Matter of Roman v. New York City Dept. of Educ.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Peter H. Moulton, J.), entered March 7, 2014, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, confirming an arbitral award, dated July 25, 2013, which terminated petitioner’s employment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The termination of petitioner’s employment does not shock our sense of fairness (see Lackow v Department of Educ. [or “Board”] of City of N.Y., 51 AD3d 563, 569 [1st Dept 2008]). Petitioner’s conduct may be described as verbal and physical abuse of students, and verbal abuse of one student’s parent; it continued for a period…