About the Author Maggi Hall taught school in South Carolina for over two decades. She is the recipient of numerous environmental awards and the author of four books. Hall owns a real estate firm in DeLand, Florida, that has been instrumental in rehabilitating a blighted downtown residential neighborhood. Product Description I should have heeded my husbands apprehension and our friends advice, but I wanted that house. Because Ron and I were public school teachers and supported public education, we ignored our friends warnings and enrolled our daughters in Marions school system. A year later I transferred to the Marion system from Florence where I had developed two educational programs: the itinerant learning disabilities program and a self-contained middle school class for emotionally disturbed juvenile delinquents. In Marion, I was assigned to two schools as a learning disabilities clinician. Within weeks of my transfer, my first encounter with the establishment made me acutely aware that the warnings of our friends were accurate. Almost four decades since the landmark decision in Pickering v. Board of Education, 1968, many teachers still cannot criticize their school system without fear of retaliation. When author Maggi Hall, a veteran public school teacher, wrote a letter to the newspaper in Marion County, South Carolina, criticizing her school district, she didnt realize that one day she would be called upon to defend the cornerstone of democracy itselfthe First Amendment. AFFIRMED: Teachers as Citizens is her amazing story of determination.
Author: Hall, Maggi
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0595366775
ISBN-13: 0880346686065
Author: Hall, Maggi
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0595366775
ISBN-13: 0880346686065