Posted on 10/28/2014 3:04:40 PM PDT by knak
Stephen Opayemi
Managing Partner at LogistixOne LLC and Director at Kato International Marketing & Distribution LLC
Greater New York City Area
Food & Beverages
Current
LogistixOne LLC,
Kato International Marketing & Distribution LLC
Previous
Promasidor,
Diageo North America, Norwalk CT, U.S.A,
Procter & Gamble (West Africa)
Education
University of Ibadan
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-opayemi/2/422/720
Yep - gutter scum.
The school is being stupid here since Nigeria is not one of those places with an out of control epidemic. They should publicly apologise to this little girl (to put an end to any stigma) but there is no way they should be paying a quarter million to the family.
The school doesn’t know the difference between Nigeria and Liberia. There has been no Ebola in Nigeria since August. She is more likely to catch it in the US than she is to infect someone.
I really wish they would stop PCing us to death, it’s most unhelpful when what is called for is being rational. IT’S A FRICKING DISEASE!!!
Now, Obama will bring Africans with Ebola here for treatment because YOU OWE THEM! It's not their fault they were born in Africa.
Maybe this should be the beginning of a school-wide geography project!
There might be some ignorance, but I agree ma’am, not a quarter mill worth. Something like tutoring the kid back up to level and confessing the error to the student body and parents ought to be plenty. Nobody’s asked for a quarantine on NIGeria. The Ebola problem is in LIBeria.
It stinks that the lawyers have this country all constipated so that any thing simple and sensible, like apologizing to and making a fuss over a little girl, is viewed as an admission of guilt and indication that yes indeedy, major financial compensation is due!
If I understand school funding correctly for MN, you must have a certain percentage of students at school for a set number of days to receive state funding. If this state is like MN and parents out of fear of ebola kept their kids home and away from this girl for three weeks it could affect the budget for the school. Kids probably told their parents about a classmate’s upcoming trip to Nigeria. Word spread among the community. Parents are usually pretty good at communicating concerns to the teachers and administrators who then may have seen a financial disaster looming so put a quarantine on the returning student to satisfy the parents and not affect school funding. Just my $.02.
It’s like where did grace go, or everybody has become a bunch of snakes now.
There really does need to be a way to make this right, without making it even more wrong by victimizing the taxpayers!
This sounds so warped. It looks like there was a colossal misunderstanding that aches to be aired out, but not a wrong to the tune of 250 grand smackeroos.
And yes, a geography lesson... starting with Google Maps folks, where is Liberia? Where is Nigeria?
Sad and true.
It would be such an opportunity to teach the community what Nigeria is... and probably it has a better health care system than Liberia anyhow and many other things it can rightly boast of.
Instead they stick a rotten lemon in the community’s face. That is so wrong.
This is CT. The school will cave and pay them off.
Is this the African negro version of red necks?
Now that the two nurses have “survived” their Ebola infection, the CDC/White Hut/Medical community/Liberals will relax and get all soft on quarantines, common sense avoidance strategies, etc. etc. “It’s ok - it’s curable!” they’ll shout from the mountain tops. Bull shit, I say. Curable? -only if you’re one of the lucky few who will be admitted to one of the four specialized ebola clinics (count them, only f.o.u.r.) in the entire country that are capable of properly and safely treating the disease.
Aside from the natural inclination of the school officials to want to prevent an ebola outbreak amongst the students and then the rest of the community, they are probably less fearful of one lawsuit than of a school-load of lawsuits if any other student caught the virus.
Are the parents liberal operatives or simply victimhood-seekers? How much trouble was it to have their child at home, presumably with schoolwork to do?
That will eventually grow, but not without much experience.
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