Posted on 12/12/2013 10:05:41 AM PST by massmike
The Michigan Education Association is going to arbitration to try to force the West Branch-Rose City school district to pay a former teacher who was convicted of molesting a student a $10,000 severance buyout.
The father of the victim is outraged, calling the union’s efforts on behalf of the sex criminal “ludicrous” and saying any school money due to the teacher should go to his son, who is “out there trying to make it in this world all messed up.”
Neal Erickson, a former math teacher at Rose City Middle School, was convicted this summer of raping a young student over three years, from 2006 to 2009, and sentenced to 15-30 years in prison.
The case sparked community outrage when several of the district’s teachers wrote letters of support for Erickson, pleading for a lenient sentence. A school board member, Mike Eagan, also drew the public’s ire when he sat with the Erickson family at the pedophile’s sentencing.
On March 26, 2013 WB-RC officials offered a $10,000 buyout for any qualifying teacher who left the school district that year, an incentive superintendent Dan Cwayna said the district had used in the past to encourage needed staff reductions.
While its not clear when Erickson’s employment was terminated, the union’s action suggests he was still on the payroll when the buyout was offered and accepted it. The school district declined to pay him the money, prompting the union’s action.
Who lotta stuned beeberage going on around h’yah!
Anyone who still is naive enough to believe that teachers unions are ‘all about the children’ need to see this story and how both fellow teachers and the local teachers union are attempting to, first, protect, then help reward a child molester that used his position of trust to sexually molest a child under his authority. Both the co-worker teachers and the teacher’s union should be ashamed but clearly are not. The parents of children in this school district should make them pariahs and stand behind the school board’s decision not to award the pedophile a ‘bonus’ for leaving.
Gotta love those “Advocates of the children” who are teachers unions.
A pimp’s gotta stand up for his stable!
If they would only let him marry...
If that was my child involved, the perv teacher would need that $10K.......for body armor!
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