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Related: About this forumReport released on Avonte Oquendo disappearance
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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
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)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)I had high hopes for him but he was concerned more about the buck.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)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.