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Texas School Counselor ‘Relieved of All Duties’ Over Shockingly Racist Post...
The Blaze ^ | April 19, 2013 | Mike Opelka

Posted on 04/19/2013 7:10:41 AM PDT by beaversmom

According to her profile on the popular networking website Linked In, Karon Wright describes her professional aspirations this way:

Eager to bring students into the twenty-first century using a unique combination of education and counseling experience coupled with thirteen years of healthcare background in physical medicine and rehabilitative counseling.

Those publicly stated aspirations seem to be in direct conflict with a comment allegedly made by the school counselor — a comment that has gotten her in some very hot water.

Ms. Wright was a counselor at Andrew Jackson Middle School in Grand Prairie ISD. That was until the district announced that she has been “immediately relieved of all duties.” The action was reportedly taken after an offensive remark written from her Facebook page (now removed from the web) was posted on WFAA-TV’s Facebook page. The statement in question referenced to the tragedy in West, Texas.

WFAA’s report states that the school district was quite clear in how they viewed the statement attributed to Ms. Wright, calling it “highly offensive, insensitive to the tragedy happening to our friends and neighbors in West, and disrespectful to the very human bond that we share with the people of West, especially those who have lost their loved ones.”

The school has also removed any reference to Karon Wright from their Staff section on the website.


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To: tillacum
She'll go on Welfare after she wins the Discrimination Lawsuit.
61 posted on 04/19/2013 8:20:07 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Compliance with Tyranny is Treason...)
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To: V_TWIN

She no speekee Englee!


62 posted on 04/19/2013 8:21:38 AM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: tillacum

I won’t be surprised if she gets her job back with back pay plus a bonus for having wrongfully been deprived of her job. So this could just be an extended vacation.


63 posted on 04/19/2013 8:23:39 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Her statement was offensive, but it always bothers me when people can lose jobs for their free speech, when that speech is deemed offensive.

Employers should have the right to fire anyone who makes their business look bad. Of course, this is the public school system, so she's likely on leave with pay until hey figure out where to shunt her after the public eye wanders elsewhere.

She could have made a political statement without it being offensively racist, and then she wouldn't be in hot water. Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing, but there is responsibility associated with that freedom, too. You have the right to say the dumbest, most hateful thing you can imagine, but your employer also should have the right to dissociate him/herself from you if you do so in public.

64 posted on 04/19/2013 8:29:41 AM PDT by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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Yet another semi-literate “educator” employed by government schools to further dumb-down our kids. God help us.
65 posted on 04/19/2013 8:32:35 AM PDT by Godwin1
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To: EthnicAmerican

When the current minorities get enough power and whites are in the minority,
I don’t expect any kidglove treatment or any “affirmative action”, to say the least.

It might be good to start studying how the Jews stayed alive and kept their culture throughout history.


66 posted on 04/19/2013 8:37:21 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: beaversmom

It is sad that people cannot accept the fact that blacks(and other groups) resent whites and probably even hate them. What is worse and should be explored is the formation of coalitions of blacks, Asians, non Christians and Hispanic to gain control of this country.


67 posted on 04/19/2013 8:39:57 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: impimp

Does it matter that in this case, she was a government employee, and therefore it is the government that is determining what speech is considered acceptable, and what isn’t?


68 posted on 04/19/2013 8:55:36 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: AppyPappy

Its bad enough it should be repeated

Hell let’s shout it from the roof tops

But instead....it will be only mild chatter from the outliers like us


69 posted on 04/19/2013 8:59:04 AM PDT by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: Izzy Dunne
“I wuz hacked !”, she says.

So that's what the druggies are calling it now.

70 posted on 04/19/2013 8:59:13 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - "Popeye" Descartes)
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To: RegulatorCountry

But as a public employee, she is being fired by the government for having said something that the government deems unacceptable.

What would keep the government from similarly firing an employee for saying they support gun rights, or think illegals should be deported, not educated?

I’m not saying there isn’t speech that would cross the line even for a government employee, but when government acts against speech, it is censorship. It would clearly be wrong for the government to deny benefits, or to punish, someone for what she said; the question is whether as an employer, the government still has some restrictions on what they are allowed to do to punish speech they don’t like.

I feel the opposite — if a private employer wanted to fire someone for saying something, I think they should have every right to do so. And sadly, in many cases the government prohibits employers from firing at-will employees, because of laws we have passed to protect certain classes of people.


71 posted on 04/19/2013 9:00:06 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: righttackle44

I have no problems firing a person for cause. But you have to make the case, not just assume that because a person says something, it means they would also act in a certain way.

I’ve certainly said things occasionally that, if used as the sole judge of my character, would find me quite lacking. I take great care not to write things that would do so, as I like having a job.

I can imagine several things said regularly on this site, that if they were put on facebook by a teacher, might get a similar reaction to that which we have now — and in some cases, I am pretty sure those people would make fine educators, even with their biases and prejudices.

I’m not trying to judge this particular case, which is why I started with the general comment that it makes me nervous whenever I see people losing their jobs for expressing an opinion.


72 posted on 04/19/2013 9:04:33 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Ditto

Well done ditto

Quite right


73 posted on 04/19/2013 9:05:12 AM PDT by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

It does matter - which is why the smaller the government the better as it perverts the normal action of discriminating against those who we oppose. Yes that is right - I said it - many forms of discrimination is OK.


74 posted on 04/19/2013 9:05:13 AM PDT by impimp
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To: impimp

I agree with you, and a smaller government would make the problem less pervasive. I understand the civil rights acts, but also feel that at some level, a person should have a right to hire only white people, or only black people, if that is what they want.

It isn’t the job of government to make private citizens act civilly — just to keep them from directly harming other citizens or depriving them of the just use of their property.

Once we had widespread support for government forcing people to rent their houses to people they didn’t want, or to hire people they didn’t want, it became difficult to keep government out of anything. Freedom of association is meaningless if it doesn’t extend to a person’s livelihood.


75 posted on 04/19/2013 9:08:51 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: beaversmom

What an insipient moron. I wonder how many “advanced” degrees she has?


76 posted on 04/19/2013 9:21:03 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: beaversmom

Not a problem. Where I live here in Texas our schools are “wonderful”, filled with loving people.’

It’s only over there...at those other schools, where the bad people are.

(how a person that rationalizes sending their kids to public school thinks)


77 posted on 04/19/2013 9:47:29 AM PDT by BobL (Look up "CSCOPE" if you want to see something really scary)
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To: Menehune56

Thanks!


78 posted on 04/19/2013 10:17:53 AM PDT by squarebarb ( Fairy tales are basically true.)
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