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Friday, December 30, 2016

Marcella Sills' Attempt to Appeal Her Termination Fails; Everyone is Happy!!!

I wish Marcella Sills good luck (not) ever finding work again especially with children, or anywhere. Her stupidity and arrogance, as exposed by Sue Edelman at the NY POST, is astonishing. Thanks so much, Sue!
Marcella Sills
Now, the Principal of the "School of No" - meaning none, nothing, not a thing, no education, no books, no nothing - was late filing her Article 75 Petition in NY Supreme Court, two months after she was fired at her 3020-a arbitration.

The rule is that any appeal of an arbitration 3020-a must be filed and the Index number purchased within 10 calendar days. If you do not do that, the appeal is dismissed.

Even non-lawyers like me know that. Marcella Sills' lawyer, Attorney Douglas Rosenthal of Spring Valley N.Y. didn't seem to know what he was doing. My opinion. Oh - he also put Carmen Farina in the caption as "New York State Education Department Commissioner":


Really? Who knew?

Here are other articles about Marcella Sills:
Former ‘School of No’ principal files lawsuit past legal deadline

Former ‘School of No’ principal sues to get her job back

City finally fires ‘School of No’ principal

We do not need someone like Ms. Sills in our public schools.
Anisa Reilly on the right
My question still is, how did she get removed and "Gang Girl" principal Anissa Chalmers (now Anissa Reilly) is still principal at PS 132???
Uncensored movie "Gang Girl" starring Anisa Chalmers - Reilly, Principal of PS 132 (ALERT:
NOT FOR CHILDREN)



 Parents, hello? Anyone there? NYC Department of Education, what's up with this??

Betsy Combier

Marcella Sills

Fired ‘School of No’ principal has petition to get job back tossed by judge


A judge has tossed out the reinstatement petition of a former Queens principal axed for being chronically tardy — because she filed it late.
Marcella Sills was removed from PS 106 in Far Rockaway by Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña in 2014, after a series of Post exposés.
While Sills’ students went without basic supplies or instruction, the administrator was cited for being late 178 times between September 2012 and January 2014.
Despite that, Sills sought to reverse her sacking, arguing in court papers that there was no established start and end time for city principals.
Lateness, she contended, was in the eye of the beholder.
But a Manhattan judge reminded her this week that timeliness is not negotiable when it comes to the court system.
Sills, who earned $128,000 a year, was officially fired from the Department of Education on Jan. 22 of this year, after an administrative hearing, and had 10 days to submit her petition. But, true to form, she took her time. “Petitioner commenced this proceeding on April 19, 2016, over two months after the 10-day limitations period had expired, and this proceeding is time-barred,” wrote Manhattan Judge Manuel Mendez in junking her petition.
After a recitation of her offenses, Mendez slammed the door on her DOE career.
“This proceeding is dismissed,” he wrote.

 Sills worked for the DOE for roughly 16 years and was appointed principal at PS 106 in 2005.
But she was ultimately buried under a total of 15 charges for offenses committed during the 2013 and 2014 school years.
In addition to her perennially busted alarm clock, Sills was cited for hindering the investigation against her and for having “subjected the NYCDOE to widespread negative publicity, ridicule and notoriety” and misusing her position “for personal benefit,” according to Mendez’s ruling.
After a 22-day hearing, an arbitrator found her conduct “too extreme to support any penalty other than discharge.”
PS 106 was dubbed the “School of No” after the Post’s articles on its culture of student deprivation and administrative incompetence.
The campus had no Common Core textbooks, no physical-education or art classes, no proper nurse’s office and no special-education staffers.
Instead of actual instruction, kids were herded into the school auditorium where they “watched more movies than Siskel and Ebert,” a whistleblower told The Post at the time.
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Sunday, February 7, 2016

"School of No" Principal Marcella Sills is Fired After 3020-a Arbitration

Congratulations to New York Post reporter Sue Edelman, who published the first article about the crimes against kids at PS106 by the Principal, Marcella Sills, and got the ball rolling for Sills to be charged at 3020-a arbitration. Arbitrator David Reilly, a no-nonsense guy I have been in hearings with several times, fighting for my clients, did the right thing and fired Sills.

PS 106 Principal Marcella Sills' Bizarre Disregard For the Students in Her Building is Slammed By Investigators Who Recommend She Be Fired ASAP


New ‘School of No’ principal drawing ire of teachers


Media leads the way. I love it.

Thanks Sue!!!

Betsy Combier
betsy.combier@gmail.com
Editor, NYC Rubber Room Reporter
Editor, Parentadvocates.org
Editor, New York Court Corruption
Editor, National Public Voice

Marcella Sills

City finally fires ‘School of No’ principal

, NY POST
The hooky-playing ex-principal of PS 106 in Far Rockaway has been fired for cheating 
city taxpayers as well as her students.

 Decision of Arbitrator David Reilly
Marcella Sills, 50, got the ax on Jan. 22 when hearing officer David Reilly found her guilty of “extreme misconduct,” including excessive lateness, failing to report her absences while collecting full pay and benefits, and causing the city Department of Education “widespread negative publicity.”
Sills, who made $128,000 a year, was tardy at least 178 times between September 2012 and January 2013. Sills said she was late because she cared for her sick mother. But she never documented her absences and “knowingly received unwarranted compensation and thereby committed a theft of time,” Reilly found.
Sills was removed from the school in February 2014 and from the payroll in 2014 pending her administrative trial.
In January 2014, The Post dubbed PS 106 the “School of No” because it had no books for the Common Core curriculum, no gym or art classes, no nurse’s office and no special-ed teachers. Kids ushered into the auditorium saw “more movies than Siskel and Ebert,” whistleblowers said.
“Ms. Sills’ conduct was unprofessional, unacceptable, and unbecoming of her position,” said DOE spokeswoman Devora Kaye.

My time at the ‘School of No’




Principal Marcella Sills (right) of PS 106 in Queens should be fired and banned from working for
the DOE, a scathing department report states.

Why was nothing done at PS 106? Because the city and union wouldn’t listen

Last week, after an investigation into her alleged habit of skipping school, the Department of Education finally moved to remove Principal Marcella Sills from PS 106 in the Rockaways.

But why was this “School of No” allowed to perpetuate atrocities for nine years?

Why did it take an exposé in The New York Post to not only unseat a bad principal, but get students much-needed books — and stop them from watching movies instead of getting gym or art classes?

As a teacher who worked there for many years, I can tell you that it wasn’t because the city wasn’t warned. The children of PS 106 were failed by administrators, government lawmakers and union officials — a host of top people who couldn’t be bothered to care.

When I started there in 2003, PS 106 was truly a secret treasure. It was a small school with a solid core, tucked away on the beach.

I was the special-education teacher; the work load was tremendous, but I loved it and took pride for moving children to higher levels simply by teaching.

Principal Arthur Strauss would meet and discuss programs and entrusted teachers with educational decisions made in the best interest of children. In 2004, PS 106 was a school of recognition, achieving English language arts and math scores of 3 and 4 (exceeds standards) in all the testing grades 3-5.

We were recognized as a School of Excellence in 2004. It was truly a marvelous accomplishment — the students loved to read and write! Those were the days.

After Strauss left, Marcella Sills became principal in 2005 — a product of the city’s “leadership academy.”

Deterioration was rapid. You were either a friend of Sills or an enemy, and if she didn’t like you, she’d rip you apart in reviews.

Sills opened state exam booklets earlier than allowed and asked teachers to discuss how to read a passage to help students better understand it, which was cheating. When told it was illegal, she had a fit.

Then, of course, there was what the investigation found last week — frequently showing up late for work, sometimes not showing up at all.

Retaliation was common. When a teacher signed her name to a letter sent to officials expressing her concerns about educational practices that are adversely affecting children in our school, she was reprimanded for more than one hour by two supervisors from the Department of Education. Teachers learned to remain anonymous.

Letters began to flood the district office, superintendent’s office, mayor’s office, chancellor’s office, UFT and the special commissioner of investigation just three months after Sills took the leadership position. But rather than addressing our concerns and dealing with the cause, the staff was reprimanded and scolded for not signing individual names. Now see why! Sills strategically targeted and harassed staff.

Meetings, letters, e-mails, reports to the teachers union . . . all proved to be futile. Every letter, every complaint reiterated her absence, lateness, inappropriate interaction with children, parents, staff, even falsification of reviews.

Sills was never held accountable.

What happened of course is that anyone who could left PS 106.

The transfer rate of staff members soared to 60%.

Then the students left. Parents transferred their children to other public schools and charter schools to escape what they saw as an institution that the city had given up on.

Enrollment declined from more than 600 students to just 250.

A year after Hurricane Sandy, Sills blamed the school’s troubles on the storm. But its problems started long before Sandy and stayed around long after.

To show just how clueless and uncaring the administration was — in December 2013, PS 106 received a glowing report. At the time, there was no mandated gym, no special-education teacher (I had left and wasn’t replaced), no books, no art and no extended-day services!

PS 106 received millions in extra school funding to help low-income kids. Where did the money go? It didn’t go to pay for teachers who left and weren’t replaced. It didn’t go to the payroll secretary Sills didn’t have so no one kept track of her absences.

It certainly didn’t go to help the children of Far Rockaway.

Thanks to The Post for finally getting results and Chancellor Carmen Fariña and the mayor’s office for ending this reign of abusive leadership.

But the question remains how the people who were supposed to care remained deaf for so long. Why do families and teachers flee public schools? They flee when they feel powerless. They flee because of what happened at PS 106.
Patricia Walsh, a graduate of Teachers College at Columbia University, taught for 27 years, and was a special education teacher at PS 106 from 2003 to 2009.

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