For several years, people within the United Federation of Teachers complained privately (and later, very publicly) about former Brooklyn Tech principal Lee McCaskill. Most of the complaints basically boiled down to the charge that the guy was a complete jerk. The school is one of the best high schools in America, which caused many of us to wonder what the fuss was all about. But the more we learn about what was going on out there, the more the union's claims have been legitimized. Read this morning's New York Times story about the NYC schools that were getting reimbursed by the state so that they wouldn't have to charge low-income students to take Advanced Placement tests. McCaskill (who admittedly wasn't the only NYC principal to do this) decided he was too much of a lazy scumbag to actually pass along the discount to the low-income students, and kept the cash in the school's reserve.

Let's start a list of all the ways poor kids in NYC have been screwed by people in the system... This kind of stuff is extremely upsetting. Too bad heads probably won't roll over this. Simply astonishing.