*NY High School Teacher* explains why he organized an illegal field trip
toCuba
<http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/teacher_reason_for_controversial_GzUuz7dAKxjv5sfVutlP2H#ixzz0uJY40Qz2>.
A Manhattan high school history teacher, who resigned under fire
after taking students on a spring-break "Club Red" field trip to
Cuba three years ago, is a self-proclaimed Communist who tried
justifying the jaunt by telling Education officials he needed to see
Fidel Castro one more time before the dictator died.
His classroom was decorated as you would expect; the walls were "adorned
with posters of Castro and Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara". (I'm not
sure why that was appropriate, even in Manhattan. Maybe the school
disapproved, but was unable to fire him. It is hard to fire public
school teachers in New York.)
The teacher, Nathan Turner, had at least one influential friend.
The Post in 2007 first reported that then-Lt. Gov. David Paterson's
step daughter went on the 2005 trip under Turner's supervision and
that Paterson contacted DOE in 2007 urging officials to approve that
trip as well.
(Governor Paterson now says he was deceived about the trip.)
I suppose that we have to give Turner a little credit for honesty and
frankness.
By way of Babalú <http://babalublog.com/2010/07/im-a-communist/>.
- 9:13 AM, 21 July 2010 [link]
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/July2010_3.html#jrm8944>
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