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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 03:35 PM Mar 2014

Report released on Avonte Oquendo disappearance

Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York City's Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard J. Condon released his report Thursday on the disappearance of Avonte Oquendo from his Queens school.

The autistic 14-year old went missing in October. His remains were found in the East River in January, several miles from where he vanished.

Condon's report details the things that went wrong when Avonte walked out of school that day.

According to the report, Avonte disappeared while he descended the stairs of his school with a group of 11 other students.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9482107

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Report released on Avonte Oquendo disappearance (Original Post) hrmjustin Mar 2014 OP
Sad story. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2014 #1
Sounds like a pretty confused environment. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #2
Bloomberg was a disaster for our teachers and our schools. hrmjustin Mar 2014 #3
Avonte Oquendo's Mother Warned School He "Liked to Run," Requested One-on-One Supervision, Report Sh hrmjustin Mar 2014 #4
The principal of Avonte's school was not in the bldg. at the time. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #5
 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
2. Sounds like a pretty confused environment.
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 03:58 PM
Mar 2014

32,000 teachers have left the school system in the last 11 yrs. ( i.e. the Bloomberg era) according to UFT.

My guess is that that district (D75) has had higher than average attrition.

The attrition rate is by design... it's not an accident. DOE has been trying to cut costs and drive older teachers out. They've succeeded.

However... there are consequences. That kind of turnover in a school invariably causes instability and dysfunction. It's likely like ONE of the consequences of educational Bloombergism is the chaos precipitated by that kind of cost-cutting and union-busting.

It's MORE than likely that we're reading here about a particularly horrible example.



 

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)
3. Bloomberg was a disaster for our teachers and our schools.
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 04:00 PM
Mar 2014

I had high hopes for him but he was concerned more about the buck.

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
5. The principal of Avonte's school was not in the bldg. at the time.
Sun Mar 30, 2014, 10:39 PM
Mar 2014

I find that .... interesting. So where was she? Somewhere, perhaps in the SCI report, it was claimed that she was at an "annex". I'd be skeptical of that. ( I know how that district operates.)

And who thought this was a good idea in the first place:

>>>They told SCI investigators that as soon as Avonte was noticed to be missing, at 12:45 p.m., they asked the high school principal, Edgar Rodriguez, who's in charge of the building, to put the entire building on "soft lockdown" so a better search could be conducted. Rodriguez refused, on the grounds that it would "alarm" his students.>>>>

That would be, co-locating a severely autistic unit in a gen ed bldg.? A brand NEW gen ed bldg., at that.

Couldn't the geniuses who run D75 have predicted that there would be problems w. the gen ed personnel not relating to the needs of the sp ed kids?

Sounds like they're looking to hang the teacher.... who appears to be a relative neophyte... over the alleged note from the parent that warned of Avonte's status as a "runner". My guess is teacher hung on to it ( if that's in fact what she did) because she perceived that the brass couldn't care less and did want to be bothered.

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