We, the Collegues, Friends, and Former Students of Roderick D. Giles come together and say: Do not terminate Roderick D. Giles as an instructor at Bronxnet! Roderick is an exceptionally gifted teacher and is an asset to Bronxnet. He is a talented and accomplished professional who succinctly and enthusiastically brings his real-life experience and knowledge as director/producer/writer/editor to the classroom providing his students with clear-cut, realistic insight into working in these professions.

As a dedicated teacher, Roderick is truly passionate about influencing his students’ lives and strives to equip them with the greatest amount of knowledge and skills possible to help them. Given the fact that Roderick teaches media classes in the Bronx, where there is a largely under-served population, the media literacy skills that he teaches to his students empowers them by giving them an opportunity to be included in the dialogue of the media system, a forum where they might otherwise be shut out of.

Bronxnet provides affordable media education and offers students the opportunity to have a voice and to be heard in their community. Roderick is a teacher who is committed to helping his students find and express their own voices. It would be an injustice to future generations of students at Bronxnet if Roderick were no longer available to teach them there. Please retain Roderick D. Giles on the faculty of Bronxnet.