Getting to the Bottom of Things
I guess if you’re going to throw yourself down a flight of stairs at school and fake an injury in order to avoid a scheduled classroom observation, you should do so in a school without cameras in the stairwell.
Yoav Gonen, education reporter at The New York Post reports:
An untenured Brooklyn high-school teacher catapulted herself down a school stairwell in a wacky attempt to avoid a classroom observation by her supervisor, a probe obtained by The Post shows.
Staffers at the HS for Innovation in Advertising and Media told investigators that first-year teacher Ilene Feldman was so petrified about a scheduled classroom observation — coming in the wake of a poor performance review — that she staged a clumsy pratfall in a stairwell rather than risk getting a second negative rating.
The tumble was observed in December 2008, but the report has just been released. The video is here.
