Posted on 11/15/2014 1:18:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It's official. A racially offensive tweet cost Dallas English high school teacher Vinita Hegwood her job. The trustees of the Duncanville Independent School District, in a special meeting on Friday morning, confirmed her discharge over a comment she made on her personal Twitter account about the Ferguson shooting that resulted in the death of Michael Brown.
The trustees stressed that it gave Hegwood, a teacher for 20 years, an opportunity to explain her side, but they nevertheless decided to fire her. Hegwood actually resigned from Duncanville High School, although she was suspended without pay first following her tweet.
Hegwood told the trustees she was just reacting to several "threatening and racists attacks" toward her. While she said that the controversial tweet does not reflect the high benchmark she has placed on herself and her students over the past two decades, she took full responsibility for what she did and apologized to the school district for embarrassing it with her tweet.
The trustees met to decide if it will accept her resignation or fire her, according to USA Today/I>, over her November 7 tweet which reads: "Who the ... made you dumb ... think I give a squat ... about your opinions. #Ferguson kill yourselves."
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In choosing to fire Hegwood, the trustees said in a statement that their focus is to provide education to more than 13,000 students and its 794 teachers will continue to perform their duties of enriching the minds of their pupils.
Hegwood's axing comes at a time that a grand jury, which heard testimony for about three months, is about to issue its decision if it will charge police officer Darren Wilson for the death of the 18-year-old African American on August 9. The incident sparked racial protests, some of which became violent.
Her firing is currently trending on Twitter under the hashtag #VinitaHegwood and has led to several negative and positive reactions.
Kristie agreed with the trustees' decision, tweeting, "Good, she shouldn't be teaching our children." Steve Young similarly believes that Hegwood should not only be fired, "She should never teach again. Impact on children goes beyond curriculum."
Tina C., however, shared that she read a comment that the reason behind Hegwood's axing was not due to her tweet but because she is black. The Ghost noted the irony in his comment which reads: "Black racist Vinita Hegwood fired for being a racist. Good job Texas keep them in line."
Unfortunately she been teaching for twenty years so I bet she gets a full pension.
The teacher’s unions take care of their own. I have an acquaintance who is anorexic. She had to retire due to health issues 12 years into her teaching career because she kept fainting in class and breaking bones.
She somehow ended up with a full-boat 20-year pension.
When I first saw the headline I thought she was sacked for ridiculing the dumbarse Michael Brown worshippers in Ferguson.
Now I’m guessing that it was the whites she was dumping on? Her target just isn’t clear from the story.
Hard for these reporters to be clear in these kinds of stories when they are programmed to pretend that race isn’t a factor.
Sheesh...some days it’s for a feller even to know whom he is fightin’, fer or agin!
English teacher???? Those tweets were in English?? Really?
What is she axing?
over her November 7 tweet which reads: “Who the ... made you dumb ... think I give a squat ... about your opinions. #Ferguson kill yourselves.”
Doesn’t make any sense as far as I can tell.
Filthy, vile, disgusting slimey, sleazy registered Democrat/public school teacher alert!
If you replace the ellipses with the original f-bombs it starts to...
This woman has serious anger issues, and hopefully there are no minor children cowering in a dark corner somewhere, due to her latest meltdowns. Make’s you wonder what happened to make her so hateful, or was she usually only working around other blacks, and therefore, never driven to rip the mask off.
I don't think she axed for this.
Damn, I should have known 10 people would already have been all over the axing. IATAJ.
lol
Tina C., however, shared that she read a comment that the reason behind Hegwood's axing was not due to her tweet but because she is black. The Ghost noted the irony in his comment which reads: "Black racist Vinita Hegwood fired for being a racist. Good job Texas keep them in line."
Back in the 50’s attended Duncanville ISD grade school. At that time, the teachers were nothing like this. Proud of the district and the fact she received her just rewards.
Full-time job hatin’ this one.
She be known me she be sweet.
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