Aspies For Freedom

SPECIAL-ED BOSS IS OUT

By DAVID ANDREATTA
New York Post


The superintendent of the city's troubled special-education system, recently disciplined for directing subordinates to ignore subpoenas to testify about the future schooling of an autistic boy, announced yesterday she would step down.

Susan Erber will retire effective Jan. 31 after a decade as superintendent of District 75. She will be replaced by her deputy, Bonnie Brown.

The     Department of Education reprimanded Erber three weeks ago after she refused to allow her underlings to address a departmental hearing officer about the circumstances surrounding the placement for an autistic boy.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nypost/20060107/...dbossisout

How could an individual like that even have gotten the job in the first place?

How horrible.

Again, tardiness and poor screening shows it's marks. I just wonder how many racists and narrow-minded people have been placed in situations where they can abuse their power to directly stimy the efforts of their fellow man. (Awnser: More than we can possibly imagine)

"Its not what you know, its who you know" - thats the rule which governs all these types of jobs.

AUTISTIC STUDENT WINS TRANSFER BATTLE

By DAVID ANDREATTA
Education Reporter
New York Post
January 9th 2006

An autistic teen whose request for a new school was denied by the Department of Education, prompting the censure of the superintendent of special education, should be placed in another school, a hearing officer has ruled.

The department had insisted that Michael Kneeter, 18, was getting an appropriate education at PS 77 in Brooklyn even though he suffered a heat-induced seizure in a classroom after the principal failed to check the temperature in the room.

The special-education superintendent, Susan Erber, wouldn't let her subordinates testify about the matter at a departmental hearing, and has now been dismissed.