On Feb. 7, Alfred Jimenez was working in his Applied Learning Environment (ALE) classroom, where he worked with students who have moderate to severe cognitive disabilities , when he sustained a head injury after falling. He was taken to a local hospital where he later died from his injuries.
After a few weeks of mourning privately in respect for the Jimenez family, the Northside AFT is speaking out about the situation calling for “comprehensive change” to ensure this doesn’t happen to another educator.
“My heart aches for Mr. Fred’s family, friends, students, and colleagues, of which I myself was one,” said Melina Espiritu-Azocar, president of Northside AFT. “My heart has broken more with every phone call in recent days, as educator after educator has told me something similar, ‘That could have been me.’ The fault for this senseless tragedy does not lie with Fred, who did exactly what he was supposed to, or with the student, whose needs have not been met. The villains in this story sit
in the governor’s mansion and the state Capitol, far away from the consequences of their continual undermining and endangerment of our schools.”
Northside AFT is calling upon the district and and the State of Texas to make the following changes:
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