A Bronx teacher who flunked out of his profession is suing to get his job back– even after he could not complete basic tasks like lesson plans and failed multiple certification exams.
Tenured teacher Jesus Estaba, 59, says the Department of Education’s decision to can him this year after 23 years of service is “shocking to the conscience and one’s sense of fairness.”
But an exhibit attached to his Manhattan civil suit is a lesson in disaster.
The P.S. 30 special education instructor “failed in the basic functions of a competent teacher” according to the DOE’s termination ruling.
The Brooklyn resident could not “execute proper lessons; properly manage his class or correct students when they had wrong answers.”
When it came time to teach math Estaba admitted to skipping over the subtraction lessons because “addition was easier for the students,” according to a transcript of his departmental trial.
The longtime teacher’s own poor grammar was on display during the trial as he insisted, “the lesson went good because the students were active participating.”
Estaba also fails to mention in court papers that he bombed his state teaching license exam at least a dozen times explaining in a 2000 interview, “The reading passages are really long. And they have things like Frost, the guy with the poems. And questions on the Vietnam War.”
City reps did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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