IS THIS BULLSHIT OR APPROPRIATE?

[HairOfTheDog]

What's the difference where it ends up? I'd be more concerned about what was said to the children as well. Whether the cards go in the trash, the school's basement, or some lonely pedophile on a fishing trawler in the middle of the ocean makes no difference to the children if they don't know where they end up. She's an idiot for advertising her delivery tho.

Turns out, ^ Zuniga had her third-grade students analyze a quote about injustice made in prison by the convicted cop killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal.

At a contentious school board hearing, she claimed that a couple of months later she mentioned in class that the convict's health was failing. She said that the students asked her if they could write get-well letters and cards, and she allowed them to do so.

Zuniga told the school board this week:"I stand in front of you today because there's a community behind me, and because there's people here of the community, of the Orange community and the surrounding communities, that support me," Zuniga said. "There's people around the nation who support me, who believe I need to be reinstated and I believe that I need to be reinstated.

"My students need me in the classroom. My students have requested that I come back to the classroom," Zuniga added. "They miss me and they've been asking for me, and that's what's most important. No one is thinking about the students."

Some teachers, students, activists, and community members spoke in Zuniga's favor and condemned the school for crucifying Zuniga over a "lesson in compassion".

Other community members and educators pushed for her termination, calling the assignment inappropriate, short-sighted and unapproved by the parents. If she wanted to teach the kids about compassion, she could have had them send get well wishes to people in nursing homes, one of them proclaimed.

The School Board meeting was abruptly adjourned and Zuniga was fired on Wednesday. Her lawyer says she is considering filing a civil suit.

Ref: http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2015/0...rs_to.html
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Having heard the facts and Zuniga's claims that the third graders initiated the assignment, I agree that she's an idiot.

Here's the background on the killing of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner (below left) back in 1981 and the case against Abu-Jamal (below right).

Story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal