Posted on 05/22/2008 7:04:14 AM PDT by Puppage
Southington (WTNH) _ A second-grade teacher from Southington resigns after appearing on the Howard Stern Show. It turns out she took a sick day to appear on the shock jock's radio show. Wednesday night she wants her job back and she's telling us her story.
Marie Jarry says tonight the only error in judgement was taking a sick day to go to the Howard Stern show in New York. She says she loves her job so much, it's worth fighting for.
For five years, she has loved teaching second graders at Thalberg Elementary School in Southington. She has every intention of coming back. "I'm going to fight to get my job back, and fight against what was done to me, and to show I did not commit moral mis-conduct."
Jarry says this is why she lost her job. Earlier this month, she called out sick. Meanwhile, she and her husband Aaron appeared on the Howard Stern show, winning $5,000 in a contest called "Ugliest guys, Hottest wife."
"I don't feel that I did anything immoral, anything that would have caused harm to my students," Jarry noted.
She says when she walked into school a few days later, she wasn't allowed back in her classroom, and was told to go to the superintendent's office. "I was intimidated and coerced to giving my resignation that day," Jarry said. "They said if I did not give my resignation, they were going to put me on administrative leave, and they were going to start proceedings to get me terminated."
Jarry continued, "If I did not resign that day, they could pursue charges against me for fraud because; I mis-used a sick day, being told all that, I thought my best decision was to resign."
The sponsor of the contest has now given Jarry an additional $5,000 to help in legal fees. She says all she wants to do is come back here and teach.
News Channel 8 did contact the office of Superintendant Dr. Joseph Erardi - who was more than willing to talk to us about the issue, but was out of town today. In previous printed press reports, Dr. Erardi has said Jarry resigned on her own accord and was not pressured.
“She says she loves her job so much, it’s worth fighting for.”
If you loved your job so much, you wouldn’t have called out sick to play hooky.
Ugliest guys, Hottest wife
Any Pics (of her) to determine guilt??
I am very sympathetic toward her situation......(sarc)
I am very sympathetic toward her situation......(sarc)
Teachers who hang out with perverted moral reprobates like Stearn, and who cooperate with his show, ought to be summarily fired.
Anyone dumb enough to appear on that show should not be teaching.
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oops sorry for the double post.....
I can't say it any better. Wonder what the subject of her appearance was? Probably not high oil prices.
Please . . .
A teacher's contract has a certain number of sick days stipulated in it, and this becomes, in effect, part of that teacher's compensation package. If the sick days aren't used, they're lost---in the teaching profession, diming out on a sick day is as common as chalk.
I heard the Stern show on which this teacher appeared, and I heard her call in yesterday to explain her case. Her firing had nothing at all to do with diming out on a sick day, but everything to do with appearing on the Stern show. The diming out argument is completely bogus; the administrators basically told the teacher they'd make her life miserable if she didn't resign right then and there, and the union lawyer there to represent her told her "it would be easiest" if she just resigned.
“I don’t feel that I did anything immoral, anything that would have caused harm to my students,” Jarry noted.
Um, LYING was once considered immoral. Making the school come up with a sub so you could go play under false pretense was once considered immoral. Being a skanky trollop used to be immoral as well.
Guess times have changed.
That's a great question. I think we both know the answer to that, though.
Exactly how did you determine she was a skanky trollop?
“A teacher’s contract has a certain number of sick days stipulated in it, and this becomes, in effect, part of that teacher’s compensation package. If the sick days aren’t used, they’re lost-—in the teaching profession, diming out on a sick day is as common as chalk.”
I’m aware of the contract, my wife teaches. But just because you CAN dime out a sick day doesn’t mean you should. In the end, the taxpayer now has to pay for both the teacher out on sick leave and a substitute that has to replace them.
> “I don’t feel that I did anything immoral, anything that would have caused harm to my students,” Jarry noted.
Wrong on both counts, sunshine. “Theft as a Servant” is a crime — which is what you did when you ripped off a sick day. And Howard Stern by definition is harmful to your students.
> Jarry continued, “If I did not resign that day, they could pursue charges against me for fraud because; I mis-used a sick day, being told all that, I thought my best decision was to resign.”
Sadly, she probably has grounds for Constructive Dismissal, if what she says here is true. The HR department blew it. And, naturally, Fraud charges should follow anyway.
Let that be a lesson to all her fellow teachers paying dues to a union, expecting to receive quality services in return.
Gee, maybe entering a Stern "hottest" contest and showing up in a bikini top? But, maybe it's just me.
Then, in order to be consistent, the school board should probably can---summarily---about 75% of their current teachers. But you know very well this firing is not about the misuse of a sick day . . .
That's the real lesson here. Sounds like the union lawyer really gave his or her client some bad advice.
“But you know very well this firing is not about the misuse of a sick day . . .”
Yes, I’d agree with that. Still she wasn’t particularly bright choosing to appear on Stern.
She deserves everything she got. Anyone that tips to that no talent waste of human space may as well have spent the day in a porno shop.
If you walk down any beach in the United States and think to yourself that all the attractive women you see in bikinis are "skanky trollops," then yeah, it's just you, and you should probably see a psychologist about that.
“Exactly how did you determine she was a skanky trollop?”
I married one once. I now have skanky trollop radar. ;)
Seriously, though. She may not be but I’m thinking a chick who takes the day off to be on Stern to express her “hotness” juxtaposed to her husband’s “ugliness” is missing being a party girl/club meat. I didn’t catch this bit, of course, but I’m sure Stern wasn’t discussing with her what church she goes to or what charities she supports.
This guy must have a huge,,,,uh,,,,,er,,,,,,,,,,wallet!
She appeared on the show with her husband. She was dressed in a bikini. God forbid---you can see the same thing at a beach, or at a pool---holy cow, Katie bar the door.
Ironically, she was going to use the money she won in the contest to further her education and enhance her teaching credentials. She said this at the very outset of the contest.
(Sorry - screwed up the side-by-side in my last post...)
But, if I see such person entering a wet t-shirt contest, I just may... If it walks like a duck...
That's wonderful, but it wasn't a "wet t-shirt contest."
I didn't realize the Stern show was being broadcast from a beach location. Then you're correct -- it was entirely appropriate for her to be wearing a bikini. Why wasn't her husband in a swim suit?
Yeah, and it wasn't a book club meeting either. Every fine, upstanding woman that I know enters "hottest wife" contests and shows up for pictures in a bikini.
If you need 5K to further your education, take a short term night job. You don't have to whore yourself out unless it's just second nature.
I think you’re missing the point here. If you want to take off from work to do something like this, and don’t want it to be an issue, take a vacation day or a personal day.
If you use a sick day, it’s going to be scrutinized whether you like it or not. That’s why I said it wasn’t all that bright on her part.
By the way, I’ve worked places where people have been canned for misusing or abusing sick time. Why should teachers be any different?
Too clever by half, there, slick. It was a beauty contest. You do realize that beauty pageants have something called a "swimsuit competition," don't you---and that these beauty pageants are typically held in theaters, and not the beach?
Why wasn't her husband in a swim suit?
Two reasons: It wasn't a "hottest guy" contest, and that's gay.
Staggering . . .
And I guess if I see a woman in the grocery store strutting around in a bikini, I should assume that she is a fine, upstanding woman and not a trollop... They wear them on the beach, you know...
I'm not missing anything. The sick day thing is completely irrelevant; she was coerced to give her resignation not because she misused a sick day, but because she appeared on the Howard Stern Show. The whole sick day thing is chaff.
You're really stretching now, my friend. This was a beauty contest, not a trip to the grocery store. I'm sure even the woman in question wouldn't wear a bikini to the grocery store.
You’re definitely missing it...she used a sick day which gave the school board ammunition. Hence, my comment about her not being very bright. Had she used a vacation day they would’ve had a harder time trying to get rid of her because of the Stern show.
I, for one, sincerely hope that they are, indeed! Thank you, feminism, for making it easy to "score".
“This was a beauty contest”
No, the Miss American pageant is a beauty contest. She was on the Stern show for his exploitive benefit.
Honestly, she’s entitled to do what she wants on her own time like anyone else, but if my son was in her class and I had found out she was on the show for this contest, my opinion of her would drop considerably.
A peashooter in a howitzer fight. Want to make book on who prevails in the lawsuit?
This logic is so tortured I don't even know where to begin . . .
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