A teacher barricaded himself inside MS 328 in the Bronx on April 24, 2009, causing police to evacuate the premesis
Francisco Garabitos, 55, Says Actions Were Meant As Civil Rights Protest Against Mistreatment Of Teachers
A teacher who barricaded himself inside a Bronx classroom, causing a three-hour school standoff, is speaking out Monday.
He says he was trying to make a point about how teachers facing discipline can be placed, for years, in so-called “rubber rooms.”
Francisco Garabitos says he’s sorry for the panic he caused. But he says he did it to bring attention to so-called “rubber rooms.”
“The Board of Education removes you – for three months, three weeks, three years!” Garabitos said. “And you don’t find out anything.”
Garabitos says the principal at his school was going to use Garabitos’ conduct while breaking up a fight among students to put him in a “rubber room.” Read more..
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