A wicked leader. She has taken good staff and has made their lives miserable with no consequence. She abuses her position as an A.P. Ms. Fitzpatrick is extremely unprofessional and unhinged when she gets upset. She has gone as far as putting ipads infront of the students, while she makes dog houses as a favor for her nephew’s first birthday. The materials come from the DOE. She has her lackeys as lookouts. She also made her best friend a donut wall using again DOE materials for her wedding shower. I will never forget, one day my colleague told me she is in a dark place and that Ms. Fitzpatrick was making stuff up and as a result,, my colleague was contemplating suicide. When I heard my seasoned collegue say this I was mortified. Ms Fitzpatrick has her little lackeys who report to her. If she wants to come after you she will at any cost. It’s unfortunate that people are afraid to report this monster. She is evil.

I wonder if anyone on this thread will talk about the fact that she was caught using the SCHOOLS electricity to charge her Tesla……………

Ms. Fitzpatrick is truly a selfish, malicious individual. She claims that everyone in her school is a “family”, and by family she means a small group of people she actually likes. Her little minions. And these people like her because she lets them do whatever they want. You want to leave for hours at a time? No problem, she will take away someone’s prep and make them watch your class. You want to sit on your phone all day and ignore the kids in your class? That’s fine, go right ahead! She will just reprimand others who she doesn’t like for doing the same exact thing. In an environment where the kids should be a priority, she truly does not care. She uses her job for her own selfish gain. Using DOE hours to have her hair braided and talk about the colleagues she doesn’t like. Her cronies are her pathetic little puppies that follow her and do whatever she says, reporting back to her when someone makes a mistake. When your walk into the building you can feel how uneasy many people are. Children have been in crisis and she will simply say “ugh I can’t deal with this right now” and walk away. P37 is seemingly all about communication and allowing children to have a voice, but when a child is using their voice because they are in a state of crisis, she cannot be bothered. As long as they look happy for her Instagram posts she doesn’t care.
You would think that Dr. Cori Regan would care if she was to be reading this. But will their be repercussions for Ms. Fitzpatrick? Highly unlikely. It is truly sad as this school was once a positive happy place. A place where everyone looked forward to coming in and spending time with the kids. Now we spend every day dreading seeing Ms. Fitzpatrick and the smug smile on her face because she knows she will never be held accountable for anything she will do.
P37 used to be all about our kids, because we have the best kids. It’s unfortunate they have to feel her negativity every day they come in to school.

Should have never been made an admin. Couldn’t do her job as a teacher and would play on her phone and ignore the kids. She does the same as an admin and instead steals supplies from the school that she uses personally at home. Only her friends get good positions, the best classes and she terrorizes everyone else.

Every one of the comments above are 100% accurate. Jessica Fitzpatrick is the most unprofessional person to ever work in the DOE. Everything she does for the school is simply to put on a show. She has instructed teachers to forget about academics and simply focus on nonsense projects to make herself and the school look good. If the parents truly knew what was going on behind the scenes, they would be more than displeased. She randomly selects staff members to target and goes out of her way to make their lives miserable. Her favorite people come to work to do nothing. Her favorite male paraprofessional thinks he is an administrator. He goes as far as to treat other paraprofessionals as though they are below him, both in and out of the classrooms. In fact, he is NEVER in his classroom. And she allows this. He does not work with students. He leaves midday to get a haircut or run errands. If I’m not mistaken, that is THEFT of city time. She allows certain rooms in the building to be used as a hang out for her and her chosen favorites. They sit on their phones, vaping with music blasting and the door locked. The parents should only know how she treats the students. She laughs at them and makes fun of them. She also makes fun of staff members based on nationlity and/or disability. Apparently she is offended by other paraprofessionals singing in Arabic and let’s everyone know. As a culturally diverse school, she should be accepting and caring towards all, much like we teach our kids to be every day. This type of behavior does not go on in other schools. Let alone a D75 school where the safety and well being of our students depend on the staff creating a nurturing environment. As someone who has worked both D31 and D75, I have never seen such unprofessionalism. The condescending attitudes towards staff from both Ms. Fitzpatrick and her friends truly makes P37 a miserable place to work. When our main priority should be our children, many staff members instead need to worry about the abuse they could possibly face that day from Jessica. I truly feel sorry for these students.

Reading through all these posts from some extremely brave and strong individuals who do not like to see such utter and obvious bullying and selfishness to the position of AP we see one theme hold true, that Ms. Jessica Fitzpatrick should not have ever been considered nor given the position of assistance principal based on the atrocious acts as a teacher. Give someone like her (Ms. Jessica Fitzpatrick) a little power who is easily corruptible and you get years and years of abuse and retaliation against those who will not follow her evil and wicked ways. She does have her lackies who are easily manipulated and easily corruptible. They seem to have no problem watching/helping their “leader” go after teachers and paras who might be brave enough to stand up to her. Ms. Jessica Fitzpatrick is a horrible assistant principal and her lackies are horrible as well because they contribute to the abuse and wickedness of their “leader”. We the P37 staff who are independent minded and not corruptible will not join her simple minded and pathetic loser lackie crew. We the P37 staff members who stand strong should be admired and sought after as an example of good hardworking DOE staff members who sincerely care for staff and students. What should be next steps? What do we do from here? Superintendent? Chancellor? Mayor? Governor? One thing is clear, evil and wicked people have no place as assistant principal. The longer they are there they have time to corrupt more and more simple minded lackies that will be added to her crew. How many are there now? Too many?

This AP made me want to kill myself. She makes life miserable. Nothing I veer did was right. No matter how hard I worked. It wasn’t good enough. She has even brought false charges against me and others. This is the worse admin I have ever worked under. I don’t know how they allow this to go on but she doesn’t deserve to be an admin let alone to be allowed near vulnerable children.

As many of my colleagues have stated on this blog, Jessica Fitzpatrick is extremely unprofessional and abuses her power. As she is very vindictive people are afraid to come forward.

As I read these comments, I wish I could say they are not true. Sadly, these comments accurately describe the childish and unprofessional behavior that is witnessed daily. Jessica Fitzpatrick acts more like a spoiled child rather than an Assistant Principal. She will lie and blame other people for her mistakes. If you are not part of her clique, be prepared to be targeted. She is vindictive and unprofessional and will make your life miserable. She does not attempt to hide the special treatment she provides her favorite group of teachers and paraprofessionals. These individuals come to work to hang out, not to care for our students. Where else can you hide behind LOCKED doors and carry on like foolish children with your Assistant Principal?
And now, Jessica would like teachers to write letters on her behalf to address the comments on this thread. She will forget the times that she has ridiculed you and made you cry. She will forget the times she lied to make herself look good at your expense. Yet, people will write letters her behalf out of fear of retaliation. Fear that you may be once again in her path of destruction. They would rather lie and say that they did not witness these things. They may say Jessica loves our students and doesn’t care about getting her hair braided. The truth is she only cares about activities and the students she can put on Instagram.

AP Jessica Fitzpatrick is forcing a few other teachers to write letters saying they have not witnessed these things. We are afraid of being targeted by her if we don’t. What I’ve witnessed that is severely unprofessional and horrific is her cursing in front of the children who are nonverbal. Her and some of her friends who are paraprofessionals and two who are other teachers, have made racist remarks against Black people as jokes and Muslim people, which a few times aimed at a paraprofessional who works in the building, while he was working and interacting with students of diverse backgrounds. She has verbally threatened staff countless times too. She will even call you out on the loudspeaker and humiliate you. Also, she enables her friends to bully teachers by spying on them and recording them while they are teaching a class. They even will say mean things to staff to their faces. She forced two three teachers out by switching two to other sites because they stood up for themselves. Isn’t this harassment? She and the friends she works with make fun of the children about their weight and capabilities by making comments about it. I’ve witnessed her laughing during children’s mental and physical health crises which have gone unreported. She also has made fun of children’s parents’ complaints in front of the children who don’t understand. She will even FaceTime her friends who work in the building while she makes fun of a student. She has transformed a classroom into a special hangout room on the second floor (room 216) that only her friends have access to. They blast music, smoke, and eat yet claim and promote to parents they use this room for the students to make things to sell. One of the male paraprofessionals she favors, does not work in the classroom. He was barely in the room during summer school either. Staff does not see him at all in the classroom throughout the school year he’s supposed to be in because he is allowed to leave the building to do anything he likes when it’s not his lunch break. No other staff member has
this special treatment. When he is in the building and not in the special hangout room, he is allowed to hang out in the main office as if he is the second school aide and order staff around. But this is not what a paraprofessional is allowed to do. He is one of the many people Jessica makes to bully other staff members and students. This goes on despite new investigations into their abusive behavior. It is happening and it is real. If only the parents knew how vulnerable their children are here because of these two specifically and the others that are part of their friend group. I find this behavior inappropriate and inhumane. It makes staff uncomfortable. It is becoming normalized here in the building. Why does our principal let this continue and enable this?

I worked as a substitute in her building twice. The first time, I kept asking the paraprofessionals what we should be doing (they told me nothing because they were friends with Ms. Fitzpatrick). This is when I realized how bad it was. The students just sat there all day and were basically ignored. The second time I subbed, a para told me a woman doing yoga would be coming in momentarily so I should just sit down (the kids were eating breakfast). Ms. Fitzpatrick burst in, didn’t even introduce herself, yelled, “you’re the teacher today, you should be sitting with them while they eat.” I’ve never been the sub to just sit around and do nothing all day. She made me feel incompetent and I refused to ever work at her site after that. She is the definition of toxic.

She makes people suicidal.