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looks like she finally figured out how to wipe her twitter account.
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An Orange elementary school teacher has been suspended for having her third-grade students write "get well" letters to an inmate convicted of killing a cop, school officials announced today.
In a statement provided by Orange Superintendent Ronald Lee, district officials sharply criticized the assignment given by teacher Marylin Zuniga to write letters to former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.
School officials said they "vehemently deny" having prior knowledge of the assignment, and said Zuniga neither sought prior approval nor notified parents about this "unauthorized activity."
Just dropped off these letters to comrade Johanna Fernandez. My 3rd graders wrote to Mumia to lift up his spirits as he is ill. #freemumia
— Marylin (@Marylin_Zuniga) April 5, 2015
"Ms. Zuniga will be immediately suspended with pay until such time the investigation is completed and based upon the results of the investigation additional action may be taken by the Board of Education," the statement reads.
That'll learn her good!
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The mind of a child is where the revolution begins!
-Marylin (@Marylin_Zuniga) Dec 5TH 2014
Did you guys fully read that article ? This teacher is but one of several who have their students writing 'get well' letters to this guy. This teacher is part of an activist group of educators who want to see him freed.
All this going on and the school was not aware of any of it.
Did you guys fully read that article ? This teacher is but one of several who have their students writing 'get well' letters to this guy. This teacher is part of an activist group of educators who want to see him freed.
All this going on and the school was not aware of any of it.
From the NJ.com link..Fernandez is the "comrade" at Baruch College who goes to visit him in jail and brings him the letters.
Fernandez also is part of an organization called "Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal," a group that advocates for Abu-Jamal's innocence in the killing. Fernandez also is one of the coordinators of the "Campaign to Bring Mumia Home."
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"Two teachers delivered letters to us that their students had written to Mumia. One batch came from a 3rd grade class taught by Ms. Marylin Zuniga in Orange, New Jersey. The other batch was from a group of high school students in the Philadelphia Student Union, which fights for school reform and is led by Mr. Hiram Rivera.
From the NJ.com link..Fernandez is the "comrade" at Baruch College who goes to visit him in jail and brings him the letters.
Fernandez also is part of an organization called "Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal," a group that advocates for Abu-Jamal's innocence in the killing. Fernandez also is one of the coordinators of the "Campaign to Bring Mumia Home."
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"Two teachers delivered letters to us that their students had written to Mumia. One batch came from a 3rd grade class taught by Ms. Marylin Zuniga in Orange, New Jersey. The other batch was from a group of high school students in the Philadelphia Student Union, which fights for school reform and is led by Mr. Hiram Rivera.
right, but what about the 'several' you mentioned?
hopefully hiram will get the boot too, but without pay.
From the NJ.com link..Fernandez is the "comrade" at Baruch College who goes to visit him in jail and brings him the letters.
Fernandez also is part of an organization called "Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal," a group that advocates for Abu-Jamal's innocence in the killing. Fernandez also is one of the coordinators of the "Campaign to Bring Mumia Home."
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"Two teachers delivered letters to us that their students had written to Mumia. One batch came from a 3rd grade class taught by Ms. Marylin Zuniga in Orange, New Jersey. The other batch was from a group of high school students in the Philadelphia Student Union, which fights for school reform and is led by Mr. Hiram Rivera.
I don't really have much of a problem when its high-school students, they are old enough to understand the issues and have their own opinion on it. I probably would have written the guy a letter telling him off back when I was in high school.
But third graders, I mean they are a captive audience, they don't really have an understanding of the issues as a whole so she was pretty much just spoon-feeding them what to believe. If she wanted her class to write letters to someone, she could just as easily have had them write letters to injured veterans at Walter Reed, to a civil rights activist like Amelia Boynton Robinson, any number of other far more appropriate people.
Hey guys, that teacher did not have her students writing get well letters to a fellow she thinks is a cop killer, rather she had them writing letters to a fellow she thinks is innocent.
Hey guys, that teacher did not have her students writing get well letters to a fellow she thinks is a cop killer, rather she had them writing letters to a fellow she thinks is innocent.
Hey guys, that teacher did not have her students writing get well letters to a fellow she thinks is a cop killer, rather she had them writing letters to a fellow she thinks is innocent.
Good for her, she should have started a letter writing campaign among her fellow comrades and other fringe nutjobs, not a class of impressionable 8 and 9 year olds.
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