By Steve Levy
A lawsuit filed against the Valley Stream School District is a situation where ordinary people of common sense can support neither the plaintiff whistleblower, nor the defendant school district.
At first blush, one is prone to cheer for the plaintiff, a former counselor at the school, who is suing the district for being wrongfully dismissed after she lodged a complaint against the district for placing exemption status on a student’s record for the Regents exam.
One would think that she was being a whistleblower against the school that was allowing students to be exempt from taking the Regents simply because they claimed they were in fear of being deported if they showed up to take the test.
This is utter woke nonsense, and the district has every reason to be castigated by anyone with half a brain.
But when we look further, the plaintiff was not upset that the district was allowing the students to exempt themselves after they failed the test. Instead, the plaintiff was miffed that the student exempted from the Regents was going to have an E for exemption on their record, without being given a follow-up opportunity to retake the test.
But her opposition should’ve been over any exemptions in the first place.
What in the world are our schools doing, telling students that they don’t have to show up for a Regents exam because they’re falsely claiming that ICE is going to be there to haul these students away in handcuffs?
There’s not a single example of this ever happening on Long Island, so why are these schools creating this fiction and scaring students? It’s pure virtue signaling by the schools. The district deserves to be sued, but not for the reasons given by this plaintiff.