Students rally to save PE teacher's job
Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | Jamie San Filippo, a phys ed teacher in the Levittown school district, was one of more than 65 educators in the district to get pink slips. (June 21, 2011)
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Jamie San Filippo, a phys ed teacher in the Levittown school district, doesn't like to talk about himself.
For example, he would never tell the school board he once gave a student $50 from his own pocket after the boy's belongings were stolen.
Then again, San Filippo didn't have to. His students told the board themselves recently as part of their plea that his job be saved.
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