Sparks were flying at the May 24 Chicago Board of Education Meeting after the Board President threw out the leader of the Principals. “Good morning beautiful people,” Troy LaRaviere, president of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association said in his opening statement. “I’m here because of a deep and profound incompetence and corruption.”
Most of this article is well written and thoughtful. However, it has two serious accuracy issues. First, no one called for the teachers to be fired "because they testified." That is a false statement. We called on the teachers to be investigated and fired for giving verifiably false testimony. It is anti-democratic and anti-justice to call for people to be persecuted for testifying. At the same time it is morally reprehensible to submit knowingly false testimony against a fellow human being.
Several instances of their false testimony can be found in this video:
Second, It is not "intimidation" to seek consequences for false witnesses. It is justice. As the record shows, we are calling for those WHO SUBMITTED FALSE TESTIMONY to be terminated. That being the case, what we are doing cannot be labeled "intimidation." We have to ground ourselves in the truth and in the facts and evidence that lay at the foundation of truth. So unless you can cite any facts or evidence to back up the claim that this is intimidation for simply testifying, rather than seeking consequences for those who submitted false testimony, please correct this claim.
Most of this article is well written and thoughtful. However, it has two serious accuracy issues. First, no one called for the teachers to be fired "because they testified." That is a false statement. We called on the teachers to be investigated and fired for giving verifiably false testimony. It is anti-democratic and anti-justice to call for people to be persecuted for testifying. At the same time it is morally reprehensible to submit knowingly false testimony against a fellow human being.
Several instances of their false testimony can be found in this video:
https://youtu.be/bnAgcmRJN3c
Second, It is not "intimidation" to seek consequences for false witnesses. It is justice. As the record shows, we are calling for those WHO SUBMITTED FALSE TESTIMONY to be terminated. That being the case, what we are doing cannot be labeled "intimidation." We have to ground ourselves in the truth and in the facts and evidence that lay at the foundation of truth. So unless you can cite any facts or evidence to back up the claim that this is intimidation for simply testifying, rather than seeking consequences for those who submitted false testimony, please correct this claim.
Thank you.