Kagan's brother is a BX HS Of Science teacher who.....

[Smarmie Doofus]

... has publicly denounced the removal of seniority protections for teachers.

From today's NYT:


>>>>This spring, in a letter to The Chief-Leader, a civil service employees’ newspaper, Mr. Kagan compared the attempts by Joel I. Klein, the schools chancellor, to end teacher seniority protections to Goldman Sachs’s alleged misdeeds. The letter had the crusading, poetic feel of a lawyer making closing arguments.

“It’s morally and ethically wrong to take away the jobs of people who have worked hard for decades simply because a cheaper body can be found,” he wrote. “It is a spiritual pollution of the values that we should uphold. It is another step away from civilized behavior toward the idea that only might makes right.”>>>>>>>

Another brother, Irving, teaches at Hunter College HS. Both are academically elite but *public* NYC secondary schools. ( Are you listening Barack?)

The irony re. Marc (Bronx Science), the letter writer: that school has one of the most lunatic "reform" administrations in a system now chock full of same. Google the principal ( "Dr." Valerie Reidy; check-out her doctorate).

I'd like to be a fly on the wall at the faculty meetings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/nyregion/20kagans.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Wow. Great quote:

“It’s morally and ethically wrong to take away the jobs of people who have worked hard for decades simply because a cheaper body can be found,” he wrote. “It is a spiritual pollution of the values that we should uphold. It is another step away from civilized behavior toward the idea that only might makes right.”