Thinking of sending your kids to an NYC school? Think again. They won’t get an education. They’ll get an indoctrination.
FNC: “A Brooklyn middle school principal this week urged teachers and administrators to demand government sanctions against Israel — sparking outrage and a probe by the school system’s independent investigator, The Post has learned. In an email sent amid the fighting between Israel and Hamas, Principal Amanda Bueno told staffers at MS 136, ‘If you have been watching the news in absolute horror, you are not alone.’ ”
NY law forbids encouraging any public servant or city employee from engaging in politics.
This didn't stop Brooklyn Middle School 136 Principal Amanda Bueno from sending out a school wide email titled “Day of Action in Solidarity with The Palestinian Uprising & General Strike”! pic.twitter.com/jMsXvekExO
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“You can take action today by protesting, attending a vigil, making a public commitment to Palestinian Liberation, signing a petition, or calling your government officials to place sanctions on Isreal (sic),” she wrote Wednesday morning.” This genius can’t even spell “Israel.”
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“The time is now to take a stand for those impacted by state-sanctioned violence and crimes against the humanity of the most vulnerable in our world.” wrote the viciously antisemitic Bueno. She also helpfully included a list of links, in case the email recipients wanted to support terrorism.
An MS 136 teacher, who is Jewish, told The NY Post, “I opened the email and I was in shock. I felt very targeted and very attacked by her words. These resources she provided, it’s propaganda. There was nothing in the email about Hamas rockets targeting innocent Israeli civilians.”
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Lawyer Inna Vernikov sent a letter to the state DOE calling for Bueno to be punished. “New York law forbids requesting or encouraging any public servant, city employee, or subordinate public servant/employee to engage in political activities.” Teachers are intimidated and afraid to speak out to counter such messages in fear of losing their jobs.”
“Wrong, wrong, wrong,” said one dad. “Stay in the middle. You are saying, ‘Support this group and not the other.’ That’s wrong.”
Another said his son was a sixth-grader, “I don’t take sides. As a principal, I don’t think she should.” A man who was picking up his daughter also said, “She should remain neutral because in New York, you have so many different groups of people.”
A spokesman for the Department of Education commented, “The matter is being addressed internally and was referred to [the special commissioner of investigation] for further investigation. Schools are not public forums for purposes of political expression, and staff may not use DOE resources in the furtherance of personal or political activities,” spox Nathaniel Steyer noted. Let’s see if they do something about it.
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