Peter Farber is now, officially a Democratic candidate for Congress - for a seat in the US House of Representatives - representing New York’s 16th Congressional District (southern Westchester County and a slice of the northern Bronx.)

Mr. Farber enters the race as a political new comer, but not as someone young or inexperienced. He is not old - not part of the elder generation.

Mr. Farber, 56, has spent the last 30+ years working as a tough caring, rigorous, compassionate, responsible dedicated educator.

Mr. Farber has worked at “bad” schools and “good” schools, big schools and small schools, private schools, and charter school and yes of course public schools. He has worked with the physically disabled, the developmentally disabled and most recently since 2019, the gifted disabled, 2e students as they are called in the field - some of the most profoundly misunderstood of them all, and some of our greatest treasures who need nurturing so their profound gifts can blossom, right Lynne :)

He has worked as a Director, a teacher trainer, a partner, a Principal as a homebound tutor: in both the physical and virtual spaces, and most importantly as his students, colleagues and hopefully supervisors will attest he didn’t just do it - he doesn’t just have the experience - but he did this all well, really rather well.

Mr. Farber received spontaneous standing ovations at a sports meeting and at an academic graduation in a low income urban minority public high school in New York City. He received unsolicited applause from classmates at SUNY Binghamton and was one told by a Professor of Political Economy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York that he was a born philosopher. Once in a Graduate class at Queens College, while Mr. Farber was pursuing his Masters in Social Studies Education, he was told by one of his professors, you are really good at this why don’t you become a lawyer. Mr. Farber felt this was sad. He thought teachers like lawyers should be really. He was told when he accepted a position at Brooklyn Technical High School, that the staff was surprised he accepted the school’s offer because they felt he cared so much about his former students - but that good students need good teachers too.. I’ve earned just how true this also its. all kids need good teachers even as the qualities and skills needed to teach different kinds of students are distinct.

But now I have decided to enter the political realm. This was not a plan, not something hatched out long ago, but something that came to me organically, naturally, really in just the last few weeks.

However I have more to say here and this might shock some of you though some who now me say it shouldn’t.

In 2001 just days after 9-11 , I went to China and stayed there for more than 10 years. In China, I taught English in the hinterland, was an Academic Director in Shanghai, an IB Geography and Theory of Knowledge instructor in Nanjing, an IB Diploma Program Coordinator in Qingdao and finally a Principal of a Cambridge International Program in Qingdao. I know China. I don’t speak Chinese fluently even after all that time, but I can use it to communicate. I didn’t learn Chinese well because I went to teach and not to take from China. However, in the early 2010s, I sensed that China was headed in the wrong direction and for that reason and some personal reasons I left China and returned to US.

Since that time I have worked in many, many different schools as a 21st century gig educator. It has been a challenge, but also an incredible learning opportunity ad a way to give what I wanted to give. I wasn’t heled back by principals, supervisors and administrators who could control and manipulate me for their own interests because I needed that one job that they could always hold over my hear. I never thought in a million years that all of this, my previous 56 years, would have led me here, but it did and it has and I am now a candidate for Congress of the United States of America and I could not be any prouder.