Six employees of New York City’s public school system took their children or grandchildren on trips to Disney World, New Orleans and other locations using tickets that were meant for homeless students, investigators said in a newly released report.

The trips intended as enrichment for students living in shelters and other temporary housing also included excursions to Washington, D.C., Boston and Broadway shows, said Anastasia Coleman, the special commissioner of investigation for New York City schools.

According to the report released this month, Linda Wilson, the Queens regional manager for the office that supports students in temporary housing, took her own children on trips that were paid for through grants for homeless students and encouraged employees she supervised to do the same but to keep quiet about it.

“What happens here stays with us,” one staffer quoted Wilson as saying.

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    Wilson called the special commissioner’s probe “a witch hunt.”

    Well, they did catch a witch, so…

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    I can see how of course a teacher should be able to bring their child along with the group, because childcare is really difficult for a lot of people, but the quotes are damning.

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    Stealing from Amazon? Sure, who cares, fuck Bezos. Stealing from the poor and homeless? Seriously, go fuck yourself. Congratulations, you just created a new level of low. I hope a judge will force them to give their house to those homeless kids.

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    Of course, sounds like nobody ACTUALLY faced consequences and got to keep on keeping on. Just another lesson in “theft and fraud are legal as long as its from people below you”