Think about the double standard of the New York City Department of Education, where a teacher who taps a child on the shoulder and says "good job!" or, "Let's get back to work!" is brought to 3020-a for termination by the Gotcha Squad. Please continue to send me and media outlets such as the NY POST stories like this one so we all - parents, teachers, staff - can expose this pattern of lawlessness at the NYC DOE. DOE, I hope you pay for the dental work for Haifa Soto's son!!!!
Betsy Combier
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| PS 132 Principal Anissa Chalmers (now Anissa Reilly) |
Sunday, March 17, 2013
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Bronx school principal’s movie role as gun-slinging gangsta alarms parents
- Last Updated: 5:26 AM, March 17, 2013
- Posted: 11:45 PM, March 16, 2013
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EXCLUSIVE
The principal of a Bronx elementary school moonlights as an actress, starring in a bloody B-movie as a vicious gangbanger who deals drugs, robs, rapes and murders.
Anissa Chalmers, principal of PS 132 in Morrisania, plays a gangsta who shoots an innocent woman in an initiation rite, rapes and kills a man for revenge, and slaughters three others in the un-rated “Gang Girl.”
In real life, Chalmers, 40, is under investigation by the city Department of Education for an undisclosed allegation, an agency spokeswoman said.
Over 112 days in the current academic year, her school has seen 172 reported student “incidents,” including 111 offenses such as smoking, cursing and misusing property. PS 132 has been the scene of several recent violent altercations among kids, and two secretaries were charged with theft.
“Gang Girl” was released in 2009, about three years after Chalmers was named principal of PS 132, where she makes $129,920 a year.
The movie, set in The Bronx, is filled with foul language, beatings, blood and sexual violence. It ends with Chalmers’ character, gang leader “Queen V,” on death row.
“Open, motherf--ker. You like the way that tastes, n----r?” she snarls, shoving a gun into a man’s mouth. She then blows him away.
Some teachers and parents say life imitates art at the school.
Last June, an 8-year-old boy at her school slashed a 9-year-old classmate’s neck with a razor.
Parents say bullying and fighting are a big problem at PS 132, which the DOE gave an overall grade of “D” but an “F” for student performance and an “F” for “environment,” which includes safety.
One mother, Haifa Soto, said her 10-year-old son, Zahid Benzan, suffered a cracked front tooth in a fight last year. Chalmers, she said, refused to file a report and did not call cops.
“She just told me, ‘Go to the dentist,’ ” Soto said.
Shortly after The Post asked the DOE about the incident Friday, Soto arrived at school at dismissal to find Zahid in Chalmers’ office.
“She wanted to see his face,” the furious mother recalled.
In 2011, the mother of a third-grader who traded blows with a classmate sued the city. After speaking with Chalmers and a teacher, cops handcuffed the kid and “paraded” her out of the school, the suit said. No charges were brought. The city settled for $20,000.
In 2008, two PS 132 secretaries were arrested and charged with looting $200,000 in school funds. Last November, they were put on probation and ordered to pay a total $106,000 in restitution.
Some parents have seen “Gang Girl” — DVDs sell on the street for $5, and an online rental is $1.99 — and were disturbed by it, despite a redemptive ending in which Chalmers’ Queen V character turns to Christianity and serves in the Scared Straight program.
“It’s crazy. It’s real graphic,” a mother said, referring to scenes in which Queen V is raped and tortures one of her attackers before killing him. “It’s not something you want your kids to see. My son hasn’t seen it, but imagine if he did?”
Another mom said: “One of these students could find this on the Internet, and then what? How am I supposed to explain that to my children?”
Teachers say the principal is hardly a role model for kids.
“She’s like the ‘Gang Girl’ principal,” one said. “The video is reflective of her personality at school — the bullying, in-your-face approach. She can be very intimidating.”
Chalmers also has parts in the indie flicks “Speedsuit,” about a school bully, and “We Fall Down,” about a pastoral couple in crisis.
She referred questions to the DOE press office, which declined to comment on her “Gang Girl” role.
One parent defended Chalmers, saying: “She’s a great principal. Ronald Reagan waved a gun in Western movies, and he became president of the United States.”
PS 132 in Morrisania is a blackboard jungle:
* Two school secretaries charged in 2008 with stealing $200,000.
* 172 reported student “incidents” over 112 days this school year, including 111 offenses such as smoking, cursing and misusing property.
* 10-year-old girl cuffed by cops in 2010 after exchanging kicks and punches with classmate; city pays $20,000 to settle mother’s lawsuit.
* Eight-year-old boy slashes classmate’s neck with a razor
* 10-year-old boyhas front tooth chipped off in school fight
* Chalmers remains under investigation since last year
susan.edelman@nypost.com
Principal of violent Bronx elementary school moonlighted as murderous gangster in foul-mouthed B-grade movie
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Actress: Anissa Chalmers is the principal of PS 132 in the Bronx and plays a gangster in an unrated film called 'Gang Girl'
The principal of a New York City elementary school rife with bullying and violence is an amateur actress who starred as a murderous gangster in a low budget movie, it has been revealed.
Parents and teachers at PS 132, a school based in same area of the Bronx where a 23-year-old recently butchered his mother and littered her body parts around the neighborhood, are outraged at the example Anissa Chalmers is setting for students.
According to The New York Post, Chalmers is under investigation by the Department of Education, though the allegations against the 40-year-old aren't clear. In the gruesome 2009 film, called 'Gang Girl,' her character 'Queen V' ends up on death row after a rampage of robbing, raping and slaughtering.
For her initiation into the gang, Queen V shoots an innocent woman and later she rapes and kills a man in a revenge attack then slays three others.
'Open, motherf***er. You like the way that tastes, n*****' she says in the film before putting a gun in a man's mouth and pulling the trigger.
According to The Post, 172 student 'incidents' have been reported at Chalmers' school over 112 days in the current academic year. The vast majority were offenses such as smoking, swearing and mistreating school property but others were fights among students, the newspaper reports.
Chalmers earns $129,920 a year and has been principal for around six years but some claim she's a bad role model for the students.
'She's like the 'Gang Girl' principal,' one teacher told The Post. 'The video is reflective of her personality at school — the bullying, in-your-face approach. She can be very intimidating.'
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Example: Parents and teachers at PS 132 are outraged at the example Anissa Chalmers, pictured front bottom in character, is setting for students
Investigation: Chalmers, pictured in character, is under investigation by the Department of Education, though the allegations against the 40-year-old aren't clear
A concerned mother told the newspaper: 'It's crazy. It's real graphic,' referring to scenes where Queen V is raped and tortures one of her attackers before slaughtering him for revenge. 'It's not something you want your kids to see. My son hasn't seen it, but imagine if he did?'
Another parent said: 'One of these students could find this on the Internet, and then what? How am I supposed to explain that to my children?'
DVDs of the movie are on sale in the street for $5 and it can be rented online for $1.99.
School: Chalmers earns $129,920 a year and has been principal at PS 132, pictured, in the Bronx for around six years
The Department of Education rated PS 132 a 'D' overall but in the student performance and school environment categories it scored an 'F'.
According to The Post, an eight-year-old student at the school used a razor to slash the neck of a nine-year-old classmate last June.
Haifa Soto said her son, Zahid Benzan, 10, cracked his front tooth during an altercation with another student last year but she said the principal wouldn't file a report or get the police involved.
'She just told me, "Go to the dentist,"' Soto told The Post.
In 2008, two school secretaries were arrested and charged with stealing $200,000 in school money.
They were put on probation and ordered to pay back $106,000.
Chalmers and the DOE press office refused to comment on the film.
VIDEO Bronx elementary school teacher in foul-mouthed B-movie
DOE raps ‘gangsta’ principal
- Last Updated: 3:59 AM, March 18, 2013
- Posted: 1:03 AM, March 18, 2013
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Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott yesterday blasted a Bronx principal for playing a gun-wielding gangbanger in a bloody B-movie.
“The chancellor is aghast at the images in and content of the film, which are totally inappropriate,’’ a city Department of Education spokeswoman said.
The Post revealed yesterday that Anissa Chalmers, principal of PS 132 in Morrisania, acted in the low-budget flick “Gang Girl,” which features beatings, shootings and rape.
“The chancellor is always concerned about both real and perceived violence and its impact on students,” the spokeswoman said.
Chalmers’ school has seen several recent violent altercations. PS 132 got an overall grade of “D’’ and an “F’’ for “environment,’’ which includes safety.
Chalmers received a waiver to appear in the film, but the DOE didn’t know the film’s content, according to the spokeswoman.
