Kiryas Joel, NY – The Kiryas Joel School District must reinstate a fired teacher and give him back pay with interest, a state appeals court ruled.
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The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court said that Supreme Court Justice John K. McGuirk was correct in 2007, when he ordered the school district to reinstate the teacher, Robert Pollock.
McGuirk, found that the district violated Pollock’s rights under state Education Law by firing him in 2003 without bringing charges or holding a disciplinary hearing.
The district appealed McGuirk’s ruling to the Appellate Division. Friday’s unanimous ruling by a four-judge panel upheld McGuirk and sent the case back to him to decide how much back pay Pollock is entitled to receive from the district.
The Kiryas Joel School District serves special education students in a village whose 20,000 residents are nearly all Satmar Hasidic Jews. Children who don’t require special education attend privately-funded religious schools.
dont worry the satmars will find another way to make the guy want to leave.
serves them right. Dont fire with out due cause.
very good a good lesson
Is your reaction ‘love’ for Pollack or ‘hate’ for Kiryas Joel?
Applepie Says:
Is your reaction ‘love’ for Pollack or ‘hate’ for Kiryas Joel?
06-21-2008 – 11:31 PM
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Why dont YOU frst tell us the the answer to your own question.
Why was he fired?
Eventually the kj school district will start acting responsibly with the taxpayer’s (OUR) money. How much did they waste on this, instead of funding programs for these children?
Let’s not air our dirty laundry in public. The end justifies the means. People should be paid as per contract not as per last name. The real workers should be getting paid and receive benefits, not the people with the so called right last name who don’t even work and get paid. Some develop hunch backs from bending under the table to get money others work for!
The teachers being unionized would have protected this teacher in the first place from being fired illegally. Maybe it’s time the KJ school teachers unionize and be in a position to protect themselves and their benefits!
There were other tenured teachers who were also fired but without a union were unable to fight for their rights. The teachers currently working for kj should realize unioninzing is long overdure. Next year’s contract which has no raise, not even cost-of-living, will have the teachers paying for part of their health insurance. Time to call in a union like 99% of the districts in NYS.