To my understanding, probationers ( i.e. newer, non-tenured teachers) who are "discontinued" ( ya gotta love the Orwellianisms) by a principal, for ANY reason, are *automatically* placed on this list.
The consequence is that that person cannot be hired by *ANY* NYC ps.... even if he/she finds a principal who *wants* to hire them.
It's amazing how few people working here are even aware of this. Even principals are unaware of it. I dealt with it a couple years back when a colleague was discontinued to make room on staff for someone's relative. The paperwork said his service ( less than one full year) was "unsatisfactory".
Barbaric shit. But apparently it's legal. The courts take the position that districts can set-up whatever criteria they want re. tenure and licensing.
My understanding , though, was that the blacklist could pertain only to a single school district. In our case the person was banned for life from the NYC system ( considered as a single district) but was eligible to seek employment elsewhere in NYS.
You're saying that people have been blacklisted *statewide*? What's the legality of that?
And the politicians wonder why we need tenure.
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