Posted on 05/22/2008 7:04:14 AM PDT by Puppage
Southington (WTNH) _ A second-grade teacher from Southington resigns after appearing on the Howard Stern Show. It turns out she took a sick day to appear on the shock jock's radio show. Wednesday night she wants her job back and she's telling us her story.
Marie Jarry says tonight the only error in judgement was taking a sick day to go to the Howard Stern show in New York. She says she loves her job so much, it's worth fighting for.
For five years, she has loved teaching second graders at Thalberg Elementary School in Southington. She has every intention of coming back. "I'm going to fight to get my job back, and fight against what was done to me, and to show I did not commit moral mis-conduct."
Jarry says this is why she lost her job. Earlier this month, she called out sick. Meanwhile, she and her husband Aaron appeared on the Howard Stern show, winning $5,000 in a contest called "Ugliest guys, Hottest wife."
"I don't feel that I did anything immoral, anything that would have caused harm to my students," Jarry noted.
She says when she walked into school a few days later, she wasn't allowed back in her classroom, and was told to go to the superintendent's office. "I was intimidated and coerced to giving my resignation that day," Jarry said. "They said if I did not give my resignation, they were going to put me on administrative leave, and they were going to start proceedings to get me terminated."
Jarry continued, "If I did not resign that day, they could pursue charges against me for fraud because; I mis-used a sick day, being told all that, I thought my best decision was to resign."
The sponsor of the contest has now given Jarry an additional $5,000 to help in legal fees. She says all she wants to do is come back here and teach.
News Channel 8 did contact the office of Superintendant Dr. Joseph Erardi - who was more than willing to talk to us about the issue, but was out of town today. In previous printed press reports, Dr. Erardi has said Jarry resigned on her own accord and was not pressured.
“She says she loves her job so much, it’s worth fighting for.”
If you loved your job so much, you wouldn’t have called out sick to play hooky.
Ugliest guys, Hottest wife
Any Pics (of her) to determine guilt??
I am very sympathetic toward her situation......(sarc)
I am very sympathetic toward her situation......(sarc)
Teachers who hang out with perverted moral reprobates like Stearn, and who cooperate with his show, ought to be summarily fired.
Anyone dumb enough to appear on that show should not be teaching.
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oops sorry for the double post.....
I can't say it any better. Wonder what the subject of her appearance was? Probably not high oil prices.
Please . . .
A teacher's contract has a certain number of sick days stipulated in it, and this becomes, in effect, part of that teacher's compensation package. If the sick days aren't used, they're lost---in the teaching profession, diming out on a sick day is as common as chalk.
I heard the Stern show on which this teacher appeared, and I heard her call in yesterday to explain her case. Her firing had nothing at all to do with diming out on a sick day, but everything to do with appearing on the Stern show. The diming out argument is completely bogus; the administrators basically told the teacher they'd make her life miserable if she didn't resign right then and there, and the union lawyer there to represent her told her "it would be easiest" if she just resigned.
“I don’t feel that I did anything immoral, anything that would have caused harm to my students,” Jarry noted.
Um, LYING was once considered immoral. Making the school come up with a sub so you could go play under false pretense was once considered immoral. Being a skanky trollop used to be immoral as well.
Guess times have changed.
That's a great question. I think we both know the answer to that, though.
Exactly how did you determine she was a skanky trollop?
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