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Philadelphia Teacher Turned Citizen Mission into a Joke

pascagoulapappy Wrote: Oct 11, 2012 4:30 PM
You got the alliteration, Matt, you powerful propagator of positivism!
The mission statement of Philadelphia's Charles Carroll High School, displayed prominently on its website, offers a hopeful vision of an educational institution:

“Providing all students with the academic, technological & social skills needed to be productive & contributing citizens in our society.”

This week, the specific mention of “social skills” and citizenship likely sounds like mockery to Charles Carroll sophomore Samantha Pawlucy and her family.

In an episode that has prompted national attention, Samantha was the victim of intimidation by her geometry teacher, Lynette Gaymon, who claims...
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