Teacher fired over premarital sex

[hanaagogo]

Fourth-grade teacher Jarretta Hamilton was newly married and expecting a baby when she went to speak with her supervisors in April of last year. But the administrators at Southland Christian School in St. Cloud parried her query about maternity leave with a query of their own: When did she conceive? After Hamilton admitted that her child had been

Comments

[ididthatonce]

1) They're a private school, so they really have free reign in this department, legally.

2) Somehow, I doubt that a male teacher in the same scenario would be fired.

[tiddlywinks103]

Well, DUH. You can't SEE the man pregnant and know he's a fornicating whore.

[rkt]

yup. this.

[diosabellissima]

I actually work at a Catholic High School and I had to sign a morality contract when I got hired. Basically, they can fire me for an unCatholic behavior. (For what it's worth, I donate my entire pay check from them-- it's a part time thing I do, not my "real" job--- to Planned Parenthood and gay rights organizations. That dirty money needs to be used for good!).

Also worth noting, they did fire a male teacher mid year for having scandalous (ie: sexualish) pictures on a social networking site.

[juannifer]

"I donate my entire pay check from them... to Planned Parenthood and gay rights organizations."

That's amazing. Yay you! :)

[bellonia]

A friend of mine's favorite teacher got fired because his fiancee had his baby, so it does happen.