Posted on 04/10/2012 10:18:52 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PONTIAC, MI (NBC/WDIV) - Former literature teacher Brooke Harris claims she was fired from Michigan's Pontiac Academy for Excellence for helping students organize a fundraiser for the family of Trayvon Martin.
The teenage Martin was fatally shot in a Florida neighborhood earlier this year by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman.
"I feel bad for my kids," Harris said. "I feel bad that now not just society is underestimating them, but so is the woman who is supposed to be looking out for their education."
Academy Superintendent Dr. Jaqcueline Cassell said those allegations are completely false.
"While I cannot comment on specific personnel issues, I will say I would never fire anyone over the reason stated. It's just not who I am," Cassell said.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an American nonprofit civil rights organization, has called for the reinstatement of Harris' job.
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The quality of Pontiac, Michigan’s school district just improved dramatically! By the way, does anyone ever notice that every “progressive” individual has that same stupid, phony, entitled expression on his/her face? It’s pretty common in San Francisco...
Or maybe people have grown weary of the commies in the teachers’ union politically brain washing children and “organizing” them for the loony causes.
My guess is that teach is a racist and probably was targeting white children with her diversity race hate doctrines. I bet she was jacked up by the Trayvon klan.
I noticed the Morris Dees Retirement Fund Committee is involved in this “case.” It must be real < / sarc>
She should have been suspended for saying “feel bad for her students” instead of “feel badly for her students”.
Extreme poitical racial activism in not “education.” dumbass!
Why would the parents of Trayvon Martin need a fundraiser?
THey’re getting paid to travel the US by the Race Whores promoting the lies.
I suspect that it might have had something to do with the teacher's reaction to students who refused to take part in the "fundraiser" or who refused to contribute "funds", and who the recipient of the funds from the fundraiser were.
It sounds to me like she was fired for failing to teach, not for supporting a thug's family. What made her think that raising funds was an appropriate use of classroom time when she was supposed to be teaching literature?
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