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Teacher: Charging My Students $2 For ‘Frankenstein’ Unleashed DOE Monster

By JAMES HARNEY
Posted 5/27/16

“Frankenstein,” novelist Mary Shelley’s 19th Century tale of a monstrous creature created in a scientist’s laboratory, is at the center of a modern-day clash between a Brooklyn English teacher and the agency he says is the real monster: the city Department of Education.

Midwood High School Teach­er Todd Friedman, 61, has been teaching in city high schools for 29 years—the last 13 of them at Midwood. He says he was just “following a decades-old prac­tice” at the school, in which Teachers buy books for their students and pay for them out of their own pockets, “often at a loss.”

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