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Teacher Suspended Over 'Puerto Ricans Destroying Orlando' Letter

POSTED: 5:19 pm EDT August 17, 2005
UPDATED: 6:26 am EDT August 22, 2005

An Orange County elementary school teacher was suspended Wednesday over a letter asking for laws to be changed to prevent Puerto Ricans from coming to Orlando because they are "destroying the city every day," according to a Local 6 News report.

  • Orange County elementary school teacher Jan Hall.

    A handwritten letter by Sadler Elementary School teacher Jan Hall was addressed to a congressman and published in a local Spanish newspaper.

    Hall's letter said Hispanics are causing American students to fall behind in school, Local 6 News reported.

    "Schools are dealing with too many problems which originate in the language differences and that takes teaching time away from our American children whose parents do pay taxes," the letter said.

    The letter has angered parents and members of the Hispanic community.

    "I don't think she should be teaching at all," parent Betsy Santos said.

    The Orange County School Board took action Wednesday after reading the letter.

    "She has been removed from Sadler Elementary and will not be returning to Sadler Elementary regardless of the outcome of the investigation," Orange County Schools spokesman Frank Kruppenbacher said.

    Local 6 News has learned that attorneys are looking into numerous comments in the letter.

    "Puerto Rican teachers who work at my school are constantly asking me for help with math because they only received the equivalent of a fifth-grade education in Puerto Rico," the letter said.

    "The letter was written by an employee of our district that contained information that does not reflect the views of this school district or its leadership," Kruppenbacher said. "Nor is it condoned by this leadership."

    Hall confessed to the school's principal Wednesday morning that she wrote a letter but said she forgot who she wrote it to, Local 6 News reported.

    An investigation has been launched.

    Hall remains on unpaid suspension from the school.

    Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.



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