Teacher suspended over Facebook remarks over school's gay/straight alliance club.

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Parkersburg Teacher Suspended Over Facebook

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - A Parkersburg SouthHigh School teacher has been suspended following a Facebook post he made regarding the school's Gay-Straight Alliance student club.

Wood County Schools Superintendent Pat Law says that David Foggin was suspended on Tuesday for four days.
Law says the Wood County school board will decide whether the suspension is paid or unpaid, or whether to make any changes.

The newspaper says Foggin posted an image on Facebook of a poster advertising the club's meetings, along with a comment stating, "We are also considering a drunks-t totaller club, drugged/sober club, smokeless tobacco vs smokes club, street racing, and deer poaching clubs."

A telephone listing for Foggin in the Parkersburg area couldn't be found. He declined to comment to the local newspaper on Monday.

Parkersburg Teacher Suspended Over Facebook

Apparently teachers aren't allowed free speech on their own Facebook pages now.
 
In a lot of companies, if you want to work for them, you have to give them access to your Facebook page (Email and password) so they can see what you post. I've considered permanently deleting mine because of that issue.
 
In a lot of companies, if you want to work for them, you have to give them access to your Facebook page (Email and password) so they can see what you post. I've considered permanently deleting mine because of that issue.
They might as well require employees to wear 24/7 voice/video recording devices too. Same principle.
Off work activity to me is off work activity. I don't know why off work Facebook activity is considered the holy grail that allows employers the right to track it.
 
Parkersburg Teacher Suspended Over Facebook



Parkersburg Teacher Suspended Over Facebook

Apparently teachers aren't allowed free speech on their own Facebook pages now.

As an interesting historical aside, teachers in eras past didn't really have freedom of expression if they wanted to keep their jobs. You could be fired for dying your hair, or even excessive time spent hanging around the ice cream shop.
 
I'm not sure that is a legal practice. The catch however is even if it IS illegal for companies to demand access to a potential applicant's social media, if you refuse, it sends them a message that you may have something to hide.

As someone who used to work for attorneys, we were ''allowed'' to access a FB page IF the person had not set their FB settings to ''private''. In other words, many folks don't realize their page is already open to the public unless they have changed their settings.

AND what few know is that if your friend's list is available (open to public) anyone can go thru any friend's page and find posts that you have posted. (and it is legal)
 
From some of the things that people post on FB they have no common sense at all. If anyone is stupid enough to post photos of the weapons and food stuffs that they have and then say where these things are located (often along with a video posted) then they are asking for it.

Many have had their things stolen or confiscated and investigation as to their motives for having these things. I thought everyone knew these social media sites are monitored by every agency from the CIA, DHS right up to probably QVC. Once it's out there...it's out there for all to see...and often the wrong people. Best to keep the rants to yourselves.
 
Most employers don't realize that the younger generations such as my age and younger know how to tweek our settings and hide what we don't want visible. Every month or so, I go through posts that were ridiculous and I delete them. If employers want to be on your friend list, all you have to do is manage which list you put them on. I had an employer do that one time and anytime I wanted to complain about work (which I legally have the right to), I just block the employer from viewing it.
 
As an interesting historical aside, teachers in eras past didn't really have freedom of expression if they wanted to keep their jobs. You could be fired for dying your hair, or even excessive time spent hanging around the ice cream shop.

Nothing good goes down at the ice cream shop!
 
I remember when I was growing up they had a gay-straight alliance club and they kept getting so many death threats, and people kept bragging about how they were going to shoot their meetings with a paintball gun and even hang some of them. I remember one clown claimed the reason why they served hotdogs at their bbq was because it looked like a male private part lol. Conservatives can be nuts lol.
 
I would think having a gay promotion in highschools would violate laws.

Its a sad freaking world when perversions are accepted as norms and even promoted in schools.

IN SCHOOLS!!!!!!!

This teacher should have quit.
 
I would think having a gay promotion in highschools would violate laws.

You would be completely wrong.

The source doesn't explain exactly what rule/law the teacher broke - which is a pretty important detail.

I'm wondering, would you feel any different if the teacher was suspended for including, sarcastically, "Black and white alliance"? Suggesting blacks and whites shouldn't get together?
 
You would be completely wrong.

The source doesn't explain exactly what rule/law the teacher broke - which is a pretty important detail.

I'm wondering, would you feel any different if the teacher was suspended for including, sarcastically, "Black and white alliance"? Suggesting blacks and whites shouldn't get together?

People always play the race card. There's one human race but evolutionary teachings led people to believe one colour is greater, more evolved than the other. That's what happens when people refuse God and His ways. They make their own truth. As for homosexuality, there's no comparison, God never suggested that sodomy was good and natural.
 
There's one human race but evolutionary teachings led people to believe one colour is greater, more evolved than the other.

Wrong. Evolution does not teach this.

That's what happens when people refuse God and His ways.

1. If you study U.S. History, you'll learn that many slave owners in the south were Christian.
2. Read the OT - there is plenty of slavery in the Bible.
 
Wrong. Evolution does not teach this.



1. If you study U.S. History, you'll learn that many slave owners in the south were Christian.
2. Read the OT - there is plenty of slavery in the Bible.

Evolution doesn't teach that any more but it certainly incited/justified the mass killings of black people world-wide, particularly in Tasmania, Australia. Eugenics etc. go hand in hand with such ungodly beliefs.

1. I understand that many slave owners were Christian but were they just Christians by name or also by faith in Christ? People use the Bible to justify anything, it doesn't mean the Bible condones it.

2. Biblical slavery, as perpetuated by God's people, was more akin to being a hired labourer than the horribly demeaning understanding of slavery from the pagan nations, and that we see today (sexual slavery etc.)
 
Its an apples and oranges comparison, homosexuality and civil rights.

Homosexuality is an action dependent on choice. The race differences are a matter of skin pigment, not a matter of choice.

I can choose my sexuality. I cannot choose my skin pigment.

....and please do not even suggest homosexuality is genetic. That's been proven false and if it was true, then homosexuality, as a genetic trait, would necessarily die out and no gay person could ever have heterosexual encounters.....like duh.

This is a school we are talking about. Homosexuality is a sexual perversion....we ain't built that way. This is taking young impressionable minds and filling them with perversion....

IT IS ILLEGAL FOR AN ADULT TO HAVE SEX WITH MINORS IN MOST, IF NOT EVERY STATE IN THE USA......AND THEY HAVE GAY GROUPS IN SCHOOLS???????

That is an abomination.
 
Its an apples and oranges comparison, homosexuality and civil rights.

Homosexuality is an action dependent on choice. The race differences are a matter of skin pigment, not a matter of choice.

I can choose my sexuality. I cannot choose my skin pigment.

....and please do not even suggest homosexuality is genetic. That's been proven false and if it was true, then homosexuality, as a genetic trait, would necessarily die out and no gay person could ever have heterosexual encounters.....like duh.

This is a school we are talking about. Homosexuality is a sexual perversion....we ain't built that way. This is taking young impressionable minds and filling them with perversion....

IT IS ILLEGAL FOR AN ADULT TO HAVE SEX WITH MINORS IN MOST, IF NOT EVERY STATE IN THE USA......AND THEY HAVE GAY GROUPS IN SCHOOLS???????

That is an abomination.

Heh I do not typically agree with you SonInMe. But you hit the nail right on the head here.

I think the race comparison is obviously not a good comparison because no one is born gay, but everyone is born into a family (race) and thus are guranteed to have certain racial differences like skin tone, facial structure, hair color, etc.

I think this be moreso an issue of decency than discrimination. A comparison I would use would be like having a "Porno Club". It's just not decent and not kosher for young children, specifically minors. When I was in school not long a go these clubs didn't exist, so my assumption are they are somewhat newer (or perhaps my school district just wasn't so neo-liberal.) Really in regards to the news story, what the teacher posted doesn't shock me nearly as much as such a club exists in public schools. Lol, I can see why for ya'll much older folk this has to be mind-boggling.
 
There was one girl in my graduating class that got pregnant and her bf and her both dropped out.

Lotsa stuff went on that was not, biblical, but I guarentee you in 1978 there were no homosexual clubs....and very few homosexuals, if any.

When I was in primary school, few even thought about sex.

Now we have talk of uni-sex bathrooms and ''gay activities clubs'' in schools and guess what?

It sure wasn't good ol' conservatism creating these circumstances.

Hurray for liberalism!!
 
Evolution doesn't teach that any more

IT NEVER DID TEACH THAT.


but it certainly incited/justified the mass killings of black people world-wide, particularly in Tasmania, Australia. Eugenics etc. go hand in hand with such ungodly beliefs.

We use physics to create more powerful guns and more accurate bombs. We use chemistry to create poisons. Do we blame the science? No, we blame the people who misuse science. If people look at the theory of evolution and they want to create the perfect human race, then it doesn't do anything to prove or disprove the validity of science.

But, let's be clear here, people who support eugenics DO NOT understand the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution NEVER suggested one race of human to be superior to another race of human.

1. I understand that many slave owners were Christian but were they just Christians by name or also by faith in Christ? People use the Bible to justify anything, it doesn't mean the Bible condones it.

Evolution doesn't condone eugenics. But there are people who used evolution to support their racial views.

You have double standards. When a person claiming to be Christian does something wrong, you say they misinterpreted the Bible and it's their fault. When a person claiming to be an evolutionist does something wrong, you blame evolution entirely.

Also, this excellent book, "One Human Family" by Carl Wieland.

After reading the provided sample pages in which Carl discusses evolution, all I can say is that you have been duped. Carl doesn't understand the theory of evolution, and he passed his ignorance down as knowledge to you. Tintin, please study evolution, not creationist apologetics. Even if you aren't convinced, you'll at least learn what evolution actually suggests - which will allow you to stop making such ridiculous errors.

You're not uneducated, you're miseducated.

Not only did it teach that there were lesser races, but also that women were not as evolved as men:

You fall into the same boat as Tintin. The source you provided is nothing more than creationist apologetics written by a man who doesn't understand the theory of evolution. If he does understand the theory of evolution, then he's clearly a manipulative liar.

Stop studying evolution as taught by creationists. Study evolution as taught by those who actually support the theory. If you do this, you'll find that the creationists who write about evolution don't even understand what the theory of evolution actually suggests.


This is a school we are talking about. Homosexuality is a sexual perversion....we ain't built that way. This is taking young impressionable minds and filling them with perversion....

IT IS ILLEGAL FOR AN ADULT TO HAVE SEX WITH MINORS IN MOST, IF NOT EVERY STATE IN THE USA......AND THEY HAVE GAY GROUPS IN SCHOOLS???????

One is sex between two consenting people, the other is sex with a minor. Big difference.

A minor is not old enough to make their own decisions. Adults are. Comparing homosexuality to pedophilia is asinine.

Furthermore, you keep calling homosexuality perversion. It's only perversion in the same sense heterosexuality is perversion. Two men want to have sex, in the same way a man and a woman has sex.

To argue homosexuality is like pedophilia is a completely nonsensical argument founded on the fact you dislike one, you dislike the other, therefore they're both related. But a person using your incredibly flawed logic could draw the same conclusions about heterosexuality.

Do you know how many adult men rape women? One could easily argue heterosexuality leads to rape. Do you see the flaw in such an argument? If you do, then why are you incapable of seeing similar flaws in your own absurd logic?

If you believe homosexuality is a sin because God said it's a sin - then fair enough. But don't try to come up with other nonsensical reasons to justify your point. For example, you say men and women were designed to have sex with each other, not with those of the same sex. This is a nonsensical argument because a.) we constantly do things that aren't natural that isn't sinful, and b.) whether or not something is natural is not a basis of morality.

Again, if you believe homosexuality is a sin because God said so - make that your point. Stop trying to find other ways in which homosexuality is wrong - as if there are other reasons to oppose homosexuality. Let's face it, there aren't any. The only reason to oppose homosexuality is because it's a sin - and if you don't believe it's a sin, then you're not going to find a justified objective reason to speak against homosexuality.

If you're a Christian and homosexuality is a sin - then that's where you need to stand, that it's a sin. That's the only reason that should matter to you.