Teacher Booted for Displaying Presiden'ts Picture

[gae]

A New Jersey middle school teacher who displayed a portrait of the President of the United States in her classroom side-by-side with pictures of other U.S. presidents and the Declaration of Independence was thrown out of her school on Friday for refusing to take the Bush photo down.

"I'm requiring that you take the picture down," Shiba Pillai-Diaz says she was told by Mark Daniels, assistant principal at the Crossroads South Middle School in Monmouth Junction. The teacher refused and now faces dismissal for insubordination.

According to Pillai-Diaz, who recounted the incident to WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg on Sunday, Daniels told her he had consulted with the school's principal, Jim Warfel.

The consensus: "We decided that there was a very destructive atmosphere in your classroom and that you're going around the school spreading your political views."

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Source and the rest of the article.

I'd like to say I can't believe it, but unfortunately, I can.

[LanDroid]

This went way beyond just putting up a photo. She was disrupting the class with her own politics. I'm sure you would agree that is inappropriate especially if she were on the other side of the fence.

FReeperland: Email from school board.

[travelinman]

Originally posted by LanDroid:
This went way beyond just putting up a photo. She was disrupting the class with her own politics. I'm sure you would agree that is inappropriate especially if she were on the other side of the fence.

FReeperland: Email from school board.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Just like every profesor I ever had, right?

<font color="#000002" size="1">[ October 05, 2004 06:53 AM: Message edited by: travelinman ]</font>

[Sean Pa]

MM me thinks the propoganda machines are working overtime at the moment stateside.

[LAKE]

Originally posted by Sean Pa:
MM me thinks the propoganda machines are working overtime at the moment stateside.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Very true, Sean. You couldn't be more right.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by LanDroid:
This went way beyond just putting up a photo. She was disrupting the class with her own politics. I'm sure you would agree that is inappropriate especially if she were on the other side of the fence.

FReeperland: Email from school board.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">How was she disprupting the class by having a picture of the current president up on the board along with other things about the government? Hell Lan, if you read the whole article you would have seen that even the leading Democrat in the NJ Senate said the prinicpal went too far.

All this is is just liberal P.C. whining b/c 'the other side' didn't have a picture up. What are teachers supposed to do, take down pictures of the current President during election years so they don't offend 'the opposing side'.

Bush is the sitting president. Teachers are going to have his picture up. I didn't cry, bitch or moan when Em's teachers had a picture up of Clinton and Gore. They were the sitting President and Vice President at that time and there pictures are supposed to be up.

My advice is this: Get over it.

[travelinman]

Teacher Pulled From Classroom Can Put President Bush Photo Back Up

POSTED: 10:35 am EDT October 5, 2004
UPDATED: 10:41 am EDT October 5, 2004

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Was a New Jersey schoolteacher trying to teach her kids to vote the way she does?

School officials say that appears to be the case. They say middle-school teacher Shiba Pillai-Diaz will be allowed to return to the classroom if she stops making political statements.

She'll even be allowed to put her picture of President Bush back up on her bulletin board.

The school superintendent says Pillai-Diaz once told her students she was "glad they were not old enough to vote" -- and that she told one student, "You should be ashamed to be a Democrat."

The teacher denies it -- and told the Home News Tribune of East Brunswick, "You would have to be incredibly stupid to say those things to a student."

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