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| Staten Island Superintendent Dr. Marion Wilson is stepping down from the role for a position in the central office of the DOE. (Staten Island Advance/Annalise Knudson) |
This is too funny.
I know this sordid tale quite well, after a many-month 3020-a arbitration for a former teacher at PS 46 in 2023. It's time to remove Marion Wilson from her position as District 31 (Staten Island) Superintendent.
This was not an abrupt move as the NYPOST claims in their article below.
Wilson's rage against white people was well-known throughout Staten Island and was on this blog and my website Advocatz.com in 2023. She was not careful about keeping her angry anti-white rants secret, which is very necessary even if you are a VIP in the DOE. Indeed, she damaged the reputation of the NYC Department of Education and made the DOE look bad. It's hard to believe, but making fun of the DOE or making the DOE look bad used to be chargeable misconduct, and the perpetrator was brought to a 3020-a for termination. Look at the case of whistleblower David Pakter and others who blew the whistle on higher-ups at the NYC DOE doing something wrong.
Let me define "perpetrator" in the NYC DOE charge manual: Anyone who works for the NYC Department of Education below the level of principal or Superintendent. Principals and Superintendents who do wrong are promoted to "Central" or a new job higher up the political ladder. The case of Marion Wilson is the latest promotion without reason.
I wrote about Marion Wilson previously, so I am a little befuddled by the NYPOST using the texts of Wilson about Principal Jansen saying that "She probably didn't know what hit her when they pulled her white ass out!" (Jansen was moved to PS 54, but took a Line of Duty (LODI) injury, I hear, and has been home since the beginning of the year); and, "UFT couldn't get No Confident vote against Jansen."
I don't know what the point of the NY POST was.
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| Heather Jansen |
I posted the Vote of No Confidence in 2023 against Heather Jansen in both of my articles on my blog NYC Rubber Room Reporter, and my website Advocatz.com:
Former Principal of PS 46 Heather Jansen and Her Student Rat Pack September 4, 2023
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NYC school superintendent accused of warning ‘no more white principals’ abruptly ousted amid staff complaints
The superintendent of Staten Island public schools was abruptly removed from her post amid ongoing accusations of lashing out against staff and vowing “No more white principals,” The Post has learned.
Marion Wilson, who led District 31 schools for three and a half years, was swept out of her office on Sept. 20, and told to report to the Department of Education’s Tweed headquarters in Manhattan.
Wilson “will be transitioning to a central team,” Danika Rux, deputy chancellor for school leadership, said Monday in an internal announcement, without any explanation for the swift and stunning ouster.
Sources said she will keep her $230,000 salary and serve as “facilitator” in the Leaders in Education Apprenticeship Program (LEAP), which prepares teachers to become principals with a focus on racial equity.
DOE officials refused to explain Wilson’s removal, but a school insider said she was caught on tape denouncing district employees.
“She apparently went off on a Zoom or Teams call demeaning her own principals and staffers, and didn’t know she was unmuted,” the insider said.
Wilson is also dogged by accusations she has made racially offensive comments.
Last year, the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools was asked to investigate widely circulated screenshots of texts purportedly written by Wilson.
“No more white principals on my watch!” said one text.
“I need to clean up this island,” another reads.
“White folks need to recognize this is not the boys club anymore. A strong black woman runs this bitch now, and they can either get on board or get out.”
Wilson filed a police report claiming she received threats stemming from “false accusations” that she wrote the texts.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force said it would investigate, and gave Wilson a police escort for some time. “The investigation is ongoing,” an NYPD spokesman said Friday.
The SCI closed its case several months later after the texts came to light, saying investigators failed to identify who wrote them, a spokesperson told The Post.
Since then, recordings have emerged purportedly catching Wilson making racially charged remarks to black parents, according to a complainant who sent audio clips to the The Post.
“I said no more white principals. I meant it,” a woman the complainant identified as Wilson says in one recording. In another, she says, “Us black folks got to stick together. Ain’t nobody helping us.”
The SCI says it did not investigate the recordings, but referred them to the DOE’s Office of Equal Opportunity.
“The cases involving these allegations were not substantiated,” said DOE spokesman Nathaniel Styer.
Wilson did not return a request for comment on the recordings.
Meanwhile, a white principal, Heather Jansen, claims in a pending discrimination lawsuit against the DOE that Wilson unfairly removed her as principal of PS 46 in June 2023.
“She probably didn’t know what hit her when they pulled her white ass out,” Wilson allegedly texted, according to a screenshot Jansen submitted as evidence.
In January, Jansen told the judge she filed a police report claiming she was threatened by a man who showed up at her home in Monroe Township, NJ, and warned, “If you know what’s good for you, you’ll drop the case against Marion.”
Monroe Township detectives were unable to identify a suspect, a spokesman said this week.
Wilson leaves the Staten Island community with mixed feelings about her tenure.
“Nobody saw this coming. Nobody wanted it,” said Liz Cianfrone, a volunteer family advocate who works for students with special needs and their parents.
Cianfrone praised Wilson as a “role model, inspiration and true advocate for children,” saying she helped kids and tackled problems that other district officials ignored.
State Assemblyman Michael Reilly of Staten Island has praised Wilson as “an ally for our public schools and an advocate for students, parents, and teachers.”
But Wilson made such a concerted effort to fill vacancies with Black administrators, some principals say, it drove other candidates to leave the district.
“Race was the most important criteria in selecting professionals on her team,” one said.