25 year veteran Elementary Teacher Pam Aister was fired this week by the Fountain Hills Arizona School District after breaking up an incident of Racial Bullying by Four Students against one other.
“He was called the n-word, ‘monkey’, and ‘coon,’ Aister told KNXV.
Ainster told KTAR-FM that she also said to the group, “If you’re picking on him, you’re picking on me. It’s not five against one, it’s five against two, and there will be no more taunting, teasing or racial names.”
But parents of the alleged offenders claim that Ainster used abusive language telling them to "shut up" and that one had an "ugly face", an allegation that Ainster denies. In the end the School Board, following the recommendation of their attorney, voted to terminate Ainster on the basis of reports from the parents.
Isn't it an interesting world, assuming Ainster's claims are essentially true and even that the counter claims against her are valid, where a pack of bigoted bullies can rely on their parents to protect and escalate their bullying in order to remove a teacher whose primary crime was to stand up against their racist taunting - even if somewhat vehemently - in order to protect and defend a vulnerable child?
How would you hope the teacher of your children would react in this situation?
Follow the link below to read more and to watch a Video Report from KNXV.
http://www.rawstory.com/...
12:26 PM PT: Change.org has a Petition Up to Support Ms Ainster: https://www.change.org/...
12:34 PM PT: Additional Links on this story:
Racially Bullied Student Talks about Teacher who Stood Up for Him http://www.kpho.com/...
Veteran Teacher fired for Defending Bullied Student http://www.kpho.com/...
http://ktar.com/...
12:35 PM PT: What I'm hearing vis Kosmessage is that this area is on top of being predominantly white, is also dominated by Hard Core Tea Party Politiics.
David Schweikert is the congressman in this district. He beat former congressman Ben Quayle in the republican primary in 2012 largely due to overwhelming support from his hometown of Fountain Hills, where there is a very active tea party group. Schweikert is so right wing, he was one of a handful of republican reps (along with Huelskamp and Amish) removed from key committees by Boehner as punishment for being a pain in the a$$ to house leadership. That gives you an idea of how reactionary and right wing a lot of the people are there.
So that's something.
12:55 PM PT:
CBS 5 - KPHO
2:13 PM PT: The School Board Report claims this wasn't the first incident where Ms Ainster was "rude" to some of the white children, and even casts doubt that the initial incident was "racial" http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/... (Although it should be noted that the bullied student, in one of the above reports, completely verifies Ms. Ainster's account, could this report itself be biased? Hard to tell.)
Fri Oct 03, 2014 at 1:27 AM PT: Here's an embedded video featuring the report for the bulled victim.