By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org

NEW YORK – Brooklyn principal William Abreau is a scumbag who doesn’t deserve to work with youth.

That’s the conclusion most logical citizens would come to in light of recent allegations that the assistant principal at Progress High School for Professional Carriers in Brooklyn made sexually inappropriate comments to three 15-year-old female students.

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He allegedly questioned the girls about their sexual activity and what they would be willing to do with him to secure a summer job at the school, including asking one for oral sex, the Village Voice reports.

Richard Condon, special commissioner of investigation for the school district, issued a report on the incident this week, describing the alleged comments as “some of the worst comments I’ve seen,” according to the news site.

“The three girls go up there,” Condon told NY1 television station. “The first girl goes in, he starts a conversation, ‘I’m gonna ask you some personal questions.’ He starts to ask them some very inappropriate questions about their sex life and about what they would be willing to be doing sexually with him.”

The despicable incident, and numerous other incidents of alleged sexual abuse by public school employees, have outraged parents and city officials in recent months. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has lobbied state lawmakers to make it easier to remove sexual predators from schools.

“New York City teachers involved in sexual misconduct with students has become a fairly common/serious problem for the city. A few weeks ago, three different teachers were arrested for sexually abusing students – in three separate incidents – in less than a week,” the Village Voice reports.

Due to current law and teachers union protections, it’s difficult to fire educators accused of sexual abuse with students until they are convicted of a crime, and many who are not are reinstated after a cursory review of their cases by union-friendly arbitrators.

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Sometimes they return to classrooms. Sometimes the city places them in the infamous “rubber rooms,” where they can collect full pay and benefits for doing nothing, but can’t hurt kids.

The problem reportedly costs NYC as much as $100 million per year.

Union-sponsored lawmakers in Albany have dragged their feet on voting on Bloomberg’s proposal, choosing instead to work in the union’s interest to pass legislation designed to shield teacher evaluations from the public.

The solution is simple: Lawmakers must put the safety of students ahead of their own allegiance to their campaign sponsors to do the right thing. They must pass a law to make the removal of these sick individuals – whether they are teachers or administrators – quick and painless.

And they need to do it now!