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Teen Returns to School After Romney T-Shirt Flap
ABC ^ | 10/9/2012

Posted on 10/09/2012 10:49:53 AM PDT by tobyhill

A 16-year-old high school sophomore who says she was ridiculed by her geometry teacher for wearing a Mitt Romney T-shirt returned to school Tuesday following a rally by cheering supporters. The teacher has also written a letter of apology that was read aloud to students.

Samantha Pawlucy hadn't been back to Charles Carroll High School in the city's Port Richmond section since last week. That's when she and her family say she was mocked by her teacher for wearing the shirt supporting the Republican presidential candidate. She said the teacher questioned why she was wearing the shirt and called others in to the room to laugh at her.

Pawlucy, whose family had expressed concern for her safety, returned Tuesday after a rally that featured supporters singing the national anthem and reading the First Amendment — as well as shouts of supporters calling "Go, Sam!" and "You're great, Sam!" The school's principal read students the letter of apology from geometry teacher Lynette Gaymon on Tuesday.

"I'm very sorry for all the chaos and negative attention that has surrounded the school in the past couple of weeks," she wrote. "What I meant as a light and humorous remark during class has developed into a huge conflict between students, faculty, parents and neighbors. My words were never meant to belittle Ms. Pawlucy, or cause any harm, and I truly regret that we have come to this point."

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To: lentulusgracchus

Didn’t this ‘teacher’ liken Republicans to the KKK and now is saying that was a ‘joke’? Don’t think so. She should be fired.


41 posted on 10/09/2012 10:20:59 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Four years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Didn’t this ‘teacher’ liken Republicans to the KKK and now is saying that was a ‘joke’? Don’t think so. She should be fired.


42 posted on 10/09/2012 10:20:59 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Four years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Didn’t this ‘teacher’ liken Republicans to the KKK and now is saying that was a ‘joke’? Don’t think so. She should be fired.


43 posted on 10/09/2012 10:20:59 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Four years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Didn’t this ‘teacher’ liken Republicans to the KKK and now is saying that was a ‘joke’? Don’t think so. She should be fired.


44 posted on 10/09/2012 10:20:59 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Four years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: Post Toasties

Sorry about multiple posts. Another Internet provider problem.


45 posted on 10/09/2012 10:30:49 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Four years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: tobyhill

and the teacher is black...I woulda never figured

“but wardaddy race doesn’t matter..be nice”


46 posted on 10/09/2012 10:36:22 PM PDT by wardaddy (my wife prays in the tanning bed....guess what region i live in...ya'll?)
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To: thingumbob; All

Here’s the “former” and “unemployed” teacher.....

Fixed it...;-)


47 posted on 10/11/2012 8:08:14 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: stevie_d_64
Here’s the “former” and “unemployed” teacher.....

Fixed it...;-)

Wow ...really they fired her. GEEZ, who would of guessed there's still some sanity in the world.

48 posted on 10/11/2012 8:31:21 AM PDT by thingumbob (I'm a bitter clinger...I dare you to take my gun)
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To: thingumbob

Fired her? I missed that part...


49 posted on 10/11/2012 8:40:40 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?

That what stevie_d_64 said....I missed it too. See post #47.


50 posted on 10/11/2012 8:50:29 AM PDT by thingumbob (I'm a bitter clinger...I dare you to take my gun)
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To: thingumbob; stevie_d_64

I think that was ‘wishful thinking’ on his part... :-)


51 posted on 10/11/2012 9:00:42 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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