Fort Worth teacher wins appeal after firing over anti-immigrant tweets to Trump

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Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath ruled Monday that Georgia Clark should be reinstated.

By Tom Steele

10:52 PM on Nov 25, 20

A Fort Worth ISD teacher fired this year after she tweeted anti-immigrant sentiments to President Donald Trump should be allowed to have her job back, the state’s education commissioner ruled Monday.

Mike Morath, commissioner of the Texas Education Agency, said that Georgia Clark should be reinstated, with back pay and benefits, or be paid one year of salary instead.

Morath wrote that Clark did not sign away her free-speech rights in her contract with the Fort Worth ISD, and that the district failed to properly challenge the findings of an independent examiner who said Clark should not be fired.

The district has the ability to request another hearing on the matter.

“It appears the commissioner ruled the way he did based on a technicality and we are exploring all of our options,” Barbara Griffith, a Fort Worth ISD spokeswoman, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, adding that the district had not yet been able to fully review and analyze the commissioner’s decision.

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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2019/11/26/fort-worth-teacher-fired-after-anti-immigrant-tweets-to-trump-wins-appeal/

[sandensea]

1. An instant front-runner for GOPee elected office

[Skittles]

2. WTF

this hateful woman should not be anywhere NEAR children

[NCLefty]

4. Trump is the president of war criminals and white supremacists.

[TexasTowelie]

5. Reinstate her.

However, there isn't anything that guarantees that she should have a pleasant working environment. Choose one or more of the following:

• Stick her in the run-down temporary building with no heat or air-conditioning that is as far as possible from the parking lot and faculty lounge.
• Have her classes near the band hall or shop classrooms so she also has to deal with the noise all day.
• Have her teach courses that she did not specialize in and also assign her to watch the detention center. Hell, I had the geometry teacher for my physical science class during my freshman year even though she couldn't say the word "aluminum" and I was one of the good students.
• Put her in the classroom downwind of the hog farm.

Make the conditions so intolerable that she will want to quit.

[safeinOhio]

6. Get her a job at a for profit school

so she can get half the pay and no contract or union to fall back on.

[lunasun]

7. Hope all the parents are made aware of what they are dealing with. I hate racist teachers

Why pick a job dealing with small humans if you have that in your heart?