[righttackle44]

If there is any evidence that her beliefs impacted her performance of her job, then fire her. If she had said this at work, fire her.

So you don't care if a nasty, racist woman works, mentors, and nurtures children? How could her attitude NOT affect her performance? Over the decades, I have written dozens if not hundreds of job and performance evaluations. Attitude ALWAYS shows up in performance. Negative attitude ALWAYS shows up in negative performance.

[CharlesWayneCT]

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.