Connecticut Teacher Learns Radio Show Appearance Has Stern Consequences

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Posted to Legal on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 05:45:54 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

The way Marie Jarry sees it, she made a mistake, but a mistake many people make. What the Southington, Connecticut elementary school teacher did was call out sick when she really wasn't. As a result she believes she was coerced into resigning from her job. Teaching school is something Jarry loves almost more than anything and she wants her job back. But, because the teacher's real purpose in faking her sick absence was to appear on a contest run on the Howard Stern Show, the school system won't let her back on the payroll. Thus, she's suing to get her job back.

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