Think before you post!

A New Jersey elementary school teacher was discharged from her tenured position after referring to her first grade students as “future criminals” in a Facebook post.

The administrative law judge determined that the district’s need to operate efficiently outweighed the teacher’s free speech rights. The judge also said, “In a public education setting, thoughtless words can destroy the partnership between home and school that is essential to the mission of the schools.”

For more information see the NSBA coverage here: http://legalclips.nsba.org/?p=10160

Meghan Covert Russell