After claiming that parents angered over safety and discipline concerns at a Queens middle school were “grandstanding” at a public hearing he walked out of two weeks earlier, dismissing that meeting Jan. 28 as a “set-up,” and then getting into a bizarre Twitter feud with elected officials over the issue, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza Jan. 29 finally apologized to the affected families.
“I in no way, shape or form want to show any disrespect to any parent that wants to be heard and I apologize,” he said at a Panel for Education Policy meeting. “Because as a parent myself, I can only imagine the pain that parents are feeling when their children have been hurt.”
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