An 18 year veteran teacher from Peshtigo was forced to resign, for sending a mean-spirited email to Rep. John Nygren.
A veteran Peshtigo High School teacher who sent a nasty email to a lawmaker during the budget repair bill battle in Madison has resigned, WBAY-TV reports.
Rob Schneider apparently told his school board he was intoxicated when he sent the email March 25 to Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette from a Peshtigo public schools email account. It was a profane wish that Nygren would be hit by truck.
If only we held our legislators to the same standard as we do our teachers!
Yeah if only… Gordon Hintz would have to resign.
Jeff, not to parse things, but where does it say he was forced to resign?
Further, he did the right thing by resigning, because he shouldn’t have done something so egregiously stupid, no matter what his excuse was.
Forgot – nowhere here will you find defense of Gordon Hintz’s words. As a matter of fact if I remember right, Zach even wrote a post condemning it.
Zach,
He resigned right before the school board meeting discussing his situation. I am sure that all sides discussed this ahead of time and decided on this course of action. I personally dont think he should have resigned. 18 years of teaching down the drain because of one drunken email that he owned up to and apologized for. Nygren himself said he knew he was never in personal danger. Maybe an unpaid suspension would have done the trick.
Now compare/contrast that to Scott Fitzgerald who yelled at a woman staffer(who wasnt even his staffer) so harshly that she felt threatened enough to call the police. Yet he did not seem to even remember the incident nor will he take questions about it. Suspension? NO not even a possibility. Resignation? No never even discussed. What do you think would happen to you if you went into Fitzgeralds office and yelled at one of his staffers like that? Would the I dont even remember doing it defense be enough?
I do not condone what the teacher did, he should have been smarter. We know now that there are other ways to beat these guys! I think a short suspension and letter in his file should have been sufficient.
I do not think Scott Fitzgerald should be forced to resign over it either. I dont know what the punishment but there needs to be something. Disorderly conduct ticket maybe>
finally I have written before, and I am sure I will write again, about the fake outrage on the right. In awe that this teacher would write this email, yet crickets about scott fitz. Unbelievably outraged that Ed schultz would say what he said, and complete silence on Mark Belling. Hence the double standard!
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