Stumping in Iowa recently, GOP presidential hopeful Scott Walker told a story about the seniority system imposed on Wisconsin’s public schools by the evil teachers union resulted in Wisconsin’s 2010 Teacher of the Year being laid off.
It’s a lie.
The teacher didn’t get laid off. She got a layoff notice during the summer, but the school rehired her before school started again in the fall. She declined and took a job with a suburban school district instead. But she also wasn’t Wisconsin’s 2010 Teacher of the Year. That honor went to a different teacher. The teacher Walker talked about received a different award.
But the real joke is that Walker has been gutting Wisconsin’s school funding — and is a bitter enemy of teachers’ unions that fight for pay, benefits, and job security for public schoolteachers.
Now, both of these teachers have teamed up to tell Walker to stop using their names to push his noxious political agenda.
Photo: After Gov. Scott Walker used her name in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, high school teacher Megan Sampson told him to leave her name out of his politicking.