Posted on 03/27/2021 8:38:05 AM PDT by buckalfa
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit of a West Virginia teacher who was fired for her social media posts.
Former Huntington High School teacher Mary Durstein made a series of posts in 2017 that ridiculed Black people, Muslims and former President Barack Obama.
The Herald-Dispatch reports that she challenged an “immorality” law as overly broad.
But Robert C. Chambers ruled Monday that the Cabell County school system did not violate her freedom of expression.
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Nothing is guaranteed if it’s not acted on.....
By this reasoning when Christians start reporting teachers who post anti-Cristian slurs, those teachers will have to be fired.
Appeal it.
The Supreme Court once ruled, during the Vietnam era when there were many protests, that students don’t “check their 1st Amendment rights at the gates”.
So why do teachers have to do the same?
I have no idea what she wrote or said, so I can’t condone or condemn it. But that is not the point. She as a near absolute, protected right to free speech.
Wasn’t the SC ruling on protests that occurred at schools?
This is a morality clause for what she posted offsite.
Get Real! Some animals are more equal than others. Christians are at the bottom of the list.
I am required to have it for my VR headset. I told fb this was a fake account I was setting up and there was nothing they could do about it. They did NOT push back asking for an ID check.
I do spend a little time on there in the VR forums, mostly to swap jokes about various VR arcana and they have been helpful in some stuff I want to do.
But my RL name appears nowhere. Nor is there a link as I never gave fb my RL info.
But if an untethered VR shows up from a competitor that can play my favorite apps, I will have a Quest rig for sale that minute.
It’s all flaky BS.
If she had been front line in a LGBTQA... or a BLM protest, do you think the school would have dared fire her, do you think some flaky court would have said it’s the schools right to fire her?
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It’s real simple, you’re allowed to publicly have some ideas, but other ideas are not allowed.
You could be right but I don’t see a meaningful difference. If anything, what she did outside of school makes it all the more protected.
CAIR is claiming victory.
Does their morals clause cover adultery? being drunk or stoned? How about rabid remarks against Donald Trump or his supporters?
If someone does not know by now that social media posts can lead to problems including being fired, then they are truly not that bright. I have no sympathy.
If it was a public school, than that is government.
Never post under your real name
Depends on who complains and who adjudicates the complaints. Of course!
You are right of course. But good. Petard, meet hoist. Their success will be their failure.
Especially if you’re white.
Maybe there are other school districts that would be very happy to hire her.
Very definitely should be appealed to the Supreme Court. A local public school board is a government entity and when it penalizes speech , it is violating the constitution.
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