The administrators at Murry Bergtraum HS for Business Careers never seem to learn.
Instead of inviting a business leader or hero to serve as “Principal for the Day,” the Manhattan high school, infamous for hallway riots and an overload of failing students, rolled out the welcome mat for a singer-songwriter, Maad*Moiselle, who stars in a rap video riddled with the N-word. “Killa” shows the scantily clad performer pulling a muzzled, half-naked man on a dog leash.
“I am gravely worried as to what effect such individuals as Maad*Moiselle may do to our school image,” global-studies teacher Nicholas Weber said in a letter to principal Lottie Almonte and other school and union officials.
Weber calls “racially offensive” the video’s repetition of the word “n—a,” and cites lyrics that include “Bang, bang, bitch,” “Ima stone cold killa” and “Don’t f–k around.” He also criticizes scenes in which Maad*Moiselle pulls a shirtless man on all fours with a chain, and stomps her high-heeled foot on his back.
“The degradation and debasement of another human was most deplorable,” Weber wrote.
The outraged teacher, who has hosted a commercial banker, a Federal Reserve Bank analyst, and NYPD officers in his classrooms, said the school could have, instead, invited a member of the Financial Women’s Association, an NYC business group that has long supported Murry Bergtraum, to serve as a better role model.
Sources said the faculty was disgusted. A previous Principal for the Day had a company that sold T-shirts with mocking religious references and graphic sexual images.
“Our students deserve better,” another teacher complained.
School insiders say Maad*Moiselle’s March 7 visit was apparently the brainchild of Kian Brown, the school’s $52,332-a-year “community coordinator.”
Brown escorted Maad*Moiselle, a k a Natasha Ferguson of Montclair, NJ, around the school, where video screens emblazoned with her photo advertised the visit.
Brown said Friday he was not able to comment. Almonte referred questions to the Department of Education press office, which did not respond.