Los Angeles, CA – School officials say a substitute teacher has lost her job after making anti-Semitic comments at a rally.
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In a statement Tuesday, schools superintendent John Deasy (DAY’-zee) condemned remarks made by Patricia McAllister at a protest rally last week.
In an Oct. 12 interview with Reason.com at a Los Angeles rally, McAllister said “Zionist Jews and the Federal Reserve” need to be run out of this country.
Deasy says that although freedom of speech is a protected right of public employees, the LAUSD can’t set a good example for students while tolerating disrespectful, intolerant or discriminatory behavior.
McAllister worked as a day-to-day substitute teacher in the district.
at least someone had the brains to get rid of her,
She just made things worse for teachers everywhere!
Right now, hard-working, low-paid teachers have come under attack in this country like never before. I can’t even imagine teaching 30-40 kids in ONE classroom every hour, every day, for months & years on end, with virtually NO support, and no proper funding. Most teachers have to decorate & buy supplies out of their OWN meager paychecks… only to have the ill-informed claim they somehow make *too* much money, and get *too* much benefit out of their job! Not to mention painting ALL of them as completely worthless individuals to begin with, even though they educate the future!
So thanks a LOT anti-Semitic teacher! As if teachers didn’t have ENOUGH to deal with!!! >:-P
I cannot believe this teacher equated the Wall Street debacle w\the Jewish Nation- she deserved to be fired!
Not just because she’s a racist & a bigot, or because she set a bad example for any students who might have seen her…
But because she did an incredible amount of damage to an already attacked & weakened profession: the American teacher.
How she lives w\herself, I don’t know.
I give this school district credit for firing this woman even though the remarks were not made during her hours of employment. Unfortunately it is just this fact that may give her ammunition in a court case, which I am quite sure that she will launch.
Reply to #4 . OK, my parents were both teachers in the 1960s to 1990s. First in NYC then on Long Island. In 1965, they managed to buy a house on Long Island, within walking distance of a shul.
My mother got two Masters degrees in Math. My father had various degrees in science and education. They were always going to night-school while I was growing up, after working through the day in the classroom. My father taught Driver Ed, or worked in management at the HANC day-camp, for most of my childhood years, so there were none of those summers off that the non-teachers always throw in teacher faces.
My parents taught during the turbulent late sixties and early seventies, when rebellion became the norm among youth. They also taught the “me” generation. It’s no picnic in the classroom.
Elected boards of education, with no controls such as the teacher’s contracts, could load the classroom to 40 and 50 kids. With no tenure, they could discard highly paid teachers in favor of newbies or (gasp) relatives. Imagine a school full of only first-year teachers.
Finally, remember that these people are responsible for educating YOUR children. Shouldn’t you pay them properly for their work?
It is really a shanda that the group that many Yidden helped during the civil rights era (such as being 50% of the passengers during the Freedom Riders saga, marching with Martin Luther King and going to jail with him, giving large amounts of money to civil rights organizations, etc.), are now castigated and cursed by individuals, such as this despicable teacher who was fired.
When will black people in America stop using the Jews as an excuse for their own failings. The Jews have been the most supportive of blacks and always get kicked in the face when push comes to shove.