Mexican NJ teacher who had students write 'get well' notes to black cop killer fired.

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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.

"Even when I heard that the letters were written...because of
compassion, you could've written to somebody in a nursing home."

- Gloria Stewart, Orange, NJ resident
Zuniga, who taught at Forest Street Elementary School, told
board members prior to their hasty vote to can her that she has
broad support from around the country, the newspaper reported.

"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,” Zuniga said.

“My students need me in the classroom. My students have
requested that I come back to the classroom."

Abu-Jamal, a 61-year-old serving a life sentence for the 1981
murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, is a self-
styled poet who became a darling of celebrities and activists
while on death row. His sentence was later commuted to life
without parole, and he was suffering from complications from
diabetes when Zuniga assigned the task.

The vote to fire Zuniga occurred after several hours of public
speakers, many of whom praised Zuniga for teaching her students
to have compassion for a man who killed a police officer. Abu-
Jamal killed Faulkner during a routine traffic stop of Abu-
Jamal’s brother. At trial, several witnesses reported seeing Abu-
Jamal kill Faulkner, and two witnesses said Abu-Jamal confessed
to the killing, saying, "I shot the mother---er, and I hope the
mother---er dies."

Although the abrupt vote left meeting attendees unsure of what
had happened, Orange Superintendent Ronald Lee confirmed that
Zuniga was fired in an email to the Star-Ledger.

"As this is a personnel issue, I have no further comments on
this matter," Lee wrote.

Zuniga’s attorney, Alan Levine, told the newspaper Zuniga is now
considering legal action to challenge her firing.

Several speakers at the meeting, including Essex County
Freeholder President Britnee Timberlake, praised Zuniga.

“You ought to be ashamed of yourself for trying to crucify her,"
Timberlake said.

But Orange resident Gloria Stewart told the board that Zuniga
did not deserve to keep her job.

"Even when I heard that the letters were written...because of
compassion, you could've written to somebody in a nursing home,"
Stewart said.

"You could've written to someone else that was sick to show
compassion."

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America does not need people like Marylin Zuniga.