A principal in the New York City school system has lost a vote of no confidence as the faculty rose against her promise to eliminate all of the white teachers.
The principal of High School for Law and Public Service in the Washington Heights, in Manhattan announced that she wanted to rid the school of all white teachers and she said it in Spanish. She was slapped with a no-confidence vote over her racist plans.
A complaint filed against principal Paula Lev, alleges that she told a faculty member that she “was going to get rid of all these white teachers that aren’t doing anything for the kids of our community.”
The complaint was filed with New York City’s Department of Education Office of Equal Opportunity. They claim that she asked a faculty member to work with her to rid the school of white teachers.
The complaint says:
“I believe Ms. Lev is not suited for the position of principal because of the comments she has made to me about white people and the malicious ways in which she thinks and speaks. She is not fit to be a leader of a school. As a school staff, we have lost confidence, creditability, trust, and most importantly we have lost hope in Ms. Lev as a principal at the High School for Law & Public Service.”
The faculty member filed the complaint after Lev allegedly approached him and:
“Pressured him to help her engineer the ouster of a colleague, an unidentified white female staffer. Lev wanted the faculty member to get a state education certification, the complaint states, so he would not have the same title as the targeted colleague, clearing the way for Lev to ‘excess’ the more senior staffer.”
According to the Post, the faculty at the school met last month to consider various reasons why they no longer had confidence in Lev’s ability to lead their school, including that she “flagrantly but unsuccessfully attempted to divide our school community by race” and has “disrespected, slandered, and/or arbitrarily gone after respected educators, to the detriment of our entire school community.”
During the meeting, the majority of the faculty voted that they no longer had confidence in Lev.
“With almost the entire 40+ membership voting, including both tenured and untenured teachers, paraprofessionals, and related service professionals, 83.3% voted that they no longer have confidence in our principal to lead our school,” an email told staffers.
