Posted on 11/27/2007 4:23:02 PM PST by wagglebee
PRIOR LAKE, Minnesota, November 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After being fired for promoting abstinence among students at the school where he worked, ex school supervisor Chris Lind has been elected to the Prior Lake-Savage district school board in Minnesota.
Lind, who was a hallway and parking lot supervisor at a local high school and a "conservative Christian" was told by District Human Resource Director Tony Massaros that he could not discuss abstinence from sexual activity with any students, during or after school hours, on or off campus, according to a friend who witnessed the meeting.
Lind was told that this restriction included Sunday Bible school classes at his own church, and it even extended to former students of the school. He was also told to take down his "My Space" website, which purportedly gave advice to the many students who sought his counsel.
However, after the Prior Lake-Savage School District fired Lind on the recommendation of Superintendent Tom Westerhaus, the voters returned him to the District in the months following, electing him to the school board early this month.
Westerhaus soon after announced his resignation, stating that he couldn't continue to function as the employee of the man whom he had fired so recently.
What galled Westerhaus the most was the fact that the people of the school district had clearly sided with Lind. "It isn't that one person. It's the 3,400 people who said he's one of the best candidates for School Board," Westerhaus told a local reporter. "I'm being told this was courageous. I don't know that's what this was, but I'm taking a stand. Maybe that's what we need now in education more than ever."
Chuck Darrell of the Minnesota Family Council, noted that the school district that fired Lind has a "sex ed program" that promotes promiscuity and unnatural sexual behavior. "Perhaps Lind would have kept his job if he had limited his discussions to other comprehensive sex education topics such as how to get an abortion or oral sex with a dental dam," Darrell writes on MFC's blog, which has covered the issue for months.
"The recent rise in STDs and STIs in Minnesota is proof that current sex education curricula are a colossal failure," says Darrell. "And, as long as schools continue to fire personnel for promoting abstinence then we can only expect more of the same."
Although Lind will soon be a school board member, he has not ruled out the possibility of a lawsuit against the same board for his firing.
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No training at all. But it doesn’t take any training to put a condom on a mop handle either - and I wouldn’t want the janitor roaming the hallways showing the “proper usage” of that either.
This is the courageous part. Cleaning house one room at a time.
Its likely he had at least some contact with students (and if a Christian) was friendly and became friends with some...
I don’t know anyone that would believe it weird to discuss personal matters with real friends, and if this guy was older maybe functioned as a mentor of sorts for some to “pass along his wisdom”.
That’s not questionable..(of course this is all ‘what-if’) thought?!
Sounds like he was “defeated” and knows it (look for slander of the good-councilman) now that the educrat has lost..that’s what the left does when they loose, they choose dirty ‘trickery’..!
For later.
I agree with you. A hall and parking lot monitor should not be discussing sex with the students, even if he is saying all the right things. His job is to monitor the hallways and parking lots, not teach sex ed.
However, I do think the school district was horribly wrong in trying to restrict him from his personal my space and from his Sunday School teaching. They do not own him, and his personal life is none of their business.
I do think it sends a message to the school district that the parents are unhappy with the current policy, which is great. He will have a much better opportunity to change things now.
Sure, take your stand against the wishes of 3,400 people and quit. What have you proved? You've just made 3,400 people happier. Idiot.
What a power hungry egotist. What ever happened to the school board actually representing the people who elected them? It's about time parents took back THEIR school district that's paying with THEIR taxes for the education of THEIR children.
I live very nearby. The facts are different. Lind was fired because he violated his contract by meeting with students off campus.
He was then warned, but ignored the warnings. Basically, he was insubordiate.
I’m not even sure how many voters here knew about it but its an example of how things get spun and magnfied to suit one sides purpose.
“I live very nearby. The facts are different. Lind was fired because he violated his contract by meeting with students off campus.”
How do you know his contract forbid him to meet students off campus? I know there was no such provision in my contract as a teaching assistant, nor is there one in my contract as a teacher. I somehow doubt it would be enforceable if there was.
Any lawyers out there want to comment?
“What galled Westerhaus the most was the fact that the people of
the school district had clearly sided with Lind. “
This is as good as the griping of that Greeley, CO mayor (RINO)
that got the heave-ho in the latest election for being pro-Illegal.
Some people just can’t understand why the sun doesn’t always shine
on them and on them alone!
Democracy must really suck for leftists like Westerhaus.
How do you know his contract forbid him to meet students off campus?
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I heard that he was warned after the first incident- making this more a case of insubordination than a legal breach.
The Superintendent had quite the ego- I can’t say I’m sorry he’s out.
It’s a fasinating thing to watch a situation get spun politically, regardless of who was right.
I may vote for Lind next time, but I would be surprised if he has a legal case. If he sues, he’s not going to ingratiate himself with the public. He should let it pass and do his thing at board meetings. my two cents
So are you saying that all employees of the school including teachers should be restricted from talking to students except for the subjects they teach? It seems to me that there would be a lot of opportunity for a hall and parking lot monitor to interface with kids about sex. What is he supposed to be monitoring anyways. Heck in the 70’s the hall and parking lots is where kids would make out.
This Westerhaus guy sounds like he’s in the wrong country. Maybe he should check out opportunities for fascist apparatchiks in Ontario.
“Lind was told that this restriction included Sunday Bible school classes at his own church, and it even extended to former students of the school. He was also told to take down his “My Space” website, which purportedly gave advice to the many students who sought his counsel.”
And how is this legal?
What galled Westerhaus the most was the fact that the people of the school district had clearly sided with Lind.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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