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Special Ed Teacher Stalked, Harrassed By Right-Wing Creeps | The New Republic

Special Ed Teacher Stalked, Harrassed By Right-Wing Creeps | The New Republic

Special Ed Teacher Stalked, Harrassed By Right-Wing Creeps

This is one of the most stomach-churning things I've ever seen. Right-wing pseudo-journalist James O'Keefe decided to do an expose on the teachers unions. So he sent one of his flunkies to a bar after a teachers' conference to buy drinks for a special education teacher named Alissa Ploshnick, and prompt her to dish about incompetent colleagues while secretly recording her. One of Ploshnick's stories was that a colleague of hers referred called a student a nigger" and was demoted but not fired. She was clearly outraged.

Guess what happened? O'Keefe released the recorded, and got Ploshnick suspended for using the n-word. Yes -- the teacher who, in what she thought was a private setting,