Third-Grade Teacher Suspended For Having Students Write Cards To Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal
The taxpayer-funded school teacher in Orange, N.J. who told her third-grade students to write get-well cards to notorious convicted cop killer and one-time death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has been suspended — with pay.
School district officials emphatically condemned the assignment. They called it “unauthorized activity” and “vehemently deny” knowing anything about it, according to NJ Advance Media.
“The Orange Public Schools was surprised to learn through recent news reports that one of its teachers, Ms. Marilyn Zuniga, a third grade teacher at Forest Street Elementary School, involved her students in a ‘get well’ letter writing assignment to convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal,” a school district statement said.
“The incident reported is in no way condoned nor does it reflect curriculum, program or activities approved by the district.” ...