| Liberal Double-Standard Runs Amok in New York City Schools By Scott Hogenson - CNS Executive Editor Conservative News Service - 17 June, 1998 |
| The firing of New York City schoolteacher Mildred Rosario last week is the latest sad
example of how liberalism picks and chooses its battles and applies a bigoted double-standard
in the process. Rosario lost her job June 12, after it was revealed that she had responded to a question by one of her sixth grade students about whether a fellow classmate, who died earlier this month in a drowning accident, would go to heaven. After initially trying to back away from the question, Rosario gave her 29 students the option of using the classroom computer or reading, rather than engaging in a conversation about death, Heaven and God. All 29 students wanted to talk, and Rosario engaged their questions, answering the best way she knew how – by referencing her own Christian faith. Rosario then committed the unforgivable liberal sin of actually praying with her students, still upset over the death of their classmate. For these offenses, Rosario was summarily dismissed from her job. I have yet to hear liberal "defenders of the Constitution" – who demand separation of church and state – voice a single concern about Rosario’s Constitutional rights to due process and redress of grievances. Where are the liberals when it comes to invoking our sacred Constitution on behalf of the victims of political correctness? They are nowhere to be found, remaining hidden by a cloak of duplicity, but they may be starting to surface. In an interview with CNS Staff Writer Bruce Sullivan, New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Norman Siegel confessed concerns that Rosario may have been shown the door "without due process." It will be interesting to see how – and if – the civil libertarians will come to the aid of Rosario in her time of what is nothing short of persecution by a monstrously liberal school system. The firing of Mildred Rosario just plain smells bad, and the school system was wrong in dismissing her in the fashion they did. At the very least, school officials should begin a complete hearing and review process so Rosario, her students and their parents can tell the entire story. If the liberals running the New York City school system believe in the Constitution as much as they claim, they can do nothing else.
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