Keepin’ it classy.
Via Daily Caller:
Emails back and forth among high-ranking Arizona Department of Education officials show that state officials intimidated a Tucson fifth-grade teacher and, in one instance, called him “a f*cktard” because he criticized the state’s implementation of Common Core.
The emails are now public because of a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Arizona Daily Independent.
The teacher, Brad McQueen, originally raise the ire of state education officials in February when he penned an anti-Common Core op-ed in the Independent (that later went viral locally).
McQueen, a 10-year teaching veteran, had worked on the state’s Common Core-aligned standardized tests. In the op-ed, he criticized Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and state education bureaucrats for, among much else, “willingly handed over control” of educational standards in exchange for increased federal funding.
That’s when the fun started.
Kathy Hrabluk, associate superintendent at the Arizona Department of Education, sent out an email griping about McQueen’s criticisms. “Just thought you might want to check your list of teacher teams (from which teachers are selected to work on tests at the Dept of Education),” she wrote. “He is one unhappy camper.”