Student Teacher Fired for Saying He's Gay Gets Job Back

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

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, 'Yep.'"

A parent overheard the exchange and later complained to school administrators that Stambaugh's response was "inappropriate," ABC Portland affiliate KATU-TV reported.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/student-teacher-fired-gay-job-back/story?id=11957152

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Good!

[midnight]

1. Time to get rid of don't ask don't tell mentality... It leaves room for all kinds

of injustices.... Glad to hear this young man has his job back.....

[ZombieHorde]

2. Sucks he was fired in the first place, but I am glad he got his job back. nt

[dballance]

3. Time to Tell That Parent to STFU and Get Over It

I live in Portland - downtown. We're a pretty liberal and open city. Once you get outside of the Portland city limits into the 'burbs and rural Oregon it turns into Alabama though. I'm a bit surprised that a school in Beaverton was the place this happened though. That's where Nike HQ is located and I'd expect some more intelligent parents and not a stupid, bigoted ass like the parent who complained in this case.

[mwooldri]

4. It appears to me Seth has class.

And I mean it in two senses - class in wanting to continue and show his commitment to his kids, and class as in he's got his kids to go back to. That he wants to go back to the same school, the same kids after this incident... shows he's got courage to go back.

Way to go Seth!

Plus the apology needs to come from the school district plus the parent who made the complaint IMO.

[mwooldri]

5. It appears to me Seth has class.

And I mean it in two senses - class in wanting to continue and show his commitment to his kids, and class as in he's got his kids to go back to. That he wants to go back to the same school, the same kids after this incident... shows he's got courage to go back.

Way to go Seth!

Plus the apology needs to come from the school district plus the parent who made the complaint IMO.

[MindandSoul]

6. So glad Jim de Mint wasn't in the neighborhood!

[sakabatou]

7. Yay!

Boo to the people who fired him.