School principal caught on tape referring to special needs students as, "retards" and "animals."

[davidn3600]

A vulgar, abusive rant by the principal of a school for special needs kids was caught on tape and is sending shock waves through the community of Haverstraw, New York.

Channel 7 Eyewitness News reported that Hilltop School principal Kimberly Taylor’s angry, expletive-laden outburst was recorded by a former teaching assistant.

Hilltop School is a kindergarten through 8th grade school for kids with learning and behavioral issues. Kenneth Egan worked at Hilltop as a teaching assistant until he began to complain to the superintendent of the Rockland County School District about how principal Taylor treats the children in her care.

In the tape, Taylor can be heard berating the children ahead of a graduation ceremony.

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Dragging one of the two students in front of the assembly, Taylor can be heard saying, “This is a retard. How embarrassing, a disgusting embarrassment, get him the hell out of my sight.”

In another recording, the principal can be heard insulting a male student who has fallen down.

“Get your (expletive) up and be a man,” Taylor said. “God, for God’s sake, you animals, some of you.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/retard-animals-new-york-principal-caught-on-tape-screaming-abuse-at-special-needs-students/

This happened 3 years ago...higher-ups knew about it and the principal still has her job. But the assistant that leaked the recording has been fired. That assistant is now suing the district for wrongful termination.

[Tsiyu]

1. Oh, I think this lady is in for it once this goes viral, which it should

My goddess.

That's not a personnel matter. That's verbal abuse from an authority figure.

I almost feel sorry for the woman, because her life will soon be hell if this just came out.

[cui bono]

14. Unfortunately, this happened 3 years ago and she's still got her job but the teacher's asst

who recorded and leaked the video was fired.

[Tsiyu]

18. Oh, I thought the news story was recent.

Too bad

[Jefferson23]

2. I hope Mr Egan is well represented by the best attorneys. That fucking hateful principal

needs to not ever be near another student again.

Kudos to Egan for the tape but disgusting it took this long.

[davidn3600]

4. She's clearly in the wrong line of work

If I were a parent with a kid there, I'd be outraged.... not just at this principal but the school district for letting this go.

[Jefferson23]

5. Lawsuits should be plentiful. She is a disgrace to her position..horrific abuse.

Did you notice how she tells the kids..You know me.

This seems to indicate there was a pattern of abuse from her, not that she just lost it one time.

[Jefferson23]

3. If anyone would like to send a message to this school board, see below:

Meet the Board

The eight component school districts are each represented on the Rockland BOCES Board of Education. Rockland BOCES Board members are nominated by their respective Boards and elected to three-year, unpaid terms by the component districts.
http://www.rocklandboces.org/BoardofEd/index.cfm


http://www.rocklandboces.org/SpecEd/Hilltop.cfm

http://www.rocklandboces.org/ContactUs/index.cfm

[whathehell]

6. OMG..

wtf is wrong with people?...Is she STILL there?...the vid said it

happened three years ago.

[cui bono]

10. OMG is right!

I just saw that last sentence in the OP that she is still there but the teaching asst who made and leaked the video was fired.

Good grief.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. I've had bad days where I cut loose a chain of expletives

and unfortunate words against someone when I didn't mean it. I think that's human. But this looks like a pattern of recurring belittlement and out-of-control outbursts. Seems like she's really in the wrong profession, hates her job, and the kids she's supposed to help.

[cui bono]

9. Even if it isn't a pattern and she was having a bad day, this is inexcusable.

These are children, special needs children. There is no excuse for an adult in charge of them to subject them to this abuse. No reason why an adult in a position of supervision such as this to do something like this. She didn't just let out some anger, she dragged them out in front of an audience and berated them with slurs.

These children have had to endure this for how long? I hope there is a huge lawsuit against that evil woman for this.

What in the world are people doing to raise such insensitive a-holes who could do such a thing to another human being???

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. I'm human

I can have really bad days and then apologize, if it only comes to words. Even special needs kids can drive someone to great exasperation. EVERYONE is entitled to blow their stack once, as long as no physical harm is involved. This is more than that. If you expect perfection even with special needs children it won't be found in this world.

[cui bono]

13. I don't expect perfection. Not publicly humiliating special needs children under your supervision

is nowhere near demanding perfection.

[byronius]

8. Sometimes those jobs draw people trying to work out their own problems.

I had a relevant experience with a day-care worker when my son was a toddler. I watched her haul a three year old boy roughly across the room by one arm and throw him in a corner while shouting at him. I stopped the room at that point, called her out, ended up in a three-month fight during which we had no daycare -- it ended with the woman being fired, and the director of this otherwise quite excellent daycare facility confiding to me that it was her experience that often good people with serious issues are drawn to professions that are anathema to their condition, but the destructive behavior was often hidden and hard to prove.

Clearly this woman is one of those cases. That kind of job takes a thick skin and a loving heart, and she appears to be lacking those.

[bobGandolf]

12. Hope the assistant teacher wins big!

It just might keep administrators from firing everyone who complains about their superior.

[Alkene]

15. Well, that's one abusive bully down (hopefully),

but how many more to go?
Seems like there are some people who find their way into leadership positions in educational institutions who aren't always the finest human beings.

[Nay]

16. Wrongful termination, indeed! I hope she comes out with some money

and this horrible principal fired.

[android fan]

17. Our family's "principal" - many should learn from him..

Rabbi Israel Rosenfeld who passed away two weeks ago.