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Texas teacher (finally, officially) fired over racial tweets on Michael Brown shooting
Fox News ^ | November 14, 2014

Posted on 11/16/2014 5:59:53 AM PST by Zakeet

A Dallas-area school board fired a teacher Friday who posted racially charged tweets about the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Duncanville Independent School District trustees unanimously voted to terminate Vinita Hegwood's contract. Hegwood, who is black, has apologized for comments made Nov. 7 on her Twitter account that were laced with expletives and derogatory references to whites and blacks. Administrators have called the remarks "reprehensible."

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The school board rejected a resignation and instead fired her with cause. That doesn't affect a teacher's pension, but it makes him or her ineligible for unemployment benefits, and future employers are told the teacher didn't leave in good standing, school district spokeswoman Lari Barager said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: dallas; education; ferguson; laribarager; michaelbrown; missouri; racism; texas; twitter; vinitahegwood
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To: madprof98

No school district in my part of California would declare
this woman “Teacher of the Year”. If we are all that bad
then why do you bother to waste any of your time lurking
at a website based in California?


21 posted on 11/16/2014 7:23:55 AM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf ;-))
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To: Zakeet

A lot of “teachers” sure aren’t like the TEACHERS I had when I was growing up. Must be a commie DemocRAT and UNION thing.


22 posted on 11/16/2014 7:35:51 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Provisional ballots'. When legal votes just aren't getting the job done. - The DemocRATS.)
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To: Zakeet

The sweetest part was, she offered her resignation and it was refused so they could fire her. It’s like resuscitating a suicide so you can hang him. Must have been fun watching her twitch on the rope.


23 posted on 11/16/2014 7:39:23 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Zakeet

Vinita...

I didn’t even need to see the picture


24 posted on 11/16/2014 7:40:03 AM PST by Artcore
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To: Zakeet

Good news for her, now she can go to Ferguson and join in with the protesters.


25 posted on 11/16/2014 7:43:03 AM PST by dragonblustar
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To: Sicon; Zakeet

In fairness, pensions are usually not revoked except for offenses related directly to abuse of one’s position, like bribery.


26 posted on 11/16/2014 7:44:25 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Zakeet

She tried to resign but the board wouldn’t accept her resignation. They fired her azz instead! LOL! Don’t mess with Texas!!!!


27 posted on 11/16/2014 8:56:18 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: Sirius Lee
I think the Dallas schoolboard

Not Dallas - Duncanville.

28 posted on 11/16/2014 11:34:38 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Vaquero
Don’t be stupid and post in social media using your name.

Whose name would I use in social media? I am a man and stand by what I post.

BTW my real name is Eaker.

29 posted on 11/16/2014 11:38:05 AM PST by Eaker (Radical muslims want to cut off your head. Moderate muslims want a radical muslim to cut it off .)
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To: Eaker

Friend there are evil people out there. I don’t post anything in my name to protect my family from the dregs of the earth. That’s what a man does protect his family.

My friends know who I am. I text or email them. I post on various political websites and use aliases as it is no ones business who I am. And I certainly would not risk a job or having some liberal jurisdiction decide they want to make a left wing example of me or my loved ones. They don’t play fair so neither do I.


30 posted on 11/16/2014 11:51:55 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

There are eight billion people in the world. Nobody is looking at you. If I had bad things to post about my job I would find another.

I respect your choice as I know nobody is looking at me either but I still carry just in case someone does come looking.


31 posted on 11/16/2014 12:07:37 PM PST by Eaker (Radical muslims want to cut off your head. Moderate muslims want a radical muslim to cut it off .)
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To: Zakeet

“...dumb duck ass crackers...”

Too funny. I expected better from an English teacher of all people.

When I was in high school, my old English teachers would smile and proceed to discreetly assault me with their knowledge of the King’s English, leaving me to seek the nearest Websters dictionary for further explanation. Most of the time it was a verbal slap up side the head. It made them smile and me a smarter smart ass.

Those days are gone, now I’m just a dumb duck ass cracker. Where has our educational system gone?

BTW, the old Latin and Spanish teachers expanded my verbal vistas too.


32 posted on 11/16/2014 4:41:59 PM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: Zakeet

Hopefully no one will employ her. Then, she can stand at a major intersection the the DFW area and hold a sign and beg from the very people she insulted.


33 posted on 11/17/2014 4:53:24 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin ( Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you,)
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