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rug

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Mon Jun 16, 2014, 09:56 AM Jun 2014

Fired German teacher files EEOC complaint against Middlebury Community Schools

Kevin Pack alleges religious discrimination against NHS principal

June 15, 2014
By MICHAEL WANBAUGH michael.wanbaugh@goshennews.com Goshen News

GOSHEN — A high school German teacher who was fired by Middlebury Community Schools this past school year for what school officials called poor work performance, has filed a complaint against the school corporation with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging religious discrimination by Northridge High School Principal Gerald Rasler.

Kevin Pack, 29, who was hired to teach six units of German at Northridge High School in August 2013, initiated the complaint in April, shortly after Middlebury Community School trustees unanimously terminated his temporary contract during a special meeting on April 2.

Pack claims that speaking out against Rasler’s religious references during the school year and sending a faculty-wide e-mail indicating he was an atheist, directly led to his termination of employment, not poor performance. “I was retaliated against and dismissed for filing the religious harassment complaint against Principal Gerald Rasler and for being an atheist,” Pack said in a recent phone interview.

“I refused to pray, be a Christian or go along with any of (Rasler’s) evangelizing in the school, and they dismissed me over it.”

http://www.goshennews.com/local/x1927799187/Fired-German-teacher-files-EEOC-complaint-against-Middlebury-Community-Schools

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Fired German teacher files EEOC complaint against Middlebury Community Schools (Original Post) rug Jun 2014 OP
I see in a related story that Rasler is retiring now KurtNYC Jun 2014 #1
That's interesting. rug Jun 2014 #2
 

rug

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2. That's interesting.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 10:25 AM
Jun 2014

It shouldn't affect the EEOC complaint but it might help explain why he felt free to pull this crap so brazenly this year.

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