For the record, I know this teacher. She taught across the hall from me. She was always prepared and planned great lessons. She was great with technology! She took care to make her classroom as welcoming as possible and decorated it. It was lovely and welcoming. It was a loss to MNPS students when she left. She cared for her students and worked hard.
“The decision to return Plaintiff to her job does not mean that the suspension pending investigation unlawfully infringed upon Plaintiff’s protected speech — it was necessary to balance the competing interests before returning Plaintiff to a potentially volatile environment,” wrote attorney Lisa Carson.
I am a well-educated person from a school that is considered to be a "public Ivy," so I can read. However, I had to read this convoluted statement a good 3x to figure out what it meant. As best I can tell, it means, "Our decision to return the teacher to her job doesn't mean that we did anything wrong when we (wrongfully) suspended her." I have no idea what the "competing interests...volatile environment" means. The attorney sounds purposely unclear.
What specifically are the "competing interests," and how does the district plan to "balance" them? That statement is not informative. It's just double-speak.
For the record, I know this teacher. She taught across the hall from me. She was always prepared and planned great lessons. She was great with technology! She took care to make her classroom as welcoming as possible and decorated it. It was lovely and welcoming. It was a loss to MNPS students when she left. She cared for her students and worked hard.
“The decision to return Plaintiff to her job does not mean that the suspension pending investigation unlawfully infringed upon Plaintiff’s protected speech — it was necessary to balance the competing interests before returning Plaintiff to a potentially volatile environment,” wrote attorney Lisa Carson.
I am a well-educated person from a school that is considered to be a "public Ivy," so I can read. However, I had to read this convoluted statement a good 3x to figure out what it meant. As best I can tell, it means, "Our decision to return the teacher to her job doesn't mean that we did anything wrong when we (wrongfully) suspended her." I have no idea what the "competing interests...volatile environment" means. The attorney sounds purposely unclear.
What specifically are the "competing interests," and how does the district plan to "balance" them? That statement is not informative. It's just double-speak.
$6.5 million v. $300,000
That says it all