Capitalist Principal Who Took Kids On Furniture-Moving Field Trip Is Yanked

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In a stunning blow to capitalist principles/principals this country was founded on, a Brooklyn high school principal who instilled the virtues of hard work and making an honest living by taking students on a furniture-moving field trip last month is no longer a principal. Altagracia Liciaga was removed from her post at Multicultural High School in Cypress Hills by the DOE a day before fall classes started, after it was revealed that Liciaga forced the students to ride unrestrained in the back of a U-Haul after an enlightening day of hauling filing cabinets. The Post reports that Liciaga even taught one student self-reliance, by letting them drive the U-Haul just a year after getting a driver's license.

Liciaga's rationale for the trip was that "she wanted her kids to see 'Beautiful Midtown Manhattan, because many of the students had never been,'" a DOE report on her termination reads. Despite the fact that a lost verse of "New York, New York" includes the lyrics "I want to be a part of it / that moving cabinets in Midtown, part of it," a DOE official said that Liciaga's actions forced them to "seek termination" for the courageous pedagogue.

Though she has not formally been let go, Liciaga is on "administrative duty pending her termination hearing." Hopefully the students who learned something that fateful summer day will show up with their school-issued lifting belts in support of their principal.

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By Christopher Robbins in News on September 12, 2011 1:29 PM

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brooklynRick

Not really a big deal

soothsayer

Liciaga is on "administrative duty pending her termination hearing."
i.e., THE RUBBER ROOM.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10...

taracorinne

she'll be paid for years to boot, too.

Vinny

Sorry... "Multicultural High School?"

Really?

What High School isn't multi-culti in NYC?

Strikes me as kind of an odd thing to name a school, no?

Nos Feratu

When I was in high school, in suburban New Jersey, I took freshman wood shop. One of the things we did was build a backyard shed. We built the walls, roof, doors etc., and then bolted it together in the shop. I built most of the roof and hung the doors. After everything looked good, we unbolted it, loaded it all onto a school board owned truck and.....without the permission of our parents....hauled the entire thing to a teacher's house about 10 miles distance from the school. At the teacher's house we tore down an old shed, laid out a new footing using railroad ties, and reassembled the shed and installed roofing shingles.

This freebie for the teacher was justifed by the school because the teacher in question paid for the materials. Nice, huh? A custom built shed, delivered and assembled for the cost of materials.....using child labor no less, I was 14 years old at the time. We spent all day working on this project. We were fed Breakfast of a buttered roll and coffee in the morning and no lunch.

Corruption and exploitation of kids by "educators" is not new.

brooklynRick

Big deal, how many shed can you build with nowhere to put them? It not a car or a home, its a shed. What could high school kids build now if you gave them the tools, probably nothing