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proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 08:05 PM Apr 2012

A Fairly Strong Claim of Discrimination

PHOENIX (CN) - A black, Jewish principal claims a charter school fired her after subjecting her to intolerable treatment: setting up a Holocaust exhibit outside her office, forcing her to walk past a swastika and "to go into the gas chamber in order to go into her office."

Millicient McNeil sued the Mission Charter School in Maricopa County Court.

She claims the school board ignored her complaints about the swastika in the hall, along with a photo of a lever used to drop chemicals into gas chambers, and the words "Majdanek Bad Und Desinfektion"-referring to the "bath and disinfection" gas chamber at the Majdanek concentration camp.

McNeil claims the school's conduct was "extreme and outrageous" and that it "either intended to cause emotional distress or recklessly disregarded the near certainty that such distress would result from the conduct."

more . . . http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/04/25/45924.htm

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A Fairly Strong Claim of Discrimination (Original Post) proud2BlibKansan Apr 2012 OP
Arizona. Why does this not surprise me. LadyHawkAZ Apr 2012 #1
Sounds like somebody wants $750,000 cthulu2016 Apr 2012 #2
How do you figure that? proud2BlibKansan Apr 2012 #3
You're joking, right? cthulu2016 Apr 2012 #5
Do we do graphic rape/torture photos when we teach about sexual harassment? saras Apr 2012 #6
No I'm not proud2BlibKansan Apr 2012 #7
Well, Maricopa County home of Sheriff Arpaio dballance Apr 2012 #4
It was going pretty well until I got to the bottom and saw her attorney's name. Downwinder Apr 2012 #8

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)
1. Arizona. Why does this not surprise me.
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 08:08 PM
Apr 2012

My former home state has a way of making life in Utah seem liberal and tolerant.

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
2. Sounds like somebody wants $750,000
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 08:08 PM
Apr 2012

Oops, my bad... $2,000,000 total.

Reading the article one quickly realizes that this has nothing to do with the Holocaust... it's a contract dispute that exploits the Holocaust to get attention.

proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
3. How do you figure that?
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 08:15 PM
Apr 2012

I'm not seeing it. This part was especially horrific:

Her door was painted black with a white peephole. To the right of her office was a picture of a lever that was what was used to put chemicals in the gas chamber in Germany that killed thousands of Jewish people. Over the door of her office were the words 'Majdanek Bad Und Desinfektion' which was a concentration camp gas chamber. Directly over her door was the German word for women.


cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)
5. You're joking, right?
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 08:18 PM
Apr 2012

It's an exhibit the school did in connection with teaching about the Holocaust, not some hazing thing.

 

saras

(6,670 posts)
6. Do we do graphic rape/torture photos when we teach about sexual harassment?
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 08:51 PM
Apr 2012

That "display" is about as educational as gitmo.

proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
7. No I'm not
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 08:58 PM
Apr 2012

That 'exhibit' was the most elaborate, extreme and completely unnecessary exhibit I think I've ever heard about. I work in a school. We don't go to the extreme this school did for an educational exhibit.

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
8. It was going pretty well until I got to the bottom and saw her attorney's name.
Thu Apr 26, 2012, 09:29 PM
Apr 2012

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Lisa Aubuchon

Former Deputy Maricopa County Attorney, with a fertile imagination, recently disbarred.

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