Art teacher fired for being... ...an artist

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Here's your choice:

A. Fire the whacky art teacher.

+ Stops loads of complaints from parents, puts all of the issue off on the shoulders of the Board's attorney.

- Probably a law suit will be lodged (but the attorney says you have a fair case [private behavior impacting job clause in contract] so it will either be a court win -- or enough pressure to end the issue with a reasonable settlement 'out of court').


B. Let the whacky teacher teach.

+ Champions that teachers right to free expression.

- Possible law suits from parents, voluminous complaints from parents, probable loss of position at next election (and concommitant death of future political career if you have such aspirations).



....not hard to see what happened and why.

[Duke of Gloucester]

Of course, it is possible he was not a very good teacher and the school board wanted an excuse to get rid of him. I have known similar things to happen. OK not with teachers who used their private parts instead of paint brushes but teachers who did something questionable that they would have got away with if the school had wanted to keep them, but since the school wanted rid of them, they got their marching orders.