Opinion

‘School of No’ ex-principal’s deranged case for getting her job back

Why is it so hard to improve New York City’s public schools? Well, consider the fact that former “School of No” principal Marcella Sills just might get her job back.

The city fired Sills in February from her $128,000-a-year gig at PS 106 in Far Rockaway after The Post exposed her out-of-control tardiness.

She was late to work 178 times between September 2012 and January 2014.

This, when PS 106 earned the “School of No” moniker because it had nothing — no books, no gym or art classes, no nurse’s office, no special-ed teachers, no books for the Common Core curriculum.

Yet now she’s suing for reinstatement — noting that her union contract never specified what time she was to show for work.

The kids, of course, must show for class at 8:30 a.m. An arbitrator rightly rejected Sills’ claim, noting that arriving (at least) with the children is plainly a duty of the head of the school.

But Sills insists in her suit: “Without a start time there cannot be a late time,” adding that she had “no expectation, let alone obligation,” to show up before the bell rang.

Sills, a 16-year veteran of the city schools, complains that she suffered the “harshest of punishments.” Funny how they always forget the fact that the kids suffer more.