Principal Mocked Her Beliefs

Brooklyn PS 224 assistant special-education teacher Anita Wooten-Francis, 52, was a veteran city educator and is a devout Christian.  She never hid her faith but took care not to influence kids.

Wooten-Francis worshiped in her classroom before or after students left, read the Bible on her lunch break, led other teachers in a prayer group, and played gospel music during non-instruction hours.  For 16 years she had no problem, until Principal George Andrews arrived at the Canarsie school in 2004.

Andrews even made fun of her for being devout.  He'd "constantly" tease her that "he was aware that she and other Christians were praying to have the demons removed from his spirit, but that it was not working," according to a lawsuit she filed earlier this month in Brooklyn federal court.

"He said, 'You can't be praying in my school,' " Wooten-Francis recalled. "He said I was the ringleader in praying."

In one instance, he criticized the disabled woman for using the elevator and told her to take the stairs. When she protested, he allegedly said, "Why don't you just pray?" Then he laughed.

Wooten-Francis says, the school was going to hell in a handbasket, with school administrators charging students for bake sales "even though no charity received the proceeds," and using money from the school's Special Needs Funds to pay for lunches and parties, the suit claims.

After she complained, Wooten-Francis said she was fired on trumped-up charges accusing her of grabbing a kindergartner.

"Sometimes I will drop my Bible because my hands go numb and I have no feeling. How in the world am I going to grab a child?" she insisted, referring to nerve damage in her hands and feet from a host of medical problems.

"And if you look at the reports, it's not even stated that the kids said themselves that I hit the kid," she told The Post in her home in Tobyhanna, Pa.

A teacher, who asked to remain nameless for fear of retribution, described Wooten-Francis as a "fantastic lady" who "gave her life to the kids" and "wouldn't hurt a fly."

"I'm a Christian," Wooten-Francis said. "I believe Jesus Christ is my lord and savior . . . I know that I'm trusting God, and the truth will come out."

Is it becoming illegal to be a Christian in America?  There is more and more evidence that the left hates Christians and want to eliminate Christianity from America.  They know they can never make America a socialist country as long as Christianity is strong.

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