“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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