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Sunday, December 24, 2023
NYC HS principal reassigned weeks after ‘radicalized’ students rioted over Jewish teacher attending pro-Israel rally
The principal of a Queens high school has been reassigned in the wake of a student riot against a Jewish teacher who had attended a pro-Israel rally, The Post has learned.
In a letter to staff and families, Hillcrest High School principal Scott Milczewski said he is leaving the Jamaica school for a new job in the city Department of Education bureaucracy.
“It is with mixed emotions that I inform you that I have been offered, and accepted, the position of Director of Teacher Development and Evaluation within the Division of Teaching and Learning,” he wrote.
The New York City Department of Education did not immediately comment on Milczewski’s reassignment.
Milczewski’s exit from the school comes in the wake of a riot where hundreds of kids rampaged through the halls of the high school last month, forcing the pro-Israeli teacher to hide in a locked office as the mob searched for her.
A Queens councilman called the students “intolerant and radicalized,” but teens said most classmates joined in the protest just for the fun of it. Four students who organized the riot were suspended.
The chaos ensued after the teacher’s Facebook profile photo showed her at a rally in Queens on Oct. 9 holding a poster saying, “I stand with Israel,” following the slaughter of 1,200 in the Jewish State by Hamas.
It took about 25 NYPD cops to put an end to the incident and place the school on lockdown, with Milczewski garnering criticism for failing to tackle the tensions being built up in the school over the Israel-Hamas war.
One teacher told The Post that Milczewski’s ouster was a positive outcome for the school.
“Hillcrest needed change. Hopefully, the new principal will address the needs of the faculty and students and bring us together as a community,” the teacher said.
Along with November’s riot, Milczewski’s tenure has been marred by controversy, with the former principal accused of dragging his feet to address an incident where swastikas were scrawled on student lockers back in February.
Earlier this month, Hillcrest had seen more swastikas pop up, along with graffiti saying “F–k Palestine,” which were quickly removed.
While Milczewski joined the school in 2019 after his predecessor, David Morrison, was ousted over allegations of misconduct. Milczewski will be leaving the high school after criticism from staff.
A no-confidence survey from the Hillcrest faculty reported that 87% of employees believed Milczewski has “created a toxic environment,” and put his ambitions over the needs of students and staff.
Despite the disapproval, Milczewski touted his work during his brief four years at the school and wished all the best to his students and coworkers.
“I am very grateful for the opportunity to have worked alongside you in support of our students and will remember and cherish my time as part of the Hillcrest family,” Milczewski wrote.
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University Demoted Staffer From Diversity Position Over Her Race, Lawsuit Claims
A staff member at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire sued her employer claiming that she was demoted from her position in the school’s diversity office for “being white.”
According to the New York Post, staff member Rochelle Hoffman was previously promoted to interim director of the university’s Multicultural Student Services office. After this change occurred, allegedly, the school’s former Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Student Affairs Olga Diaz was told by students that a white woman should not be in the position (via NYP):
“You hired a white woman as the Interim Director?” one student was cited in a federal complaint against the university.
Per the complaint, another student asked, “Do you personally feel white staff can do as effective a job as a person of color, within a space for people of color?”
Hoffman said she felt compelled to resign last year after eight months of intense hostility and staff questioning her “legitimacy” after being promoted to interim director of the campus’s Multicultural Student Services office, the complaint states.
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“Despite Hoffman’s exceptional qualifications, however, students, faculty and staff opposed her appointment to Interim Director of MSS solely because she was white,” the complaint claims. “It was exclusively Hoffman’s identity as white that was the issue; criticism was about her race and color, not her qualifications.”
In a statement to Fox News, the university said: “As is the case with all pending litigation, UW-Eau Claire will not offer a statement or comment on the lawsuit. UW-Eau Claire does not discriminate based on race in any employment decisions.”
According to Wisconsin Public Radio, Hoffman worked at the university's Bluegold Beginnings for six years before the promotion. The office served “underrepresented, low-income and first-generation college students.”
"The affinity model that had been in use at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire was premised on the idea that for a student to be well served, they needed to be assigned a coordinator of the same ethnic background and that a white person could not adequately support a student of color," the lawsuit reportedly claims. And, she allegedly faced retaliation after filing an earlier complaint with the university.
Hoffman reportedly “pleaded her case” with Republican state Sen. Patrick Testin.
"I think it is important for good educators to bring light to some of the blatant actions of racial discrimination against white folks that are happening at UW Universities — and contributing to the current hostile environment around the UW System,” she wrote. Hoffman now works as an academic advising coordinator for the university.
"This experience dragged out over 10 months and irrevocably damaged my career," Hoffman added. "On a regular basis there are great educators that are told they shouldn't occupy multicultural space, to check their white privilege, passed over for jobs for an outside candidate of color, and reminded they are 'inherently racist' because they are white."
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Nation mourns Prague university shooting victims as more details emerge about killer David Kozak
Flags on public buildings flew at half mast and masses were scheduled across the Czech Republic for a day of national mourning after a deadly shooting at Prague’s Charles University – the worst in the country in decades.
Shooter David Kozak, a 24-year-old student, opened fire at the Faculty of Arts on Thursday, killing 13 people and then himself. Another person died later in hospital.
The gunfire sparked frantic scenes of students running from the attack.
The government asked Czechs to observe a minute’s silence at noon on Saturday and bells were due to ring on churches across the EU and NATO member country.
“It is hard to find the words to express condemnation on the one hand and, on the other, the pain and sorrow that our entire society is feeling in these days before Christmas,” said Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
Tearful students lit thousands of candles at makeshift memorials at the Faculty of Arts and the university headquarters near by.
The school, families and friends have also started to publish the names of the victims, students and teachers alike.
“This is extremely cruel news for us all,” the Institute of Musicology said on Facebook after learning its 49-year-old director Lenka Hlavkova, a mother of two, was among the victims.
Other victims included Finnish literature expert Jan Dlask and student Lucie Spindlerova.
The gunman also wounded 25 people including three who were hit by bullets in the street as he fired from a balcony.
A Dutch national and two citizens of the United Arab Emirates were among the wounded.
Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said there was no link between the shooting and “international terrorism” and that the perpetrator acted on his own.
But police have since detained four people either for threatening to copy the attack or for approving it.
Police guards at selected sites, including schools, will be in place at least until January 1, said Interior Minister Rakusan.
Police chief Martin Vondrasek said the gunman, previously unknown to the police, had a “huge arsenal of weapons and ammunition”.
He added that inspecting the crime scene was “the most shattering experience” in his 31 years of police service.
Kozak is suspected of randomly killing of a man and his baby in a dry-run of the Christmas massacre that left at least 13 dead and 25 injured. Fears are mounting the death toll could rise as the seriously wounded fight for survival.
As chilling footage emerged of a Prague hero drawing Kozak’s fire by yelling “Shoot here you f**ker”, police revealed Kozak was the prime suspect in the seemingly random murder of a 32-year-old and his two-month-old daughter a week earlier.
“We are working very seriously with the version, which is very real at the moment, that today’s attacker is also responsible for the two victims killed last Friday at Klanovice forest,” said Police Chief Martin Vondrasek
Authorities are also investigating comments on a Telegram account of a man with the same name saying he was inspired by a 14-year-old girl who carried out a school shooting in Russia on December 7.
Kozak began his massacre by killing his father before shooting dead another 12 in the centre of Prague and turning the weapon on himself.
Pictures and footage showed terrifying scenes of students hanging from ledges to hide and people on the street fleeing for their lives as the shooter is seen stalking victims from the roof of the campus.
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