An Aspen Times columnist has been fired from her job as a snowboard instructor at Snowmass after mocking her students and their parents in a recent column.
In her Jan. 1 column, Alison Berkley described one student as a ”fat retarded kid” and ”whale boy,” and said students’ ”ultrawealthy” parents ”think I’m a miracle worker because their brain-dead kid actually got excited about something besides video games for the first time since the day she turned 13.”
Later in the column, the 33-year-old Berkley wrote: ”The real reward comes at the end of the day when the kid from hell has a really hot dad who loves me because his little monster actually likes snowboard school. … He has no idea it’s the sport that his kid loves, or even being outside all day surrounded by mountains so beautiful that even a comatose eighth-grader can appreciate them.”
On that note - - we’re off for the night - - going skiing! I’ll try to be nice to the ski patrol. I’ll be doing a few runs for Jack and Lawren, btw!!
8:18 pm on January 9th, 2004
Have fun!
12:09 pm on January 10th, 2004
We had a blast and are going again tonight!
6:28 pm on January 10th, 2004
have fun