Shari Puterman, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press11:12 a.m. EDT May 15, 2015
ORANGE, N.J. — A New Jersey teacher has been fired after having her students write “get well” cards to a man convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981.
Marilyn Zuniga, a third-grade teacher at Forest Street Elementary School in Orange, was first suspended April 10, after her students wrote to former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. Orange School Superintendent Ronald Lee confirmed Zuniga was fired.
Abu-Jamal is serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner. He was recently admitted to a Pennsylvania hospital after suffering complications from diabetes. He has since been released and remains incarcerated at State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/15/student-pen-pals-police-killer/27365079/
Well insnt that special… A black panther teaching our children on how to communicate with a convicted killer.
3rd grade no less… Gotta brainwash em whilst their young.
Isn’t this an “abbot district ” where the only requirement for graduation is attendance ? ( sad but true, these districts hand out diplomas for jaunt showing up , not matriculation )