Student Teacher Claims He Was Fired for Saying He Would “Choose to Marry a Man” in Class
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It’s the question of our generation – “How out can we be?”
From The Portland Mercury: A student teacher in the Beaverton School District who has been summarily dismissed from his work suspects that his sexual orientation is the reason he has been booted from the school district.
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that’s a shame..he was pretty good looking..would have been interested to see this “inappropriate outfit he was wearing..were the slack too tight or something??
but even tho its obvious he was let go because he was gay, I can understand why the Principle decided to do so, a gay man teaching 4th and 5th graders? If he had stayed, the parents of all those children would call for a witch hunt, and go berserk on the school, arguing that a pedophile is teaching their children and so forth, the Principle probably just wanted to avoid that, sure maybe the Principle is a homophobe too, but the teacher prolly should have kept his mouth shut, or lied with some excuse if he wanted to keep his job :/
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although after reading the full article and some of the comments people made who were familiar with the school, something else seems to be going on, because apparently the school was ok with gay teachers…perhaps the angry parent threatened to do something nasty, so the school has decided to remain unclear on their decision to fire the guy…
I don’t see why any of that would be a reason to fire someone in the first place. Try to reverse the roles and place any other minority in that situation. Would you fire a black person from a job just because you’re afraid someone will assume he’s there to steal things, or rape someone?
Stereotypes like those are awful, ugly things. No person in any state could get away with firing someone on the grounds I just mentioned. No one should play in to them, especially not in a work-field where equality is meant to be the determining factor on whether or not someone is or isn’t hired. If civil rights for same-sex couples is ever going to advance, people need to stop backing down and cowering every time an LGBT issue is inserted into their personal bubble.
In New Zealandof 95% of pedophiles are hetrosexual, it is less likely for a gay male teacher to affend than a father of a child – you work out the sums, also the very people who are outspoken about homosexuality belong to churches that have leaders who hid the fact some of their priests were raping children for a long time and these leaders had the audacity it condemn homosexuality …… so in the churches eyes what is worse …. do I ask?
What about expelling the kid for asking personal questions?
Obviously I’m exaggerating to make a point, but he was asking questions he legally would not be allowed to ask if he was interviewing a job candidate (at least not here in Canada).
Speaking of Canada, the student teacher is welcome here. He can both marry and teach out.