Outrage erupted after it emerged that school bosses were taking their own children to Disney World using notes intended for homeless students.
Six New York City Education Department employees are accused of using forged consent forms to take their children and grandchildren on lavish, city-funded trips intended for the city’s most vulnerable children.
Linda M. Wilson, a supervisor for DOE’s Students in Temporary Housing in Queens, reportedly brought her own two daughters along on these trips, according to investigators.
She also reportedly encouraged her colleagues to join the action and bring their own family members along for the ride, as reported by The New York Post.
According to sources, Wilson allegedly instructed staff to “lie to investigators” to cover up her deceptive actions.
Six New York City Department of Education employees have been accused of using forged consent forms to take their children and grandchildren on lavish, city-funded trips intended for the city’s most vulnerable children.
“What happens here will stay with us,” Wilson told his colleagues, as reported by The New York Post.
“She told everyone to stick to the story that we didn’t bring our kids on the trip,” one employee told The Post.
“She told us to lie to the investigators.”
One visit to Disney World alone cost a whopping $66,000 for about 50 adults and children.
The shocking news comes from a bomb report by the city’s special commissioner of inquiry for schools, who exposed a web of deceit stretching from 2016 to 2019.
But the Magic Kingdom was just the beginning.
Linda M. Wilson, a Queens supervisor of DOE’s Students in Temporary Housing, reportedly brought her own two daughters on these trips, investigators said. She also reportedly encouraged her colleagues to join the effort to bring their own family members along.
Multi-day trips to Washington DC, New Orleans, Boston and upstate New York were all part of the plan.
A DOE teacher reportedly had to “beg Wilson to let him take two of his students” on a trip to Disney World, while Wilson and his team brought their own family members along for the magical ride.
Naveed Hasan, a parent of a Manhattan public school child and a member of the city’s Education Policy Panel, expressed shock and disappointment.
“Money that is meant for homeless students is extremely inappropriate,” he told the newspaper. “I am shocked.”