Have you drugged your kid today?

[chanel]

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The longest red light in the world would not give you enough time to read all the bumper stickers on Tarah Ausburn's Toyota Prius hybrid.

"I just like the ability to take a controversial topic and sum it up in one clever line. I'm an English teacher; that's what I do," Ausburn told CBS 5 News.

But this English teacher found herself in the principal's office after she said some parents at Imagine Prep High School in Surprise started complaining about a bumper sticker on Ausburn's car that asks, "Have you drugged your kid today?"

"It's kind of a criticism of us tending to over-medicate hyperactive kids who might not need those medications," said Ausburn, who said she has been a teacher for seven years.

Ausburn said she is fighting to get her job back, claiming that her First Amendment rights were violated.

Teacher: I Was Fired Over A Bumper Sticker - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix

Does she have a case?

 

[strollingbones]

damn it ...they can buy their own drugs as far as i am concerned....

 

[RetiredGySgt]

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The longest red light in the world would not give you enough time to read all the bumper stickers on Tarah Ausburn's Toyota Prius hybrid.

"I just like the ability to take a controversial topic and sum it up in one clever line. I'm an English teacher; that's what I do," Ausburn told CBS 5 News.

But this English teacher found herself in the principal's office after she said some parents at Imagine Prep High School in Surprise started complaining about a bumper sticker on Ausburn's car that asks, "Have you drugged your kid today?"

"It's kind of a criticism of us tending to over-medicate hyperactive kids who might not need those medications," said Ausburn, who said she has been a teacher for seven years.

Ausburn said she is fighting to get her job back, claiming that her First Amendment rights were violated.

Teacher: I Was Fired Over A Bumper Sticker - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix

Does she have a case?

Yes. It is a valid complaint and how the school board could fire her over a bumper sticker just amazes me.

 

[sparky]

Does she have a case?

against who? the pharmacabal? hey, she should thank God they've been able to keep all those kids quite until the D.A.R.E. officer shows up.....

 

[chanel]

Ha ha.

She could have taken the bumper sticker off and saved her job, but I still think the school over-reached.

Anyone who was offended by the message might want to consider why.

 

[strollingbones]

teachers should have all the freedoms of a normal citizen

 

[editec]

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The longest red light in the world would not give you enough time to read all the bumper stickers on Tarah Ausburn's Toyota Prius hybrid.

"I just like the ability to take a controversial topic and sum it up in one clever line. I'm an English teacher; that's what I do," Ausburn told CBS 5 News.

But this English teacher found herself in the principal's office after she said some parents at Imagine Prep High School in Surprise started complaining about a bumper sticker on Ausburn's car that asks, "Have you drugged your kid today?"

"It's kind of a criticism of us tending to over-medicate hyperactive kids who might not need those medications," said Ausburn, who said she has been a teacher for seven years.

Ausburn said she is fighting to get her job back, claiming that her First Amendment rights were violated.

Teacher: I Was Fired Over A Bumper Sticker - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix

Does she have a case?

Gee, I wonder what happened to her lifetime can't ever be fired tenure?

If she has enough money to take her case to court, she does.


Now please tell what other profession has to put up with shit like this, folks.

 

[chanel]

Good point but I think this is a private school - "Imagine Prep"

 

[Granny]

I'm with you, Chanel - "Imagine Prep" is a strange name for a public school and leads me to think it's one of those schools with some weird curriculum in place.

Over-drugging kids has been a problem for a long time. Some years back, it was pretty en vogue for schools to tell parents that their children were "ADD" and "suggest" that they take the kids to be tested. One of the "symptoms" (believe it or not) was the idea that if a child sat with one leg folded under him he was ADD. People were drugging their kids into an absolute stupor - but it did keep them quiet in the classroom and lazy parents didn't have to be bothered with giving them a lot of attention at home - especially when they were very young.

Sure, today there are all kinds of illegal drugs available to kids - everybody's in pretty good shape as long as they aren't dealing on school property.

Then there is the rage of "pill parties" where kids get their hands on any prescription drugs available in the home and then party hardy by sharing them and taking who knows what and drinking who knows what on top of it.

Whether the teacher has a case is probably a toss-up - hell, if Larry Flint can peddle porn under freedom of speech protection, then the teacher should be able to express her freedom of speech protections of objection to over-drugging children. Whether she has job protection is another question.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The longest red light in the world would not give you enough time to read all the bumper stickers on Tarah Ausburn's Toyota Prius hybrid.

"I just like the ability to take a controversial topic and sum it up in one clever line. I'm an English teacher; that's what I do," Ausburn told CBS 5 News.

But this English teacher found herself in the principal's office after she said some parents at Imagine Prep High School in Surprise started complaining about a bumper sticker on Ausburn's car that asks, "Have you drugged your kid today?"

"It's kind of a criticism of us tending to over-medicate hyperactive kids who might not need those medications," said Ausburn, who said she has been a teacher for seven years.

Ausburn said she is fighting to get her job back, claiming that her First Amendment rights were violated.

Teacher: I Was Fired Over A Bumper Sticker - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix

Does she have a case?

Gee, I wonder what happened to her lifetime can't ever be fired tenure?

If she has enough money to take her case to court, she does.


Now please tell what other profession has to put up with shit like this, folks.

Now back to point on this, provide us the FACTS on NJ and tenure, since THAT is where we were talking about.

 

[RadiomanATL]

I usually wait until after lunch.

 

[random3434]

She is right, kids ARE over medicated just because they don't fit inside the teachers 'nice little square box', and because mommy and daddy put them on the video games so they wouldn't have to actually interact with their child.


Hmmmm, freedom of speech for saying kids are over medicated?



I guess not in a private school.

 

[Granny]

Teacher: I Was Fired Over A Bumper Sticker - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix

Does she have a case?

Gee, I wonder what happened to her lifetime can't ever be fired tenure?

If she has enough money to take her case to court, she does.


Now please tell what other profession has to put up with shit like this, folks.

Now back to point on this, provide us the FACTS on NJ and tenure, since THAT is where we were talking about.

I think Chanel was talking about a school in Arizona, not New Jersey. It doesn't matter what state she was talking about - the problem is real and it's nationwide.

 

[Skull Pilot]

I guess sarcasm and nuance is over the heads of the idiots on the school board.

 

[manifold]

Speech has consequences. If her bumper sticker said 'Aids isn't the disease, it's the cure' I bet most of you would think she deserved to be fired for it.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Speech has consequences. If her bumper sticker said 'Aids isn't the disease, it's the cure' I bet most of you would think she deserved to be fired for it.

Personally, I wouldn't. But then again most people can't compartmentalize like I can.

 

[manifold]

Speech has consequences. If her bumper sticker said 'Aids isn't the disease, it's the cure' I bet most of you would think she deserved to be fired for it.

Personally, I wouldn't. But then again most people can't compartmentalize like I can.

I wouldn't either.

But still, most people understand that freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to say whatever you want without consequence.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Speech has consequences. If her bumper sticker said 'Aids isn't the disease, it's the cure' I bet most of you would think she deserved to be fired for it.

Personally, I wouldn't. But then again most people can't compartmentalize like I can.

I wouldn't either.

But still, most people understand that freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to say whatever you want without consequence.

What one says outside of the context of his job is no one's business.

 

[RadiomanATL]

Speech has consequences. If her bumper sticker said 'Aids isn't the disease, it's the cure' I bet most of you would think she deserved to be fired for it.

Personally, I wouldn't. But then again most people can't compartmentalize like I can.

I wouldn't either.

But still, most people understand that freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to say whatever you want without consequence.

The consequences are a bit disproportional to the supposed offense. I think that may be the issue here. There are degrees.

 

[manifold]

Personally, I wouldn't. But then again most people can't compartmentalize like I can.

I wouldn't either.

But still, most people understand that freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to say whatever you want without consequence.

What one says outside of the context of his job is no one's business.

Did she remove the bumper sticker when she drove on to school property?