Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination
    Posted by: CTAdmin on 11/30/15
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    On 11/29/15, Landparent wrote:
    > The principal who rated me unsatisfactory to give a friend my
    > job, was fired the next year for being incompetent. The DOE
    > though, stands behind it's rating system for "legal reasons".

    You have the burden of proof. Just because the principal was
    fired the next year for being incompetent doesn't prove your
    allegation that you were fired because of your disability. Perhaps
    his "incompetence" was related to student achievement scores -
    or parental relationships - or some incompetence around
    managing budgets or paperwork for central office. You are
    making a leap here, and a lawyer will tell you that you have to
    have more than just your assertion to stand up in a court of law.

    > That is one bit of evidence, other than I'm sure there is a
    > paper trail of them going into my "confidential" medical file.

    Again, you are assuming that there is a paper trail of some sort.
    But without the proof of that, your case will go nowhere. And
    even if you could prove they went into your file, where is the
    proof that this is what led to your unsatisfactory rating and
    subsequent firing. Was there anything in your file to indicate
    that your "unsatisfactory" performance was in any way connected
    to your disability? I'm doubting that there is -- even
    incompetent principals no better than that!

    > Of course there's the evidence of the teacher working out of
    > license for a required course, so all the diplomas for that year
    > and other years were fudged.

    This really doesn't have anything to do with your case -- it is
    separate and apart from your case. Of course it may have more
    to do with why the principal was fired - providing that the
    teacher truly was teaching a course outside his/her certification
    area without some sort of special case permission from the state
    certification bureau.

    What I don't understand is that with the strength of the union in
    NYC why you aren't getting any assistance/support from the
    union?


    Posts on this thread, including this one

  • Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 10/28/15, by Landparent.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 10/29/15, by Russell White.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 10/29/15, by James Robinson.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 11/06/15, by Admin.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 11/07/15, by not a lawyer.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 11/29/15, by Landparent.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 11/30/15, by CTAdmin.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 11/30/15, by Landparent.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 2/13/16, by jme.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 2/20/16, by Retired California Teacher.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 2/20/16, by Retired California Teacher.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 2/20/16, by Retired California Teacher.
  • Re: Discrimination/Unlawful Termination, 2/21/16, by Math Teach to Admin.