IMPORTANT UPDATE: This post is based on facts which turned out to be completely bogus, and a mea culpa is posted here. I apologize for believing what I read on the official United Federation of Teachers blog by its Vice President. On behalf of DFER, I wish to apologize to cartoon characters everywhere for falling for the union's smear campaign.
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The UFT's Leo Casey has an amazing post over at EdWize about the decision that some thin-skinned Disney exec apparently made to deliberately remove Leo's name from the American Teacher Awards honor roll.
Leo, who won one of the awards for social studies in 1992, irked the Disney brass by organizing a public letter critical of ABC-TV's sponsorship of John Stossel's Stupid In America, which was very critical of the teacher unions.
How petty. Forget for a moment that the unions nationwide ended up providing a uniquely viral platform by which their collective anger effectively "promoted" the program to the average American who had never heard of it, this is just stupid.
If this is really a battle between Disney and Leo Casey, I have to say Casey wins hands down. What a stupid decision.