http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/school_silences_patriotic_song_xdunXcLPbE8S2rAEcZoUiP
"School pulls patriotic song at graduation, but Justin Bieber's 'Baby' is OK"
By SUSAN EDELMAN
Last Updated: 11:30 AM, June 10, 2012
Posted: 11:41 PM, June 9, 2012
SNIP: "Scaperotti noted PS 90 kids recite the Pledge of Allegiance and sing "America the Beautiful" each morning. Insiders say Hawkins tried to end that tradition a couple years ago but staff objected."
SNIP: "Hawkins has been called a tyrant and bully by some staffers.
The DOE reprimanded her in 2010 after teachers complained she called the school "racist" and declared: "I'm black. Your previous principal was white and Jewish. More of us are coming.""
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http://www.uft.org/news-stories/brooklyn-principal-bully
"Brooklyn principal a 'bully'"
BY MICHAEL HIRSCH | PUBLISHED MARCH 8, 2012
SNIP: "The Department of Education reprimanded Hawkins and sent her to sensitivity training after investgators from the DOE's Office of Equal Opportunity found that Hawkins made offensive racial remarks at a June 2010 faculty meeting.
Nine UFT members who attended the mandatory meeting filed a complaint.
In their Sept. 8, 2010, findings, the investigators concluded: "By deliberately differentiating herself, a black Jehovah's Witness, and the previous principal, white and Jewish, in the context of a mandatory staff meeting addressing rumors and discussing hiring and upcoming changes in the school, Principal Hawkins offended multiple staff members."
Chapter Leader Vicky Giasemis said that many of the teachers who filed the complaint — even though they were not identified by the Office of Equal Opportunity — were removed from their positions."
