NJ Teachers Union Bragging They Can’t Be Fired

26 Oct, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston

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Shock videographer James O’Keefe has released video of New Jersey teachers union members bragging that it is nearly impossible for them to be fired by the state.

Daily Caller reports:

In one video, Alissa Ploshnick, who is identified as a special educator at Passaic Public Schools, seems to verify the worst suspicions of education reformers. “It’s really hard to fire a tenured teacher,” she says. “It’s really hard — like you seriously have to be in the hallway fucking somebody.”

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As an example, Ploshnick said, “we had a teacher that just recently was like — you NIGGER,” adding that the teacher was demoted, but is still teaching.

“We think that that’s unconscionable that a teacher could call a student the ‘N-word’ and we can’t fire the teacher,” O’Keefe said in a phone interview with The Daily Caller. “We’ve got Dr. Laura getting fired for using racial slurs. Then we’ve got teachers calling kids the ‘N-word’ and we can’t even fire them.”

Indeed it is!

Check out the rest of Daily Caller’s report.