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Idaho High School Coach Fired for ‘Immoral’ Facebook Photo
ABC News ^ | 11/08/2013 | Katie Kindelan

Posted on 11/08/2013 12:22:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

The Idaho high school basketball coach fired after the school district deemed a photo of her fiancé grabbing her chest as “immoral” says she is “discouraged” that she was fired while her fiancé, the school’s varsity football coach, kept his job.

“Obviously, I don’t want to see my fiancé to get into trouble but I was a little bit discouraged,” Laraine Cook, 31, of Pocatella, Idaho, told GoodMorningAmerica.com today. “They told me it was because it was on my Facebook account that I was being terminated.”

Cook, the mother of two elementary school-aged children, was fired from her job as a substitute teacher and head coach of the Pocatello High varsity girls’ basketball team Oct. 21 after the photo, showing fiancé Tom Harrison touching her chest, was anonymously delivered to the office of the school district’s superintendent, Mary Vagner.

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To: longfellowsmuse
Why people display such exhibitionism in public

From the look on his face I'd say the answer is Coors. Or possibly Olympia.


21 posted on 11/08/2013 12:37:20 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: omega4179
Or, just don’t do facebook at all

I don't "get" facebook. I've got email. I don't care what complete strangers think of me and I have no interest in the lives of total strangers.

22 posted on 11/08/2013 12:38:11 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
so.....female coach gets canned for having her boob grabbed, but male coach who grabbed it gets to stay?

I think she got canned for posting the picture, not for having her boob grabbed. Apparently her fiance did not post anything. If I'm reading it right.

23 posted on 11/08/2013 12:38:13 PM PST by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This guy was simply trying to cover her boob to keep it from being photographed…… a gentlemen’s gesture.


24 posted on 11/08/2013 12:39:58 PM PST by Gator113 ( Cruz, Palin and Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: Alaska Wolf; omega4179

I don’t ‘get’ Facebook either. I’m happy not to be on it, no ‘friends’, no ‘likes’, no issues.

If someone really wants to find me, they can find me on LinkedIn.


25 posted on 11/08/2013 12:42:19 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Responsibility2nd

“More story here” = morals clause in every teacher contract everywhere since the beginning of time.


26 posted on 11/08/2013 12:45:27 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Having been a Jr/Sr high school basketball coach for years, I was more prepared for the ‘partner’ to be of the same sex. In all my years as a boys coach I never, ever met a solitary female girls coach that was not of the lesbian persuasion. And all my experience is in small school districts, not larger urban district. Some of them were very good coaches but every one of them was a lesbian.


27 posted on 11/08/2013 12:45:42 PM PST by RonInNaples
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To: Nea Wood

Whatever. This will end up in front of a jury full of low-info social media addicts who post to Facebook everytime they sneeze. What do you think they are gonna do with it?


28 posted on 11/08/2013 12:46:00 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Responsibility2nd
lesbians photo: lesbians lesbians.jpg

On the other hand, if she had taken the same picture with her lesbian girlfriend, she would have received tenure and a pay raise.

29 posted on 11/08/2013 12:46:15 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Gator113

He was checking for Breast Cancer.


30 posted on 11/08/2013 12:47:03 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

His other hand is on her a$$. I guess that one doesn’t count.


31 posted on 11/08/2013 12:47:10 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Repeal The 17th

Guilty! (Or maybe not guilty!)


32 posted on 11/08/2013 12:47:40 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: Alaska Wolf
I don't "get" facebook. I've got email. I don't care what complete strangers think of me and I have no interest in the lives of total strangers.

Facebook is similar to your grandparents bringing out 6 carousels of slides from a vacation three years ago.

Look, it's your great aunt Martha watching someone waterski. Well, she's not actually your aunt because she married your great aunt's widower about 5 years after she died. No wait, it was 6 years. I remember because that was the summer when it rained on the Fourth of July parade, which was held on the fifth of July because they were expecting rain on the fourth. Well, anyway, that was the year when the apples came in early because it had been so hot during the summer. Karl, did you fall asleep again? Zzzzzzzzz!

33 posted on 11/08/2013 12:50:48 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: Repeal The 17th
The woman who got unjustly fired. Solidly good looking in my book>>>

I detect some jealousy here. Here is the superintendent who fired her>>>>


34 posted on 11/08/2013 12:51:34 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: RonInNaples
every one of them was a lesbian.

I don't "get" facebook or homosexuals.

35 posted on 11/08/2013 12:52:59 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Snickering Hound
The opposite. Here we have the girlfriend with her hand on her boyfriend's chest.

No Big Deal.

Wait. What do you mean that's not a boyfriend?

Ohhhhhh....

36 posted on 11/08/2013 12:57:26 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: dfwgator

Another great reason. ;>)


37 posted on 11/08/2013 12:57:47 PM PST by Gator113 ( Cruz, Palin and Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
A substitute teacher, as I understand it, is there on a per diem basis. Pretty much at the pleasure of the school administration. They don't need an ‘acceptable’ reason to not use her services.

But I think they both should be fired for this reason: the entire school will have seen it and it will always get in the way of normal student-teacher relationships, not to mention teacher-administration and teacher-parent relationships. They simply won't be able to do their jobs and the students will suffer for it.

Unfair maybe but the students come first - at least they're supposed to.

38 posted on 11/08/2013 12:58:51 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: dennisw

if i could animate a gif i would put that guys hand on her boob and post it to my facebook page.

d’oh


39 posted on 11/08/2013 1:01:14 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Basing my finding on her photo, I am gonna have to say “not guilty”. :-D


40 posted on 11/08/2013 1:08:11 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededicaton to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
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