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Yet another Indian Tenured Teacher in Piscataway is Being Harassed and Racially Discriminated.
A petition to the Piscataway Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools to end racial discrimination against Mrs. Raj Bansal, the only Indian tenured teacher among 250 teachers in 6 elementary schools of Piscataway School District.
Raj Bansal has been a dedicated educator for sixteen years; since 1993 in Piscataway district. She has an outstanding educational record and has won numerous awards and recognitions as a teacher. In 2005, she has won the Students Teachers Achieving Results Award for winning lessons. Her qualifications also include a 4.0 GPA in her M.A. in Educational Administration from Kean University. Despite her Administrative degree she was never considered for the job of Principal. The rumors are someone told her, This job is not for Asians.
She is happily married and has raised two brilliant sons; both attending Princeton University. As a valued member of Indian-American community, Raj Bansal is a role model for not only her students, but also her students parents and the community at large. She has repeatedly emphasized the value of education. Her presence in Piscataway encourages minority youth to overcome the obstacles, achieve and succeed. Since February 2008, Raj Bansal has faced unreasonable and disproportionate scrutiny by unqualified examiners because of her ethnic background and race. Her requests and concerns were ignored; instead, she was subjected to multiple subjective evaluations. Mrs. Bansal made every effort to work with the administration. The superintendent Robert Copeland on his first meeting with her, without any discussion told her that she needs a psychiatric evaluation because of her disjointed expressions and abnormally paranoid behavior. Mrs. Bansal has repeatedly asked for specific examples of her behavior that the Superintendent claims to be disjointed or abnormally paranoid, to no avail. On Oct. 15, 2009 in a open Public Meeting the School board went along with the recommendation of the Superintendent that she be subjected to a psychiatric evaluation without having any debate among the members or replying to Mrs. Bansals request for specific examples of her behavior.
In a community which is one quarter Asian-Indian, it is very upsetting to see this latest incident of character assassination of and professional incompetence being ascribed to Mrs. Raj Bansal. Piscataway School District has a history of mistreating its Indian teachers since the days of another Indian Dr. Piyush Aggarwal with a Ph.D., and an illustrious career, who was denied the post of superintendent despite the fact that he was working as superintendent all the time because the official superintendent had all kinds of ethics, moral and behavioral problems. A large number of Indian teachers like Anita Kaur, Sunila Sharma, Nisha Diddi and more have quit because of deliberate and intentional negative evaluation to stop them from becoming tenured teachers in the district purely on racial grounds.
The classic case is of Mrs. Uma Swaminathan who was referred to as Rosa Parks of Indian Community by India Abroad newspaper for putting a brave fight against her suspension on fabricated grounds under racial bias. After 3 years, she was reinstated by the Courts and the Board squandered taxpayers hard earned money to justify their illegal actions to destroy a competent school teacher because of her ethnic Indian background.
If Indian Teachers are treated this way in Piscataway School District, do you ever wonder how the Indian children are being treated, how the other minorities are being treated?
I know that Mrs. Bansal is a caring, loving, compassionate, intelligent and competent teacher who gives 100\% to her students, while maintaining the district expectations.
We urge you to stand against racial injustice, lies and intolerance. We urge you to hold the administrative staff accountable for their indiscriminate actions and prejudice under racial bias. We urge you to defend Raj Bansals civil and human rights. We want Piscataway School District to end this racial discrimination and start treating the minorities with dignity and respect.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere " ~ M.L. King
I fully agree with this petition that there should be administrative accountability in Piscataway School District and they must stop racial discrimination to Asian Indians and other minorities. Further they must stop harassing Mrs. Raj Bansal and withdraw their illegal order for Psychiatric evaluation issued under racial bias against her.
Yet another Indian Tenured Teacher in Piscataway is Being Harassed and Racially Discriminated.
A petition to the Piscataway Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools to end racial discrimination against Mrs. Raj Bansal, the only Indian tenured teacher among 250 teachers in 6 elementary schools of Piscataway School District.
Raj Bansal has been a dedicated educator for sixteen years; since 1993 in Piscataway district. She has an outstanding educational record and has won numerous awards and recognitions as a teacher. In 2005, she has won the Students Teachers Achieving Results Award for winning lessons. Her qualifications also include a 4.0 GPA in her M.A. in Educational Administration from Kean University. Despite her Administrative degree she was never considered for the job of Principal. The rumors are someone told her, This job is not for Asians.
She is happily married and has raised two brilliant sons; both attending Princeton University. As a valued member of Indian-American community, Raj Bansal is a role model for not only her students, but also her students parents and the community at large. She has repeatedly emphasized the value of education. Her presence in Piscataway encourages minority youth to overcome the obstacles, achieve and succeed. Since February 2008, Raj Bansal has faced unreasonable and disproportionate scrutiny by unqualified examiners because of her ethnic background and race. Her requests and concerns were ignored; instead, she was subjected to multiple subjective evaluations. Mrs. Bansal made every effort to work with the administration. The superintendent Robert Copeland on his first meeting with her, without any discussion told her that she needs a psychiatric evaluation because of her disjointed expressions and abnormally paranoid behavior. Mrs. Bansal has repeatedly asked for specific examples of her behavior that the Superintendent claims to be disjointed or abnormally paranoid, to no avail. On Oct. 15, 2009 in a open Public Meeting the School board went along with the recommendation of the Superintendent that she be subjected to a psychiatric evaluation without having any debate among the members or replying to Mrs. Bansals request for specific examples of her behavior.
In a community which is one quarter Asian-Indian, it is very upsetting to see this latest incident of character assassination of and professional incompetence being ascribed to Mrs. Raj Bansal. Piscataway School District has a history of mistreating its Indian teachers since the days of another Indian Dr. Piyush Aggarwal with a Ph.D., and an illustrious career, who was denied the post of superintendent despite the fact that he was working as superintendent all the time because the official superintendent had all kinds of ethics, moral and behavioral problems. A large number of Indian teachers like Anita Kaur, Sunila Sharma, Nisha Diddi and more have quit because of deliberate and intentional negative evaluation to stop them from becoming tenured teachers in the district purely on racial grounds.
The classic case is of Mrs. Uma Swaminathan who was referred to as Rosa Parks of Indian Community by India Abroad newspaper for putting a brave fight against her suspension on fabricated grounds under racial bias. After 3 years, she was reinstated by the Courts and the Board squandered taxpayers hard earned money to justify their illegal actions to destroy a competent school teacher because of her ethnic Indian background.
If Indian Teachers are treated this way in Piscataway School District, do you ever wonder how the Indian children are being treated, how the other minorities are being treated?
I know that Mrs. Bansal is a caring, loving, compassionate, intelligent and competent teacher who gives 100\% to her students, while maintaining the district expectations.
We urge you to stand against racial injustice, lies and intolerance. We urge you to hold the administrative staff accountable for their indiscriminate actions and prejudice under racial bias. We urge you to defend Raj Bansals civil and human rights. We want Piscataway School District to end this racial discrimination and start treating the minorities with dignity and respect.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere " ~ M.L. King
I fully agree with this petition that there should be administrative accountability in Piscataway School District and they must stop racial discrimination to Asian Indians and other minorities. Further they must stop harassing Mrs. Raj Bansal and withdraw their illegal order for Psychiatric evaluation issued under racial bias against her.
475 Signatures
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Dinesh Nettar
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Ajay Kumar
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Sriram Ramachandran
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- Discrimination in all it's forms needs to be fought against. (Mr. Makkar, it is easy for people to miss the petition link in your email due to font size, please increase the size and resend)
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Lalit Kumar
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- Consider, a court case also!
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Sunita and Sandeep Aurora
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srini
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Surinder Chadha
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- It is really sad that a great teacher like Mrs. Raj Bansal is facing this kind of discrimination. The school superintendent and the school board should be held accountable for this bias behavior.
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Paresh Trivedi
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- Very Sad! but act stratgically....do not create another Raj Parikh...
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Shankerprasad S Bhatt
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- good work done by Dave Makkar my friend
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Mahesh Kumar
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Sati Gurdial
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Helen Preston
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- Time counts. She has worked hard.
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Ravi
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- The Biggest champion of human rights/ equality and freedom should take care of their own yard and stop racial discrimination.
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Manu
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- I DISAGREE WITH PETITION! Mostly b/c of DAVE Makkar. Dave is a prolific email sender in a lot of indian groups, but rarely has any substance. Infact he has not presented a case but RANT. eg (1) Why does it matter if bansal is happily married. Yet thats thrown in. (2) her 2 princeton attending sons are thrown in. How does that matter here. (3) He writes about heresay about job not being for "ASIAN" without naming who said it. Frankly I dont know what the case is. But I do know that DM is a demagouge and is not helping. Mrs Bansal, present your real case, ditch Dave Makkar. Any one else would be more coherent.
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kishan Persaud
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- We need Asian teachers in every school system. Then the state scores will be superior.
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Narain Kataria
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Prof.Dwarika P Keshari
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pravin r khatiwala
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- let give her 100 \% justice as per legal right
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Ballambattu R Bhat
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- We have to support her.
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v.Narayyanaswamy
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ANDY SHENOY
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- she do not deserve this treatment
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Jaswant B. Mody
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- I live in Piscataway since 1974. It is a shame to the Board of Education of Piscataway, NJ. When we have President of USA, who is not white. It is better to learn a lesson that all human are equal. Why do hire in first place, if you are going discrimate Asian Indian Teacher. Thank you.
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VERENDAR SONI
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- RACIAL DESCRIMINATION MUST BE ABOLISHED
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peter Desai
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- I support Raj
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BS RAJPUROHIT
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- Pshychiatry is best left to experts/ professionals. To malign a person with this kind of charge, without positive and convincing evidence and without giving full opportunity to the individual to explain perceptions is a clear violation of civilized norms. This amounts to character assassination and is to be condemned . May the school authorities see the light of day before some one goes to a court of law to redress the wrong. This is an act not against an individual but his entire family,.
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ravi
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Atul Bansal
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- As an outsider, obviously we do not know the details of this case. However, without a written explanation of reasons it is extremely unlikely that the Superintendent or the BOE can demand anything much less a psychiatric evaluation.
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ROSHAN L.VERMA
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Peter Cerrato (AAHC)
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- I am with her from the beginning
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Raj Sinha
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Vijay K Chopra
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Prakash Swami
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Arun Joshi
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Pam Kwatra
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- Power to Mr. Makkar, who is working for this fight single handedly.
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Jagdish Patel
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- I support raj bansal to end racial discrimination.
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Nitu Shah
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Ruchika Tandon
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- Please help Mrs. Raj Bansal
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Dilip Patel
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Pankaj patel
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Vinayak Bhatia
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Mitsu Rajda, President 80/20 NJ PAC
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- "Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert Kennedy
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Raj Mittal
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- This is unacceptable. The School Superintendent and his team who are invollved in such alleged practices should be removed from the school board immediately. I used to work at UMDNJ. That place is also with full of discriminations against Blacks and Indians. Somebody should take a strong stand againt these radicles. .
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RAMESH JOSHI
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Ludi Hughes
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- Discrimination has to stop at workplace
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Dinesh k Chawla
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Vishwa Mohan Tiwari
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- This is 21st century : Shouldnt this belomg to all humans irrespective of colour and creed?
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VIJAYPAL ARYA MD
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Dr. Surendra K. Kaushik
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- Racial discrimination against Indians is not acceptable and it will not be tolerated.
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Anand
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Milap Choraria
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