A retired Stuyvesant High School teacher who suffered an illness just months after 9/11 is blaming Teacher union honcho Randi Weingarten.
Gary Brandwein, a teacher at the elite magnet school from 1984 through 2002, says he developed an atrial fibrillation that ultimately “destroyed my life” months after returning to the toxic campus.
Brandwein and others say they were sitting ducks for illnesses when they returned to the campus just a block from the World Trade Center. “I viewed it as dangerous and irresponsible to go back. I was very clear that she didn’t know sh– about science – and I said it to her – right in front of the faculty. I told her, ‘How dare you tell this faculty anything about the safety level – you don’t know anything,’” Brandwein recalled.
“I walked to school with my classmates — some in dust masks, others shielding their mouths and noses with scarves, most just breathing in the acrid stench,” she wrote in her 2021 memoir, “Some Kids Left Behind.”“We coughed. It reeked like a burning chemical plant. I’ve never smelled anything like it before or since.”
Shoshana Dornhelm, who was a sophomore at the time of the attacks, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2016. Also, Stuy grad Catherine Choy, a sophomore on 9/11, died of gastric cancer at age 33 in 2019.
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