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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: Repeal The 17th

The furor is completely incomprehensible to me.

That is but a mildly sensous gesture; he didn’t `grab her boob’, he placed his hand upon her breast & she clearly welcomed it. They’ll soon be getting hitched fer pete’s sake.

Maybe somewhat indiscreet but it didn’t warrant calling the thought police & having her fired, and yes, being obviously heterosexual didn’t help her case one bit in these PC-crazy times.


41 posted on 11/08/2013 1:11:27 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I don’t know. I was just saying why I think she’s in trouble and her fiance isn’t.


42 posted on 11/08/2013 1:18:36 PM PST by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

I have relatives and friends on Facebook. I am careful about what I post just like on other sites. I do not allow just anyone to be friends. If I do not know someone who asks to be friends, I turn them down. I get notices about listing my hometown and where I live now but I ignore them. People who know me know where I grew up and where I live. Others do not need to know. One thing I notice friends doing is listing their whole bd. That is a no-no to me and others.


43 posted on 11/08/2013 1:18:44 PM PST by MamaB
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To: MichaelCorleone
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 they can't discriminate based on gender. Firing her and not the fiance will very likely lose the lawsuit for them.

44 posted on 11/08/2013 1:19:07 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: MamaB

I have relatives and friends; we all have email, cell phones and the USPS. I still don’t “get” facebook.


45 posted on 11/08/2013 1:24:51 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I saw the picture on FoxNews yesterday afternoon. I am pretty certain the two boobs on the left and the right sides of the picture are the biggest ones I have seen in a long while.


46 posted on 11/08/2013 1:34:26 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: Alex Murphy

Moochelle 0bama copping a feel from Princess Leia.

47 posted on 11/08/2013 1:37:14 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Wait. What do you mean that's not a boyfriend?

Except for the tattooed forearms, I knew a woman who looked a LOT like that, right down to the stogie sticking out of her unfeminine mug!

48 posted on 11/08/2013 1:40:21 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Repeal The 17th

aside from the questionable morality of the pic and her posting it, it is such an unflattering pic... she never should have shared that pic—especially by way of social media...


49 posted on 11/08/2013 1:42:59 PM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

She had just been shot and was grimacing not smiling. Her BF was trying to stop the bleeding.


50 posted on 11/08/2013 1:43:34 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the Libs say we are.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

That is fine but I am keeping up with hundreds of friends and relatives plus groups I am interested in. I use to write a lot of pen pals from this country and many others including Russia, Egypt, Pakistan, Australia, Canada, etc. I learned it was next to impossible to keep up with them. With FB, I can post one message and it goes to everyone. I do no expect answers to everyone of them but it sure beats writing individual letters. I see pictures of new babies, houses, etc. I love Facebook. I kept up with high school and college friends on Classmates before Facebook. FB is so much easier. Friends post wonderful pictures of family and scenery. I am a member of memories of my hometown. What a great idea someone had when they started that. It would be a sad world if everyone liked the same thing. : )


51 posted on 11/08/2013 1:47:32 PM PST by MamaB
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To: Responsibility2nd

Phew!!!

At first I thought she was photographed at a Tea Party rally!


52 posted on 11/08/2013 1:47:58 PM PST by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
True, but full time teachers in a union, especially if they have tenure, are all but untouchable in many districts around the country.

I distinctly recall a cell phone audio of the head of the NYC (or maybe Long Island) teachers union saying now that negotiations are over, a tenured teacher has to literally get caught f**king a student in the hallway to get fired. She said it with a high degree of confidence to a gigling teacher audience.

I don't know the situation with this other guy - but my bet he has union protections that a substitute does not.

Still, I did say in my original post that I personally think they both should be fired at any rate. I noticed you left that part out.

53 posted on 11/08/2013 2:16:32 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Alaska Wolf

It’s my understanding that it’s about family and friends communicating with each other, sometimes after years apart.


54 posted on 11/08/2013 2:20:58 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: dennisw

Hey, wait a minute here, that superintendent is touching that man’s navel with her boob. That’s obscene!


55 posted on 11/08/2013 2:21:28 PM PST by ImNotLying (Obama's Biggest Lie: If you like your Constitution, you can keep it.)
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To: MamaB

I think it’s great. I don’t belong to FB, but my husband, most of his family and almost all of mine belong. Most of our family has moved to warmer climes and FB has made staying in touch much easier.


56 posted on 11/08/2013 2:25:39 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Didn’t ENDA just put an end to all this nonsense? Here’s how you use the system against them. First the woman needs to “identify” as a man thus making her actions homosexual in nature meaning they are now protected. Second, find a shyster to bring suit against the school for discrimination based on sexual orientation. Third, win lots of money, tell the supervisor to shove it up his Pelosi hole, suddenly “identify” as a woman again and head to a beach somewhere. See how easy that is. We’ll all be rich soon.


57 posted on 11/08/2013 2:28:24 PM PST by 762X51
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To: a fool in paradise
“Most surprising detail is that the girls’ basketball team coach’s partner is of the opposite sex.”

My daughter was in a school play. One scene has them leaving the stage and saying “Hurry, or we'll be late for volleyball practice.” Then they come back on stage with the female coach. As they are walking back onto the stage the coach says in a “whispered” voice to one of her players “men are so stupid”. I cracked up with the stereotypical reference!

Talking with my daughter she said the girl that played the “coach” is a lesbian, and ad-libbed the line! Too funny.

58 posted on 11/08/2013 2:38:00 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Gator113
"...This guy was simply trying to cover her boob to keep it from being photographed…… a gentlemen’s gesture..."

He could have just said he was trying to get his face in the picture, which would have been a less conspicuous way of achieving the same result!

59 posted on 11/08/2013 2:41:26 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Who is the busybody that “anonymously” gave the picture to the school administration? We can debate the wisdom of posting such a pic to one’s social media accounts, but the reason she was fired is because someone acted like a weasel. Further, the school administration should have just thrown the pic in the trash and forgotten about it.


60 posted on 11/08/2013 2:58:04 PM PST by VegasCowboy ("...he wore his gun outside his pants, for all the honest world to feel.")
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