Scott Walker Has Been Telling This Teacher's Story For Years And She Wants Him To Stop

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/11/scott-walker-megan-sampson_n_7564734.html?ir=Politics

Scott Walker Has Been Telling This Teacher's Story For Years And She Wants Him To Stop

The Huffington Post | By Rebecca Klein

Posted: 06/11/2015 6:25 pm EDT Updated: 06/11/2015 6:59 pm EDT


............At the time, Sampson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that she was displeased with the media attention.

"My opinions about the union have changed over the past eight months, and I am hurt that this story is being used to make me the poster child for this political agenda," Sampson said in 2011. "Bottom line: I am trying to do my job and all this attention is interference and stress for me."
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This week, Walker wrote another op-ed -- this time for Iowa's Des Moines Register. Walker has not announced his candidacy for the 2016 presidential election, but political analysts largely believe he will run.

"Megan Sampson was named the outstanding first-year teacher by the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English in June of 2010. A week later, she received another certificate: a layoff notice from the Milwaukee Public Schools system," he wrote in The Des Moines Register. "In 2011, we changed that broken system in Wisconsin. Today, the requirements for seniority and tenure are gone. Schools can hire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means they can keep the best and the brightest in the classroom."....

As an aside. I have seens lots of pics of Walker in his Harley jacket--few of him with his helmet and new protective glasses: