Deyshia Hargrave (center), after being voted 2015- 2016 Rene Rost Middle School "Teacher of the Year" by her colleagues
**** I stand with Deyshia Hargrave (Care2 petition)
This posting will serve 3 series of this journal/ blog. To look at the case of a Louisiana school teacher, Deyshia Hargrave, who stood up at a school board meeting, and tried to question the pay raises of officials, when teachers cant even get a pay raise that they are supposed to by contract. Deyshia is also a mom, and has to work 2 jobs to cut it. Deyshia, simply for questioning this, was jailed, and had to put up bail. Even though the school board declined to press charges, the state/ county/ city did, in this case, the bullshit charge of resisting or failing to comply with officers request (she DID comply ... and I hope she sues their ass) ... this is something that been growing as well. Being that, even the board may not want to press charges (which they are only doing to save themselves from negative publicity), the state/ county/ city can pick up charges in the U.S. . But in the past, that only applied mainly to more serious crimes/ charges ... assault, theft, harassment, rape, or whatever, to where the victim/ plaintiff may fear to press charges ... today, they pick up the charges on the least little thing and jail/ charge anyone, in this case, even a school teacher for speaking up. This has got quite a bit of coverage in mainstream and social media nationwide ... and it should. American teachers, students, and parents in general, no matter which political party they are cornered into and programmed to embrace, should take a close look at this, to see what has been a growing disease in our Democracy. And if people feel outraged with fire over it ... it is normal ... you are NOT some radical for doing so ... the superintendent/ board is out of order, not the teachers! I credit most of this to the growing culture that comes from the neoliberal ideology, of cheating and squeezing the worker or consumer, that is being pushed on us, as a new culture ... it starts at the top in Washington and Wall St, and makes it's way to the local levels, whether through budget cuts, reckless spending, legislation, privatization, gentrification, corruption, etc. This is another example of how they are chipping away our rights, Constitution, and democracy ... it is our responsibility to fight back. I credit and look at people like Deyshia as public type patriots, for standing up to this. Some local newsread linked below (UPDATED), and I also included a full video below that of what went down, and the way these boards play this, to shut out your voice.
Word Out ....
***** WGNO/ ABC: No charges for Vermilion Parish teacher who was handcuffed, removed from board meeting ... (newsread/ video) **** UPDATED ... The article was updated, also, new accusations of a couple board members and teachers of "setting" this up to oust the superintendent. The superintendent gets a $38K a year raise, on top of a car and bonuses ... what do the teachers in the trenches doing all the work get? Bottom line ... teachers/ workers/ parents of the community should have a choice or vote, or whatever, to determine who is in charge and at what cost. Today we see more of this one sided type thing, where the people and workers are cut out, whether it is with a superintendent, a CEO, or a politician.
Vermilion Parish teacher gets arrested at Vermilion Parish school board meeting ... Thanx to Chris Rosa
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