Golden Parachute
By Adam Hayes
Updated March 11, 2021
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Adams must reverse golden parachute for crooked Queens principal
What should happen to a high school principal who can’t educate kids but cheats to pretend that he can? In New York City, he gets a happy handshake and a $1.8 million payday.
That’s the latest from the compost heap masquerading as the city Department of Education — which took two years to boot former Maspeth High School principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir for egregiously inflating graduation rates. Then it turned around and awarded him a seven-year sinecure worth almost $260,000 annually, not counting step raises, a pension and lifetime health insurance.
Maybe crime doesn’t pay — but bamboozling the Department of Education sure can.
There appears to be no work involved in Abdul-Mutakabbir’s soft landing, according to this newspaper’s stellar Susan Edelman. She first reported the Maspeth scandal in 2019, then followed it through years of official foot-dragging and finally pried out the latest damning details.
In sum, Abdul-Mutakabbir dragooned Maspeth teachers and staff into graduating manifestly unqualified students, at one point reporting an outlandish 99% graduation rate. This should have been a distress flare, but no such luck — because, as we shall see, nobody cared.
A report prepared by DOE’s special commissioner of investigation quoted Abdul- Mutakabbir’s operating philosophy: “I don’t care if a kid shows up at 7:44 and you dismiss at 7:45, it’s your job to give that kid credit.”
Along with this came fundamentally worthless diplomas — which Abdul-Mutakabbir also acknowledged: Kids can “have fun working at Taco Bell,” per the report.
Shockingly, Abdul-Mutakabbir’s behavior is not the essential scandal here. What happened next was worse.
Two long years passed before Abdul-Mutakabbir was fired — if you can call what happened to him a firing — and the message broadcast by the delay is at least as outrageous as the scandal itself: Do your worst and then relax because kids don’t count — and in the end, New York’s execrable public education culture will protect its own.
continued here… https://nypost.com/2022/04/18/adams-must-reverse-golden-parachute-for-crooked-queens-principal/