Stuyvesant High School ex-principal Stanley Teitel not fit to lead
after cheating scandal: officials
An investigative report by the city Education Department slammed Teitel
for a 'complete lack of professional judgment' and suggested banning
him from school work altogether.
By Rachel Monahan / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, August 31, 2013, 2:58 AM
A report by the city Education Department's Office of Special
Investigations said former Stuyvesant High School principal Stanley
Teitel (pictured) showed a 'complete lack of professional judgment'
during the cheating fiasco at the school.
After an investigation into Stuyvesant High School’s high-profile
cheating scandal, city officials have barred the retired former
principal from returning to any school leadership posts.
The embarrassing investigative report, which the city Education
Department’s Office of Special Investigations apparently completed in
November and released in the afternoon before the holiday weekend,
slammed Stanley Teitel for a “complete lack of professional judgment,”
and recommended banning him from school work altogether.
Using cell phones, which are forbidden in all city schools, upward of
50 students at the city’s most elite public school shared answers by
text message on the June 2012 physics and U.S. history Regents, as well
as the citywide Spanish exam — all requirements for graduation.
Teitel declined to comment Friday.
When alerted to a student’s plan to cheat on a citywide Spanish test
and his recent misdeeds on the Regents, Teitel hatched a plan for a
“sting” operation, instead of hauling in the kid for questioning,
investigators found.
Even after they caught the 11th-grader red-handed, the investigators
faulted Teitel for mishandling the aftermath: He failed to question the
70 kids whose names were found on a forbidden cell phone — at least not
before agency lawyers asked him to.
Officials are also seeking to fire Teitel’s deputy, Assistant Principal
Randi Damesek, who coordinated testing at the school for 10 years.
Attempts to reach Damesek on Friday were unsuccessful.
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