A Brooklyn assistant principal claims in a new lawsuit that superiors wanting to maintain low emergency-response statistics demoted her after she insisted on calling 911 for a mentally disturbed student.
Donna Pisarczyk was working at Brooklyn West School in Sunset Park in February when a safety agent told her that a student had arrived in a disheveled, “mentally distressed state,” according to her Manhattan civil suit.
She alerted her principal, who had a policy that he had to approve all her emergency calls, the suit says.
Someone later called 911, and in June Pisarczyk was transferred and demoted.
She’s suing, claiming she was retaliated against for calling out her principal.