Comments on Advance Indiana™: School Board Ignores Defenders Of Suspended Teacher

Megan Chase is a very good reporter. She said what...

2007-03-22T09:46:00.001-05:00

Megan Chase is a very good reporter. She said what she thought was right to try and defend those who are too afraid to defend themselves. Everything she said in her article was true, and you could tell that she was very passionate about her story. This teacher should not be suspended because it was good to publish the article, even though it made the school look bad. It exposed an ongoing issue and Megan Chase is trying to make it less of an issue by showing the truth about it. Let this teacher teach, shes goo d at it.

This is a very interesting case, similar to the ha...

2007-03-22T09:46:00.000-05:00

This is a very interesting case, similar to the hazelwood v kulhemier case. i have a feeling that rulings will prove to be the same in this case as they were in the hazelwood case.

Several things can be discovered in this sorry cas...

2007-03-21T17:14:00.000-05:00

Several things can be discovered in this sorry case, by looking at past documents:

Did the journalism classes, in their syllabi, contemplate publishing a paper?

Is the newspaper a function of the classes, or is it an extra activity?

Did the school district have a written policy regarding newspaper publication and faculty/administrator review?

In the absence of one or any of the above prior to the incident, the teacher has a strong case.

And yes, the board is a final appeal authority, before court, for disciplinary action. Sad as it seems, it was proper for the board to refuse to hear the issue if an appeal is underway or contemplated. The appeal body shouldn't hear evidence, pro or con, prior to a potential hearing.

This school district ought to tuck in its tail and reinstate the teacher, unless, as I've suspected all along, they wanted to get rid of her before all this mess.