Only this time, it’s a 12-year-old with asthma who died because her school no longer has a school nurse.
After the initial cuts, one protesting nurse specifically warned that other staff were not competent to deal with asthmatic students in her absence. This year, Parents United for Public Education and the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia have compiled a list of complaints filed with the state Secretary of Education, including those having to do with health and safety — some of which were made by parents worried for their asthmatic children.
But she was just a union thug, trying to rationalize the phat paycheck she didn’t deserve. Because freedom!
Laporshia Massey, 12, a student at Bryant Elementary School, became ill at school and died later that day.
This is on your head, Tom Corbett.
Democrat Nutter doesn’t have clean hands in this matter either.
His office hung up on me when I congratulated them on their first scalp.
What an effective way to handle the problem: If anyone calls to complain (and by complain, we mean have the temerity to present us with the results of our actions), we will simply hang up on them.
They probably thought your tone impolite. But, as Abbie Hoffman once said, sometimes the only rational response is “Fuck you!”
If that were my child I’m not sure what I’d do. I probably have to be restrained for a while.