On later inquiry it was found that metro school director and the teacher[s] in question are themselves illiterate...
She should be careful or she'll end up like Bill Cosby. There's little tolerance in this country for anyone who thinks education should include some sort of academic standards.
We really need to fire every teacher who is not like her. It is my understanding that the reason our schools are so bad is boneheaded programs like the one she refused to teach. If every teacher refused these programs, maybe teachers could teach.
Blanket requirements established by inept school administrators is the reason that governments schools are so totally lacking in any educational value.
The teacher shouldn't have been fired - the idiot administrator should have.
At least the story has a happy ending for students.
Where are Editors these days...*sigh*
how about: .. she said [THAT THERE WAS] no way [THAT] she would...
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Cumberland University is a very conservative small college in Lebanon, TN. It is best known for suffering the worst defeat of a college footbal team ever: 216-0 back in 1919 or so.
Here is the web page of the Metro Nashville Public Schools Board, which prints weekly letters from the Director Petro Garcia (same person who fired Ann Zimmerman).
http://www.mnps.org/Director/Weekly_letters.html
Note that Mr. Garcia's name is mis-spelled on the Title Bar of the web page.
So much for the literacy of the School Board and their employees.
Ms. Zimmerman's students could spell Garcia correctly, I'll wager.
Should have gone for curtain #2.