Posted on 11/26/2019 2:35:31 PM PST by conservative98
A Texas teacher who lost her job after asking President Trump on Twitter to remove the illegal students from Mexico from her school has won an appeal to get her job back.
Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath ruled Monday that the series of offensive tweets sent in May by Georgia Clark an English teacher at Carter-Riverside High School in Fort Worth were protected by the First Amendment, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
Clark, whose Twitter account has since been deleted, is now entitled to return to the classroom with back pay and employment benefits or district officials can fork over one years salary.
The teacher was fired in June after seeking assistance from Trump in a barrage of tweets that she said she thought were private messages to the commander-in-chief, Clark later told a district investigator.
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I’m very Happy and Thankful she got her job back with back pay and benefits!
This is Great News!
She was no doubt forced to devote extra class time to the illegals, which shortchanges the rest of the students.
She had every right to complain.
Winning! But it should never have happened in the first place. The judiciary is slowly moving back to sanity and more importantly constitutionality.
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