Louisiana teacher gets handcuffed and manhandled for daring to ask the School Board about pay raises.

Courtesy of The Hill:

A teacher in Louisiana was removed Monday night from a school board meeting after a confrontation regarding teacher's pay. 

During the public comments portion of the Vermilion Parish school board meeting, Deyshia Hargrave, an English language arts teacher at Rene Rost Middle School, asked questions to the board regarding teacher's salaries, according to a report from KATC. 

She raised questions about the school board considering a $38,000 raise for the superintendent, saying she felt that giving raises to any person of leadership was a "slap in the face" to all the teachers, according to WGNTV. 

She was told she was out of order and that the public comments portion of the meeting was not a question-and-answer period. 

The teacher was called on a subsequent time and asked the board another question, according to the report. 

She was then removed from the meeting by an Abbeville city marshal and handcuffed outside. She could be heard in a video taken of the incident yelling that the officer pushed her to the ground and she was told by the officer to "stop resisting."

That poor woman is clearly not resisting, she is simply trying to stay on her feet.

There is absolutely NO excuse for treating a person like this. Especially one who dedicates their lives to teaching our children.

I was horrified when I watched this video, but I guess you will be happy to know that the school board did not press charges against the woman for exercising her 1st Amendment rights.

So I guess there's that at least.

Sarah Palin about to get a raise. WTF?

A commission is recommending a pay raise for Gov. Sarah Palin and other top officials in state government.

The State Officer's Compensation Commission has issued preliminary recommendations for the salaries of the governor, lieutenant governor, heads of principal executive departments, and legislators.

It is recommending Palin's salary be increased from $125,000 to $150,000.

For what?

For spending three months campaigning for Vice President?

For charging the state a per diem for 312 nights she spent in her own home?

For allowing us the opportunity to watch turkeys slaughtered in the background during her press conference?

Or perhaps she deserves a raise for her hard work in helping war veteran hating Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss successfully retain his Senate seat?

Or perhaps she deserves to get a little extra for her hard work in sabotaging our chances of ever building a gas pipeline in this state?

No Governor! If anything you owe us some money back!

We do not want to pay extra for a flyover Governor who is so focused on her own political aspirations that she can hardly be bothered with any REAL problems facing Alaskans.

I think that we should start paying Palin for services rendered. Just like a contractor we will pay her when the job is finished and not a minute before! If I had to venture a guess I would imagine that our Governor would end the year in the hole. But at least she would put a little effort into her job.