LA columnist blames union head for teacher's suicide

[proud2BlibKansan]

A.J. Duffy should resign in wake of Ruelas suicide: UTLA chief, not the L.A. Times, is the rot in Southern California school wars

By Jill Stewart

Pipsqueak United Teachers Los Angeles chief A.J. Duffy, who has turned the L.A. teachers union into a national laughingstock and encouraged this region's teachers to think like infantile whiners, should resign after trying to blame the Los Angeles Times for the tragic suicide of South Gate teacher Rigoberto Ruelas.

Duffy is perhaps the lowest of the low among teachers union leaders fighting reform in the United States today.

Duffy played a key role in California's loss in the Race to the Top competition for reform money, with President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan both appalled at how L.A. teachers and Duffy conduct themselves.

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So listen, you pipsqueak, anti-reform, craven, do-nothing, sad-sack: if anyone should be blamed for a suicide, which is truly, truly absurd, is it you, A. J. Duffy.

more . . . http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/education/aj-duffy-should-resign-suicide/

[Trocadero]

1. I hope Jill Stewart is in therapy. A terrifying individual.

[Whisp]

2. no kidding. I was just about to say...

why would anyone use this freak to make their point for them. Jill sounds ill. I don't understand a thing she is yelling about.

[Luminous Animal]

3. LA Weekly, now owned by Village Voice Media, previously called New Times...

owns dozens of "alternative" newspapers in the U.S. They masquerade as independent media and specialize in shallow infantile reporting and commentary. They are the Fox News of local weekly newspapers.

[madrchsod]

4. i noticed jill got the crapped kicked out of her ...

in the comment section. no wonder the l.a. times is a rag.