Teacher Fired For Watching Pornography At Work Rehired

Luke 17:28-30 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built” but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

A teacher who was caught watching pornography was offered his job back by a Wisconsin school district after a state arbitrator and the state Supreme Court ruled he could not be fired for it.

Andrew Harris was fired from his job as a seventh-grade teacher for collecting, distributing and watching pornography on his school-issued computer.  The investigation was launched after Harris started showing pornographic images to a female teacher in his school.

The teacher’s union then filed a grievance claiming his dismissal was unfair.  A state arbitrator then ruled in favor of the teacher saying it was unfair of the school to fire him for viewing and distributing pornography from the computer.  The arbitrator ordered the teacher to be rehired to his same job or a similar job and be paid back pay for the time he was out of work.

The cost of the back pay to taxpayers is nearly $200,000.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court validated the arbitrator’s decision by refusing to hear the case.

The school district then offered a similar position to Harris because they felt the $1 million spent defending themselves in the lawsuit was enough to ask from taxpayers.

Parents in the school district are outraged, demanding to know why a teacher who is watching pornography around underage kids is not a threat to the children. They also question how the teacher’s union could say this teacher did nothing worth being fired.

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