Duncanville teacher likely to lose job over tweets

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5. I teach too. And I acknowledge this was stupid...

I always told my students not to put anything into an email that you wouldn't want broadcast to the world.

Having said that, I know nothing of the context of these remarks. It may have been a direct response to a provocation. And while that doesn't excuse it, I would also consider performance in the classroom as a factor. This is someone's livelihood, and profession, and apparently a newbie. I am uneasy about application of 'zero tolerance' to what resembles a thought crime.

Do you think any other profession should be held to these standards?

--imm