Michigan Teacher Says She Was Fired Over Trayvon Fundraiser

Brooke Harris says she was fired from the Pontiac Academy for Excellence after asking students to raise money for the family of Trayvon Martin.

Harris gave the students an editorial-writing assignment on the shooting. But the students wanted to raise money for Martin’s family and asked the school’s administrators if they could each pay $1 to wear hoodies instead of school uniforms for a day, the group said. It said the school regularly has fundraisers in which students are allowed to “dress down.”

The 26-year-old English teacher said she approached school administrators “through the chain of command” but that Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell said the project could not go forward. Harris said she was in the process of explaining this decision to the students when she was called for a meeting with Cassell.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.