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I would like to know as well. It seems to me that the VP broke the law by firing a whistleblower (the teacher). This should allow for the district to fire him/her even if there was a tenure.
According to the article, one of the kids spilled something when he was trying to lift the jug into a cooler. Even if there was something else, it is unsanitary to have the kids eating off the floor. That's not poor judgement - it's no judgement.
My students regularly eat while sitting on the floor in the locker room. They call it a picnic.
There is nothing inherently more disgusting about a floor that is mopped daily than a table in a cafeteria.
The issue, is the de facto humiliation not the floor itself.
My students regularly eat while sitting on the floor in the locker room. They call it a picnic.
There is nothing inherently more disgusting about a floor that is mopped daily than a table in a cafeteria.
The issue, is the de facto humiliation not the floor itself.
Yes, there is because people walk on that floor, they do not walk on the table tops. Aside from that whenever we did picnics we put a tablecloth or blanket down on the floor, not just paper inserts. Unless that floor was mopped immediately before the kids sat down, it is much more unsanitary than a table.
lawyers usually get 1/3 plus expenses. unfortunately in our country nobody really learns a lesson unless there is money penalty involved. Yeah, like someone posted in my rep comments area, the taxpayers are the ones who eventually pay but now the school board has been burned and hopefully they will take steps to correct this and keep it from happening again. And you can be sure other schools are paying attention. That this happened is a travesty. No amount of bad behavior should warrant making all the kids of one race eat on the floor. The implications are enormous.
and yes the vice principal should have been fired as well .
Typically 1/3 if it settles and 1/2 if it goes to trial. However it always varies.
The lawyers have to pay secretaries, associates, insurance, rent, accountants . . . all while getting zero income from the case. They have to find a way to feed their kids and pay their mortgage while trying to get the case resolved. Often, they have to borrow money until the end of a big case. Some cases eat up 100% of their time, and sometiems 100% of the time of several other attorenys whom they have to find a way to pay. They have to get enough to cover all that and more. The cases they win also have to pay for the cases they lose. The net result must be significant enough to warrant taking the risk. Usually it does not work out all that well. That is why not that many lawyers are interested in contingency fee cases. Once in a great while someone will hit something big and either end up with enough to retire or at least have one good year, but overall, it is not a great business model. For ever lawyer/firm getting rich on contingency work there are five or ten struggling.
Winning a case does not automatically result in payment. Usually cases are settled after a judgement is entered. The risk of apepal and/or cost of collection forces the winner to accept a reduced amount. (Not always, but often). Sometimes, the contingency fee lawyer ends up having to negotiate a reduced share because the client will end up with little or nothing. Frequently they end up making $100 - $200 an hour for their contingency work when they could be charging $300 - $400 or more for hourly work. Except in a few very rare dramatic results (kind of like playing and winning the lotto), they are not making out like bandits.
I am not necessarily defeding contingency fee lawyers. Many of them are greedy pigs who do not care about their clients at all. However a lot of them are talented attorneys who just wnat to help people who have no money and the only way they can make a living is using the contingency system.
"The African-American kids were eating at tables, with trays, taunting these Hispanic kids who were forced to eat on the ground," Schorr said.
The children doing the taunting would have been joining them, assuming I actually thought this form of punishment was appropriate.
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