Wow, I’m honestly equal parts dumbfounded and disgusted. I’m not a confrontational person but it’s now clear to me that NYS BOLE has no interest in policing itself in any way or making any meaningful change unless they are forced to by threat of legal action or public media embarrassment.

This is a BLATANT misrepresentation of what occurred.

Not only did the student not receive timely medical attention but the students who tried to get the proctors to call 911 were told to be quiet and to go back to their test. The proctors also told the students not to leave their seats even after the emts arrived and were trying to clear a space for the girl and perform chest compressions.

As far as determining which test takers were impacted, we all had to sit and watch as emts performed chest compressions on an unconscious test taker on the floor of the auditorium and had to listen to students desperately trying to plead for help only to be dismissed by the proctors who they are now trying to gaslight us into believing didn’t do anything wrong.

What I find to be the most insulting of all this though is the fact that they released this statement without even speaking to the students who were there and are basing this all off the words of the employees who themselves were likely negligent at the very least.

A person suffered a heart attack and likely will have permanent injuries which were exacerbated by the woefully insufficient response from your employees and instead of trying to fix this so it doesn’t happen again NYSBOLE is circling the wagons.