School spies on teacher who helped write underground paper

The American school system isn't exactly known for being pro-people, but now it's gotten ridiculous.

In Everett, Washington (yeah, I know: "I'm alright...") a high school teacher was fired for the thoughtcrime of helping students publish an underground newspaper, after the regular school paper closed because the school tried to censor it. The school district later reinstated her at a different school, following a settlement with the district.

Now it turns out that just before she was fired, the school system spied on her by secretly videotaping her class. The spying took place from May 10 to June 11 of last year. (They were still in school on June 11? Well, that's at least the fourth fascist thing the school system has done - after censoring the paper, firing a teacher who made an underground paper, and spying on the teacher.)

At first, the school system denied videotaping the classroom. But they lied. They later admitted to using the camera.

What the school district did is illegal, of course. Now the teachers' union is filing a complaint against the district. Suspiciously, the videotapes are now missing. So it appears that not only did the school illegally record the teacher, but they destroyed the evidence as well. (Five! Five mistakes they've made!)

Obviously, the tapes failed to show that the teacher did anything wrong. Otherwise, why would the district have had to reinstate her?

The school's excuses for punishing the teacher are petty and ridiculous. The system overreached and overreacted at almost every turn. But in BushAmerica, policing thoughts has become par for the course.

(Source: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/364980_teachertape29.html)