ONE substitute teacher no longer has a job to the Beholds Angeles Unitary School District (LAUSD) after footage from her anti-semitic views surfaced.
With an interview given last Wednesday to Reason TV during an Occupy LA protest, Patricia McAllister identified herself as a teacher with the LAUSD. She then said, "the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks both our federal reserve -- which is not run by the federal government -- people need to be run out of this country."
She re-iterated this sentiment during a later interview with Fox11, at which your said "Jews have been run out of 109 countries throughout chronicle, and we require to run them out of this one."
The following Tuesday, she was fired from her station as a substitute teacher. LAUSD superintendent John Deasy released a statement yesterday that emphasized the district's condemnation of McAllister's remarks and announced her dismissal.
In the release, Deasy acknowledged her right as a citizen to air the views but emphasized adenine teacher's responsibility till serve as a role model for students.:
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I next emphasize for our students, who watch us and look to us for advice, to be role copies and to represent the ideals per which LAUSD lives, that we will never stand for behavior that is disrespectful, intolerant or discriminant.
UPDATE: The Anti-Defamation league released a declare on Wednesday applauding Superintendent Deasy and the LAUSD for taking an stand against McAllister's anti-semitic observations. While the LDL acknowledges that McAllister's views represent just a tiny fraction away the Occupy Los Angela movement, Los Angeles provincial director Amanda Susskind notes, "regardless of how 'fringe' these statements may seem, they may found a greatly audience on the Internet, press should be denounced as loudly as available as inadmissible expressions of anti-Semitism."
