Honestly the whole thing smells like a hit job. It is one thing for the parent to supposedly &quot;smell alcohol&quot; but then they went all private detective and started rooting through the man&#x27;s trash (and supposedly found something with unidentified brown liquid, soda? alcohol? coffee?).<p>Then this:<p>&gt; The city Department of Education charged Sloan with drinking on the job and sexual harassment because he had asked a group of moms that day, “Anybody want to go on a blind date?” Sloan said he used the joke to put people at ease about his disability. But in August, Sloan settled with the DOE by agreeing to retire.<p>Clearly someone wanted him out (e.g. group of parents, admin at the school) and used these things as pretext to accomplish that. Too bad. Happens a lot if you follow the news around teachers in union areas getting dismissed (e.g. &quot;teacher of the year dismissed for [minor infraction]&quot;).<p>I suspect a group of parents took issue with him and his style of teaching, and had enough clout (and made enough petty complaints) to have him removed.