[sbMKE]

Another case of Wisconsin teacher's unions run amok.

In Cedarburg, a teacher is fired after it he was found to be downloading pornography at school. The teacher's union defends him on the grounds that another teacher checked stock quotes from school and while equally guilty of "personal use" was not fired. Morally equivilent? The union thinks so.

Both union and teacher maintain that nothing wrong was done, and the school board moves to share all 1,500 pornographic photos, from the teacher's machine, with the community. Let them judge who's in the right.

Instead of doing the right thing and resigning in disgrace, the teacher has run up $100,000 in legal bills vs. union reps and is now running the issue of "privacy" in regards to in-school porn stash to the state supreme court.

[Callahan]

Maybe he was preparing a lesson plan on the Clinton Legacy.

[Rameumptom]

I wouldn't be worried about students seeing stock quotes on the pc even if they were personal. The Unions secular argument of moral equivalency of stocks and porn is dumb.

I am not sure why the images have to be "released" though? I have heard of judges who had to view pictures to determine whether they were "prurient" and/or pornographic.

[SteveMcKing]

but the board has refused to do so and has spent more than $100,000 in legal fees on the case.

That's public money going to make trial lawyers rich, who will then invest in liberal causes to raise taxes and repeat the cycle.

[Red Badger]

67 seconds?..........Dang, he's worse of than we thought.....

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"In Cedarburg, a teacher is fired after it he was found to be downloading pornography at school. The teacher's union defends him on the grounds that another teacher checked stock quotes from school and while equally guilty of "personal use" was not fired."

Stocks == Porn

We're all pornographers now.

[horse_doc]

My guess - he doesn't want the pictures released, because they involve gay sex with minors.

As long as it is generic "pornography", he'll get his job back. If it is a picture of gay sex with a minor, public opinion nose-dives.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The article keeps referring to "the teacher's computer".
Is not the computer the property of the school?
If so, the teacher should have no legal right to be able to deter the school from doing as it pleases with the computer or any data contained on the storage devices.

[lesser_satan]

Ridiculous. Anything he downloads using the taxpayers' machine, bandwidth, and time is de-facto public information.

[em2vn]

If he's a union member the union is required to represent him or face a law suit. How strongly it represents him is another matter.
If he was a non-union member working for a school that was represented by a union the union would also be required to represent him.