DOE’s deadly hire: Letters to the Editor — Nov. 12, 2026

Detailed summary

NYPost readers discuss the Department of Education hiring a disturbed ex-cop who allegedly killed a jogger.

Sayed Mohassib, the suspected killer of Katie Suarez — a beautiful young girl with her whole life ahead of her — clearly showed signs of instability (“DOE gave a blank ‘check’ on past,” Nov. 11).

A paraprofessional teacher, he showed a gun necklace to young children and posted shots of a frightening tattoo on Instagram. School administrators told staffers who reported this to stop looking at Instagram and “being racist.”

The only way to stop future preventable killings is to hold accountable those who ignored concrete warning signs.

The United Federation of Teachers will conduct an investigation, but who will investigate the investigators, and will they be held accountable?

Of course Mohassib’s colleagues were told to stop being racist; he’s a brown Muslim foreigner with non-Western roots. Had he been white, he’d have been fired at the first complaint — if he were lucky enough to get hired in the first place.

It took a killing accusation against paraprofessional Sayed Mohassib for the city Department of Education to finally realize he did not belong around children.

The DOE claims it vetted his background, but obviously didn’t. Anyone who tried to call attention to this creep was called racist. It’s just another failing grade for the DOE.

We live in a sick world where everything can be deemed racist, even when it clearly isn’t.

The family of Katie Suarez should sue the city, the Department of Education and the teachers union for wrongful death.

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