Judge: Facebook post should cost job of NJ teacher

[No More Sorrow]

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey administrative law judge has ruled that a first-grade teacher who wrote that she was a "warden for future criminals" on Facebook earlier this year should lose her tenured job.

The state education commissioner now has 45 days to accept, reject or modify the decision regarding Jennifer O'Brien.

The Paterson teacher posted her remark to 333 friends on March 28. But it was forwarded and several parents saw it.

O'Brien's lawyer, Nancy Oxfeld, tells The Record newspaper that her client will appeal the ruling, which was made public Tuesday. O'Brien had testified that she wrote the post in exasperation because several students kept disrupting her lessons and one boy had recently hit her.

But the judge called O'Brien's conduct "inexcusable."

 

[Deezy]

Fuck that Judge with that stick already lodged in his ass.

Teachers have the worst jobs where there best isn't good enough and their worst is everything.

Public forum it may be, but it's still private and anyone being fired by a court of law just shows how bad nannying states could be. Also, isn't there this thing called freedom of speech? Can't anyone say anything anymore?

PC shit is ruining modern day society.

 

[Troy]

Teacher isn't too bright to post this in a public place. No Social Media is private and if she wanted to express her opinion it should have been in person in private. She shouldn't lose her job though, just a warning to be more careful about who she talks to.

 

[Deezy]

Everyone has a right to express their oppinions and frustrations. Free speech is free speech even if people don't agree with sonmebody, it is still their right to express it. Telling someone what they can or cannot say is afront to civil liberties.

You take the good with the bad.

 

[Troy]

There is no such thing as free speech it is just something governments say to keep people happy. People still must conform and can't say certain things especially if they are in a position of power.