She could get them on HIPAA (since that is protected information) but, unfortunately, courts have sided with private organizations against individuals in this kind of case before. It's sad and intolerant but not much she can do.
Heck if she was going around telling people her due date it wouldn't be hard to calculate. I just mean that it wasn't necessarily the administration that told. She may have told a friend her due date and that friend may have told someone else and so on. Then some busybody does the math and tells the administration. She may have a tough time proving that the info getting out was her fault. The school I attended (very similar) had several faculty members get fired for breaking the code of conduct. We were never told what had happened to cause their termination. But we all knew.
*nod* And that's certainly possible. I also went to an Xtian high school with a conduct code and several students were expelled for violating various parts of it and a teacher, we think, was fired while I was there. I just don't think she's going to get very far on her stated reasons for suing.
When I was at mine, some middle schoolers had been given drugs by one of the seniors. They felt so bad they came to the administration and asked for help. They wanted counseling and maybe rehab. They were immediately expelled. If a teacher was pregnant, they had to leave when the baby was born and not come back till the kid hit first grade. This doesn't even really hit my radar of things that annoy me. I mean, she signed the stupid thing.
My freshmen year they expelled two juniors for having sex. The girl got pregnant and decided to continue the pregnancy, the boy was one of the star baseball players. Guess who they let come back after writing a letter of apology?
Would not have happened at my school. Both would get kicked out period. (One of the few things I thought they did right. If you're going to kick out the girl you should have to kick out the guy. It's not fair to just expel one.)
They are not firing her based on her marital status. They are firing her based on moral agreement.
As a private institution, they can set extra rules that all of their employees must abide by, including firing someone for not upholding "Christian ideals" (i.e. having sex out of wedlock). As long as the school can prove that they have ALWAYS treated such cases equally, she doesn't have much of a case.
The SCotUS ruled that private groups can impose these kinds of restrictions, even against people with a protected status, when they ruled in favor of the BSA kicking out scouts who were gay.
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As a private institution, they can set extra rules that all of their employees must abide by, including firing someone for not upholding "Christian ideals" (i.e. having sex out of wedlock). As long as the school can prove that they have ALWAYS treated such cases equally, she doesn't have much of a case.
The SCotUS ruled that private groups can impose these kinds of restrictions, even against people with a protected status, when they ruled in favor of the BSA kicking out scouts who were gay.
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