Video raises questions about New York City charter school

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CBS News

By/ DeMarco Morgan/ CBS News/ February 13, 2016, 7:15 PM
Video raises questions about New York City charter school


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An undercover video shot by a former colleague and published by the New York Times showed Success Academy charter
school teacher Charlotte Dial belittling her first grade students and tearing up their schoolwork.

/ CBS News
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NEW YORK -- Some disturbing video of a teacher at a New York City charter school is raising questions about the harsh treatment of some of its youngest students. But the school says the video does not tell the whole story.

In the video, Success Academy teacher Charlotte Dial's frustration is clear.

"So count it again, making sure you're counting correctly," Dial says.

"Go to the calm-down chair and sit!" she tells a first grade student after angrily tearing up the child's work.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-raises-questions-about-new-york-city-charter-school/

[polly7]

1. Awww .... Charlotte Dial was crying (for herself).

I wonder if she thought for one second how she made that little child feel? I hope her 'one week of retraining' included lessons in treating small children in a way that doesn't humiliate them and make them feel worthless.

Doesn't seem to be a suitable 1st-grade teacher at all.

[sulphurdunn]

2. Eva Moskowitz

is hoping to bring the blessings of her charter school scam to more affluent white school districts soon. This can only happen where elected school boards are replaced by politically appointed ones or when the state takes away the rights of elected boards to determine whether or not to charter schools and turns that decision over to political hacks. In both instances, the public schools are forced to pay for the charter schools but have no day to day control of the curriculum, hiring practices, enrollment, monetary policy or salaries. It's a sweet and lucrative, pretty much risk free, guaranteed money making racket that even lets the hustler pose as a social reformer.

[passiveporcupine]

3. OMG her voice

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/nyregion/success-academy-teacher-rips-up-student-paper.html

Video at link. She is basically shouting the whole time.