Hope, we hardly knew ye
by thenotebook on Mar 25 2011
By Benjamin Herold and Dale Mezzacappa
"All we ever wanted was an apology."
That was the head-scratching reason given by School District officials when asked why they suddenly changed their hard-line stance that a young gadfly teacher deserved to be fired. The surprise reversal came during a mediation session with a federal magistrate last Friday, when the District and teachers union agreed to return Hope Moffett to her classroom after nearly a month in “teacher jail.”
Up to that point, the “Hope Held Hostage” drama had been steadily escalating for weeks.
At each step of the way, the audacious Audenried High English teacher brazenly