BARUCH COLLEGE— On Feb. 10, during a virtual meeting of the New York City Community Education Council District 3, a Hunter College professor made remarks that were recorded while she believed she was muted, prompting an apology and an institutional review by Hunter College.
The CEC, a body within the New York City Department of Education, hosts monthly meetings where parents, students and community members may raise concerns regarding district governance, budgeting and school policy.
The February meeting included testimony from students and families addressing proposed school relocations or closures within the district.
During a public testimony from a student discussing the potential closure of a school, professor Allyson Friedman, a tenured faculty member in cellular neurophysiology and behavior at Hunter, was captured on the meeting recording saying, “they’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school,” and “if you train a Black person well enough, they’ll know to use the back.”
