DOE’s hidden agender

Teach ‘railroaded’

A former city teacher who objected to a “gender bender” day for students at a Brooklyn high school last year ended up without a job, The Post has learned.

Veteran social-studies teacher Richard Severin opposed an April 2016 “spirit day” event at Urban Action Academy in Canarsie when students dressed up as the opposite sex, according to papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

“This is a disgrace,” Severin allegedly said at the time. “This isn’t right.”

Students said Severin (inset) also cursed principal Steven Dorcely for condoning the activity while denying permission to take a class to Malcolm X’s grave site, court papers say.

But Severin believes the accusations were part of a plot by Dorcely to have him canned after he accused the principal of grade-fixing in 2015. Several other teachers at the school lodged similar complaints last year, according to a Post exposé.

Severin says that despite having no prior disciplinary record, Dorcely buried him in minor charges — including the “gender bender” rap.

He was also accused of showing a profane excerpt of “The Boondocks” cartoon to students in April 2016.

Severin was hit with a slew of other, minor raps, from using his cellphone in school to not having a light on during a video presentation. His attorney, Maria Chickedantz, said the Department of Education schemed to split up the charges over two hearings so they could unjustly brand him a repeat offender. “I was railroaded,” Severin said. DOE lawyers omitted the “gender bender” and “Boondocks” raps at an initial hearing in 2016. Severin was fined $2,000 and placed in the Absent Teacher Reserve.

Just a few months later, he was slapped with a second disciplinary hearing for the other prior incidents and some additional minor charges. A hearing officer branded Severin “beyond remediation” and canned him.

“He did something that should be protected,” Chickedantz said. “But instead of protecting him, the DOE allowed him to be harassed and pushed out.”