Ravenwood - 07/25/05 06:30 AM
It apparently happened in New York, reports the Smoking Gun. Jillian Caruso a 26-year old Birch Lane Elementary School Teacher has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit after she was allegedly forced to resign for displaying a portrait of President Bush in her classroom and for working for George Bush's re-election campaign after work hours.
There are laws against politcal campaigning by public employees. They were passed in an attempt to control corruption - politicians used to reward their best supporters with jobs on the public payroll, often jobs they didn't even have to show up for. It rather discouraged "patronage" when those patronage-winners couldn't even fold leaflets in the next campaign...
The problem is, I very, very much doubt that this is applied even-handedly in regards to teachers volunteering for campaigns, and I know damn well that it isn't applied to the teachers' and other public employees' unions.
Posted by: markm at July 25, 2005 12:21 PMHow many teachers campaigned for Clinton during their off hours, then proudly displayed his picture in their classrooms during his presidency?
Just wondering. ;^)
Posted by: Lornkanaga at July 25, 2005 1:46 PMThe thing is, she wasn't displaying a picture of GWB. She was displaying portraits of presidents, one of which happened to be GWB. The principal didn't say, "take down the portraits," he said, "take down that portrait."
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