Third-Grade Teacher Has Students Write ‘Get Well’ Cards To Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal

[Jeff]

What kind of trash are we allowing to teach our children, this woman has what looks like a great education but yet is a complete idiot. She wants to offer these cop killers comfort, hell let her fill in for Assata Shakur who after killing a cop escaped prison and fled to Cuba. People like this are why this country is falling so quickly.



A third-grade teacher at a public school in New Jersey is under fire after she encouraged her students to write letters to notorious convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, who recently fell ill in prison.
Marylin Zuniga teaches language arts and social studies at Forest Street School in Orange, N.J.



http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/09/third-grade-teacher-has-students-write-get-well-cards-to-cop-killer-mumia-abu-jamal/

[WiccanLiberal]

Might be better advised to write get well letters to the veterans injured and languishing in hospitals and rehab facilities.

[Kathianne]

The district did not like the assignment:

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/04/nj_teacher_marylin_zuniga_is_suspended_for_having_ her_students_write_get.html


School officials in New Jersey said they had no idea that elementary school teacher Marylin Zuniga had instructed her students to write "get well" letters to convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal,NJ.com (http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2015/04/nj_teacher_suspended_over_third-graders_get_well_l.html) reports. Orange school officials suspended Zuniga Friday.Orange Superintendent Ronald Lee said that Zuniga didn't get permission from her students' parents, nor did she receive clearance from school officials, to give the assignment.

"The Orange Public Schools was surprised to learn through recent news reports that one of its teachers, Ms. Marilyn Zuniga, a third-grade teacher at Forest Street Elementary School, involved her students in a 'get well' letter-writing assignment to convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal," the statement from Lee read.

"The school's principal and district administrators vehemently deny that it had any knowledge of the assignment and preliminary inquiries find that no approval was ever sought nor were parents notified about this unauthorized activity," the statement continued.

Abu-Jamal was once on death row but is now serving out a life sentence (without the possibility of parole) for killing Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. Abu-Jamal has been sick, suffering from complications related to diabetes. Abu-Jamal was a black nationalist leader and many maintain that he is innocent.

Zuniga on Sunday tweeted about how she was excited for Abu-Jamal to get the "get well" letters from her students.



". . . . My 3rd graders wrote to Mumia to lift up his spirits as he is ill," Zuniga tweeted.

Zuniga's Twitter account has since been deactivated. She did not respond to NJ.com's request for a comment.

[Jeff]

Might be better advised to write get well letters to the veterans injured and languishing in hospitals and rehab facilities.

NO doubt, there are many things that would be a much better cause than writing cop killers.

[LongTermGuy]

`Think about this whenever you hear how we need to fund education.....the level of libtard `indoctrination` there is breathtaking


`Fire the puta......`

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[Jeff]

Well of course it's the kids fault :rolleyes: dang lady I think you where paid to teach these 3rd graders not to have them run the classroom.

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[Jeff]

NJ gets it right, this woman shouldn't be no where near children, she is a idiot and to think there are those that support her. She should never be allowed to be around children again.



ORANGE, N.J. – New Jersey first-year elementary teacher Marylin Zuniga was fired this week for bringing her personal politics into the classroom by goading her students into writing get-well letters to a convicted cop killer – a story first reported by EAGnews (http://eagnews.org/third-grade-students-write-get-well-letters-to-cop-killer-mumia-abu-jamal/).

The Orange, New Jersey school board voted unanimously to terminate Forest Street Elementary School third-grade teacher Marylin Zuniga amid hundreds of protestors calling for her immediate reinstatement, NJ.com (http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2015/05/nj_teacher_fired_over_students_get_well_letters_to .html) reports.
Far-left educators from across the country have rallied in support of Zuniga since she was suspended with pay April 10, the day school officials learned through the media that her students penned get well notes to Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Abu-Jamal is serving a life sentence for killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981, by shooting him in the back and point-blank in the head. Abu-Jamal recently suffered health issues related to diabetes, and Zuniga reportedly relayed that information to her students. Zuniga told her students Abu-Jamal as a civil rights leader about two months prior, the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-nevel/putting-our-children-firs_b_7108800.html) reports.



http://eagnews.org/nj-teacher-fired-after-students-write-get-well-letters-to-cop-killer/