Yeah, can we destroy the middle class once and for all!! I'm so sick and tired of these whiners bitching about the high cost of medical care, housing, schooling, etc etc etc... Enough! Get out of my America! Yer parasites! Take yer Social Security and shove it! You know, you never hear the rich moaning about how expensive it is to live the American Dream!

The bottomline is this: we need to make life much more comfortable for the rich. Don't you know what it's like to have to finance and maintain 5 houses??!! We must cut their taxes further. We must bail them out when they make bad business decisions. We must allow them greater influence on Capitol Hill so their can protect their monopolies and cartels while shutting down their competitors and giving consumers less choices. Who needs to waste time and money competing when you have Congress in yer pocket!!?? For the rich, it is their God-given right to amass as much wealth as possible through all necessary means. Grift is Good!

This is American Capitalism. Deal with it middle-class whiners!

She should have to go to a few months of sensitivity training, no? I can't image being a young black student in a class knowing that my teacher drunkenly and carelessly used the N-word. It would be it very hard for me to learn from a teacher like that.

Teachers in this state make way too much money!
Lets face it, they've made it where you have to spend hours after school at home guiding your child through home work studies that should be explained during classroom hours, in essence who needs them if your educating your child at home after all?

Those days of Tenure will be history soon and each and every educator needs to be accountable and work for their pay just like the rest of us!

Boo-Hoo, thats all you hear from the teachers union, gripe, gripe, gripe, in the meantime, their partying down in AC like "Rock stars" on our dime, Nice gig if you can get it, Ey??

Good for Christie, I hope his agenda works out and that he brings some fiscal responsibilty and accountability back to NJ and yes starting with the Teachers!

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Alissa Ploshnick should have.

I stopped reading at "James O'Keeffe." Does anyone take this laughing stock seriously?

Private union, private conference, private citizen, after hours; the school district should not be involved in discipline.

But wait, this is impossible. The NJEA spokesman said that the video was doctored, like it was made with CGI or puppets or something, and then they dubbed in the voices!

People would be calling for death if it was someone on the governor's staff. Or someone at a GOP convention.

And how the hell does this disgrace of a teacher go back to teaching in patterson. Rediculous.

N.J. teacher is suspended, denied pay raise after being filmed on hidden video at NJEA conference

Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 9:45 PM
Jeanette Rundquist/The Star-Ledger

PASSAIC COUNTY ? An unflattering video made during a New Jersey Education Association leadership conference this summer has had repercussions for least one union member: A Passaic special education teacher was suspended for nine days and will be docked a pay raise after making crude comments to an undercover videographer.

Alissa Ploshnick?s unintentional starring performance in the "Teachers Unions Gone Wild" video included, among other things, using the "N" word and joking about how hard it is for tenured teachers to be fired. It was all caught on tape at a hotel bar during the weeklong conference in August.

Passaic Superintendent Robert Holster, who said he considered bringing harsher punishment of tenure charges, said the discipline was a "difficult decision," because "some people believe what?s said outside the school system is someone?s right."

But he said Ploshnick?s comments ? which he called "professionally insulting" and not "the responsible behavior of a professional person employed by the Passaic Board of Education" ? merited the response. He said the tape created "kind of an outrage" in Passaic.

"The character of an educator has to be beyond the school bell. It doesn?t take place only in school," Holster said.

The superintendent took particular offense to the racial epithet: on the video, Ploshnick is heard saying she knew of a teacher who had used the "N" word to a student and was not fired, an incident Holster said did not occur.

"Passaic is multi-cultural and everyone has to be extremely sensitive in their thinking if they?re on our payroll," he said.

Holster recommended the school board withhold one pay "increment" ? worth a few thousand dollars. He said the board agreed unanimously, and will vote on it in a resolution later this month. Ploshnick was suspended with pay when the video came to light, and will return to school tomorrow, he said.

Ploshnick, 38, who began teaching in Passaic in 1996, did not respond to a request for comment. She was given the chance to attend the board meeting, but did not, Holster said.

A spokesman for the NJEA said Ploshnick "deeply regrets what she said" and is looking forward to returning to her classroom.

Ploshnick earns "probably in the high 90s" and teaches a class of seven or eight special education students, Holster said. Wollmer said Ploshnick once was named "Teacher of the Year."

The video was one of three targeting the NJEA that was released by self-styled muckraker James O?Keefe. Taped largely at the East Brunswick Hilton, it included teachers chanting things against Gov. Chris Christie, who has been in an on-going battle with the union. Ploshnick was one of few identified teachers in the video.

Wollmer said an "operative" bought her drinks and secretly recorded her at the bar, engaging her in what she thought was a "social" conversation.

Video released by conservative activist claims to show undercover footage at NJEA conference Updated: Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 10:28 AM The Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk TRENTON ? Conservative activist James O'Keefe has released a video ? titled "Teachers unions gone wild" ? claiming to show undercover footage from a New Jersey Education Association leadership conference at the East Brunswick Hilton hotel. The video shows people identified as teachers playing arcade games on "their dime," chanting about kicking Gov. Chris Christie "in the toolbox," and talking about how hard it is to fire a tenured teacher. NJEA spokesman Steve Baker said O'Keefe is "completely and utterly discredited." "It?s James O?Keefe and that?s all you need to know," Baker said, citing O'Keefe's legal troubles in the past. "I'm sure he sent people into the conference," Baker said, but added O'Keefe dubbed the video and audio afterward. O'Keefe told the Asbury Park Press he used "citizen journalists" to record conversations with teachers. The citizen journalists also played acting roles, according to APP.com. "He admits that he uses actors to supply some of the lines," Baker said. O'Keefe pleaded guilty in May to misdemeanor charges after entering the offices of Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu while posing as telephone repairmen. The 26-year-old grew up in Bergen County and attended Rutgers University. Baker said the NJEA is not planning to take any action against O'Keefe. "He?s not really worth the effort," he said. "This is not somebody that?s going to get a lot of our time or attention." http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010 ... ased_by_conservative.html