Teacher accused of racial slur fired by Fairfield [OH] board

[alp227]

Source: Cincinnati Enquirer

FAIRFIELD The Fairfield teacher accused of slurring an African American student was fired Thursday in the wake of a labor hearing that ended with a recommendation that he lose his job.

Freshman science teacher Gil Voigt has been suspended on unpaid leave since December.

After the Fairfield Board of Education received a state referee's decision that "there is good and just cause to terminate the teaching contract" of Voigt, the board voted 4-0 Thursday evening, with one board member absent, to end his employment with the Butler County school system.

Voigt was unavailable for comment.

Fairfield Superintendent Paul Otten recommended to the board the firing of the veteran teacher.

Read more: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/education/2014/04/17/fairfield-racial--teacher/7853183/

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Voigt got national attention after his initial suspension. Good on the school board. And right wingers, guess what? Even UNIONIZED teachers get fired.

[pipoman]

1. We hear so often

School administration defending the indefensible, it's good to read a story with a happy ending. ..

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. Well ...

He later told Fairfield officials that what he said to the teen was, "I think we can't afford another president like Obama, whether he's black or white."

That makes it non-racial ... after months of lawyerly advice; but inappropriate in a/the classroom, none the less.

Why do folks feel compelled to voice their politics in the/a classroom?

[Smarmie Doofus]

10. We have no context. Maybe there was a political discussion within a larger ( curricular) context.

>>>Why do folks feel compelled to voice their politics in the/a classroom?>>>

And do we really want to establish a precedent that no political opinions should EVER be expressed in class?

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. Okay. eom.

[Cha]

3. Thank Goodness! Does not everyone remember this brainwashed ignorant asshole? and, now

he's FIRED! YAY!

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Why is it...

that when cops fuck up they get paid leave, but teachers don't? Not defending here, but why do the ones with guns get a pass?

[Enthusiast]

5. The cops are fighting for our freedumbs.

Don't you know anything?

[hack89]

6. Depends how strong the union is.

The city will spend a whopping $29 million in 2013 on the salaries and benefits of outcast educators who are deemed too dangerous or incompetent to work in public school classrooms but cannot be immediately fired, the Daily News has learned.

As of Friday, there were 326 city educators who have been reassigned away from the classroom yet were still collecting pay, a sharp rise from 2012, when 218 ousted teachers drained $22 million from city coffers, Education Department records show.

The teachers and school administrators are accused of abusing kids, breaking rules or just being lousy educators. But they're still collecting salaries because of a controversial firing process that makes it too difficult to terminate bad employees, education officials charge.

Back in 2010, Mayor Bloomberg and the city teachers union agreed to eliminate the shameful "rubber rooms" that house these expensive educational pariahs, but critics say the only difference is that today the accused teachers are spread out in spare offices across the city instead of being herded together.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/city-spend-29m-paying-educators-fire-article-1.1477027#ixzz2zGeldH2c

[awoke_in_2003]

9. Very true...

and don't think I want to weaken the police unions, I want to strengthen the teacher's unions.

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. They're *deemed* too dangerous.... etc.? "Deemed"? Who deemed them?

>>>The teachers and school administrators are accused of abusing kids, breaking rules or just being lousy educators. But they're still collecting salaries...>>>>

It's called due process.

It makes it hard to fire teachers for political and other non-pedagogical reasons. ( e.g. patronage, nepotism, whistleblowing etc).

The administrator presents his/her case before an ostensibly neutral arbitrator.

If there's a sound case, the teacher will be fired.

Often they are NOT fired. Due to lack of evidence or extenuating circumstances. ( see above).

See: www.protectportelos.org

Classic case in point.

[hack89]

12. Just pointing out that in some places it is hard to fire teachers. Nt

[JesterCS]

7. I live just north of Fairfield, was big news around here

He deserves to have been fired. Bigot