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Southington teacher fights for job after appearing on Howard Stearn show (CT)
WTNH Television ^ | 5/22/08 | Puppage

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.


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To: Hemingway's Ghost

“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’m aware of the contract, my wife teaches. But just because you CAN dime out a sick day doesn’t mean you should. In the end, the taxpayer now has to pay for both the teacher out on sick leave and a substitute that has to replace them.


21 posted on 05/22/2008 7:22:00 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: Puppage

> “I don’t feel that I did anything immoral, anything that would have caused harm to my students,” Jarry noted.

Wrong on both counts, sunshine. “Theft as a Servant” is a crime — which is what you did when you ripped off a sick day. And Howard Stern by definition is harmful to your students.

> 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.”

Sadly, she probably has grounds for Constructive Dismissal, if what she says here is true. The HR department blew it. And, naturally, Fraud charges should follow anyway.


22 posted on 05/22/2008 7:22:35 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
and the union lawyer there to represent her told her "it would be easiest" if she just resigned.

Let that be a lesson to all her fellow teachers paying dues to a union, expecting to receive quality services in return.

23 posted on 05/22/2008 7:24:41 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Just because you're running for President doesn't mean that you are the center of the universe")
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Exactly how did you determine she was a skanky trollop?

Gee, maybe entering a Stern "hottest" contest and showing up in a bikini top? But, maybe it's just me.

24 posted on 05/22/2008 7:25:00 AM PDT by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: Slapshot68
I’m aware of the contract, my wife teaches. But just because you CAN dime out a sick day doesn’t mean you should. In the end, the taxpayer now has to pay for both the teacher out on sick leave and a substitute that has to replace them.

Then, in order to be consistent, the school board should probably can---summarily---about 75% of their current teachers. But you know very well this firing is not about the misuse of a sick day . . .

25 posted on 05/22/2008 7:25:40 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: NonValueAdded
Let that be a lesson to all her fellow teachers paying dues to a union, expecting to receive quality services in return.

That's the real lesson here. Sounds like the union lawyer really gave his or her client some bad advice.

26 posted on 05/22/2008 7:26:53 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

“But you know very well this firing is not about the misuse of a sick day . . .”

Yes, I’d agree with that. Still she wasn’t particularly bright choosing to appear on Stern.


27 posted on 05/22/2008 7:27:20 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: Puppage

She deserves everything she got. Anyone that tips to that no talent waste of human space may as well have spent the day in a porno shop.


28 posted on 05/22/2008 7:27:20 AM PDT by Wavrnr10
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To: cspackler
Gee, maybe entering a Stern "hottest" contest and showing up in a bikini top? But, maybe it's just me.

If you walk down any beach in the United States and think to yourself that all the attractive women you see in bikinis are "skanky trollops," then yeah, it's just you, and you should probably see a psychologist about that.

29 posted on 05/22/2008 7:28:31 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Puppage
She looks like Jerry O'Connell's sister (or Jerry himself...).
30 posted on 05/22/2008 7:29:05 AM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

“Exactly how did you determine she was a skanky trollop?”

I married one once. I now have skanky trollop radar. ;)

Seriously, though. She may not be but I’m thinking a chick who takes the day off to be on Stern to express her “hotness” juxtaposed to her husband’s “ugliness” is missing being a party girl/club meat. I didn’t catch this bit, of course, but I’m sure Stern wasn’t discussing with her what church she goes to or what charities she supports.


31 posted on 05/22/2008 7:29:38 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: Elle Bee

This guy must have a huge,,,,uh,,,,,er,,,,,,,,,,wallet!


32 posted on 05/22/2008 7:30:24 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Slapshot68
Still she wasn’t particularly bright choosing to appear on Stern.

She appeared on the show with her husband. She was dressed in a bikini. God forbid---you can see the same thing at a beach, or at a pool---holy cow, Katie bar the door.

Ironically, she was going to use the money she won in the contest to further her education and enhance her teaching credentials. She said this at the very outset of the contest.

33 posted on 05/22/2008 7:31:06 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Puppage
She looks like Jerry O'Connell's sister (or Jerry himself...).

(Sorry - screwed up the side-by-side in my last post...)


34 posted on 05/22/2008 7:32:25 AM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
If you walk down any beach in the United States and think to yourself that all the attractive women you see in bikinis are "skanky trollops," then yeah, it's just you, and you should probably see a psychologist about that.

But, if I see such person entering a wet t-shirt contest, I just may... If it walks like a duck...

35 posted on 05/22/2008 7:34:15 AM PDT by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: cspackler
But, if I see such person entering a wet t-shirt contest, I just may... If it walks like a duck...

That's wonderful, but it wasn't a "wet t-shirt contest."

36 posted on 05/22/2008 7:35:55 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
"If you walk down any beach in the United States ..."

I didn't realize the Stern show was being broadcast from a beach location. Then you're correct -- it was entirely appropriate for her to be wearing a bikini. Why wasn't her husband in a swim suit?

37 posted on 05/22/2008 7:39:07 AM PDT by vincentfreeman
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
That's wonderful, but it wasn't a "wet t-shirt contest."

Yeah, and it wasn't a book club meeting either. Every fine, upstanding woman that I know enters "hottest wife" contests and shows up for pictures in a bikini.

If you need 5K to further your education, take a short term night job. You don't have to whore yourself out unless it's just second nature.

38 posted on 05/22/2008 7:40:19 AM PDT by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

I think you’re missing the point here. If you want to take off from work to do something like this, and don’t want it to be an issue, take a vacation day or a personal day.

If you use a sick day, it’s going to be scrutinized whether you like it or not. That’s why I said it wasn’t all that bright on her part.

By the way, I’ve worked places where people have been canned for misusing or abusing sick time. Why should teachers be any different?


39 posted on 05/22/2008 7:41:30 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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To: vincentfreeman
I didn't realize the Stern show was being broadcast from a beach location. Then you're correct -- it was entirely appropriate for her to be wearing a bikini.

Too clever by half, there, slick. It was a beauty contest. You do realize that beauty pageants have something called a "swimsuit competition," don't you---and that these beauty pageants are typically held in theaters, and not the beach?

Why wasn't her husband in a swim suit?

Two reasons: It wasn't a "hottest guy" contest, and that's gay.

40 posted on 05/22/2008 7:42:33 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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