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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Utter garbage -- exactly the type of non-apology "apology" I'd have expected from a leftscum. Fire this witch...
Her intentions were pure, she did nothing wrong.
It was the obtuseness or possibly the stupidity of the student she verbally abused that was the problem.
“I truly regret that we have come to this point.”
Translation: “I truly regret being caught and publicly pilloried for what I thought was the *right and reasonable* thing to do.”
Yeah, fire her already.
” “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.”
WE ?
Nice non-apology! Teacher should be paddled in front of the entire student body and faculty.
Then made to walk around till Election Day in Romney attire!
Picture in article.
Typical Rat non-apology apology!
She said the teacher questioned why she was wearing the shirt and called others in to the room to laugh at her.
Written attempt by the teacher to cover her @ss in public:
What I meant as a light and humorous remark during class has developed into a huge conflict between students, faculty, parents and neighbors.
I say FIRE THE TEACHER!!!!
Thanks for link to photo — just another light-hearted Amish fun-lover....rrriiiiigghht.
She should be fired for belittling the student and telling her to leave the class.
She should also be fired for writing a fake apology.
Of course, at the second firing she’ll be able to say, “You can’t fire me... I’m fired!”
Romney was talking about hiring new teachers.
He should only do that after he purges the ranks of the existing teachers - if at all.
I assume there will be repercussions. This little girl will get a lower grade on every single assignment that can be graded subjectively than she would have without exposing what an evil witch her teacher is.
How old is she?
Has anyone seen a photo of the anal-retentive teacher who started this fracas? I bet SHE’S a sweetheart!
BUT she's definitely old enough to practice her own version of Racism......
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