Arrogance of Power Over Our Children

Published: July 9, 2008, 2:52 am

Citizens stunned as school board walks out of meeting Students, supporters of reassigned teachers protest to empty chairs A crowd of students and citizens of Guilderland, N.Y., gathered last week at a public school board meeting to protest the questionable reassignment of two teachers, only to look on in disbelief as the school board stood up and left the room. Matt Nelligan, Reassigned Teacher As WND reported, two former teachers at Guilderland High School, Matt Nelligan and Anne Marie McManus, were informed on the last day of the 2008 school year that they would be involuntarily reassigned to the Farnsworth Middle School for reasons neither teacher fully understood. School officials have said that the move was designed to address problems with the cultural climate of the social studies department, but Nelligan believes he was transferred because of his outspoken, conservative viewpoints and criticism of the teachers’ union leadership. “It’s a witch hunt

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