Student teacher dismissed for discussing gay marriage

[kpete]

Student teacher ousted by Beaverton for gay marriage comments

by Michael Rollins, KGW staff
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 7:13 AM

PORTLAND -- A candid conversation between a student teacher and a 4th grader about gay marriage led to his abrupt dismissal from the Beaverton School District.

Seth Stambaugh, a student teacher at Sexton Mountain elementary school, was apparently dismissed after answering a fourth grader's question about his marital status by saying it would be illegal for him to marry because he would choose to marry a man.

The controversy has led to denials of anti-gay discrimination by the district, the student teacher scrambling to meet academic requirements, a lawyer weighing options for a lawsuit, and a graduate education program using the incident as a teachable moment.

Stambaugh is in the Master of Education program at Lewis and Clark College. At the start of the current school year, he and his colleagues all started student teaching in area schools as part of the practicum portion of their education.

more:
http://www.kgw.com/news/Beaverton-student-teacher-gay-marriage-comments-104535064.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2010/10/student_teacher_says_beaverton_school_district_discriminated_against_him.html

[Hepburn]

1. National Petition For Gay Beaverton Student Teacher Seth Stambaugh Takes Off

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2010/10/06/national-petition-for-gay-beaverton-student-teacher-seth-stambaugh-takes-off

[Ilsa]

2. He was asked a question, he gave an honest and truthful answer.

How is anything he said immoral or unreasonable, unless Beaverton has enacted DADT for the school district?