She allegedly humiliated special needs children, hired only black teachers, and targeted white teachers.
The NY Post has done a series on the horrors at this school. Whole lot of negligence going on. City officials, including Bill De Blasio’s new Chancellor Carmen Farina, had been informed, yet did nothing. I’d like to know who hired this crazy person.
Via NY Post:
They knew.
Teachers begged city officials to investigate “School of No” Principal Marcella Sills soon after she started in 2005 — citing her constant tardiness, harassment of staff and extravagant spending on parties while the school lacked books, pencils and paper.
“Get rid of her before it’s too late,” a 2007 letter urged District 27 Superintendent Michelle Lloyd-Bey, who oversees Queens principals.
Letters describe Sills as a tyrant and “rude lunatic administrator” who spurred an exodus of excellent teachers and failed to provide basic student supplies and services while handsomely furnishing her own office and squandering funds on catering and decorations.
“You need to examine Ms. Sills’ inability to lead,” says a 2006 letter from a “concerned teacher” to top Department of Education officials, including Carmen Fariña — now the city’s newly installed chancellor — and then-Chancellor Joel Klein. “Teacher morale is at an all-time low.
Meanwhile Marcella is decked out in really tacky fur…
HT: FlatFoot