Lefty thug/principal Becker-Seddio in gray coat.
Arf.
Posted on 07/21/2005 1:42:53 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
A New York woman claims that she was forced from her teaching post by an elementary school principal who objected to her Republican activism and last year ordered the removal of a portrait of President George W. Bush from the educator's Long Island classroom. In a federal discrimination lawsuit, Jillian Caruso, 26, claims that she was improperly forced to resign her job by Birch Lane Elementary School principal Joyce Becker-Seddio, the wife of state Assemblyman Frank Seddio, a Brooklyn Democrat. In her U.S. District Court complaint, a copy of which you'll find below, Caruso contends that she was retaliated against by Becker-Seddio because of her political work, which has included volunteering at last year's GOP convention and membership in the Republican National Committee. Caruso, who taught first and third graders at Birch Lane, also claims that when the principal spotted the Bush portrait late last year--it was hanging among photos of other U.S. presidents--she "became outraged and insisted that the picture be removed." Caruso, who complied with that order, has named the Massapequa Union Free School District as the sole defendant in her action, which seeks unspecified monetary damages and a reappointment to her prior teaching post.
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this is nuts.
I hope she wins. Maybe other teachers will get the guts to sue also. Of course, it is a shame that the taxpayers are the ones who will get to pay in the end. But if it rids the schools of Dem. control I think I could pay for it.
I recall that a photo of the President of the United State always was hung at our elementary and high schools. What kind of crock is this? I suppose hanging a protrait of Lenin would be okay?
Since when is it illegal to hang a picture of the POTUS in the classroom? The liberal left in this country has become so damn intolerant that they are losing their friggin minds. The old democratic party is but a mere shadow of itself.
Man, the ACLU will be all over this one right ??? (/sarcasm)
You have some problem with that?
Would their be any objection over portraits of Massachusetts's junior senator? Or is this a general ban on all political information?
Does that ban extend to instruction in U.S. politics?
Well said. What a scary bunch.
Beware the holder of a hyphenated name...
While this isn't a rock solid rule, it has seemed to be quite accurate over the years.
Or that socialist psycho killer "Che Gueverra"...public schools in some communities have become indoctrination camps used by the lefty nutjobs in this country, IMHO.
All she has to do is put a dartboard behind Bush's picture, and the principle's objections will vanish.
That looks like politicing on the part of the principal and all kinds of rights violations. This case should be a slam-dunk.
It's the principal of the thing.
It takes years to fire teacher for sexual contact with a minor, but a few weeks to get rid of a Bush supporter.
Massapequa Long Island: Steeped in Indian Heritage!
My son has a pic of Bush on his homeroom notebook. He is 6 and loves it. Nobody has said anything or would they dare. Im in Texas too so that maybe why.
More evidence Democrats are in free fall without a parachute!
Hey madprof, would you hang a picture of Lenin in your classroom or would you have a picture of the President of the United States of America? Huh, huh which is it?
A public school is no place to be teaching pooples any values.
Putting up a picture of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES got her fired?
When the teacher gently informed them that John Kerry was not now (and had never been) President, the Leftist jackwits got even more shrill.
Why, the PC thing to do is to hang BOTH portraits, side by side. Moral equivalence, you know. Nothing like celebrating our diversity!
Yeah. The nerve of that teacher. She shoulda posted a pic of Rosie O'Donnell. She'd have been given tenure. < /s >
Sarcasm, I hope!?
I'm guessing portraits of the state senators would have been ok.
I put a portrait of Lenin on a urnal screen...does that count?
Just wanted to pass along a little Blue-State Thought.
Lefty thug/principal Becker-Seddio in gray coat.
Arf.
nyet!
And if justice prevails, she's also the future former principal of the school.
Only if it isn't used as a dart board or spitball target.
Maybe the elementary school should lose all their federal money!
"...More evidence Democrats are in free fall without a parachute!..."
Ain't gravity a b*#ch???
Do you have a FReeping link?
bttt mark for closer looking later.
If she's proved correct then more than just paying and reinstating her needs to be done. The principle who abused her position needs to be removed.
Or have it centered within a target.
"Beware the holder of a hyphenated name" Ain't it the truth? In my experience, any broad with a hypenated label will almost certainly be a sour neo-bohemian dressed entirely in black, or possibly in scratchy hand-woven Peruvian llama wool, complete with a long, straight, graying ponytail. She will probably be accompanied by her "companion", a runty, balding, bearded little f***er in a crappy tweed sportcoat, and they both will be seated directly behind you in your favorite restaurant, whining into their Chardonnay about "the illegitimate fascist regime" and "preserving a woman's precious right to reproductive freedom". Hyphens!! The horror...the horror...
I have no doubt that the facts are as the woman alleges: she lost her job because she had the temerity to hang up a picture of the President. I don't trust Democrats in the workplace.
Many plantiff lawsuits should never be filed. For this one, I hope she ends up owning the school district so she can shut it down.
Sean Hannity's turf....he's from Long island
She needs to win and the mob that is the teacher's union needs to be busted up.
>That looks like politicing on the part of the principal and all kinds of rights violations. This case should be a slam-dunk.
Well, what if the other presidents shown were Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush41?
She IS a man-in-drag ! Probably had the sex change done at taxpayer expense.
Birch Lane Elementary
Joyce Becker, Principal
Loretta Weber, Assistant Principal
General Office (516) 797-6010
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