You see what we pay teachers these days? They could be teachers kids AND homeless…
I bet the employees weren’t teachers.
It says staff members in the article, so likely not teachers. The one named definitely isn’t.
Cool motive, still nepotism
They weren’t teachers. They worked in an office to support homeless students. It was mostly the manager of said office, though she “encouraged other staffers” to do the same.
Homeless kids deserve childhoods too, but can’t help thinking there must be higher priority items than sending them to Disney. A tragedy of this story is maybe those grants wouldn’t have been diverted and could have been stretched further had they been spent on more useful things.
There is always going to be “higher priority” to spend that money on. But they got it for this so let them just use it to make kids happy and not try and say that it’s not the “useful things” to spend it on.
Most of the cost is likely written off by the companies providing tickets and travel, possibly even the hotel. So really this is probably just a Disney+airlines partner up for a charity that costs the schools a minimal amount (travel+ticket for chaperones, 1 per 10 children.)
It gives kids who basically have no childhood a way to actually feel like a kid. That’s still very important. Especially when we waste much more money on things that we convince ourselves are better, that are very often useless.
It’s a great priority. A poor kid deserves to not worry about bills and just enjoy Disney.
They ruined the bigger plan! It was a trip to Disney, they never said they’d get a trip back…
I’d be okay with the people who went staying in Florida forever
The special commissioner’s office recommended that Wilson and the other staff members faulted in the report be fired and that they be required to reimburse the school system for their family members’ trips.
Wilson told the Post that she retired and was not fired.
Department of Education spokesperson Jenna Lyle said in a statement, “All staff identified in this report are no longer employed by New York City Public Schools.”
Criminal charges are required here.
Great, find every single adult responsible, and throw them in prison.
Then they’ll be in Prisoney World!
According to the report released this month, Linda Wilson, the Queens regional manager for the office that supports students in temporary housing, took her own children on trips that were paid for through grants for homeless students and encouraged employees she supervised to do the same but to keep quiet about it. “What happens here stays with us,” one staffer quoted Wilson as saying. Contacted by the New York Post, Wilson denied bringing her two daughters on trips or encouraging staff members to bring their children. Wilson called the special commissioner’s probe “a witch hunt.”
Queens. The same place that gave the world donald trump.
I haven’t been, but Queens sounds like America’s festering asshole, with little demons crawling out of it? Can anyone with first hand experiences there elaborate?
My mom is also from Queens. Rockaway Beach to be specific. A plane crashed into her old neighborhood in 2001 (no, not 9/11) and destroyed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587
Queens is really big. 108.1 mi² according to Google. There is a lot of bad and there is a lot of good about Queens.
One thing I liked is that there is a long history of shooting films there going back to the 1920s and there’s still a studio there. Inside is also the Museum of the Moving Image. I never got a chance to go any of the times I went to New York:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufman_Astoria_Studios
There’s also Flushing Meadows, which is a great park. It’s where the 1939 World’s Fair was held.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Meadows–Corona_Park
And, of course, even though her neighborhood is gone, the beach is still there.