Rockwall teacher fired for out-of-wedlock pregnancy

[iverglas]

6. thank you (edited)

Perhaps, as host, you would put a request to MIRT for consideration of the situation.

edit - oops, it's going there as I posted.



In our new friend's ideal world, everybody is free to look for other work if they don't like being paid $1 an hour to work with toxic chemicals without protective gear, or if their employer decides that employees of colour, or Jews, or women, should be paid less than other employees.

There are names for people who support that kind of "freedom", i.e. absolute freedom of those with economic power to determine the standard of living that others will enjoy. And those names don't include Democrat, or progressive ... (They do include "liberal" as the world outside the US understands that word. )

In this case, we are seeing "unintended consequences", that we might suspect are not unintended at all -- the consequences of privatizing an important public function/interest like the education of children.

Actual education becomes secondary to other considerations, in ways that are not in the interests of the children or of society as a whole, and obviously of employees. The more situations like this are allowed to spread, the less "free" an employee will be to find other employment, as the field of other employment shrinks. That, on top of things like the harm done to the quality of education in the public system, as the private sector reduces the public system's ability to serve special needs students, for instance, by reducing its funding base. Not to mention the plain ignorant graduates the religious sector produces, hardly the outcome a modern society should be looking for.