Quote Originally Posted by mongoose
Red harvest

Fair enough. But if the teacher is a member of a religious school, then she should be required to act consistently with the beliefs of the religion.

Which raises the question if there should be such schools in the first place, since it isn't really possible to comply with the Discrimination laws and laws of the religion as far as i know...
Yes, that is a problem. Religion is often at odds with anti-discrimination statutes.

If you are going to apply the axe for what could easily be a *single* transgression of their rules applying to what you do outside of the work envirnment, then are you going to apply it equally to all transgressions by other faculty. A teacher pinches his or her extremity in a door/drops a book on his/her toe and utters something less than exemplary. Do they get canned? A teacher tells a "white lie" and gets caught in it. Do they get canned? The number of permutations is endless...and these must be applied to both work and non-work situations. Your whole workforce will be terminated the first week of school.