Blog Entry 5 "You're Fired!"
For my final entry, I wanted to do a little twist on
the theme I have for blog on discipline in the education system by focusing on
how teachers are disciplined for
their conduct outside of school and whether or not there is validation to these
punishments. In class we watched a YouTube video about a teacher who was fired
for posted hateful comments about homosexuality to his Facebook page and I
found it extremely interesting and I wanted to investigate more cases of teachers
being punished, perhaps even fired, for the way they conduct themselves outside
of the classroom. An opinion article in the Los Angeles Times describes many
cases where teachers are being “fired
or suspended for perfectly lawful activities during off-work hours when those
activities are deemed inappropriate by parents or school officials." Some teachers were blogging about students, sending explicit text
messages to their partner, holding alcoholic beverages in their hands in photos
on Facebook or just caught in the background of a suggestive picture. At the
end of the work day these teachers should be able to go back home and live
their own life and do as they please. As long as they are not harming anyone,
why should they be fired for what they do in their free time? Any other
employee of another company, say for example Sobeys, would end their day at the
end of their shift and not have to worry about complying to anyone’s rules,
except the law, of course. Why should expect our teachers to always have their behavior in check and
always be on the clock?