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If somebody broke into my place and stole my paycheck, he or she would be doing jail time.  So should this charter school, which docked money this teacher had already EARNED through the year.  As one commenter said, it is "deferred compensation."  Teachers are typically paid year round while working ten months so as to be able to have steady income during the ten weeks they are off during the summer (or during track breaks).

You BET that school should have its ass sued.

Two days pay docked may be reasonable, but two months is outright theft.
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Daisy the dog has been finally freed from death row.

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Coincidentally, Congress passed without a peep a bill that would actually justify or condone the current megascandal of forged foreclosure documents.  Obama will "pocket veto" this two-page bill, since Congress will be going on yet another vacation, no doubt the reason representatives and senators couldn't be bothered to slog through a two-page piece of legislation.

This isn't the first time Congress has passed legislation they never bothered to read.
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Sharron Angle's pastor is working overtime to make sure she never gets elected to the United States Senate.
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Roger Ebert likes  Secretariat.  He informs us he has been a longtime friend of author and Secretariat's biographer Bill Nack for many years.
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