Teachers Fired For Bumper Stickers, Blogs, Free Speech

[Modern School]

A nine-year veteran teacher was fired from Imagine Prep charter school in Los Angeles for having political bumper stickers on her car. (See Teacher at Imagine Charter School Fired for Bumper Stickers, from the Solidaridad blog). While many Americans erroneously believe their free speech rights are inalienable (you do actually lose many rights, including free speech, in private workplaces and, to a lesser extent, in public workplaces), this teacher never would have been fired so easily from a unionized public school. Her situation, though, is just one of many in which teachers’ right to free expression in public are being curtailed by their employers (please see the examples below, after the video).

To see the complete article, please see http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2011/02/teachers-fired-for-bumper-stickers.html

[siligut]

1. Controlling what our children are taught

No free thinkers allowed.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. All the more reason for unions.

And notice the loud persistent drumbeat from the right that "we can't afford the pension entitlements"
that the unions were responsible for!

Notice the right never mentions that the banks stole all the pension money by fraudulent investment offerings.

[The Philosopher]

3. I like

how we're supposed to bring a business attitude to education, but no one ever realizes that a business tends to keep quiet dissent because it ruins the image of the company and its product. If Teachers were able to publicly display and say what they thought, parents would begin to doubt these education reforms.