As if on cue…
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That’s the answer to the shortage of primary care physicians, right there! Just let veterans practice medicine without having any training. I mean, it’s not like it’s all that difficult or anything, right?
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Well, that’s just the next step since they’ve been so successful with nurses! /s
There was another report describing new HCWs being placed in supervisory roles, because of staff shortages. 
What do these conservatives want, a return to the days of Theodoric of York?
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There really needs to be a way to make consequences exponentially worse if an intelligence-insulting blatant lie is offered up as an excuse.
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Here’s another article on the same story – in fact, nearly word-for-word – and both indicate that he did in fact go public:
“Our office was made aware of this employee’s resignation and his stated reasons for resigning very early this morning, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022,” the statement read. "Around the same time, we were copied on an email written by this individual and released to the Governor’s Office and various media outlets before we had any opportunity to investigate.
Or is contacting the governor and multiple media outlets not public enough?
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It’s probably too much to hope for consequences for the asshats who decided Black faces were “not age appropriate,” isn’t it?
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you can simplify this.
step one: claim Thing is broken (evidence of claim not needed) and that only GOP can fix it.
Step two: break Thing at earliest opportunity
Step 3: claim that only Other Thing (conveniently owned by friends/ family/ themselves) can solve problem of Thing being broken.
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What the Governor’s office wrote:
What the Governor actually said:
This jerk raised public awareness of continuing racism in our public schools before we could organize a task force to bury the whole thing beneath years of procedural bullshit and other delay tactics designed to make sure the public never saw or cared about the incident. He’ll be lucky if we don’t find a way to slander him so badly he’ll have to leave Florida and head for some woke Northern state.
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The rest of the story is these were autistic student. The pictures were behind the teachers desk. These kids have a hard time focusing. The content on the posters (the information )was geared towards older kids. When they were took down to put up information the kids work with ABCS and numbers. The teacher was told he could put up the posters on other walls just not right behind the teacher. He issued no complaints to witnesses in the classroom. Only later did he submit his resignation.
Citation needed
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I’m still exceedingly dubious.
ETA:
The district employees then asked James where he planned to place his desk, to which he informed them that it would be a table “directly in front of the bulletin board displaying the Pledge of Allegiance and the African-American luminaries,” the spokesperson said.
“The Behavior Analyst informed Mr. James the bulletin board directly behind his teaching area needed to be dedicated to state-required curricular materials he would need to engage this specific group of students in their daily learning and development activities, as they were seated at his teaching table with him. To be clear, due to the nature of this specific population of students, it is critical the instructional materials be within their line of sight during instruction, for the purposes of student focus and retention,” the spokesperson said.
Shouldn’t the Pledge have been removed as well by that logic?
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Me as well. This part sticks out to me
To be clear, due to the nature of this specific population of students, it is critical the instructional materials be within their line of sight during instruction, for the purposes of student focus and retention," the spokesperson said.
It makes sense the kids needed instructional material in line of sight. It does not make sense this material would be on a bulletin board. The material would change either each lesson or periodically. So the instruction material should be on a white board. Either the bulletin board needed to move, the instructional area needed to move, or a portable white board brought in. Removing the posters doesn’t seem to be a good solution to the issue and it is very suspicious the district claims it was and claims the teacher agreed to anyone taking materials he purchased himself.
This seems like the district trying to cover their ass.
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The school district says two employees – a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and a Behavior Coach – went to James’ classroom on Monday to assist him in getting his classroom set up ahead of the first day of class on Wednesday.
“Mr. James’s teaching assignment for 2022-2023 was to be a very small unit (4-6 students) of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) students,” Escambia County Public Schools says in a statement. “Mr. James’s room was, at that point, set up in a more ‘traditional’ classroom configuration, with rows of desks facing the front of the room, which is a wholly inappropriate use of space for a group of students like the ones he was assigned. The two ECPS employees engaged Mr. James in reconfiguring the room and making it more academically sound for his teaching assignment.”
The school district continued to explain what they say happened on Monday.
“One of the employees asked Mr. James where his teaching area was going to be. He indicated a kidney-shaped table directly in front of the bulletin board displaying the Pledge of Allegiance and the African-American luminaries,” the district says. “The Behavior Analyst informed Mr. James the bulletin board directly behind his teaching area needed to be dedicated to state-required curricular materials he would need to engage this specific group of students in their daily learning and development activities, as they were seated at his teaching table with him. To be clear, due to the nature of this specific population of students, it is critical the instructional materials be within their line of sight during instruction, for the purposes of student focus and retention.”
According to the school district, the Behavior Analyst then asked James if he minded if the posters were removed.
“According to both ECPS employees (interviewed separately) he said, ‘Yes, do whatever needs to be done,’” the school district states. “At this point, the Behavior Analyst put up number and alphabet charts that are primary instructional materials for ASD students. At no time, in the presence of our employees, did Mr. James object. The posters were left in the classroom, for Mr. James to use as he so chose.”
Escambia County Public Schools added, “The Behavior Analyst observed his bulletin board was ‘Awesome,’ because of the history tied to it, but the language and reading levels on the posters were too complex for this particular group of students.”
The employees were later “astounded” by James’ allegations after he resigned, according to the district, “as his demeanor in the classroom that day was very friendly and accommodating.”
The district says its compliance office attempted to contact James “several times” after receiving his resignation and letter of complaint so he could “voice his version of the circumstances.”
“At this time, our compliance officer has not received any communication back from Mr. James,” Escambia County Public Schools says. “Had Mr. James objected at that time, or had he raised his concerns with school administration, we believe this situation could have been resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. The instructional materials could have been displayed appropriately, and Mr. James’s display could simultaneously have been honored. We were surprised these basic communicative steps were not taken by such a veteran teacher.”
Channel 3 has attempted to contact James, but we have not heard back.
“It is our greatest aspiration at ECPS to foster an atmosphere in which teachers, and all employees, feel valued and supported,” Escambia County Public Schools says in its statement. “We are also resolved to honor all races and ethnicities and the valuable contributions their members have made to this great nation. Allegations such as this serve only to create division, while we at Escambia County Public Schools remain united for every student to succeed.”
It’s really nice to also cite your source. Which is apparently this:
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This may well attract right-wingers who believe they’d be much better teachers and imagine that classrooms are currently packed with commies. Exactly the type that DeSantis would hope to attract.
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I tried but it would let me put a weblink in when I hit the paperclip.
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