Now that he is retiring, Cleveland teacher Gene Tracy says he will be less diplomatic in criticizing the district.
That’s hard to imagine. Tracy, 57, has harangued school officials for nearly three decades. And if he ever exercised restraint, it wasn’t apparent.
Tracy, whose last class was Wednesday, began staging dramatic displays of displeasure as a new teacher in 1981. He tossed a sickly pre-wrapped sandwich on the table at a school board meeting and dared administrators to take a bite of their cafeterias’ fare. They declined.
He went out in similar fashion at a board meeting last week. The Lincoln-West High School math teacher accused the district of child abuse for letting teenagers reach his ninth- and 10th-grade classes without mastering basic multiplication. He then handed his retirement notice to Chief Operating Officer Daniel Burns.
… for more of his history, click the <a href=”http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/06/cleveland_teacher_retires_his.html”>link to the story</a>