Guess The State!

[theweaselking]

Teacher fired for engaging in premarital sex.

The school, having cleverly found an excuse to kick a pregnant teacher out and not pay for maternity leave, then announced to the community and all the parents *why* she was fired.

[Poll #1577218]

Comments

[lysariala.livejournal.com]

great, another news article that brings the bile up to my throat :/

[anivair.livejournal.com]

I hate these fuckers. I was also wrong.

[angelcorrine.livejournal.com]

My favorite high school teacher had a similar thing happen when his girlfriend got pregnant.

[graethorne.livejournal.com]

Working at a "Christian" school is fraught with such perils, sadly.

She may not even have legal recourse, given the labyrynthine contractural language most likely involved...

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

Damn it, my rules of Florida = batshit / Ohio = religious fanaticism have been thrown out the window. You're cherry-picking cases to taunt us now, aren't you?

[skington.livejournal.com]

If there were a hard and fast rule, it wouldn't be guess the State, would it?

(Also mis-guessed Ohio.)

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

True, but those rules worked for so long!

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

See, my rules are exactly the opposite.

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

I'll try that as my baseline for a while and see what happens.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

The amusing part is that if she were engaged prior to having sex, she's actually fine according to the really traditional rules.

[dgg.livejournal.com]

Bingo! You just nailed Christianity on the head and why it won the hearts and minds of the Roman emperors of old.
"Let me get this straight. It doesn't matter that I have waged war, raped my sister and mother, stabbed little kittens and bathed in their blood and slept with my horse....As long as I accept Jesus as the son of God and ask forgiveness...we're cool?"

[caerlas.livejournal.com]

I guessed correctly, yay! They deserve to be sued. Regardless of their policies on moral codes, there is no excuse for violating her right to privacy.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I have no words.

[gygaxis.livejournal.com]

Thank God for teacher's unions or this would probably be happening in public schools too.