Read the spin on this NPR AgitProp!
NPR's Linda Lutton spins like a break-dancer on a wet floor - Rito Martinez was fired - just like the many, many, many city employees caught living in Greener Pastures than the Mean Streets they contracted to serve. Righto Rito, Morgan Park is as nice as Oak Park, though fewer gents sport soul-patches and chin whiskers. Yours, Rito, is a particularly spanking combination, Bye The Bye!
Nope. Rito got fired for being a sneak and a breaker of oaths. However to the Comrades of NPR - Rito is Gay Friendly and Lefty-Righteous! Now he is Benito Juarez? No way Jose-ita! Rito's a Sneak. Rito got caught. Rito got Launched.
NPR gushes this:
A popular principal who helped lead the fight for a gay-friendly high school in Chicago is leaving the district.
Rito Martinez has been principal of Social Justice High School in Little Village since it opened in 2005. Martinez told students at an assembly yesterday that he chose to live in Oak Park so he could get better access to services for a son who has Down’s syndrome. But that violates residency rules that require most CPS employees to live within the city limits.
Senior Channing Redditt said students at the tight-knit school responded with a mix of anger and sadness to the news.
REDDITT: Many students were asking, “Can we fight this? What can we do to stop this from happening?”
Social Justice High School will be honored next week as a model for getting youth to participate in local civics. Martinez was named a Golden Apple Teacher in 2002. This fall he co-led a fight to start a gay-friendly high school, though the effort fizzled out.
A CPS spokeswoman said Martinez has already resigned and will leave the school in June. She said the situation is a stark reminder that policies must be followed.
Are you kidding me?!!!! 'Officer the Speed Limit says that My driving at 85 MPH is a violation! Basta YA! Venceremos!'
Hell. I'm gay friendly! Friendly with Gays! ' Hey, Cyril, great Hibiscus you got goin' there! Andy find work yet?' Sure, I am. Honor bright! I pick up Gay Bill from the Antique Shop ( as Opposed to Crabby Bill the Banker for City National) when he takes the Rock Island ( Metra)in to 107th all the time. 'Bill, Hop In - It's colder than a well-digger's ass out there!' Does that mean that now, I can speed on Longwood Drive, when school lets out? I'm Gay Friendly!
That's just being a gentleman - it ain't political.
TS, Rito!
What is good for the Geese should be good for the Propaganda!
