More Teacher’s Unions Showing Their Stripes

Teacher’s Unions have little interest for the welfare of children, or the quality of education:

Here’s what Wisconsin’s legal system and its teachers unions have just taught the nation: If you’re a teacher and you get fired for looking at porn at work, you’ll get your job back….The district’s school board Monday voted in a special closed session to comply with an arbitrator’s 60-page order that demands Harris be reinstated. He was fired in 2010 after receiving and viewing multiple pornographic and sexually inappropriate images and videos, according to a complaint.

To add insult to the district’s injury, taxpayers will have to pay Harris nearly $200,000 in back pay. In total the district will spend nearly $1 million on the case, the brunt of which went to legally defending its position that the firing was fair.

Look, I’m not going to make accusations that porn viewing is bad. It isn’t. Still I never can comprehend people who consume it while on the job. There is appropriate behavior and inappropriate behavior. Further there are tales of teachers being fired because it was discovered that they acted in porn in their youth, or worked as a nude dancer. Those cases are horrible, as it was done BEFORE they started teaching, and the activities were 100% legal.

In this case it was AT the school, and while he was working. I don’t know any further details, but the majority of people in middle schools are minors and allowing them to see pornographic images is a crime. Watching porn while in a middle school is just horrible judgement, and shows little self control…and now that is rewarded. He got an extended vacation with pay and now…

On Tuesday afternoon, the district announced it has has offered Harris a position teaching the same subject and grade at Kromrey Middle School.

Horrible!