Wonder what Paul Kushch thinks about Ann Murray? He was fired in 2010.

“The Broward School Board took the rare step this week of firing a Coconut Creek High School science teacher accused of using profanity repeatedly in front of students.

Paul Kushch, 41, a 10-year veteran of the school district who is white, was accused of using the N-word and other profanity during a pep talk to the school’s mostly black football team in 2008. He was given a warning after the incident.

Then, on May 8, 2009, he accused one student of acting like a “git” (gangster-in-training) and told a group of students to “get your a—- inside,” describing them as “babies” still nursing.

Kushch, who gained a reputation as a motivator when the school was fighting back from a bruising F grade in 2008, acknowledged using “poor judgment” and repeatedly expressed contrition. The pep talk, he said, was a misfired attempt to boost the team’s spirit before a big game. He said he used the N-word and another vulgar phrase while trying to tell the team members they should not allow themselves to be disrespected.

On the other hand, the May 8 comments were spoken in anger after he was criticized by a supervisor, he said.

“I had a bad day,” he admitted.

Kushch, who had no prior disciplinary history, was reassigned out of the classroom and the decision to fire him was first made in February. He challenged the action and, after a hearing, Administrative Law Judge Errol Powell recommended Kushch be suspended for six months without pay.

Not enough, the School Board decided last Tuesday.”

School Board Member Dave Thomas said: “I’m concerned with the pattern of classroom conduct that bothered me”

Superintendent Jim Notter said: “There was not a change in his conduct sufficient for me to say I would feel confident I could put my own children in his classroom”

(http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/schools/broward-teacher-fired-two-years-after-using-n-1113692.html)

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