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TexasTowelie

(111,300 posts)
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 11:25 PM Sep 2020

San Antonio Teacher Loses Job After Refusing To Stop Wearing Black Lives Matter Mask

About a week before students at Great Hearts Western Hills were scheduled to return to the classroom, art teacher Lillian White says she received an email from her boss.

The school’s headmaster, Matthew Vlahovich, told her she no longer had a job because she planned to continue wearing a mask that says Black Lives Matter, despite being told that the mask was against the charter network’s dress code.

“We deeply respect your convictions, and we sincerely wish you well in whatever advocacy you might choose outside the school,” Vlahovich wrote, according to a copy of the email White posted online. “However, the organization maintains a dress code in order to sustain a scholastic culture of learning in which students and faculty participate together across time.”

According to White, Great Hearts added mask restrictions to its dress code policy after school administrators asked her to start wearing a different mask.

Read more: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/san-antonio-teacher-loses-job-after-refusing-to-stop-wearing-black-lives-matter-mask/

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San Antonio Teacher Loses Job After Refusing To Stop Wearing Black Lives Matter Mask (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2020 OP
I'm sorry, but that was just stupid johnnyplankton Sep 2020 #1
However: sheshe2 Sep 2020 #3
This is actually an interesting issue texasfiddler Sep 2020 #2
Sounds like... sheshe2 Sep 2020 #4
depends on their policy to others who wear "message" masks. everyone has to msongs Sep 2020 #5
If we support teachers displaying liberal messages, we have to accept conservative messages. Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #6

johnnyplankton

(350 posts)
1. I'm sorry, but that was just stupid
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 11:34 PM
Sep 2020

How would we react if someone insisted on wearing a MAGA hat and got fired? We'd all cheer. It's pretty well spelled out:

“We deeply respect your convictions, and we sincerely wish you well in whatever advocacy you might choose outside the school,” Vlahovich wrote, according to a copy of the email White posted online. “However, the organization maintains a dress code in order to sustain a scholastic culture of learning in which students and faculty participate together across time.”

sheshe2

(83,338 posts)
3. However:
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 11:47 PM
Sep 2020
According to White, Great Hearts added mask restrictions to its dress code policy after school administrators asked her to start wearing a different mask.

texasfiddler

(1,986 posts)
2. This is actually an interesting issue
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 11:45 PM
Sep 2020

My son is a senior high school student and the principal's son wears a trump 2020 mask. I kind of wish this rule was applicable at my son's high school. Our county went 70/30 for trump in 2016 and he would not fair well if he wore a Biden 2020 mask.

sheshe2

(83,338 posts)
4. Sounds like...
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 11:52 PM
Sep 2020
“I think there is a time and a place for everything,” Zapata said. “And while I appreciate her desire to stand up for our Black students, I think she should, as a teacher, be representing all of her students.”


Sounds like if she wore an All Lives Matter mask it would be A Okay.

msongs

(67,193 posts)
5. depends on their policy to others who wear "message" masks. everyone has to
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 12:03 AM
Sep 2020

wear solid colors, ones with no text or images? what's the rule that applies equally

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