She thinks that a teacher could be fired without a hearing (“questions asked”) strictly based on a student’s accusation.  This shows how a journalist can spew incendiary statements on her tabloid soapbox and how little understanding she has of the situation, both in terms of whey a student might lodge such accusations and what the mayor actually wants.  In reality, the bill still calls for a hearing before an arbitrator when a teacher is accused of sexual misconduct, but proposes that a school superintendent could overrule an arbitrator’s decision.  This still calls for a “questions asked” procedure.  Perhaps Andrea Peyser doesn’t ask enough questions before writing her column.

Andrea Peyser is out with one of her usual over-the-top morality tales that declares
The past week will go down as a depraved chapter in public-school history. It’s the week of Teachers Gone Wild.

She
says there is a “pedophilia crisis” in the New York City public school
system that is enabled by the teachers union, that “the number of
teachers caught having sex with students is climbing.” How many alleged cases of sexual misconduct by teachers does she list in her column?
Four.
Uh, huh – four cases of alleged sexual misconduct out of 75,000+ NYCDOE employees.  
Now let me make clear, even one case of sexual misconduct involving a
teacher is too many, but nonetheless to declare a “pedophilia crisis”
on the basis of the four cases of alleged sexual misconduct Ms. Peyser
lists in her column for the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post is quite
absurd.
In fact, a much higher percentage of employees at her own
company, News Corporation, have been arrested on crimes ranging from
illegal phone hacking, bribery, extortion, conspiracy to cover up
criminal activities and perversion of justice than the number of cases
of alleged sexual misconduct cases by NYCDOE employees she lists in her
column.
So far, at least forty News Corporation employees,
most of whom worked at either the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the
World or the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Sun, have been arrested in the
News Corporation phone hacking/bribery/corruption scandal.
—–Perdido St School blog

Thus Peyser provides the perfect paradigm for the Post’s scabrous coverage of school controversies. As she knows, the DOE helps pick the arbitrators, too, and has the same conflict of interest. But in reckless disregard of the truth, Peyser covered up the DOE’s conflict. Too bad Mulgrew doesn’t have the nerve to sue the Post for printing what he claimed was a false story about his allegedly interrupted lust and thrust at Grady High School.