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She Was Excited for a New School. Then the Anti-Semitic 'Jokes' Started.

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First, a deeply offensive photo. Three students’ college plans were soon derailed, and a community closed ranks.  The lawsuit that Paige and her parents filed Wednesday is against the school and district — not the two boys — for not stopping the bullying and anti-Semitism. “It is a public school, and they should have been able to handle it “Mr. Moore the principal)  does not have the excuse that he was too young to know better,” their lawyer, Eric Hecker, said. If administrators had better protected Paige’s identity, she said, if they had intervened earlier and supported her, perhaps she could have stayed at the school.

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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