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From The Smoking Gun, originally found via Drudge. Headline is linked. Comments follow article snippet.
Teacher says principal ordered Bush portrait removed from classroom
JULY 21--A New York woman claims that she was forced from her teaching post by an elementary school principal who objected to her Republican activism and last year ordered the removal of a portrait of President George W. Bush from the educator's Long Island classroom. In a federal discrimination lawsuit, Jillian Caruso, 26, claims that she was improperly forced to resign her job by Birch Lane Elementary School principal Joyce Becker-Seddio, the wife of state Assemblyman Frank Seddio, a Brooklyn Democrat. In her U.S. District Court complaint, a copy of which you'll find below, Caruso contends that she was retaliated against by Becker-Seddio because of her political work, which has included volunteering at last year's GOP convention and membership in the Republican National Committee. Caruso, who taught first and third graders at Birch Lane, also claims that when the principal spotted the Bush portrait late last year--it was hanging among photos of other U.S. presidents--she "became outraged and insisted that the picture be removed." Caruso, who complied with that order, has named the Massapequa Union Free School District as the sole defendant in her action, which seeks unspecified monetary damages and a reappointment to her prior teaching post.
What fun.
So now it's the job of liberal principals and school administrators to make sure that photos of the current president are all exorcised out of the school systems?
Damn, I really wish that I could have done that with pictures of Clinton back when I was working on a military installation (as did many others who had absolutely no respect for that clown).
What in the hell is with idiots like this school principal that makes them think that it's acceptable to ban photos of the current president from the classroom?? You may not like the man, but he's the President of the United States. Respect the office, if not the man. Let the man's photo hang with the other Presidents so that students can at least (hopefully) answer the simple man on the street question of: "Who is the current President of the United States?" or "Who is this man, and why should you recognize him?" Given the amount of idiots we have running around the streets that have no clue who their political leaders are, I find it refreshing that a teacher actually would try to make sure their students recognized the President.
For that matter, I could go off on a serious side rant about the total lack of "literacy" (for lack of the proper term) when it comes to most citizens having even a hint of a clue about who their political leaders are. Ask an average person on the street to tell you how many Supreme Court justices there are. Most people have no clue that it's 9. Ask why has the Supreme Court been in the news again lately, and again, probably a clueless response that ignores the fact that Sandra Day O'Connor is retiring. If you are lucky, the respondent might actually know the name John Roberts, or even be able to say that it's O'Connor that is retiring, but for many people, it's not even on the radar.
Ask an average citizen who the Speaker of the House is, many might still say Tip O'Neill or New Gingrich. Who is the Senate Minority Leader... blank stare.
Yup, a nation of under-educated and ill-informed are we.
Teacher says principal ordered Bush portrait removed from classroom
JULY 21--A New York woman claims that she was forced from her teaching post by an elementary school principal who objected to her Republican activism and last year ordered the removal of a portrait of President George W. Bush from the educator's Long Island classroom. In a federal discrimination lawsuit, Jillian Caruso, 26, claims that she was improperly forced to resign her job by Birch Lane Elementary School principal Joyce Becker-Seddio, the wife of state Assemblyman Frank Seddio, a Brooklyn Democrat. In her U.S. District Court complaint, a copy of which you'll find below, Caruso contends that she was retaliated against by Becker-Seddio because of her political work, which has included volunteering at last year's GOP convention and membership in the Republican National Committee. Caruso, who taught first and third graders at Birch Lane, also claims that when the principal spotted the Bush portrait late last year--it was hanging among photos of other U.S. presidents--she "became outraged and insisted that the picture be removed." Caruso, who complied with that order, has named the Massapequa Union Free School District as the sole defendant in her action, which seeks unspecified monetary damages and a reappointment to her prior teaching post.
What fun.
So now it's the job of liberal principals and school administrators to make sure that photos of the current president are all exorcised out of the school systems?
Damn, I really wish that I could have done that with pictures of Clinton back when I was working on a military installation (as did many others who had absolutely no respect for that clown).
What in the hell is with idiots like this school principal that makes them think that it's acceptable to ban photos of the current president from the classroom?? You may not like the man, but he's the President of the United States. Respect the office, if not the man. Let the man's photo hang with the other Presidents so that students can at least (hopefully) answer the simple man on the street question of: "Who is the current President of the United States?" or "Who is this man, and why should you recognize him?" Given the amount of idiots we have running around the streets that have no clue who their political leaders are, I find it refreshing that a teacher actually would try to make sure their students recognized the President.
For that matter, I could go off on a serious side rant about the total lack of "literacy" (for lack of the proper term) when it comes to most citizens having even a hint of a clue about who their political leaders are. Ask an average person on the street to tell you how many Supreme Court justices there are. Most people have no clue that it's 9. Ask why has the Supreme Court been in the news again lately, and again, probably a clueless response that ignores the fact that Sandra Day O'Connor is retiring. If you are lucky, the respondent might actually know the name John Roberts, or even be able to say that it's O'Connor that is retiring, but for many people, it's not even on the radar.
Ask an average citizen who the Speaker of the House is, many might still say Tip O'Neill or New Gingrich. Who is the Senate Minority Leader... blank stare.
Yup, a nation of under-educated and ill-informed are we.
