DesMoines public school teachers definitely better than this woman

[HRiscool]

At least the ones I had.

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A New Jersey public school teacher who instructed her third-grade students to write “get well” letters to a convicted cop killer was fired at a raucous school board meeting that stretched into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, despite her pleas that “there’s a community behind me.”

Marylin Zuniga, a first-year teacher who drew widespread condemnation for assigning her young charges the task of writing to Mumia Abu-Jamal, was canned at the meeting of the Orange Board of Education, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported.

 

[lou loomis]

 

[KennyPowers_96]

Wax that mustache and show me her lower half...and I may be able to get behind her, if you know what I mean.

 

[jscott78]

At least the ones I had.

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A New Jersey public school teacher who instructed her third-grade students to write “get well” letters to a convicted cop killer was fired at a raucous school board meeting that stretched into the wee hours of Wednesday morning, despite her pleas that “there’s a community behind me.”

Marylin Zuniga, a first-year teacher who drew widespread condemnation for assigning her young charges the task of writing to Mumia Abu-Jamal, was canned at the meeting of the Orange Board of Education, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported.

Jesus this has become one ugly country. Unbelievable.

 

[22*43*51]

I'm not sure why the meeting needed to last until the "wee hours".

The motion to fire her should have been, made, seconded and carried within moments of reading the minutes from the last meeting.

 

[jscott78]

I'm not sure why the meeting needed to last until the "wee hours".

The motion to fire her should have been, made, seconded and carried within moments of reading the minutes from the last meeting.

Issue most likely had public comment allowed and board is obligated by policy, and probably even by law to hear that.

 

[hawkifann]

I can't believe Mumia can still drum up this much hoopla.

 

[HRiscool]

I see her struggling in the profession and marrying a high school guidance counselor in 5 yrs who makes 50k. She'll "retire", push out 3 meal tickets and then divorce the guy right afterward. Probably do some marches and occupy wall street crap in her spare time. Maybe start her own blog "empowering single mothers" that is just one long complaint. Her kids of course will wear Chavez t-shirts and occasionally commit petty crimes, ending up on public assistance. Maybe we'll get lucky and the kids will find the mom annoying and avoid her brainwashing?

 

[stout1]

Issue most likely had public comment allowed and board is obligated by policy, and probably even by law to hear that.

Then the board has poor execution of their public comment policy.

 

[jscott78]

Then the board has poor execution of their public comment policy.

Sorry, public boards must live in the real world unlike message board posters.

 

[stout1]

Did I say they didn't?

If properly managed the public comments portion of the agenda should be completed in an orderly and succinct manner while allowing for sufficient public input.

 

[86Hawkeye]

Jesus this has become one ugly country. Unbelievable.

Yes. We need more people like you to raise the level of discourse.

 

[HRiscool]

Sorry, public boards must live in the real world unlike message board posters.

Are you implying the world is not run by the trilateral commission?

 

[ClarindaA's]

Jesus this has become one ugly country. Unbelievable.

I know right? Teaching kids to write to a cop killing pig.

 

[HRiscool]

I wonder if she's eligible for a pension after 1 year? I just threw-up a little in my mouth.

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A union lobbyist who qualified for a teacher pension windfall by subbing at a school for one day is now suing a state retirement board because his benefits were scaled back once his sweet deal was exposed. Retired Illinois Federation of Teachers lobbyist David Piccioli, 65, is arguing that lawmakers violated the state constitutional provision that says a pension cannot be “diminished or impaired” once it is set.

Piccioli is already collecting $31,485 from the Teachers Retirement System. If he wins his case, his teacher pension could increase by more than $36,000, the Tribune estimated — more than doubling what he gets now.

 

[HRiscool]

SPRINGFIELD — — Two lobbyists with no prior teaching experience were allowed to count their years as union employees toward a state teacher pension once they served a single day of subbing in 2007, a Tribune/WGN-TV investigation has found.

Steven Preckwinkle, the political director for the Illinois Federation of Teachers, and fellow union lobbyist David Piccioli were the only people who took advantage of a small window opened by lawmakers a few months earlier.

The legislation enabled union officials to get into the state teachers pension fund and count their previous years as union employees after quickly obtaining teaching certificates and working in a classroom. They just had to do it before the bill was signed into law.

Preckwinkle's one day of subbing qualified him to become a participant in the state teachers pension fund, allowing him to pick up 16 years of previous union work and nearly five more years since he joined. He's 59, and at age 60 he'll be eligible for a state pension based on the four-highest consecutive years of his last 10 years of work.

His paycheck fluctuates as a union lobbyist, but pension records show his earnings in the last school year were at least $245,000. Based on his salary history so far, he could earn a pension of about $108,000 a year, more than double what the average teacher receives.

His pay for one day as a substitute was $93, according to records of the Illinois Teachers Retirement System.

Over the course of their lifetimes, both men stand to receive more than a million dollars each from a state pension fund that has less than half of the assets it needs to cover promises made to tens of thousands of public school teachers. With billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System, which serves public school teachers outside of Chicago, is one of several pension plans that are in debt as state government reels in a fiscal crisis.

 

[jscott78]

Did I say they didn't?

If properly managed the public comments portion of the agenda should be completed in an orderly and succinct manner while allowing for sufficient public input.

sounds like that is what the board did here and still you conservatives bitch on.

 

[stout1]

sounds like that is what the board did here and still you conservatives bitch on.

You're barking up the wrong tree here. I'm no conservative, but I do believe in the proper management of public discourse.

 

[HRiscool]

sounds like that is what the board did here and still you conservatives bitch on.

jscott, you're not getting any love in this thread. If you go over to my Sheriff David Clarke thread and call him an "angry white male", I'll give you some love. Natural will also, but it will be a different kind of love.

 

[icu81222]

Jesus this has become one ugly country. Unbelievable.

Yes it has. What on earth was this leftist teacher thinking?

 

[TennesseeWaltz1]

Jesus this has become one ugly country. Unbelievable.

So this surprises you Scottie? She is no doubt a proud LaRaza member...I mean we let this kind in daily...you know folks that are taught that America stole our land and any chance we had to be rich because of Manifest Destiny. Quite honestly I am not shocked at all...par for the course.

 

[HRiscool]

You're barking up the wrong tree here. I'm no conservative, but I do believe in the proper management of public discourse.

You may not be a conservative, but if you keep espousing common sense you'll get there.

 

[jscott78]

You may not be a conservative, but if you keep espousing common sense you'll get there.

I am gratified to know that you are supportive of the board's common sense approach to this matter.

 

[HRiscool]

I am gratified to know that you are supportive of the board's common sense approach to this matter.

I'm speaking for the whole board when I say we are all hoping this can be true of you someday. Though none of us are holding our breath.

 

[Hawkeyemc]

I would love to hear her rationale for having her students write those letters. Did they write similar letters to the cop's family?