Teacher Booted for Displaying President's Picture in Gay NJ!!
Crazy Bastard
Teacher Booted for Displaying President's Picture
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/4/111256.shtml
A New Jersey middle school teacher who displayed a portrait of the president
of the United States in her classroom side-by-side with pictures of other
U.S. presidents and the Declaration of Independence was thrown out of her
school on Friday for refusing to take the Bush photo down.
"I'm requiring that you take the picture down," Shiba Pillai-Diaz says she
was told by Mark Daniels, assistant principal at the Crossroads South Middle
School in Monmouth Junction. The teacher refused and now faces dismissal for
insubordination.
According to Pillai-Diaz, who recounted the incident to WABC Radio's Steve
Malzberg on Sunday, Daniels told her he had consulted with the school's
principal, Jim Warfel.
The consensus: "We decided that there was a very destructive atmosphere in
your classroom and that you're going around the school spreading your
political views."
But Pillai-Diaz - an admitted Bush enthusiast who attended the GOP
convention - said she leaves her politics at home when she comes to work. "I
don't discuss politics [in my classroom]. I wouldn't go near it with a
ten-foot pole," she told Malzberg.
The trouble started Thursday during parents night, when one mom complained
about the Bush picture and demanded that Pillai-Diaz explain: "What is he
doing up there? Don't you think you should have the other side also?"
"Having the picture up wasn't in any way political," she responded. "He's
the current president. The picture was sent to my fourth-grade class last
year."
The photo was "next to my desk on a bulletin board that had the Declaration
of Independence, the Constitution [and] some printing from Ben Franklin's
printing press" in a display that had nothing to do with politics,
Pillai-Diaz told Malzberg.
After the initial complaints, parents e-mailed school officials claiming
that the teacher had suppressed the free speech of her students - with some
questioning why she liked George Bush even though "he's killed people."
In a Friday morning meeting with Principal Warfel, Pillai-Diaz says she was
told: "You have caused more disruption to this school and to these students
with your partisanship and your hatred and your inflammatory ways. Get
yourself and get out of the building."
But Warfel may not have had the last word on the dispute. New Jersey Sen.
Jon Corzine, who followed Pillai-Diaz on Malzberg's show, said Monmouth
Junction school officials had gone overboard.
"If it's just a straight-up picture of George Bush and Laura, then I don't
understand the issue at all," the leading Democrat said. "I don't see why [a
picture] of the president of the United States can't be displayed."
Sen. Corzine promised to help Pillai-Diaz if she contacts his office.
BuzzBoy
Your "Guvment" schools at work. No prayer or CHRISTmas allowed but
no problem with gay pride or rubbers on bananas or kwanza (Voodoo
devil)celebrations.
Another reason among thousands that my kids are in private Christian school
Crazy Bastard
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> The principal or his assistant must be gay or socialist or a nigger
Damned sure a Kerry supporter!