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Sunday, September 2, 2012

TO A HIGHER STANDARD « Teachers Fight Back

TO A HIGHER STANDARD « Teachers Fight Back:


TO A HIGHER STANDARD

When are teachers going to understand that they are held to a higher standard than a person in any other profession known to man? That high standard takes away many of the freedoms that people who work in other professions are allowed to have. Teachers don’t really have freedom of expression, freedom of speech, the right to express themselves politically, (at least in the classroom), the right to make moral choices that might offend a school board or a community, the right to act in any manner that might be outside of the norms of an “extremely responsible adult”.
A guidance counselor at a south suburban Chicago high school has been placed on administrative leave. He was also the girls basketball coach, and he voluntarily resigned from that position.  What caused the counselor and