Its for the union dues.
Via NJ Com:
A Hamilton Township school employee has been suspended after a hidden camera video appeared to depict him saying he would downplay and not report an incident of a teacher beating a student.
The video was published Wednesday on YouTube by Project Veritas — which the New Jersey Education Association said has used “illegal tactics to “fabricate false stories” — and identifies the employee as Hamilton Township Education Association President David R. Perry.
The incident between the student and teacher never happened. The Veritas employee, posing as the sister-in-law of a fictitious middle school teacher, used it to get the man identified as Perry to talk about what steps would be taken if the student reported the assault. Perry could not be reached immediately for comment.
Hamilton Township Superintendent Scott Rocco said in a statement Wednesday afternoon that once he was aware of the video the district called authorities, suspended “the individual” and opened an internal investigation.
“The true beliefs and values of this school district are not represented in this video and are not aligned with who we are as faculty, staff, administration, and community,” Rocco said.
In the video, the man identified as Perry says the teacher should come to him and tell him “the truth” about what happened. Later, he says he could change the date of any records he keeps, making it appear it was reported the day after it happened, and that he would downplay the incident.
“I need to know the truth, so that we can bend the truth,” he says in the video. “If nobody brings it up from (the) school, I don’t say boo.
“I’m here to defend even the worst people,” he later says on camera.