Posted on 10/09/2012 10:49:53 AM PDT by tobyhill
A 16-year-old high school sophomore who says she was ridiculed by her geometry teacher for wearing a Mitt Romney T-shirt returned to school Tuesday following a rally by cheering supporters. The teacher has also written a letter of apology that was read aloud to students.
Samantha Pawlucy hadn't been back to Charles Carroll High School in the city's Port Richmond section since last week. That's when she and her family say she was mocked by her teacher for wearing the shirt supporting the Republican presidential candidate. She said the teacher questioned why she was wearing the shirt and called others in to the room to laugh at her.
Pawlucy, whose family had expressed concern for her safety, returned Tuesday after a rally that featured supporters singing the national anthem and reading the First Amendment — as well as shouts of supporters calling "Go, Sam!" and "You're great, Sam!" The school's principal read students the letter of apology from geometry teacher Lynette Gaymon on Tuesday.
"I'm very sorry for all the chaos and negative attention that has surrounded the school in the past couple of weeks," she wrote. "What I meant as a light and humorous remark during class has developed into a huge conflict between students, faculty, parents and neighbors. My words were never meant to belittle Ms. Pawlucy, or cause any harm, and I truly regret that we have come to this point."
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Sorry. I didn’t scroll down far enough before posting my question. But I rest my case, anyhow!
If the teacher was white and the girl was black that's exactly what would have happened....does anyone doubt it?
That's because she neither wrote it, nor read it to the school.
It also happens to be a flat-out lie, and even the kids know it.
In this screwed up world, it's hard to find a bottom. But I vote for public school administrators and teachers.
Gaymon graduated from Temple about eight years ago.
She's not big and fat! :)
She's not big and fat! :)
I truly regret we have come to this point...yes, she has a mouse in her pocket.....
i guessed the race of the teacher correctly too. this is another, albeit many, results of affirmative action. promoting unqualified individuals for any reason dimineshed the accomplishments of those who really are qualified. and it makes me make assumptions about the race of people regarding their actions and words i would not have done 30 years ago. ifortunately, i am correct most of the time and that bothers me.
What a worthless POS slob !!
Wet her lips and stick her to the wall !!
We? We? Oh, really?
If she meant to apologize SHE needed to read the letter to the students.
Hmm, let's guess. Al Sharpton? Jesse Jackson? Mayor Nutter? Henry Louis Gates? Kenny Gamble? Tavis Smiley? Oprah? Star Jones? Cornel West? Whoopi Goldberg? Cynthia McKinney? Marc Lamont Hill? Dionne Warwick? Neecy Nash? Maxine Waters? Mumia abu Jamal?
Surprising that a geometry teacher would be political. Oh, wait! She’s a geometry TEACHER.
That would be my guess also.
I bet she has a 4 year old Obama sticker on her Cadillac.
If her parents think that will happen, they need to inform the administration that there better not be any recriminations against their daughter or there will be hell to pay. My guess is that the administration will not want to open that can of worms and will instruct the teacher to treat the girl fairly.
A boss once told me that "there are certain things that, when you've said them, there's nothing left to say." This would appear to be one of them. No way that woman will ever treat that kid fairly after this. Adios, homegirl. You broke it.
Didn’t this ‘teacher’ liken Republicans to the KKK and now is saying that was a ‘joke’? Don’t think so. She should be fired.
Didn’t this ‘teacher’ liken Republicans to the KKK and now is saying that was a ‘joke’? Don’t think so. She should be fired.
Didn’t this ‘teacher’ liken Republicans to the KKK and now is saying that was a ‘joke’? Don’t think so. She should be fired.
Didn’t this ‘teacher’ liken Republicans to the KKK and now is saying that was a ‘joke’? Don’t think so. She should be fired.
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