January 2010 Update: Some of the news below was confusing. Comments below were made before conclusions were made regarding each terrible incident. Homework:
Check Saint Barnabas Hospital site to see if statistics have changed since March 2007.
If statistics have change up or down, we may know where we stand with care of our children within NYC... Public Schools
March 2008 Update: My mom killed me.
Update: Four children thrown off a bridge by their father? Teacher did everything??? Where was the support around the teacher???
Update: Daycare Saftey/4 yr. old raped
One year later+ Saint Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx- 3 children a week in New York die of child abuse. See St. Barnabas Hospital Child Advocacy Center ______________________________________________________Now an echo from Quachaun; there is a program that can facilitate a safer net to protect these children. The following message went unanswered.
Nixzmary calling my teacher for help.... Still, as of March 2008 the court finds that our understanding as outlined here was off, in that Nixzmary says, "It was my Mom who killed me."?
Nixzmary has been praying in Heaven in no pain watching as we continue our soap opera down below. Will her prayer be answered? Will this "ridiculous" soap opera go away by listening to the bottom written below. Her prayers may help the following changes come closer to the perfection of Heaven in caring for and protecting our children instead of being players in this "stupid" current soap opera...
What child called(s) Miss Gabriel -(list teachers)- please help me. All these teachers have tried to engage support but have been left with escalated behaviors passing on from year to year without an answer to help their student. Why? There is a program which, by the end of the first six weeks of school, enables teachers to have a list of children they are concerned about. Many of these concerns could be addressed by fluid (osmotically nucleic) classrooms (regular ed) connected to therapeutic resources within the school that maintain consistent engagement with the people in these children’s' home lives on a daily basis at school. There needs to be a safe room where this occurs. Where ACS can direct itself and network crisis intervention. A room where people are trained in Lee Cantor’s Assertive Discipline because this is the program that trains the entire school family including Administration, Guidance Counselors, Social Workers, Therapists, Aids, Bus Drivers/matrons etc. It teaches how we safeguard who in the school family the child is comfortable with regarding abuse and neglect issues. Surely, ACS can be trained and connected also. Reform needs to begin connecting from the classrooms out in a cutting edge fashion facilitating an inclusive structure of critical crisis intervention. Socio economic factors play a part also with many of our needy children. Lee Cantor & Associates outlined this program,Positive Assertive Discipline, years ago, yet it goes unimplemented in the schools. School families are untrained and do not know how to work empathetically as a team providing safety in a child’s life. Top down, or Administrator, Social Worker, Guidance Counselor, Family Worker, or Parent threatening a law suit, control need not replace the empathetic team facilitated from the classroom teacher out. Why? because this is where the children are during their day. Because of this children can feel the safest. Teachers as mandated reporters should present the documentation as outlined in this program to protect children by law they are suppose to protect. School Administration, ACS, and Government should connect appropriately to facilitate better care of our children. People who have given their life work to study this approach such as Lee Cantor should be utilized to help children from being killed and harmed. A network and an accountability of follow through of mandated teacher statistics should be followed through with appropriately from the teacher on up. Isn't that right Mayor Bloomberg? If in Pre-K or Kindergarten Nixzmary, on a daily basis in the above outlined environment, had been part of an engaged in therapeutic intervention where, if the step father had been a victim of abuse, there might have been a diffusion of what actually took place. When parents or caretakers are engaged and accountable via a connected network from year to year ongoing from grade to grade via the classroom teacher we might save children from death by facilitating safer communication regarding the problems the parents were having. Also, teachers need not be threatened when presenting their concerns. The "system" needs to see to protecting teachers in doing this job, not disenable such communication on the part of teachers through fear of reprisal such as being fired (perhaps "rubber room" consequences). Just last year (2004) my immediate supervisor said to me when I tried to engage support for several of my Kindergarten students, “Miss Gabriel why are you the only teacher with concerns?” She meant, ignore it, or you will reap the consequences. When I did have an initial conference with one of the children’s’ parents, both my principal and assistant principal did not discuss my concerns and told me not to meet with the parent regarding them. The parent hugged me and had wanted to meet. I felt she might need to meet to talk about possible frustration she felt about having more patience with her child. Maybe she had a parent who was not physically patient with her. What do I say to Rachel? She kept hitting children and when two parents approached her mom, she was upset because the principal had told me to tell her everything had been Ok. When she went to the principal again, instead of engaging to help the parent and child ongoing and therapeutically, he transferred Rachel into another Kindergarten class. Especially since Rachel was hitting children in Pre-K also. So Rachel may say, “Why did you not help me?” Lee Cantor teaches how to recognize and connect respectfully with the child in need. Right now our team is not a team. It is a mass of people who are disconnected from the children they need to serve. Lee Cantor's work is the only intervention I have studied that actually facilitates the team we need. A village beginning from within the classroom stemming to ACS, Administration, Government, and whoever that child feels confident and bonds with. People can be trained to be sensitive to the child’s bonding whoever that is. Again, it is facilitation to the child that Lee Cantor's work will teach everyone to be collaborative about. Maybe the matron on the bus recently would have stopped the student from banging his head if she had a team to respond to. Maybe she reacted like many others in a system where rubber rooms exist. Be tough!!!!!!!!!, not at all mild managed like Miss Gabriel, or you will be the pointed to one who got caught, possible definition of rubber room placement. A montra I have been hearing and living with professionally for almost 20 years. You’re not tough enough but behind closed doors I won’t be the one within the Dept. Of Ed who gets caught.
Sincerely concerned for life,
Alena Gabriel
BA Research (Chem. Premed/Natural Science)-Top Honors-
MS Learning Technology-Top Honors-
-Researcher/NYC Public School Teacher for 18 years. I taught in many elementary and several junior high schools in Manhattan and the Bronx.
-Board Representative/Asst. Adm.
Children Of Today
Please call David Hafetz at the Post and ask him to do a story on this e-mail: (212)430-8086.
The media has not responded to this e-mail?
Mayor Bloomberg's office responded although 3020a arbitrator Ms. G and Administration and false witnesses/misguided “professional” witnesses classroom teacher, Ms. F- subsequently promoted by principal/Administration to school coach and then AP, and not confidential, Ms. R, guidance counselor- henchman for Principal Y, PS --. DOE attorney prosecuted me for kicking, joking and slapping of which I was not found guilty of. It did not happen. These were accusations made by the above for their own power and gain. The collaborative team was selective in the care of the two boys testifying in the 3020a although there was probably ODD behavior involved. Point is, it is a terrible behavioral job Mayor Bloomberg.
ACS responded after contacted by Mayor’s office but did not get back with their agenda..
Someone in DA Richard Brown's office responded.
Dr. Ritchi Morris and others are responding.
Will you respond too?
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