Teacher fired for premarital sex?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

As to the question of whether or not she felt the need to "reform" - she's married. To the man in question. So if the question is what kind of example she is, I'd argue that she is a good example of how to live a good, not perfect, life. The students are watching and learning - but what is it they are learning?

Again, the school may have been following the letter of the "law" as in contract, but not the spirit. It seems to be another example of a zero tolerance type of rule, which have always struck me as a cop-out. Life is difficult, and messy, and requires discernment. Every situation is different, and should be dealt with individually.

I agree, I just think we're assuming that it wasn't dealt with individually because we don't like the outcome. We don't know how she reacted, we don't know if there was another option presented. We really just don't know.

The only thing I've seen on the news that perhaps provided new information is that she may have been pressured to resign rather than actually being fired (although she would have been had she not resigned) and I can't confirm that as I only caught the tail end of the report.

The other suggestion I've seen is that the school/principal didn't like having to cover maternity leave and used this as a pretense to fire her rather than cover her leave. That one suggests there was no contract.

If the latter was the case, than the school's a bunch of hypocritical liars and should be sued to the ground. But if they truly acted in good faith (ha) then they're within their rights to do even if we would never do that ourselves.

(And as for reform, she did marry him, but we have no idea whether she's actually "sorry" for her actions or not. If she's not, then just because she happened to be getting married to him anyway, it's not really "reforming." I tend to fall back mentally to the Catholic sacrament of Confession here but i think it's a good standard, you say sorry, you do something to make up for it or show your contrition, that's how you're forgiven. It typically requires both, not one or the other and we have no idea whether she's sorry she did it, sorry she got caught, or unapologetic.)