Friday, May 28, 2010

Teacher Suspensions/Firings Due to Facebook postings.

What would happen if "a math teacher pronounced that they were deeply religious on a social networking site." Well I've been looking for the answer to that for 45 minutes. This is what I have found if you are interested in reading about this issue further.

In that time, I could not find any mention of anything except these stories:
A lot of these are cached so the links are a bit long.

  • They would actually NOT be fired in this case:
Here are a few who were fired for their religious views but not for what you asked about

  • This guy was fired for giving religion pamphlets out in class.
  • He burnt crosses in a students arms
      "Science is wrong," Mr. Freshwater was reported as saying, "because the Bible states that homosexuality is a sin, and so anyone who is gay chooses to be gay and is therefore a sinner."  Mr Freshwater is a science teacher

  • And this one- both involved what is to be considered assault though so I don't think that's what you meant.

Now there are plenty of teachers suspended/fired for NOT being religious enough: I found the following in about 5 minutes, the above took the other 40 minutes to find.

  • This one  was suspended for being a woman teaching Sunday school.
  • This one suspended for assigning an article about homosexuality in the animal kingdom to his students.
  • This one suspended for being a liberal and atheist:
  • This teacher was suspended because she objected on facebook to the Christian students leaving a bible on her desk and and a card that said Merry Christmas with Christ underlined.
  • Peter Panse was suspended from his teaching job for apparently recommending that some of his advanced students consider taking figure drawing courses that included Nude figure drawings.
  • This teacher was suspended for posing in a bikini on facebook:
  • This teacher had a pic of her aiming a gun at the camera on her FB page:
  • This one is a teacher who allowed crosses to be made in shop class, but not a wiccan alter-
  • For having a glass of wine in their hand on a facebook page
  • And of course the original story that lead to all this

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