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Texas teacher suspended over racially-charged, profanity-laced tweet
By Joshua Fechter | November 11, 2014
A Texas teacher who took to Twitter on Friday to tell "dumb (expletive) crackers" with opinions about ongoing racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, to "kill themselves" could lose her job after major online backlash.
Duncanville Independent School District officials suspended Vinita Hegwood, a second year Duncanville High School English teacher, without pay Monday morning after officials learned about a series of Hegwood's tweets on Friday night, WFAA reported. Officials told WFAA Hegwood said she wrote the tweets and that they expected her to be fired.
Well, there ya go. It works both ways. A few months ago, a Texas woman lost her job at a hospital because she wrote racist ramblings on facebook regarding the Ferguson killing.
Do people think that what they say on social media won't get noticed and have ramifications? Apparently, they do. Amazing. I don't care how good a teacher she might be; I wouldn't want someone who processes the world like this around my kids, much less teaching them.
A Texas teacher who took to Twitter on Friday to tell "dumb (expletive) crackers" with opinions about ongoing racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, to "kill themselves" could lose her job after major online backlash.
Duncanville Independent School District officials suspended Vinita Hegwood, a second year Duncanville High School English teacher, without pay Monday morning after officials learned about a series of Hegwood's tweets on Friday night, WFAA reported. Officials told WFAA Hegwood said she wrote the tweets and that they expected her to be fired.
Well, there ya go. It works both ways. A few months ago, a Texas woman lost her job at a hospital because she wrote racist ramblings on facebook regarding the Ferguson killing.
They'll both be looking for another job.
Seems like someone needs to tell these Texans no one gives a squat about their opinions on a town 1000 miles away from where they live. Paraphrasing the teacher's tweet of course...
Do people think that what they say on social media won't get noticed and have ramifications? Apparently, they do. Amazing. I don't care how good a teacher she might be; I wouldn't want someone who processes the world like this around my kids, much less teaching them.
I'd like to live in a Republic where we are allowed to have our thoughts, no matter what they may be. In the last few years it has begun to feel as though people can be charged for thought crimes in the U. S.
As long as you aren't threatening anyone or causing harm you should be able to speak your mind when appropriate with no fear of retaliation. I don't care what any teacher thinks as long as they are an effective and fair teacher.
But this woman - I wouldn't want her to teach my kids because of her obvious stupidity of broadcasting what she thinks. I just have to doubt her teaching skills after seeing such a display of poor judgment. No matter if your thoughts are murderous, as a role model your behavior needs to be impartial.
Why should someone lose their job over something like this?
Because she's a teacher. And she's shown racial bias, and told people who disagree with her to kill themselves. If she worked at Best Buy? Eh, no biggie. Teachers can't get away with it, though.
I am stunned she was suspended without pay and expects to be fired.
I would have bet she would have joined the many thousands of state and federal workers who are suspended with pay while her situation was "reviewed". For months. And months. And then, when we have all forgotten, she is reinstated. And then compensated for the "pain" she suffered.
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