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Wyckoff NJ, a seventh-grade language arts teacher brought up on tenure charges by the Board of Education will not be reinstated as directed by a state-appointed arbitrator, board Wyckoff President Robert Francin.
The Board of Education certified four charges against teacher Scott Levy last May, alleging “acts of misconduct during the 2019-2020 school year, as well as a recurrent pattern of misconduct over a period of years.”
The district alleged that Levy “physically assaulted a seventh-grade student,” “engaged in the harassment and inappropriate touching” of two students, and “has accumulated a substantial record of misconduct in his teaching position for which remedial measures have been taken and failed.”
But Arbitrator David Reilly ruled in a 50-page opinion dated Jan. 28 that teacher Scott Levy should be reinstated with a final written warning, suspension without pay for one-half school year, and eight hours of professional development classes. Reilly sustained all four charges, but stopped short of complying with the board’s conclusion that “such conduct justifies his removal from employment in the district.”
People should actually read the document. Iasiello was the only person to actually go after this guy. Maybe the district should get a better lawyer.
This was a witch-hunt by the principal
Remember the language arts teacher here in RW that got caught shoplifting ?