Student Teacher Fired for Saying He's Gay Gets Job Back
Seth Stambaugh Told Fourth Grader He Wasn't Married Because He Was Gay
Oct. 24, 2010
An Oregon student-teacher who said he was removed from a suburban Portland school because he told a fourth grader he was gay was given his job back and could be back in the classroom this week.
Seth Stambaugh, 23, was banned from the Beaverton School District in September after he responded candidly to a question from a student at the Sexton Mountain Elementary School.
"The student asked me if I was married. I indicated that I was not," Stambaugh said at a news conference on Friday.
"He asked me if it was because I wasn't old enough. I told him no, that it would be because I would choose to marry another man," he said. "And he asked if I liked to hang out with other guys, and I said,
