) Showed two watches to students.

(f) Talked about his personal life.

(g) Said words to the effect that he was fired from The High School of Art and Design for being a whistleblower.

I STRONGLY ENCOURAGED STUDENTS TO STRIVE TO GET ON HONOR ROLL AND PROMISED THEM FASHION ACCESSORIES AS AN INCENTIVE AS I HAVE DONE FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS TO THE DELIGHT AND DEEP APPRECIATION OF COUNTLESS NYC DOE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS.

ALL ABOVE FALL WITHIN MY FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS RE FREE SPEECH.

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(h) Showed the class an "R" rated movie.

FILM WAS R-RATED EXACTLY FOR THE SAME REASONS AS "SCHINDLER'S LIST", "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN", "THE PIANIST", ETC ETC ARE, R-RATED AS WELL AS THE DOZENS OF AWARD WINNING FILMS I HAVE SHOWN TO CLASSES FOR 37 YEARS WITH THE FULL KNOWLEDGE OF PEERS AND COUNTLESS NYC DOE PRINCIPALS I SERVED WITH DISTINCTION WHO RESPECTED MY GOOD JUDGEMENT TO SCREEN FILMS THAT CONTAINED STRONG LIFE LESSONS.

IMPORTANT NOTE: THE ABOVE ABSURD CHARGE ALSO BRINGS UP POSSIBLE CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS PERTAINING TO CENSORSHIP. ALSO TARGETTING TEACHERS BY ACCUSING THEM OF SHOWING A FILM IS AN OLD AND TIRED TACTIC OF THE NYC DOE.

THUS SUBCHARGE (h) VIOLATES AND GIVES RISE TO AT LEAST TWO CLEARLY SERIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES.

IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS CHARGE HAS BEEN DROPPED BY THE CITY

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SPECIFICATION 5: In or about November of 2006, Respondent had two trees delivered to the school despite being previously told by Assistant Principal Giovanni Raschilla to wait until he discussed the matter with Principal Hilda Nieto.

THE ABOVE TOTALLY AND INTENTIONALLY DISTORTS FACTS

- I HAND CARRIED TWO SMALL ARTIFICIAL PLANTS IN WICKER BASKETS TO SCHOOL ON MY LUNCH HOUR WHICH I PLACED OUTSIDE DOORS TO THE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM WHERE EVERYONE AGREED THEY LOOKED TOTALLY GREAT AND VASTLY IMPROVED THE AMBIANCE OF THE SCHOOL LOBBY.

VERY INTERESTINGLY NO WHERE IN RICHARD CONDON'S SPECIALLY PREPARED SCI REPORT PREPARED FOR CHANCELLOR JOEL KLEIN IS IT MENTIONED THAT ON THE SAME DAY I PLACED THE TWO PLANTS OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM I ALSO HAND DELIVERED A LARGE BEAUTIFUL SILK PLANT, ALSO IN A WICKER BASKET TO PRINCIPAL HILDA NIETO'S OFFICE AND GAVE THE PLANT TO HER SECRETARY, MS. TUCKER REQUESTING SHE GIVE THE GIFT TO THE PRINCIPAL TO DECORATE HER OFFICE.

THE PLANT GIVEN TO THE PRINCIPAL WAS NEVER MENTIONED IN THE SCI REPORT AND I WAS NEVER CHARGED WITH GIVING PRINCIPAL HILDA NIETO A SILK PLANT BUT I WAS CHARGED WITH GIVING A GIFT TO A MINIMUM WAGE SCHOOL AIDE.

NIETO NEVER THANKED ME, VERBALLY OR IN WRITING BECAUSE SHE KNEW THAT IT WOULD PREVENT ANY PLANT CHARGES FROM BEING MADE AGAINST ME.

ALSO THE SCI REPORT TO KLEIN DID NOT MENTION THAT I BOUGHT AND HAND DELIVED MYSELF, SEVERAL PLANTS IN BASKETS TO THE MAIN SCHOOL OFFICE WHERE I HAD TO SIT ALL DAY WHEN I WAS NOT COVERING CLASSES AS AN ATR SUBSTITUTE TEACHER.

ON THE DAY I WAS REMOVED, THE PLANTS I HAD PERSONALLY PURCHASED, PAID FOR AND PERSONALLY DELIVERED AND INSTALLED AT THREE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN THE SCHOOL WERE STILL THERE EXACTLY WHERE I HAD PERSONALLY PLACED THEM

NOTE THAT THE PLANT GIFTS TO THE PRINCIPAL'S PRIVATE OFFICE AND ALSO TO HER MAIN SCHOOL OFFICE ON A DIFFERENT FLOOR IN THE SCHOOL BUILDING, WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE 3020-a SPECIFICATIONS.

THINK ABOUT HOW EVIL AND MACHIAVELLIAN THAT MAKES THESE PEOPLE AND THE NYC DEPT OF EDUCATION IN GENERAL.

BUT IN ANY EVENT ISN'T IT MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE TREATED IN THE SAME FASHION AS ANY OTHER TEACHER IN NYC WHO DECIDES TO DECORATE HIS/HER CLASSROOM AND/OR SCHOOL.

IN SHORT WE ADDRESS HERE THE CONCEPT OF EQUAL TREATMENT AND EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW AND THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

SHOULD SOME TEACHERS BE ALLOWED TO BRING A PLANT TO SCHOOL AND NOT OTHERS?

NOTE: THE WEEK I WAS REMOVED I WAS ABLE TO GET GIOVANNI RASCHILLA, MY A.P. ON TAPE ADMITTING TO UFT CHAPTER LEADER JACK SANCHEZ THAT HE, RASCHILLA, KNEW THE WHOLE PLANT BUSINESS WAS ILLEGAL AND THAT HE WOULD REMOVE THE PLANT LETTERS FROM MY FILE IMMEDIATELY AS UFT SANCHEZ DEMANDED.

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SPECIFICATION 6: Respondent's actions caused widespread negative publicity and notoriety to the High School of Fashion Industries and the New York City Department of Education in general when his unprofessional behavior was referenced in the UFT Newspaper.

THIS IS THE FAMOUS CHARGE THAT RANDI WEINGARTEN ORDERED NYSUT TO WRITE A PROTEST TO CHANCELLOR JOEL KLEIN ON OCTOBER 24, 2007 TO WHICH KLEIN NEVER RESPONDED BUT WHICH THE NYC DEPT OF EDUCATION LATER DROPPED RATHER THAN BE FORCED TO FIGHT THE UFT IN COURT OVER A FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUE.

SPECIFICATION 7: During the 2006-2007 school year, Respondent was absent ninety-eight (98) times from work. (Rubber Room)

SPECIFICATION 8: During the 2006-2007 school year, Respondent worked a partial day fifteen (15) times. (Rubber Room)

HARLEM RUBBER ROOM WAS A VERY SMALL ROOM ON 125TH STREET, WITH NO WINDOWS, NO IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE DRINKING WATER, BARE WALLS UNTIL I TRIED TO HANG A FEW PICTURES AND WAS ORDERED NOT TO DO SO AND THE MUSEUM PRINTS REMOVED.

AND WORST OF ALL THIS SMALL ROOM CONVEYED TO THE PEOPLE HOUSED THERE A SENSE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA AND INCARCERATION

A UFT HIRED AIR SPECIALIST, HIRED BY UFT SPECIAL REP-KLAUS BORNEMANN, USING SOPHISTICATED AIR TESTING EQUIPMENT WROTE IN HIS AIR QUALITY REPORT THAT THE CEILING VENTILATORS AT TIMES WERE BLOWING AIR OF SUBSTANDARD AIR QUALITY INTO THE ROOM.

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THE ABOVE AMOUNTS TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT UNDER THE US CONSTITUTION AND IS THE REASON I STOPPED REPORTING TO THE SMALL WINDOWLESS RUBBER ROOM IN HARLEM.

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Please Note: The fact that the DOE would certainly deny that any, or all of these charges do not violate any of my Constitutional and/or First Amendment rights, (which is to be totally expected), does not make such an assertion and/or position true. It is only by challenging established customs and perceptions of what does and does not violate the Laws of the Land, that "old" laws are struck down, and new Laws and new legal precedents- established.

David Pakter

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

NYC DOE Slams David Pakter With Additional Bogus Charges

For those who are unaware if the trials and tribulations of David Paketer, I invite you to go here, here, and here.

It would be really neat for Gotham Schools to link to this, but as you know Gotham doesn't link to obscenity. This is the biggest obscenity I have ever heard of.

Just for a note of disclosure. In 1993 whilst at the DMV in Yonkers I told the clerk I would take her to Burger King if she would re-take my photo. I also gave flowers to the registrar of my college. Confused? Then read on.

The following is from the mind of David Pakter

Dear Friends (and supporters):

The new additional charge/s brought against me relate to the fact that last October, 2009, when I was down at 65 Court Street, on a late Friday afternoon attempting to get a printout verifying my job status with the NYC Dept of Education, I offered to treat a receptionist to dinner (not with me) if she would give me a copy of my job status printout immediately so I would not have to return all the way back to Brooklyn from Manhattan, the following Monday after the

weekend.

Based on my trying to expedite obtaining a copy of my own personal employment history, the NYC DOE has accused me of "attempting to bribe", a Public Official- citing every single State Law they could find that deals with attempting to influence Public Servants and Officials for personal gain-- like the six men who just got sentenced to jail for soliciting tens of thousands of dollars for getting lucrative DOE student transportation bus contracts.

These new charges brought against me will be sent to the Manhattan District Attorney for prosecution.

Such is the desperation of Joel Klein and his countless stooges to bury me once and for all.

The real goal, of course, of the NYC DOE and SCI and Theresa Europe is to force me to accept their recently made offer that if I will retire and withdraw my Federal Lawsuits and agree not to sue the DOE for the knowingly false sex allegation Libel that appeared in the NY POST on Sunday, March 21, 2010, that stated I was removed "for sexual misconduct", a bald faced lie, and then in exchange, the NYC DOE will withdraw all present and any future charges against me.

Obviously, the NYC DOE will continue to add more and more charges against me in the vain and desperate hope they will succeed in intimidating me to agree to withdraw my Federal lawsuits and not sue the NYC DOE and the NY POST for Libel, Defamation and Slander.

I am fully prepared to go to jail before I will capitulate to such an obscene form of extortion.

One does not bargain with criminals or make deals with the Devil.

The world learned that painful lesson in 1939 and more than 50 million people of all Faiths, Creeds and Nationalities paid with their lives.

I rather doubt they will attempt to pull such nonsense with other NYC teachers, but be forewarned that the NYC DOE can take even the most innocuous and mundane comments made to another person totally out of context- as if we did not know this to be a fact regarding the sorry excuses for human beings who inhabit and walk the marbled halls along Chambers Street.

But no one need worry or lose any sleep on my account.

The type of Justice that cannot be obtained in a State Education Law 3020-a Teacher Trial, can be obtained via alternate methods. In fact a type of Justice will be arriving on the NYC DOE's door step in good time that will leave former Federal prosecutor, Chancellor Joel Klein, Esq. and his countless lapdogs reeling.

Indeed, I can say they will never know what hit them-- until it is too late.

Stay strong and live happily.

Remember that no one on this Earth can rob you of your human dignity unless you agree to let them. They can jail your body but never your humanity.

Someday, these dark days and dark hours we must presently live through, in the history of Education in America, will come to an end and be a thing of the past.

And people like Joel Klein, Esq., a pitiful legend in his own pitiful mind, will be consigned to the scrap heap of history where they so rightly belong.

With warmest regards as always,

David Pakter

Still Standing

Next Trial Dates: May 10, May 11, at 49 Chambers Street, 6th Floor, at 10 AM

Please request Hearing Room of the Honorable Douglas J. Bantle, Esq.

Christopher M. Callagy, Esq. NYSUT Attorney for the Defense
Philip Oliveri, prosecuting for the NYC Dept of Education

Note: 6th Floor Receptionist has been known to falsely tell visitors NO Hearing is scheduled.

Friday, January 15, 2010

From The Wonderful Mind of David Pakter

What a treat today boys and girls. A guest blogger, David Pakter. For those who are unaware David is going through the 3020a process because he dared to give students watches who got a 90 or better average, and he bought two potted plants for the school. Obviously this man should not teach anymore. Ah, for those who can't figure it out for themselves that was sarcasm. So without further ado, here is David Pakter.

How the NYC Dept of Education Insults New York City Teachers

Has anyone ever noticed how often certain terms are used by NYC DOE flunkys, sycophants,clueless stooge "administrators" and other assorted Joel Klein lackeys.

There is no other profession on Earth where the terms "discipline" and "appropriate" and/or "appropriate behavior" are used ad nausea. And not used, as one might expect, with reference to school children, so much as in reference to those people who teach the children in our Public Schools in New York City.

Read any so-called "Observation Report" created to help build a case for rating a Teacher, "Unsatisfactory" for the year, and you will see what I mean.

Or how about those endless, self repeating diatribes penned by some pathetic DOE lackey to bring a Teacher up on "Official" charges known as a Teacher's "SPECIFICATIONS" prepared for the Teacher's NY State 3020-a Teacher Hearings/Trial.

Almost as if sprinkling salt over a Jumbo movie theatre sized order of buttered Pop Corn, the words "appropriate" and "discipline" and other such related terms, intended to criticize, demean, denigrate and otherwise "tear down" a teacher, are employed in gloriously ample profusion.

Imagine stating in the performance review of a New York City Fireman:

"Your grimacing as you struggled to keep the 85 pound heavy duty fire hose directed at the main source of the fire was inappropriate- especially when considering that there were children in close proximity who might be puzzled and/or even frightened by your inappropriate behavior".

Or how about an observation report drafted by a Police Precinct Commander that ended with the comments: "Your inappropriate reaction when your immediate "supervisor" ordered you to accept a third year of night shift duty, 12 AM to 8 AM, was inappropriate and may lead to further discipline with the possibility of an "Unsatisfactory" Rating for the year and permanent Termination.

Only Teachers are forced to put up with the indignities, childishly worded letters of criticism from burnt out and often sadistic "supervisors" and other such "slings and arrows" that arise in a system that follows the top-down model.

A system in which advancement is directly dependant and predicated on becoming a "Yes" man, a toady, a subservient lackey, a person who will not hesitate to fabricate, lie and encourage false "witness testimony" to destroy the career of whomsoever the system orders one to destroy.

But what is truly "inappropriate" is for people to "buy" Elections, and then appoint as a school's Chief an entirely incompetent "Legend in his own Mind", Educationally uncredentialed, and Ethically challenged, former Federal Prosecutor as schools Chancellor so that he could wreck the lives of more than one million inner city, at risk children and visit Hell and Havoc on the lives of one hundred thousand men and women who had dedicated their entire lives to teaching New York City's children in over-crowded and under funded classrooms.

Joel Klein Esq. will eventually be relegated and consigned to the scrap heap of history as MUST be the Fate of all incompetent fools and charlatans who step into places and situations where they so clearly do not belong.

Sooner or later ordinary people finally wake up, come to their senses and understand and recognize when the "Emperor has no clothes".

But how much damage, how much harm must be visited on the lives of innocent children and their teachers before the great awakening arrives and the citizens exclaim:

"Was blind- But now I see".

David Pakter