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So Cathie Black has a right for her grades to be kept private, but teachers have no expectation of privacy, despite both being public employees (if she gets her waiver). This is so sickening. There is not even a pretense of democracy or equality anymore, it’s right out in the open. One set of rules for the rich, one for the poor. At least Klein went to Bryant HS, lived in Queens, and taught in a public school. This woman took algebra and geometry in COLLEGE, I took them in junior high school, and she is in placed in charge of a million students and 100,000 staff. No Masters’ degree, no certifications, never set foot in a public school, and she sent her kids to private school. I’m sure the liturgical singing, theology, and Latin classes will help Ms. Black understand the typical NYC public school family and their issues.

After reviewing redacted transcripts with hi-tech microscope, it appears Ms. Black never attended school but was awarded 128 seat credits in order to graduate. Further investigation reveals 10 envelopes @ $12.8 thousand and a happy meal voucher to satisfy grades. Hmmm, didn’t know Trinity College gave covert operations classes for dealing with stubborn union bosses in South American Coca-Cola plants. So much for taking up “Dogma of God and Creation 127 classes!” Not much studying done here. Next.

Now, now let’s be nice. Dubya Bush’s big daddy got him into that prestige college, his alma mater. Was it Yale, Harvard, Princeton? Who cares? Now this poor little rich girl goes away to college from Illinois to Washington to study English and then she takes more English courses, because she enjoys English classes. So if she doesn’t want anyone to see all her C’s, D’s or closing school F’s that’s okay. She’s rich! She’s famous! She knows Bloomberg! She has a guaranteed seat at the head of the table at Tweed.

You go girl. Flaunt those covered up grades.

I stand corrected. My eyesight is not what it once was.

@Ellen, that’s actually fascinating, I didn’t catch that! I bet you’re right!

Ellen, just one correction: I believe that Black’s junior year was a study abroad program in Rome run by Loyola Chicago — it’s a bit difficult to see, but it does say “Rome Center.”

Please accept my apologies. But without marks…even blacked out ones? Many of us went on a semester/year abroad and the transcripts indicated the home college and then the college of attendance…with grades too.

PS… I take exception to the “in those days…” since I am her contemporary and “in those days” went on a junior year abroad junket myself. It wasn’t that long ago, you young whippersnapper you….

Isn’t it interesting. In its reply to the lawsuit abut releasng the corrupted teacher data, the city claims as public employees teachers have no right to expect any degree of privacy. Isn’t the same true for Black?