It was disgusting enough when last week the NY Post reported on a 64 year-old Queens teacher who is getting his six-figure salary, despite the fact that he goes not to a classroom, but to a “rubber room” where NYC teachers await disciplanary proceedings. The teacher, Alan Rosenfeld, was banned from the classroom in 2001 for lewd comments and glances made to junior high school students at his school. Yes, for nine years Rosenfeld goes to sit in a room (where he freely conducts his personal real estate and legal consulting business) but the conditions in his teacher union contract forbid the Department of Education for firing him.
Now, this weekend the Post informs us of another NYC teacher, 60-year-old Francisco Olivares. This guy makes Rosenfeld look like a Boy Scout. He has a decades-long record of molesting preteen students and actually impregnated a student. He has been hanging out in the “rubber room” for seven years, earning just a few thousand short of six figures. Like Rosenfeld, the DOE can’t fire him.
Exiled Queens teacher on payroll despite knocking up student
By SUSAN EDELMAN, KATHIANNE BONIELLO and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
February 7, 2010The DOE insists it can’t get rid of him. “The department’s hands are tied by state law and union rules,” said spokeswoman Ann Forte.
She said tenured teachers can be fired only if an arbitrator approves.
“The department twice tried to terminate this teacher, and both times, an arbitrator decided to keep him on the payroll,” she said.
Most of the 660 rubber-room teachers on the city payroll are awaiting disciplinary proceedings, but Klein has exiled “a handful” of duds like Olivares even though they have been legally cleared to return to class. …
The Queens district attorney charged him with abusing two 12-year-old students in school, one in December 1988 and the other a month later.
He showed one girl porn pictures and photographed her in suggestive poses with her pants down, the DA charged. Another accused him of rubbing against her from behind.
A jury found him guilty, but his conviction was reversed on appeal on technicalities. The DOE held an administrative trial on the charges, but a panel of arbitrators voted 2-1 in favor of Olivares. They sent him back to IS 61.
He struck again, according to Special Schools Investigator Richard Condon, who recommended firing him. In 2002, Condon found Olivares had backed a girl against a wall and caressed her arms while urging her not to transfer, saying, “I’m becoming very fond of you.”
After a hearing, an arbitrator let Olivares off with just a warning not to stand close to students.
This time, Klein refused to return Olivares to the classroom. The teacher sued in 2004 to have his records expunged [He sued??? What balls this scumbag has. And the NYC taxpayer footed the bill for the defense. That was money well spent.]
It was then that DOE officials dug up accusations from 1978 that Olivares had a sexual relationship with a former IS 61 student he had met when she was 13—and got her pregnant at 16, according to records filed in Manhattan Supreme Court in the 2004 suit.
Olivares, then 30, married the teen and falsified DOE forms to get her health insurance sooner, it was alleged.
DOE officials could not explain Friday why the department waited until 2003 to formally bring those sex and fraud charges.
Olivares’ student-turned-wife, whose name is being withheld by The Post, could not be reached.
At the beginning of his 32-year career as a math teacher in Queens, Francisco Olivares allegedly impregnated and married a 16-year-old girl he had met when she was a 13-year-old student at his Corona junior high, IS 61, The Post learned.
He sexually molested two 12-year-old pupils a decade later and another student four years after that, the city Department of Education charged.
But none of it kept Olivares, 60, from collecting his $94,154 salary.
He hasn’t set foot in a classroom in seven years since beating criminal and disciplinary charges. Chancellor Joel Klein keeps Olivares in a “rubber room,” a district office where teachers accused of misconduct sit all day with nothing to do. …
Your tax dollars at work, New York City.
End the occupation! Liberals out of the schools now!
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