Teacher Reaches Rock Bottom, Keeps Digging

About 11 months ago I wrote about a middle school teacher whom I referred to as an idiot because of her so-called lesson about the conditions aboard slave ships.  Seriously, click on that link and I think you'll agree with me.

To borrow a phrase from General Honoré, the teacher in question is back in the news and "stuck on stupid":

A white New York City teacher plans to sue the city for $1 billion over her firing in October following claims that she abused and humiliated black students during a lesson about slavery, according to multiple reports.

Patricia Cummings, who teaches in the Bronx, initially filed a $120 million lawsuit in Suffolk County, where she lives.

The incident involved Cummings having black junior high school students lie down on the floor of the classroom. She allegedly put her knee on a student's back in an effort to show how African-Americans were subjected to terrible treatment during slavery.

The school investigated and found she had used poor judgment but did not recommend corporal punishment charges. She was reassigned and later fired.

The 37-year-old teacher said Thursday she has "no career at this point" because of the publicity surrounding the incident and plans to launch a $1 billion class-action suit with other teachers who say they were discriminated against by the city.

You will not often find me supporting the government of New York City, and neither will I say that the City has never discriminated against any teachers.  However, her particular complaint is akin to something you step on in the pasture.