Tennessee Teacher Forced to Resign After taking ill student to hospital

[Jughead]

◦Jennifer Mitts, a teacher at Tennessee's Red Bank High School, says school officials forced her to resign after she took an ill, uninsured 20-year-old student to the hospital and paid the bill.

Tenn. teacher forced to resign after taking ill student to hospital | Education Dive

Hope she gets her job back.

 

[depotoo]

Wow!

Not many 20 yr olds in high school are there?

 

[TheOldSchool]

It's a red state. Why be surprised?

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Anyone who thinks that helping another person is a bad thing to me is in serious need of a brain transplant.

God bless you and the teacher and their students always!!!

Holly

P.S. Then again, a person has to have a brain to begin in order for a transplant to take place.

 

[Politico]

Should I waste time following up on this or as usual just know there's more to the story?

 

[Gracie]

Jennifer Mitts, a teacher at Tennessee's Red Bank High School, says school officials forced her to resign after she took an ill, uninsured 20-year-old student to the hospital and paid the bill.
Mitts says officials "dictated" the contents of her resignation letter to her, including a waiver of her right to a hearing, but officials say she was only going to be temporarily suspended and the resignation was voluntary.
A petition in support of the teacher has garnered over 500 signatures and claims, "Even though both students may have suffered harm by not going to the doctor, Principal Roberts saw fit to give Miss Mitts the choice of being fired or resigning for her good deeds."
Dive Insight:

The petition also makes note of the fact that Mitts, who taught at the school for 14 years, had been in trouble before for taking a sick student to the doctor — though in that case, she had permission from the student's parents. She had reportedly been warned before about taking students from the school in her car, as it constitutes a liability issue.

Perhaps she would have been better off calling an ambulance in either case, but it might also be an overreaction to force out — if the claims are true — a teacher who cares enough about her students to foot the emergency room expenses when one is sick.

She should have called an ambulance.

 

[Mr. H.]

This message is hidden because JOSweetHeart is on your ignore list.

Yeah, life is good.

Schools are so royally fucked up. They've got nothing to do about our student children, and all to do about faculty, administrators, supervisors, and staff.

It's a fuck-fest at its worst.

 

[Politico]

Jennifer Mitts, a teacher at Tennessee's Red Bank High School, says school officials forced her to resign after she took an ill, uninsured 20-year-old student to the hospital and paid the bill.
Mitts says officials "dictated" the contents of her resignation letter to her, including a waiver of her right to a hearing, but officials say she was only going to be temporarily suspended and the resignation was voluntary.
A petition in support of the teacher has garnered over 500 signatures and claims, "Even though both students may have suffered harm by not going to the doctor, Principal Roberts saw fit to give Miss Mitts the choice of being fired or resigning for her good deeds."
Dive Insight:

The petition also makes note of the fact that Mitts, who taught at the school for 14 years, had been in trouble before for taking a sick student to the doctor — though in that case, she had permission from the student's parents. She had reportedly been warned before about taking students from the school in her car, as it constitutes a liability issue.

Perhaps she would have been better off calling an ambulance in either case, but it might also be an overreaction to force out — if the claims are true — a teacher who cares enough about her students to foot the emergency room expenses when one is sick.

She should have called an ambulance.

So there was more.

 

[Noomi]

Jennifer Mitts, a teacher at Tennessee's Red Bank High School, says school officials forced her to resign after she took an ill, uninsured 20-year-old student to the hospital and paid the bill.
Mitts says officials "dictated" the contents of her resignation letter to her, including a waiver of her right to a hearing, but officials say she was only going to be temporarily suspended and the resignation was voluntary.
A petition in support of the teacher has garnered over 500 signatures and claims, "Even though both students may have suffered harm by not going to the doctor, Principal Roberts saw fit to give Miss Mitts the choice of being fired or resigning for her good deeds."
Dive Insight:

The petition also makes note of the fact that Mitts, who taught at the school for 14 years, had been in trouble before for taking a sick student to the doctor — though in that case, she had permission from the student's parents. She had reportedly been warned before about taking students from the school in her car, as it constitutes a liability issue.

Perhaps she would have been better off calling an ambulance in either case, but it might also be an overreaction to force out — if the claims are true — a teacher who cares enough about her students to foot the emergency room expenses when one is sick.

She should have called an ambulance.

Yep, especially since she'd been warned before.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

She should have called an ambulance.

If a situation is serious enough, an ambulance can't be waited on.

God bless you always!!!

Holly