Ohio teacher fired over comment on black president

Associated Press ^ | Apr 18, 2014 11:24 AM EDT

[Olog-hai]

An Ohio teacher has been fired after a black student who said he wanted to become president claimed the teacher told him the nation didn’t need another black commander in chief.

The Fairfield Board of Education voted 4-0 on Thursday night to fire science teacher Gil Voigt from Fairfield Freshman School, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.

“The district felt that the evidence was sufficient to support the termination of Mr. Voigt’s employment,” Superintendent Paul Otten said in statement.

Voigt did not immediately return a call seeking comment Friday but has said the student misquoted him. …

[Olog-hai]

So hearsay is now “evidence”. Judge Judy would even throw that out.

[Red Badger]

So, if I don’t like a teacher, all I have to do is claim they said something and get them fired?................

[Alter Kaker]

So hearsay is now “evidence”. Judge Judy would even throw that out.

How is this hearsay if the complaint was directly brought by the student who says the teacher said this?

[tgusa]

Yet another reason for home schooling. It p!sses me off no end that my tax $$ go to support this foolishness.

[tgusa]

Good point. The teacher should sue the student and family for back wages and defamation.

[lee martell]

He needs to sue the school district.

[skeeter]

But declaring a school, town or state is ‘too white’ is just fine.

[Olog-hai]

Where are his witnesses? Student’s word against teacher’s is not “evidence”.

[Alter Kaker]

Where are his witnesses? Student’s word against teacher’s is not “evidence”.

Of course it is evidence -- whether or not it is persuasive evidence is another question altogether that depends on the specific facts of the case (including, as you note, the presence of any witnesses).

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

You vill fit in vell with the party apparatus, comrade - Stalin

[EinNYC]

That's EXACTLY right! It's rampant here in the NYC public schools, and the lying kids are ALWAYS believed over the teachers. So the teachers have to kiss student butt and walk around them like on eggs to "get on their good side" so that they won't accuse the teacher of anything.

As a matter of fact, there are now Youtube videos made BY students FOR students, tutoring them in how to get their teacher fired.

Absolutely sickening, and how does empowering kids over adults help them to develop into decent human beings? You didn't study for your test and failed it--accuse your teacher of saying something sexual. Your teacher made you put away your cell phone? Accuse your teacher of "inappropriately touching you". Happens every single day here.

[CGASMIA68]

if your black and the teach is a honkey.yup

[thorvaldr]

But we do need another black president. Allen West.

[Alter Kaker]

So wait, let's put the evidence question aside for a second -- because neither you nor I have the full facts before the board. Obviously there needs to be a sober look at what the evidence pro and con suggests -- and I'm not going to weigh into that because I don't have that.

But suppose for a second that the teacher actually said that we don't need another black commander in chief. Do you think he should have kept his job? Because while I agree that we don't need another Obama, his race has nothing to do with his unfitness to serve. And if a teacher is telling black kids that they're unfit to be President simply because they're black -- that's appalling.

What am I missing?

[HereInTheHeartland]

A very stupid statement by a teacher; if indeed the teacher really said this.
We don't need another socialist President; whatever the skin color may be.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So, if I don’t like a teacher, all I have to do is claim they said something and get them fired?

It's the new paradigm. Call it The Obama Protocol.

[mulligan]

Teacher is probably better off. Has not done any good to keep burying our heads in the sand to comply with ‘PC’.

[FoxInSocks]

You vill fit in vell with the party apparatus, comrade - Stalin

How is application of the rules of evidence Stalinesque? It's not hearsay.

[PeterPrinciple]

didn’t need another black commander in chief.

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In this case is not the teacher wrong? Clinton wasn’t black and neither is Zero........................

[lepton]

Exactly right.

Racists are ****