Brooklyn, NY – The Department of Education announced today that is has named a new principal for the city's new Arabic-language school.
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Holly Reichert will take over the job from the interim principal of the Khalil Gibran School. Although Reichert has only spent a year teaching ESL in the city she has been working for the DOE since 1996, mentoring teachers. Prior to that, she was head of the English department at a school in Bahrain.
Reichert replaces Debbie Almontaser six months after she was ousted from the position. Almontaser – who is the school's founder – was forced to resign after refusing to condemn a t-shirt with the Arabic phrase "intifada" written on it.
She is in the middle of a legal battle to get her job back. [NY1]
First an Arab, then a Jew, then a kraut who taught in an Arab country.
In the right hands it doesn’t have to be an intifada school. The idea of the school itself is a very good one. There should be such schools. But they need to be run by people who are not suspect of jihadist tendencies, i.e. not Almontaser.
What is the background of this winner, Holly, that she is looking to head an Arab Intifada school?