Open House Picks
Boerum Hill 253 Dean Street Corcoran Sunday 1:30-3:30 $2,495,000 GMAP P*Shark Fort Greene 279 Clermont Avenue Prospective Properties Sunday 12-2 $1,748,000 GMAP P*Shark Ditmas Park 1304 Glenwood Road Douglas Elliman Sunday 1-3 $1,275,000 GMAP P*Shark Bushwick 1182 Bushwick Avenue Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 3-5 $925,000 GMAP P*Shark
Boerum Hill
253 Dean Street
Corcoran
Sunday 1:30-3:30
$2,495,000
GMAP P*Shark
Fort Greene
279 Clermont Avenue
Prospective Properties
Sunday 12-2
$1,748,000
GMAP P*Shark
Ditmas Park
1304 Glenwood Road
Douglas Elliman
Sunday 1-3
$1,275,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bushwick
1182 Bushwick Avenue
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 3-5
$925,000
GMAP P*Shark
“The unwise t-shirts were quite convenient for their cause.”
That’s a big “slip”. Especially if you know you’re already under scrutiny. Stupid. Very stupid. In general, mistakes cost people their jobs and more. So, she should suck it up and move on.
The people who were against this woman started their campaign long before she made those t-shirts. The unwise t-shirts were quite convenient for their cause.
The key women against this school were heavily biased. They started their letter-writing campaigns before knowing anything about this woman or her school. The moment they got a whiff of any type of Arabic public school. That just tells the whole story, that fact.
Yes the school wasn’t entirely well planned and it should not have been run by a complete novice to politics. But I have a HUGE problem with any protest like this fueled by racism. It’s thoroughly disgusting and they should not have been rewarded by “winning” their little protest against this woman and her school.
She was a great teacher and sadly the story is as has been described by Slick, a teacher caught up in highly visible position with no preparation. If you knew her personally I think most of you wouldn’t be so critical. She made a mistake that turned into a nightmare. This could happen to anyone.
“She got in trouble for making shirts that say “infatada nyc”. The actual meaning of the word is innocuous, so she disregarded the fundamentalist and Palestinian connotations. She has said she didnt mean anything by it (which I personally believe), and she certainly didnt realize that people would go nuts and go after her head.”
That’s kind of silly, that anyone, especially a Muslim and Arabic speaker, would not see a potential issue with that. Come on.
The problem was that she was a teacher, not a politician. She got moved into a HIGHLY visible and political position w/o any preparation.
She got in trouble for making shirts that say “infatada nyc”. The actual meaning of the word is innocuous, so she disregarded the fundamentalist and Palestinian connotations. She has said she didnt mean anything by it (which I personally believe), and she certainly didnt realize that people would go nuts and go after her head.
Of course they did, and she lost her job. It’s kind of a shame; I bet she is a really good teacher.
10:22
Arabic isn’t needed purely because of the war on terror. Arabic oil money is fueling a huge portion of the world economy. It is beneficial to know arabic for that reason alone.
It’s also a pretty beautiful language as far as languages go, IMHO.
Yes, she was 9:01. It is amazing what a very wealthy political lobby can accomplish. Getting rid of a person who put her all into her profession was a shame.
The Academy was supposed to introduce non-Arabic speaking students to the arabic language and culture. Not to proselytize but to teach children, who pick up languages much easier than adults, a very difficult language. Speakers of Arabic are in great need and the need will continue to grow as the “war on terror” continues/expands.
6:18 Yes she was forced to resign but prior to starting Khalil Gibran she was in the Region 8 office (I forget in what capacity but I think it had to do with afterschool programs) and prior to that she was a teacher at 261. Sorry if I wasn’t clear. Anyway, she was a great teacher.
the largest potential real estate problem that I see facing the borough is that everyone decided they wanted to live here in what seemed like a blink of an eye. This would suggest that the opposite could be true. In no time, Brooklyn could be out, done. over, and where will that leave the owner of a 2.5 million dollar antique residence on Dean Street?