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Friday, December 21, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Hey Wayne - You are Disingenious, Wrong and an Idiot

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Hey Wayne - You are Disingenious, Wrong and an Idiot:


Hey Wayne - You are Disingenious, Wrong and an Idiot

I rarely call people names here.  Not useful and there are better ways to say you disagree with people in their professional lives.

But head of NRA, Wayne LaPierre - an idiot.  Here's what he is saying in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings:
  •  "How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?"  Wayne, your group doesn't even support an active national database of gun owners.
  • All schools need armed security personnel.  He almost makes it sound like a jobs program.
  • If there had been an armed person at Sandy Hook, 26 lives would have been saved (I note that 



SPS To Pay Out to Teacher Over Health Issues at Hale

From the Times (and thanks to a reader tip!):

A former Seattle teacher has reached a $750,000 settlement from the public-school district that fired her seven years ago for not returning to work in a school building she said was harmful to her health.

The teacher, 14-year drama and language instructor Denise Frisino, sued Seattle Public Schools after the district fired her from Nathan Hale High School in 2005, according to court documents.

The lawsuit was initially thrown out by a King County judge, but an appeals court overturned that decision and the two parties settled on the eve of a scheduled new trial this fall. The settlement, finalized this week, did not