You called, you emailed, you bombarded their Facebook page with outrage. And Shirley Bunn is now back on the job.
The Arlington School District this weekend reinstated Bunn. You may recall from our post a week earlier that she had been suspended for telling a frequently disruptive Hispanic student “Go back to Mexico“, after he repeatedly asked her for a set of forms in Spanish, yelling “I’m Mexican…I’m Mexican”. Even after Ms. Bunn told him he could get Spanish-language forms in the main office, the kid continued to harrass her for Spanish forms, yelling “I’m Mexican…I’m Mexican”, after which Bunn admitted she lost her temper and told him where he could go (and indeed the vast majority of our commenters agreed with her sentiments).
On Friday, the school board voted 5-2 to reinstate her to the school. An emotional Bunn was brought to tears over the ordeal, and most of the parents in attendance were overjoyed to have this two-time “Teacher of the Year” back in class.
Thank you to everyone who responded to our post. Nearly 3,000 SWA members left messages on the school district’s Facebook page, and many thousands more sent emails or made phone calls to demand Bunn reinstatement, and the word spread as new site TheBlaze.com linked to our posts the next day.You made a big difference, and all’s well that ends well!
But not everyone was happy. The pro-amnesty group LULAC was in attendance and wanted Bunn terminated. They reacted angrily when the vote came through. Said Luis Castillo, a past president of the Arlington LULAC: “The Arlington School Board condones racial remarks by it’s teachers. That’s very disturbing.”
What’s really disturbing is that any school board would take an extremist group like LULAC seriously in the first place. This is the same group which has declared the U.S.-Mexican border “illegal”, and has been caught transporting illegal aliens from the border to Houston in their “shuttle vans”. And who can forget the Wisconsin LULAC member who once claimed that Arizona does not share a border with Mexico. NO elected official should ever again let LULAC in their door, let alone consider their advice seriously.
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Illegal Mexicans have unmitigated arrogance that compels them to treat ALL Americans like rotted garbage.
Thanks to the Obama Administration, the Mexican government is permitted to dictate US immigrantion legal-illegal policy.
It must be stopped. Arizona gets a world of credit for trying!
You are correct that the LULAC should never interfere with a teacher dealing with a student behavioral issue, regardless of their Mexican citizenship. they are not in Mexico!
The ACLU should stop their Anti-American bullying as well.
I did not see the news, so I thank you for the update.
It is good to see that people will still stand on the side of law and order in the face of anarchy and baseless sensational accusations. Maybe the US is starting to wake up to the threat posed by the invasion by illegal aliens. I hope so. It's proven that our current Federal leadership has joined the side of anarchy. If citizens don't stand up, the US is lost!
As for LULAC: they are very active here in Houston. They give me many very deep belly laughs with some of the lunatic ideas they try to promote... I am amazed that ANYONE takes ANYTHING they say seriously.
Yes. Our district had many teachers who signed a petition and sent it in.
True it was funny when she said Arizona didn't border Mexico
Great news indeed!