A first-year elementary school teacher in New Jersey has been fired after a Black History Month class project for her third graders sent “get well” letters to a convicted cop killer who had fallen ill while incarcerated. Though Zuniga has been flanked by hundreds of supporters, her suspension without pay turned into a termination on Wednesday.
Marylin Zuniga even bragged about the assignment back in April on Twitter (since deleted):
its sick and getting sicker.