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Posted on 06/17/2020 5:20:32 PM PDT by tellw
The Northeastern superintendent is recommending the school board fire an intermediate school principal accused of sharing a social media post calling Black Lives Matter a "lie."
At Monday's virtual meeting, the school board unanimously authorized the administration to summon Shallow Brook Intermediate School Principal Scott D'Orazio for a hearing before the board.
The hearing would only be open to the public if D'Orazio agrees to open it, and his employment status would be determined by a board vote then, district solicitor William J. Zee said in an email Tuesday.
The time and date of the hearing have not yet been determined, he said.
Zee opened a probe earlier this month after D'Orazio allegedly posted a meme on his personal Facebook page calling the Black Lives Matter movement a “leftist lie.”
He confirmed Tuesday that the investigation is ongoing and D'Orazio is currently on unpaid administrative leave.
When D'Orazio was hired in 2017, his salary was listed at $101,000, according to a board agenda.
The Twitter account We See What You're Doing screen-grabbed and flagged the post on June 4 amid nationwide protests over the May 25 death of George Floyd under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer.
"You posted this to your facebook account, why not here? Why not Tweet it from your school? Do Black Lives matter in your school?" a tweet from the account reads, showing a screen grab of the Facebook post and tagging both D'Orazio and Shallow Brook.
The board learned the preliminary results of Zee's investigation Monday evening.
"The superintendent has advised the board of school directors that she believes there is sufficient evidence to support the allegations presented," said board member Vanessa Snell, reading a board resolution.
The resolution noted that Superintendent Stacey Sidle recommends D'Orazio's dismissal.
Members of the board and administration did not respond to questions from The York Dispatch at the meeting.
Attempts to reach D’Orazio for comment have been unsuccessful. He was hired by the district as a principal in 2017. Years before, he worked for the district as an assistant principal.
Nearly 150 people tuned in to the virtual board meeting.
Several community members spoke out against D'Orazio's comments and the district's lack of immediate response to them.
Brandi Wiafe, a district parent, could be seen holding a sign that said "no hate," with several others holding signs standing with her. She said she was protesting the district.
She questioned D'Orazio's stance on Black Lives Matter, asking how anyone could watch George Floyd die and claim that black lives don't matter.
"Anyone who can stand there and do that does not deserve to be in front of our children," she said, also criticizing the board for not speaking out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Morgan Lanzalotti, of York Haven, on the other hand, did not wish to see D'Orazio lose his job. She praised the district and said she'd never seen discrimination in classrooms. A Change.org petition to the school board that as of 5 p.m. Monday had more than 600 signatures is calling for D'Orazio's resignation and a public apology from him, and from the board for not taking action sooner.
"By saying that Black Lives Matter is a lie, D'Orazio is expressing that the racist incidents and struggles his black students experience do not matter to him," the petition reads.
Afi Belgrave, of Mount Wolf, was one of the signers. As a former student, she remembered "racial slurs and microaggressions littered the hallways" but always thought administrators had the best interests of students at heart.
She said she now questions if she was wrong.
"The administration’s decision not to take action against the callings of a racist tells me I might have been," she said at Monday's meeting.
The petition also calls for more educators of color to be hired to reflect diversity in the district, bias training and safe spaces for students to express concerns about racism.
Tiedra Marshall, a resident and black mother, said children need to see the district as a safe haven, and D'Orazio's comments disregard their safety.
She said there needs to be more than just positive banners around the school, such as diversity on the board.
D'Orazio was accused of verbal harassment and creating a hostile work environment for a member of the school's nursing staff in a 2019 complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Those accusations were not related to race.
District officials denied several of the claims, including a claim that they never investigated those issues. That case was settled out of court in November.
This is the website of the superintendant: https://www.nesd.k12.pa.us/Page/4157
Twitter: https://twitter.com/drstaceysidle?s=20
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He should get the black conservatives to testify at his hearing.
So it is not at all about Blacks, it is all about communist insurgency. Thanks, wanted to get that cleared up. Enemies domestic and all that...
Saying BLM is a lie is not racist and this firing, of it goes through, is lawsuit worthy.
Washington and Jefferson - for that matter all the Founding Fathers will be vanquished from all public statuary, spaces, names and money in you/our lifetimes if you are Boomers.
Next year: the Redskins become the Kneetakers.
oops.
Wrong thread.
Carry on
Having an opinion can get you fired? It really is going to get worse before it gets better.
JoMa
As long as you are fired without recourse for posting something there is no freedom of speech in the country.
Wish we had this principal in our private school, or the public schools here. Instead we have superintendent apologizing for being evil white people and how we all must be nice to our black brothers and sisters, yadayadayada - AND threatening jail and charges for kids posting “racially charged” postings ON NON-SCHOOL SOCIAL MEDIA!
AND I’m called a racist from all angles on FB for calling them out on this jail/charging overreach!
Does that mean Rhodes Scholarships must go too?
Firing someone over their political beliefs??? This is not what I spent over two decades in the military to support.
It seems it is time to lock and load again in the protection of our rights and to uphold our constitution.
Black Lives Matter Movement: Where do all the donations go?” Informative 3 minute video
Don’t worry...the free market will work it out and stuff. You know...private enterprise and all.
Telling the truth can yield a heavy price - lies are what the Left thrives on. Refuse to tell lies = lose your job.
He said nothing of the sort - nor did the Hodge Twins - who are themselves black - so obviously they think their own lives matter.
"Anyone who can stand there and do that does not deserve to be in front of our children," she said, also criticizing the board for not speaking out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Does she even know what what the "Black Lives Matter" organization stands for? Doesn't sound like it.
This sounds like an opportunity for education. I hope the guys in the video make an appearance.
Have you noticed that a lot of Italians, liberals and conservatives, are being attacked and smeared with the ultimate goal of getting them fired. This even is happening in Boston which has had an Italian mayor recently (the new one is a psychopath).
York Pa. Didn’t know that “black fascism” was so influential there. If they kick out most of the white teachers, their kids will be as stupid as their parents.
Oh, sorry, that is what the Left wants, dumbassed stooges, dupes and cannonfodder (W.E.B. Du Bois called blacks who worked for the Communist Party their “cannonfodder”).
How embarrassingly absurd! The Hodge Twins are black!
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