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Ohio teacher fired over comment on black president
Associated Press ^
| Apr 18, 2014 11:24 AM EDT
Posted on 04/18/2014 9:51:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai
An Ohio teacher has been fired after a black student who said he wanted to become president claimed the teacher told him the nation didnt need another black commander in chief.
The Fairfield Board of Education voted 4-0 on Thursday night to fire science teacher Gil Voigt from Fairfield Freshman School, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.
The district felt that the evidence was sufficient to support the termination of Mr. Voigts employment, Superintendent Paul Otten said in statement.
Voigt did not immediately return a call seeking comment Friday but has said the student misquoted him.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: blackpresident; fired; teacherfired; workplace
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So hearsay is now evidence. Judge Judy would even throw that out.
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posted on
04/18/2014 9:51:47 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
So, if I don’t like a teacher, all I have to do is claim they said something and get them fired?................
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posted on
04/18/2014 9:53:32 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Olog-hai
So hearsay is now evidence. Judge Judy would even throw that out. How is this hearsay if the complaint was directly brought by the student who says the teacher said this?
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posted on
04/18/2014 9:53:33 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Olog-hai
Yet another reason for home schooling. It p!sses me off no end that my tax $$ go to support this foolishness.
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posted on
04/18/2014 9:55:11 AM PDT
by
tgusa
(gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
To: Alter Kaker
Good point. The teacher should sue the student and family for back wages and defamation.
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posted on
04/18/2014 9:56:44 AM PDT
by
tgusa
(gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
To: Olog-hai
He needs to sue the school district.
To: Olog-hai
But declaring a school, town or state is ‘too white’ is just fine.
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posted on
04/18/2014 9:57:40 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Alter Kaker
Where are his witnesses? Student’s word against teacher’s is not “evidence”.
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posted on
04/18/2014 9:57:47 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Where are his witnesses? Students word against teachers is not evidence. Of course it is evidence -- whether or not it is persuasive evidence is another question altogether that depends on the specific facts of the case (including, as you note, the presence of any witnesses).
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posted on
04/18/2014 10:00:02 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Alter Kaker
You vill fit in vell with the party apparatus, comrade - Stalin
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posted on
04/18/2014 10:00:54 AM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The Acronym explains the science.)
To: Red Badger
That's EXACTLY right! It's rampant here in the NYC public schools, and the lying kids are ALWAYS believed over the teachers. So the teachers have to kiss student butt and walk around them like on eggs to "get on their good side" so that they won't accuse the teacher of anything.
As a matter of fact, there are now Youtube videos made BY students FOR students, tutoring them in how to get their teacher fired.
Absolutely sickening, and how does empowering kids over adults help them to develop into decent human beings? You didn't study for your test and failed it--accuse your teacher of saying something sexual. Your teacher made you put away your cell phone? Accuse your teacher of "inappropriately touching you". Happens every single day here.
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posted on
04/18/2014 10:04:18 AM PDT
by
EinNYC
To: Red Badger
if your black and the teach is a honkey.yup
To: Olog-hai
But we do need another black president. Allen West.
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
So wait, let's put the evidence question aside for a second -- because neither you nor I have the full facts before the board. Obviously there needs to be a sober look at what the evidence pro and con suggests -- and I'm not going to weigh into that because I don't have that.
But suppose for a second that the teacher actually said that we don't need another black commander in chief. Do you think he should have kept his job? Because while I agree that we don't need another Obama, his race has nothing to do with his unfitness to serve. And if a teacher is telling black kids that they're unfit to be President simply because they're black -- that's appalling.
What am I missing?
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posted on
04/18/2014 10:08:09 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Olog-hai
A very stupid statement by a teacher; if indeed the teacher really said this.
We don't need another socialist President; whatever the skin color may be.
To: Red Badger
So, if I dont like a teacher, all I have to do is claim they said something and get them fired? It's the new paradigm. Call it The Obama Protocol.
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posted on
04/18/2014 10:08:55 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Truth sounds like hate...to those who hate truth.)
To: Olog-hai
Teacher is probably better off. Has not done any good to keep burying our heads in the sand to comply with ‘PC’.
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posted on
04/18/2014 10:12:14 AM PDT
by
mulligan
(I)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
You vill fit in vell with the party apparatus, comrade - Stalin How is application of the rules of evidence Stalinesque? It's not hearsay.
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posted on
04/18/2014 10:13:48 AM PDT
by
FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: HereInTheHeartland
didnt need another black commander in chief.
In this case is not the teacher wrong? Clinton wasn’t black and neither is Zero........................
To: Alter Kaker
Exactly right.
Racists are ****
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posted on
04/18/2014 10:19:15 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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