Kearny BOE settles with LaClair over proselytizing teacher

by: FogerRox

Tue May 15, 2007 at 09:58:02 PM EDT

Last week the New York Times reported that the Kearny Board of Education voted to 6 to 1 to settle their dispute. The settlement requires that Kearny teachers undergo Separation of Church & State training, and the Board of Education will issue a statement praising student Matt LaClair for raising the issue, while Matt LaClair will issue a statement commending the School Board.

On the right:Matt LaClair at a recent Hudson County DFA meeting.

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A Child's Stigma

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This is what she said: We don't believe in that evolution stuff

by: FogerRox

Wed Mar 21, 2007 at 12:01:45 AM EDT

This is video I shot of the Kearny BOE meeting monday evening.
I've been following this Kearny story about the history teacher in Kearny preaching in class, one of the teachers students starts the video, she says "we dont believe in the big bang theory, we dont believe in that evolution stuff".

Oh... kay....

To borrow a line from Warner Wolf, lets go to the video tape....

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Broadband, good quality, this can be played on a large screen.

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"This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy."
U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT, (New York Times 3/23/05)

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Proselytizing teacher in Kearny..... a repeat offender ?

by: FogerRox

Wed Mar 14, 2007 at 01:45:14 AM EDT

(We can't let this one fall in the cracks. - promoted by Xpatriated Texan)

UNDATE II; Paul LaClair just called me to confirm he will be dropping in to the Hudson DFA meeting tonight, 319 Grove St. Jersey City:
http://www.dfalink.c...

The BLUE JERSEY folks have been blogging on this issue as far back as "njdem" on Feb 19th, Nick Lento did a follow up on Feb 21st, and the father of the 17 yr old student, Paul LaClair's diary of Feb 26th, Nick Lento then posted some video on Feb 27th, as well as my own hack job on March 8th.

Since David Paszkiewicz has been teaching in Kearny for 14 years, I had wondered if this proselytizing was new behavior, or a long term trend. If its been a trend, and the BOE knew and did nothing, its a great issue to elect new BOE members on.

So after trading emails with Paul LaClair, I hit the google, and here is what I found....

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Video of Last Tuesday's Kearny Board of Ed Meeting Parts 1 and 2

by: Nick Lento

Tue Feb 27, 2007 at 01:48:03 AM EST

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This first clip (there's one more after this) has three speakers. The second is Paul LaClaire speaking on behalf of his son Matthew LaClaire.

The other two speakers obviously were defenders of the Kearny "teacher" in question, David Paszkiewicz.

Here's a link to a recent diary that contains links to various sources for the audio files at the core of this case.

http://www.bluejerse...

It's in a quicktime format and runs around 15 minutes. If it loads slow for you and stops/sputters; just pause it and leave that window alone for a spell. Then come back after it's loaded and it should play smoothly.

I'm trying to load a second, longer excerpt. If you appreciate this one; the second will be better.

Unfortunately my battery crapped out so the end of the event was not recorded by me. However, I dare say, there'll be more than enough to get the flavor of what our Constitution is up against.

Part 2 is Below The Fold....

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