Has it been two weeks since I last sat down and blogged? Apparently so. Too those who have missed my unique take on the happenings of education, I apologize for being away for so long. For those that hate my writings and were glad to see the gap in my blogging, too bad.

The last two weeks have been hectic. I was doing the Math scoring, was house hunting, was driving my son to and fro to baseball games and practice, and plotting my campaign to run for chapter chair. Was coming home exhausted or too late to do anything but to crawl into bed and just vegetate. But to paraphrase Carol Anne, "I'm baaaack!"

And boy am I back with some interesting news which happened a week before my last blog post. Now sit down and get a drink before I share it with you. I'll wait until you do. OK, ready?

April 29, 2012 was just a regular day at PS 154. It was the first day of not worrying about testing and for the first time in months actual learning was happening. The flowers were in bloom, the sky was blue, and all seemed peaceful. That is until our principal went over the PA at 1:15 PM and announced an emergency meeting at the end of the day for all staff in the auditorium. Immediately I knew what it was about, but if I share it now, there would be no further reason for me to blog.

At 4 PM (extended day) we gathered in the auditorium to hear our principal tell us that she had gotten a phone call from the superintendent that morning that that day was to be her last as principal. Now mind you, this was the principal that had replaced the infamous John Deacon (Linda Amil-Irizarry) in May of 2009. Why did this happen? We have no idea and no one is sharing. Should it have happened? I won't say. But I have issues with the way it happened.

Once again, the NYC DOE show how it just does not care about the schools, the communities, the parents, or even, yes I am going to say it, the students. Does the DOE have the right to change principals? Yes it does. Does the DOE ever do it right? No it doesn't, especially when it comes to principals that wish to have sexual intercourse with inanimate objects, cheat on tests, cheat on teacher observations, etc...

What the powers that be failed to do was take into account the parents or the community in this decision. I do not mean asking the parents for their input, but having the decency to contact and share with the PA and to be in the school at dismissal to discuss this with the parents. Also, a letter should have gone home with the students that day sharing the removal of the principal. This would have happened in Scarsdale, Bronxville, or even Riverdale or Forest Hills. But not on 135th St in The Bronx. Why? Because those that are do not give one iota of thought to those that they feel aren't.

I spoke up in the auditorium. I had too. I was not supporting the outgoing or the incoming principal. I only spoke up in support of the great school community and the students. I feel that PS 154 has and is being set up to fail. Three years in a row, the budget has gone down. Two years in a row, we have received C's. We have failed to meet our AYP in ELA last year, and failed AYP in Math for Spec. Ed. and ELL last year. This is not the staff's fault at all! How can a teacher teacher with over 30 kids in their class and several serious behavioral problems? This is not an excuse, this is an explanation and a fact. How can we go forward when students are leaving the school with no education because the only instruction students are receiving are to the tests?

I am not in any way besmirching past or present administration. The fault clearly and will always lie with the nattering nimrods on Chambers St. For Uncle Mike, his sock puppet Dennis Walcott and all those brainless law school educated consultants do not give one shit about the communities and the students. They see only $$$$. They care for only $$$$. And they certainly do not care for the underclass of the city, whatever their skin color is. For Tweed and Uncle Mike feel that it is only the well educated, well developed, well connected, white person that can save little boys and girls of color.

It's time for the parents to rise up now. It is time for the parents to not feel afraid, anxious or scared and take control of their children's schools and their education. They need to say NO to the deformers and YES to education. Only with the parents finally having enough and finally putting a stop to those in power will we as teachers begin to have that voice again as decision makers when it comes to education.

THE TIME IS NOW AGAIN!

I will continue blogging. Just wish to change the name, URL and focus of the blog. The school community won. The evil Sith Lord Dear Principal John Deacon was removed. It's evil apprentice Numb Nuts was removed. We hit the exacta. However, the idiocy, the hypocrisy, the incompetence of Tweed is still here. June 30th is coming and hopefully, and I believe, things will change. And come November hopefully there will be another change.

As far as the dirty little secrets. It was known ten days ago Sith Lord Dear Principal John Deacon was being replaced. The other dirty little secret is never send Numb Nuts to a student to incriminate a teacher with false charge of corporal punishment. Because Numb Nuts was not bright enough to not tell the student, "we are trying to get rid of this teacher." Notice the keyword there, "we." Numb Nuts did not conjure that pronoun up on his own. Like a good little Schutzstaffel officer he is, he could not say no to Der Führer's orders. Oh and before I forget. Numb Nuts should not coach a student in how to write a statement in the bogus corporal punishment.

It is all about Karma baby!

Goodbye Dear Principal John Deacon, arguably one of the worst human beings that have ever graced the New York City Department of Education. Your reign or terror and error were brief but memorable. Your total lack of any regard for integrity, rule of law, children first shall never be forgotten. You came into an excellent school and destroyed everything the students, the parents, the community, the teachers have built over the years. How dare you!! All you cared about was yourself. You made no effort to get to know the community. No effort to get to know the parents. No effort to get to know the students. No effort to get to know the teachers.

What is your major malfunction? Do you suffer from Malignant Narcissism? Are you, as one teacher seriously suggested, mentally retarded? Are you an alcoholic, or a dry drunk? You failed as a superintendent in District 8, and now you fail as a principal in an elementary school. Never has a principal been so disliked, so hated as you.

You could have been seen as a savior to the school. The staff thought on August 28th that you were going to be fantastic, that there was a principal that would work with the staff, the parents, and the community. But you showed your true colors so fast.

You are a vengeful, mean spirited little nothing. Please take this time before charges are brought against you to think about the lives you have injured. Every teacher, every parent is more than willing to testify against you.

Let's continue with the school's quality review.

Part 2: Overview

What the school does well

• The school provides students with a safe environment, which supports their
growth well.
ROTFLMFAO!!!! The school does not in any way, shape or form provide a safe environment for students in this school. Please read this blog from August 28th and make the decision yourself. Good thing Dear Principal John Deacon has BFF Yolanda Torres
• Organizational decisions made in regards to additional after-school and
extracurricular activities for students lend support to their academic growth.
ROTFLMFAO!!!! The school does not in any way, shape or form provide a safe environment for students in this school. Please read this blog from August 28th and make the decision yourself. Good thing Dear Principal John Deacon has BFF Yolanda Torres
• Teachers take initiative through inter visitation and sharing practices that
have a positive impact on student learning.
Yes, true. Teachers left to their own doings, do well.
• Students enjoy coming to school and speak positively about the support
they receive from their teachers.
What else can be said? The teachers are the best in this school.
• The school uses a variety of data sources to provide teachers with
information on students’ academic strengths and areas in need of improvement.
And these information sources are? More an more redundant paperwork so there is less teaching.

Areas for Improvement

• Revisit and refine the goal-setting and teacher feedback process to give
students specific information and targeted strategies to help them meet
their individual needs.
How can teachers teach when there has been a breakdown of discipline in the school? How can teachers teach when they get no support whatsoever from administration?
• Improve communication with students and parents in the development of
learning goals and next steps towards the achievement of academic
excellence and high expectations.
Dear Principal John Deacon needs to get out of its bunker once in a while and actually communicate with parents. Perhaps if it stops looking down its nose at the parents things relations can improve.
• Refocus the inquiry team on the target population and specific learning
targets that will meet these students’ individual academic needs.
The root problem of this has been removed. **cough** NUMB NUTS **cough**
• Develop effective systems and structures in the usage of interim
checkpoints to monitor teacher planning and differentiated instruction.
God, there they go with that differentiated instruction. It is being done. Just the smart way, not their way.
• Revisit the mission and vision of the school in order for the whole school
community to work collaboratively in one direction.
Again, lack of leadership. Get a new,competent, non-mental leader and things will change.

Time to share the quality review with the world. This will be done in several parts over the next few days with comments added in red. Please share any interpretations or comments that you have. Just in case anyone cares, Best Friend Forever Yolanda Torres prepared the report. Yes, BFF Yolanda Torres reviewed her bestest friend in the whole wide world's school. The objectivity is mind blowing!

Information about the school
Public School XXX is an elementary school with 525
students from pre-kindergarten through grade 5. The school population comprises 35%
Black, 63% Hispanic, 0.6% White, and 0.2% Asian students. The student body includes
17% English language learners and 20% special education students. Boys account for
57% of the students enrolled and girls account for 43%. The average attendance rate
for the school year 2007 - 2008 was 92.1%. The school is in receipt of Title 1 funding
with 98% eligibility.


Part 1 The School Context

Overall Evaluation

This school is underdeveloped with proficient features.
Well, duh, what do you know?
Students like their teachers, value their support and feel cared for in the environment of
Public School XXX. This is true. The respect and admiration back and forth between teachers and students in this school is awesome. The newly appointed principal is an experienced educator so experienced Dear Principal John Deacon was forced out of the superintendency of District 8 last year. One would think it is impossible to screw up such a cushy position. That is until BFF Yolanda Torres came by who values the empowerment of teachers. Yeah, right, sure. This line was the biggest crock of Sh** in this report until... She has put in place an open-door policy so teachers can voice their opinions and concerns to the administration.....this line. The only open door policy is the front door which we have been told is open for us to leave, and Dear Principal John Deacon's flunkies and sycophants to enter. Although this is away to bridge the lines of communication there is no communication at all! Dear Principal John Deacon acts like a crime boss having its capos do the talking and decision making. between the administration and teachers, there is currently a sense of uneasiness amongst teachers on its effect. There is no uneasiness. It is called distrustfullness. BFF Yolanda Torres do you get it yet? No one, students, parents, teachers, the cockroaches trusts Dear Principal John Deacon!
The school uses a variety of data to maintain records of all student progress. Student
assessment binders with their work in different subjects are evident in classrooms. It is
unclear how the work in these binders aligns with student goals, teacher planning and
data analysis to help students progress. This comes from a lack of leadership. A school needs great leaders as well. We have great teachers, but most of the leaders are lacking big time!
Teachers provide the administration with monthly data on student progress in English
language arts and math and together they hold one-on-one meetings to discuss the
information the data provides. Teachers have an idea of the needs of the students but
do not address these individual needs in the planning and delivery of differentiated
lessons. Trust me BFF Yolanda Torres it happens. Core subject teachers do not yet receive the data in order to address students’ individual needs for interconnectedness. That is because cluster teachers are non-persons according to Dear Principal John Deacon.
The school’s self-evaluation indicates that the expectation is for 90% of teachers to be
involved in the inquiry process. In addition to the inquiry core team, each grade has its
own inquiry team with a target population to focus on. Unfortunately, the inquiry core
team lacks direction and a “granular” focus of the learning targets and specific strategies
to be experimented with the target population. This team lacks voice and a clear
understanding of what is necessary within the inquiry process. Think. Who was leading the inquiry team? Yes, Numb Nuts. The same Numb Nuts that was told to shut up in the meeting when you came to do the QR! Numb Nuts has zero curriculum, education skills. Have you realized this yet? Consequently, they make insufficient use of data analysis and accountability tools to inform their decision making practice on student academic performance.Again, this falls back in the lap of Numb Nuts, and subsequently, Dear Principal John Deacon.
Staff, students, and parents acknowledge that communication is important.True. Very true.
Nonetheless, the communication amongst these constituents lacks clarity and
congruency.But ultimately, the school is a reflection of it Fuhrer, oops, Dear Principal John Deacon. It does not believe in communication. Or openness. Or accountability. The lack of clarity around school-wide academic expectations and established short-term checkpoints has created different levels of understanding on the development of student individualized learning plans. As a result, students are unable to articulate in-depth their individual learning goals and how to reach them.But ultimately, the school is a reflection of its Fuhrer, oops, Dear Principal John Deacon. It does not believe in communication. Or openness. Or accountability. Yeah, a repeat, but true.


Tomorrow, Part 2.

So what happened yesterday is the 2nd in command or whatever for School Safety, the "gang expert," and several uniformed School Safety agents came and caught Dear Principal John Deacon with its britches down. Two students, both somewhat wannabes, though one was wearing a Latin Kings necklace, and the other, who flashes Bloods signs all day, his "muscle," have been intimidating some 4th graders. In fact one of the 4th graders they have been picking on his family is down with the Crips.

Both young men, the Latin King a 14 year old 5th grader awaiting placement into a JHS for some time now and the Blood wannabe when confronted by the gang expert peed themselves. Gave it up like scared little boys they really are. The 2nd in command guy told the boys he will be back in two weeks to see if their behavior has changed.

What is ironic is that Dear Principal John Deacon was confronted about why there is a 14 year old 5th grader. The party line given was it was trying to get the young man into one specific school. But, Dear Principal John Deacon was told that enough already, find another JHS to get the young man into.

Sadly, this all could have been avoided. Dear Principal John Deacon has been warned, told, whatever since OCTOBER that there are gang bangers, wannabes abound in the school. Students wearing beads, colors, flashing signs, yet she chose since OCTOBER no to do anything about it. But, of course, Dear Principal John Deacon will claim when asked that it was doing something to combat the gang scourge. Hey, Dear Principal John Deacon. Hiding your head in the sand and wishing really, really, really, super duper hard that the problem goes away has been scientifically proven not to work.

To celebrate Black History Month Dear Principal John Deacon put this idiom in the weekly memo.

"Get Out of My Face"

This is an African American expression. It is a saying that you might use if someone is standing too close to you, bugging you, disagreeing with you and disapproving of your actions. You would say this to get him to move away quickly before they get hurt. The expression is used usually in anger. When someone is in your face and you think you might get angry, you could say, "Get out of my face," to help prevent a fight or accident.

Nice. Only someone with a severe mental illness will think this a good choice of idioms. But whilst on the subject, SBSB as come across other idioms that Dear Principal John Deacon plans to use to celebrate other cultures.

For Israeli Independence Day:

"Jewdown"

This is an expression Jewish-Americans use when they want to get a better price. For instance, "I am going to Jewdown the salesman on the price of the Buick."

For St Patrick's Day:

"What will I drink for dinner?"

This is an expression that Irish-Americans say on St Patrick's Day. As in, "I am so drunk, what will I drink for dinner?"

For Columbus Day:

"Hey, Shutupa Your Face!"

Italian-Americans are fond of this expression. When they are about to whack someone, or part of the crew is being annoying, someone will say, "Hey, Shutupa Your Face!"

Thank you so much Dear Principal John Deacon showing the world what a narrow, twisted, tormented person you truly are.

Wow, today was hot, huh? Temperatures reaching 90 degrees. Probably hotter in the classrooms. Or other parts of the school. But not in the main office, or Dear Principal John Deacons bunker.

Our school is lucky. Each and every classroom has air conditioning. What sucks is that according to an edict from Tweed the air conditioners are not allowed to be turned on until May 29th so the city can save a few bucks. However, there are allowed special dispensations. Dear Principal John Deacon made sure of this.

Dear Principal John Deacon decreed that the office, and its bunker were allowed to be cooled by the wonder of modern air conditioning. Not even the classes facing the interstate, and the construction that is going on right in front of the school were allowed to turn on the air conditioning.

This is yet another shining example that Dear Principal John Deacon only cares about Dear Principal John Deacon and not the children, the school, or the community.

Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines an enabler thusly:

one that enables another to achieve an end ; especially : one who enables another to persist in self-destructive behavior (as substance abuse) by providing excuses or by making it possible to avoid the consequences of such behavior

Now, this does not mean that Dear Principal John Deacon is a substance abuser. Besides, Dr Hans von Schlaggel from Vienna the guest columnist on April 8 has already diagnosed Dear Principal John Deacon with suffering from malignant narcissism. So we do have an official diagnosis. But someone who suffers from malignant narcissism must be confronted, have an intervention, must not be enabled. And this is where BFF Yolanda Torres comes in.

Think about it. How can Dear Principal John Deacon overcome this diagnosis as long as BFF Yolanda Torres continues to enable such self-destructive behavior from Dear Principal John Deacon? BFF Yolanda Torres, in the role of the co-dependent spouse might think she is helping her BFF Dear Principal John Deacon. This usually includes making excuses, covering up, looking the other way at self-destructive or dysfunctional behavior Dear Principal John Deacon exudes. But this is not helpful. It only perpetuates such behavoir from Dear Principal John Deacon.

Oh, oh. Wait. Dr Hans von Schlaggel just walked in, and seems to have a beer stein, a very large one at that, in his hand. He is signaling he wishes to add something to the discussion.

Guten Abend meine Freunde! I am good. I have been drinking a lot of Deutsch Bier. Bönnsch. No Budweiser for me. Budweiser tastes like Pferde-Urin. So quickly, I explain what what the enabling, co-dependent does. In this case BFF Yolanda Torres. Then I finish and I go back to be with the hübsche Frauen.

Individuals who enable others have weak boundaries, low self-esteem, and have difficulty being assertive when they communicate with others. Feeling needed as an enabler is not worth the long term ramifications created by the enabling. The person being enabled will have some difficult short term consequences. And now you see why.

Now I go back to the Brauhaus. Gute Nacht und süße Träume!

To the regular readers, today's column is being turned over to Dr Hans von Schlaggel from Vienna, Austria. Dr von Schlaggel is currently the director of the Institut für schweren psychiatrischen Erkrankungen, or in English, Institute of Severe Psychiatric Disorders. Dr von Schlaggel has been a reader of the blog since its inception and has graciously diagnosed Dear Principal John Deacon's deep embedded psychiatric disorder and will share it here today. So without any further ado, please welcome the good doctor.

How appropriate. John Deacon plays bass on this track. Guess the title?

At my school we have a teacher in Club Gitmo, oops, I meant to say Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, oops I meant The Rubber Room for allegedly using swear words directed at a student. Funny how one's entire career can be ruined for an allegation.

Also at my wonderful school we have a "teacher" that has been accused by an entire class of putting them down, putting their lives down, putting their parents down. This "teacher" has belittled students for their living conditions, called the students losers, their parents losers as well. This "teacher" is not in The Rubber Room. Does anyone notice some sort of disparity? I certainly do.

Suffice it to say this "teacher" is protected. Nepotism works this way. So does reaching the level of your incompetence. It seems this teacher shares much of the DNA of Dear Principal John Deacon's gatekeeper, henchman, capo, Judenrat, or whatever. So naturally John Deacon heads the exclusive blue ribbon panel of itself looking into this matter and comes back and claims that after an exhaustive investigation the charges were unfounded. Case closed.

Only that there never was an investigation. Again Dear Principal John Deacon lies. Again Dear Principal John Deacon cares only for itself. Again Dear Principal John Deacon underestimates the parents.

The parents are getting their mojo and now are calling into OSI directly. Good for them! But they better be careful, because just as OSI is sweeping Numb Nuts assaults on children under the rug, so soon will OSI be doing the same for the "teacher."

John Deacon, when you arrive home, when others are are still hard at work, can you look back at the day with satisfaction? What about when you look in the mirror? Are you proud of what you haven't accomplished and what you are slowly destroying?

When parents drop their children off in the morning they expect two things. One, that their children will be educated, and two, that their children will be in a safe environment. Are you able to answer in the affirmative that both expectations are being served?

Why John Deacon, why this inability to look inward, this lack of self-reflection? The oasis in the Bronx that the teachers, the community have created is being annihilated by an utter lack of regard for anyone but yourself.

Do you feel what others feel? Are you bereft of any emotions, any empathy? Are you projecting some hatred and/or anger from whence you came? This are children, and all seem to care about is taking care of yourself.

If your children were in a school that operated as this school has under your reign, exactly what would you do? Would you not take umbrage? Would you be outraged, flabbergasted, appalled?

John Deacon, are you proud of what you see in the mirror?

"We're in this together, we need to cooperate" so sayeth the grand exulted Dear Principal John Deacon. Seems like this is the act of a desperate person who either has completely lost touch with reality, or the act of a person who has lost total control of the school, the situation, and itself.

We as teachers are sh** for six months. Dear Principal refuses to treat us as professionals, as adults and now in its hour of desperation wants us the teachers to be a team with administration? Bullocks! A principal who decided what parts of the contract to honor, a principal who decided which parts of chancellor's regs and stat education law to follow, and now it wants us to help her clean up its mess? Want to make amends? Go apologize to the students and their families first creating a dysfunctional, dangerous learning environment.

Once you do that, we will all sit around a campfire, each with a cup of Love, make smores, and have arms around one another as Joan Baez sings "Kumbaya"

Dear Principal John Deacon was seen at the Reichstag today. Rumor has it Dear Principal John Deacon was taken to the woodshed, or was the subject of an intervention.

Students now control the second floor at Rikers, er oops, I mean my school. This is where all the lower grades are and students are continually cut class whilst hanging out in and vandalizing the bathroom. This is the same bathroom that first graders, and kindergarten students use. These rouge students are also going into the gym unsupervised and using physical education equipment. Want to know the most ironic thing? The second floor also contains Numb Nuts office. Why isn't Numb Nuts making his presence known to this students and ending this state of terror once and for all. Oh, I forgot. The students think he is a joke, and he has no presence.

We here at SBSB would like to offer Numb Nuts and Dear Principal John Deacon a chance to reply to the above allegations. We are sure they are both quite aware of this blog and wish to give their sides of the story. We are sure they can answer why nothing is being done, or how they can accept students being put in harms way. We wonder if they think that this the students are best being served, and if this is an an example of Children First.

A special new program has been implemented last week to react to student's that cause mayhem in the school. There are revolutionary on scale, and just might set the standard for student disciplinary procedure throughout the 21st century. These plans have yet to be copyrighted so the lawyers here at SBSB have given the go ahead to publish the plans. The two plans are:

Operation Please:

In this plan a student that has hit a teacher, a child, used foul language, thrown milk, not gone to class all week is brought to Numb Nuts office. Once there Numb Nuts, or Dear Principal John Deacon, or The Chosen One sits the offending student down. They then say to the child, "please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, will you behave?" The child seeing that Numb Nuts, Dear Principal John Deacon, or The Chosen One is serious, promptly agrees to this and is sent back to class. Or the hallway.

Operation Office:

In this plan administration are assigned to be in their office at a certain time. This overrides the previous edict by Dear Principal John Deacon that "I do not want my AP's in their offices at all." Dear Principal John Deacon and its minions will be at their desks at scheduled times during the school day ready and willing to take responsibility for the circus like atmosphere they have created. Only during these appointed times will administration implement Operation Please. If sh** happens when they are not in their office, then tough you know what.

But if all else fails there still is:

Operation Ostrich:

Very Simple. Head is hidden in sand, hope the problem goes away.

Casey Stengel, former manager of the Mets and Yankees was once asked how he keeps harmony on a baseball team of twenty-five players. He said, and I want this understood that I am paraphrasing him, "there are ten players who hate me, ten who love me, and five who don't give a sh**. The trick is to keep the ten who hate me away from the five who don't give a sh**." Casey was a wise man, a great manager, and more importantly a great leader.

Unfortunately, Dear Principal John Deacon has none of these qualities. In fact in my years of teaching there has always been factions in a school like Casey mentioned there are on a baseball team. That is until this year.

Except for the mindless few in my school who are so far up in Dear Principal John Deacon's colon, I have never seen a principal or known of a principal so despised, or having a lack of respect in a school as is Dear Principal John Deacon. I mean to get this hated so quick, by so many must be some kind of new DOE record. The most pathetic part of it all is that Dear Principal John Deacon actually thinks it is loved and respected. I guess it comes from that warm fuzzy feeling of having its colon cleaned by the mindless, soulless sycophants it surrounds itself with.

But like rats running out of a burning building or a sinking ship, so will these colon cleaners of Dear Principal John Deacon run away and not only turn on one another when the ship starts to sink, but turn on Dear Principal John Deacon when the implosion happens. And when this happens every teacher in the school will pull out their chaise lounge, get the binoculars, and watch as Dear Leader John Deacon and its colon cleaners all cannabilize one another and point fingers at each other. Sweet.

This past Monday, February 23, the students of mine and yours favorite second grade CTT (Collaborative Team Teaching) class lost their teacher. Their teacher, their surrogate mother, was transferred to a fifth grade 12:1 class. And this is nothing against the teacher who remains. The teacher who remained is an excellent teacher, a teacher that cares. And so is the teacher that was removed. But what is troubling is why this teacher was removed.

The teacher was removed because the students in the 12:1 were roaming the halls every single day, just about all day long. Instead of disciplining the students like a competent administrator, Dear Principal John Deacon is dealing with a problem the best way it could by closing its eyes and wishing really, super duper hard the problem will go away. But it gets even better.

As I mentioned in the past this class had been out of compliance. This class had 22 students. Thirteen general ed. students, and nine special ed. students. Remember, the ratio is supposed to be 60/40 general ed. But another second grade class was collapsed, and this CTT class received six students from this class. Now there are twenty-eight students all together in this class. So the ratio is a tad off kilter still. Now nineteen general ed. students, and nine special ed. I am not a mathematician, but this not not seem to make that magic 60/40 split. However, I can be wrong. But wait!!

The class limit for 2nd grade is twenty-five. But, you ask, a class size grievance can be filed. Oh no, not just yet. That is because these six new students have not been officially added to the class roster. Funny stuff is being done with ATS. Tsk tsk. But, Dear Principal John Deacon's main sycophant, the person with the most access to ATS, has yet to make the change. Is this person just following orders as the Nazis claimed at Nuremberg? Could be. But I am sure this sycophant is getting something in return; such as a close family member being taken care of in a certain way. **Cough** indirect pay-off **Cough** (I will have more on this tomorrow!)

Here is a question I am throwing out to the reading public. District superintendent and BFF Yolanda Torres is very much aware of what is going on in this school. I wonder how Ms Torres feels what is transpiring with this second grade class is an example of Children First. I think it is time that BFF has an intervention with her BFF and tell her the jig is up.

A student goes up to a teacher in my school and says, "Me and my gang are going to kill you." What does the teacher do? Better yet, what should the teacher do? Notify Numb Nuts of the indiscretion? Of course not. Numb Nuts will talk to the boy in his condescending, patronizing voice to the boy and ultimately do nothing. Perhaps Dear Principal, John Deacon might be notified? No, John Deacon is too busy holding up in its bunker to care or do anything other than being useless. So what should this teacher do?

The teacher did the right, and now the only thing to do. The phone was picked up and 911 was called. We are done dealing with incompetent, lazy, hide their head in the sand administrators. From now on when a teacher is either touched, or threatened 911 will be called. This should also be done whenever Numb Nuts touches a student.

The cops came an awoke Dear Principal John Deacon from some useless endeavor it was involved in. Unfortunately NYPD instead of sending Sipowicz and Simone sent Toody and Muldoon instead. They informed all involved that there is nothing that they can do, and that another city agency can't investigate another city agency. Yeah, sure. And I am the queen of England.

Remember, see something, say something. Keep calling 911 and the light stays shining on the school, and hopefully Numb Nuts can be in a perp walk.