Posted on 07/21/2020 11:40:18 AM PDT by Enlightened1
All it took for a popular Michigan high school teacher and coach to get fired was a simple social media post reading, “I’m done being silent. Donald Trump is our president. Don’t @ me.”
Justin Kucera, a social studies teacher and varsity baseball coach at Walled Lake Western High School, posted the tweet on July 6th and was given the option to “resign or be fired” only four days later.
“I was required to meet with [human resources], the superintendent, and my principal [on July 10]. They initially took my statement on why I tweeted those tweets and they told me they would have a decision about my future employment in the upcoming days. When they completed the meeting, I was told I had the option to either be fired or resign,” Kucera told The Washington Free Beacon.
Kucera said he didn’t mean for the tweet to be divisive, explaining, “I know a lot of people are just rooting for Trump to fail, and I don’t think that anybody should do that. Agree with him or not, you should want the president to do well. I apologized that [my tweet] brought so much negative attention, but I’m not sorry for what I said.”
A recent graduate of the high school spoke out on the coach’s behalf, saying, “Prior to Mr. Kucera’s tweet, I cannot recall an instance where he shared his political affiliations while teaching or coaching. My political views have no impact on how I feel towards Mr. Kucera. Mr. Kucera has always been supportive of me as my AP World History and student leadership teacher and as my baseball and basketball coach.”
A parent of two Walled Lake Western students who said he “knows Justin very well” commended Kucera for being “apolitical” when having conversations with students.
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He is going to clean up in the civil suit. I hope he took copious notes.
He does need to lawyer up.
It’s as if saying “Yay Team” is racist hate speech.
Ironically, if that same teacher had tweeted “Donald Trump is not my president,” he would be lauded by colleagues and students alike.
He needs to lawyer up.
Boy howdy. I ain’t a lawyer and I’d happily take that case and figure a win.
Tenured? Isn’t it hard to fire a teacher? Are we getting the whole story here? I’m not taking the time to read-just asking questions.
Yet another misleading account of this story. Infowars is such a joke. Not saying this teacher shouldn’t sue, but at least give us the entire story. I hope this shows people how dishonest BOTH sides of the house are.
Do tell.
Can you provide a URL to a more complete account, please?
Seems like all his lawyer would need to do is to find one of his still-employed colleagues who tweeted it such a statement.
Was this tweet on a school website or school computer? If not, what this teacher does in his private life is no ones business, unless it is now illegal to say you support DJT.
sounds like a man about to own a school
Okay how is it misleading? What part of the story is missing that you know. Please link us evidence.
If you actually read the article too, then you would have seen it is originally from the Washington Free Beacon and not Infowars.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/mi-school-fires-popular-teacher-for-saying-trump-is-our-president/
Hopefully those responsible will lose their jobs and homes
Oh yes he is.
I see he Tweeted at 9:28pm at night?
So I doubt it was a public school computer.
...and citizenship.
A win-win.
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