Third grade teacher Marilyn Zuniga (left) was fired for having her students write get well cards to convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal (right)
Orange, NJ Board of Education fires cop-killer-loving teacher Marylin Zuniga
Sanity prevailed last night. Marylin Zuniga, the teacher who forced her third grade class to write “get well” letters to convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal, is now unemployed.
As its meeting stretched past midnight, the Orange school board on Wednesday voted to terminate the employment of a third-grade teacher for allowing her students to write “get well” letters to a convicted cop killer.
Over the course of about 90 minutes inside the auditorium at Orange Preparatory Academy, supporters of Marylin Zuniga called for her reinstatement in public comments to the board.
Then, in under three minutes, the board unanimously approved a personnel agenda and abruptly adjourned the meeting without discussing or explaining what was just voted on.
Outside the school building soon afterward, school board Vice President Jeffrey Wingfield declined to explain whether the board had voted to terminate Zuniga’s employment.
“Let her tell you,” said Wingfield, referring to Zuniga. “I want her to tell you.”
After being contacted by a reporter, Orange Superintendent Ronald Lee confirmed in an email on Wednesday afternoon that the board had voted to terminate Zuniga’s employment as part of the personnel agenda.
That should be the end of this sordid affair. Except Zuniga plans to sue.
Zuniga is now considering legal action to challenge her termination, which could take the form of an arbitration proceeding or a lawsuit.
In a phone interview on Wednesday, Zuniga’s attorney, Alan Levine, said that by firing her, school officials “abdicated their responsibility to the community and to the children of the school district.”
“They lost a teacher that everybody agreed was a remarkable teacher,” Levine said. “There isn’t a school district around that wouldn’t be happy to have Marylin Zuniga teach in it.”
Yeah, he really said that.
No, nobody believed him.
Marylin Zuniga is, and ought to be, radioactive.
But this is Essex County. And in Essex County, it’s like Bizarro World, only weirder.
As members of the public later addressed the board, the people voicing support for Zuniga included local civil rights activists, fellow educators and elected officials, including Essex County Freeholder President Britnee Timberlake.
Holding Zuniga’s hand in the air, Timberlake told the board members “you ought to be ashamed of yourself for trying to crucify her.”
The freaking president of our county Freeholder Board is siding with a cop-killer? Did I read that right? Because that’s what it looks like. Marylin Zuniga worships a cop-killer. And the, ahem, Honorable Britnee Timberlake stands hand-in-hand with Marylin Zuniga.
That’s messed up.
Where did the Democrats dig up this clown? The Activists R Us rent-a-whackjob division? She was only elected to her first term last year and already she’s president of the board. That’s gotta be some kind of record, even for us, where “the fix” is always in.
Anybody got the guts to ask Joe D what he thinks about his newest henchwoman’s antics? Because I can’t believe she landed where she is without his blessing. So I gotta wonder if he’s secretly on the #FreeMumia bandwagon too.
I’m appalled. And all of you knee-jerk Democrats who voted for Britnee Timberlake are the ones who ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You really picked a winner. Thanks. Thanks a whole lot.
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