The principal of the Crescent Leadership Academy, a charter school in New Orleans, was fired after he was filmed wearing Nazi rings and participating in a “white genocide” tape. The students in the school are almost all African-American. It is a second-chance school for students who have been expelled.
Nicholas Dean, the principal of Crescent Leadership Academy, a charter school in New Orleans that has a predominantly black student body, appeared in a YouTube video wearing rings “associated with white nationalism and the Nazi movement,” the New Orleans Times-Picayune’s Danielle Dreilinger reports.
Dean was also photographed at the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee next to a Confederate flag.
According to the Times-Picayune, Dean claimed that he only went as a “student of history” to witness the long-overdue removal of the Confederate monuments.
“I didn’t go to protest for either side. I went because I am a historian, educator and New Orleans resident who wanted to observe this monumental event,” Dean said. “People who know me know that I am a crusader for children and I fight tirelessly on their behalf.”
The video of Dean wearing Nazi rings—posted on YouTube on Thursday by photographer Abdul Aziz—tells a different story, as does his appearance on a “white genocide” podcast where he said some people know him as a white supremacist.
Say what you will about cumbersome bureaucracy. There is something to be said for background checks and experience in a school system, where you are known to your peers.
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This guy is a poster child for the ideal school leader in the Trump/DeVos era. Just as that reprehensible assaulter was elected in Montana, most Trump supporters would raise their right hands in a vigorous Heil to this kind of principal.
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Disgusting!
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The only surprise here is that they fired him. How is Palidino doing these days.
Is there any doubt had he been a black radical who made racially disparaging remarks about whites Or perhaps had made a disparaging remark about the sexual proclivities of the Buffoon in Chiefs wife. He would not be waiting for a hearing till June 22 to be removed from the board. .
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Lovely. Where do charter schools find morons like this?
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Everywhere!
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Oligarchs are rarely Black people, because more of the rich get their head start by being born on 3rd base. Part of the richest 0.1%’s superiority complex is linked to their bigotry against non-Whites.
More of the school privatization zealots, White charter school board members and management, and White politicians discriminate against people of color, then the country appears to want to acknowledge. Trump has put a face on it and uses his actions and words to express it. The richest 0.1% are more likely to lie, cheat and steal, also, which is a reason the nation would be better off without them and their offspring.
I was glad to see the SPLC is involved in a Mississippi school funding case.
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And then there are the voters in Montana who elected to Congress a guy on such a short fuse that he body slammed a news reporter and broke his glasses. There were witnesses. He lied about the encounter. He was elected. Three metro newspapers withdrew their endorcements, too little, too late and perhaps because people did not care what the editors said or did.
The June issue of the Atlantic has an amazing article about Richard Spencer who is the new voice of the “white supremacists” known to many for being on a YouTube after Trump’s win, with an audience giving him the Nazi salute.
The author of the Atlantic article, Graeme Wood, attended the same middle school as Spencer. The article includes excerpts from Spencer’s “Hail Trump” speech whom the author describes as “the most orthodox Nazi statements ever uttered by an American public figure.”
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The U.S. needs, another billionaire in the D.C. swamp, like people need the Ebola virus.
It must suck as bad to live in Montana as it does to live in any every other state where billionaires exploit, under colonialism.
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The report was that about 75% of the state had already voted before the body slam incident. It is amazing that the Democrat did as well as he did given that most people had already voted.
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The school made a classic mistake in the interview process. The last question should always be “by the way, you don’t go white supremacist rallies and make videotaped appearances wearing Nazi regalia do you?”
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Over the years I’ve hired many, many teachers and administrators. I always clarify that issue!
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What an appalling man. The school needs to look at any student that has faced discipline since he became the principal, because who knows how he treated students?
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Who knows how he treated students? Eva knows — mouth bubbles.
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This is from his LinkedIn page:
” I am a school leader that creates positive conditions for children to learn. I seek effective methods for working with social emotional issues and create standards based classroom environments that allows students to experience the world in a way were they will learn.”
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Now I’m no English teacher, and I don’t play one on t.v., but as educated as he should be to be in the position he was in, there is a bit wrong with that there sentence. I wonder if it were run though one of those computers that test essays if it would pass the smell test?
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I copied and pasted that to make that exact point. His white supremacist sentiments aside, how did he become a school principal in the first place?
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If this guy is a principal, where did he earn his degree? Trump U maybe?
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Quote: “People who know me know that I am a crusader for children and I fight tirelessly on their behalf.” <– sounds like Michelle Rhee…she fights tirelessly and is a crusader. Aren’t all those reformers tireless fighting crusaders? Do they all get handed a pamphlet with buzz words and phrases to follow? Government schools. Failure factories. Now the idiot DeVoid (of conscience and scruples) calls anyone who resists the corporate takeover “flat earthers.” Ugh. It gets tiresome fighting against their crusade.
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It takes a flat earthier to know one.
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