Teacher Fired For Having Premarital Sex: Justified or Too Far?

-.- i dont even know what i read right now

She should have known it was part of the job and a moral issue .

SERIOUSLY???????????? FOR REAL?????????????

If I may share my blunt opinion... yes, people are roll models. That goes for everyone. People are human, that goes for everyone. I think between jobs and personal life this is drawing the line and dissrespecting the individuals personal comforts and PERSONAL lifestyle. To me I would maybe expect and state that it's a different situation you would see in a christian private school but I'm sorry, who says that the higher up isn't making any wrong choices outside of their christian relationship with God? Guess what? If God didn't agree with her having a child... guess what, she wouldn't have been born. If the gal didn't get pregnant, do you think they'd be getting on her about still having sex outside marriage? Who says the rest of their teachers aren't doing the same thing? Let God deal with his people, not some school program just because they feel they need to make some statment about what they may dissagree on. There are more important things to be dealing with. Be happy you have a good teacher who embraces life! :)

I think I've said enough.

So instead, they'd rather teach the students that you should be perfect and without flaws, and that it is unacceptable to make mistakes? Yeah, I'm sure something like this will never happen to any of them right? Smh!

I don't think it's right - private or public school. If the issue was morality then a contract would have exsisted beofre this, adn she would have known the day she was hhired becasue they would have asked her to read and sign something. Thia sounds like the school did not wnt to have to pay for her leave. This is just a case of acompany being cheap- whose morality should be questioned. I think the school's because this does not set a good example! It's similar to an employer not giveing workers full time hours (regardless of insinuated or verbal understanding) because they don't want ot have to pay into benefits for the employee! Very sad... what the name & location of this school. I wouldn't want my students going to a school where they practice hypocracy!

Are all of you stupid? In the artical I just read, it states that she (DID NOT SIGN) ANY such agreement! I also did not see where it mentioned any amount of money for the 6 week leave. And if she is in a relationship with a man and they decide to have relations! That's his/her business! She had 5 children from her first marriage, and it sounds like she had no problem raising them herself after her first husband died. Last, who in the hell made any of you negative ppl God and said you have the right to judge any one? LET HE WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE!

If u have a problem with the couple being different, (enter racism), check yourselves!!!

I hope this couple does not recieve reprecussions to the behavior, it is usually spontanious! Usually driven by the sub-concious, not the concious. (Really human nature vs. our own reality). Stuff happens in the midst of sexuallity!

@Marianne Beach, Your article is a perfect example of the media trying to form public opinion. You didn't bother mentioning the important fact that this teacher worked for a private, Christian school. I think that your reporting capabilities are sorely lacking.

It's a Christian private school, it becomes their call! I personally don't agree with the school's position however the school has their private laws. Personally, I sympathize with the couple but, rules are rules. If it were a public school it should make national news and the authority of that public school should be replaced and the woman should be reinstated as a teacher in good standing with
complete remuneration!

And if they did there studies correctly they would truly know the meaning if a man lay with a woman it is good they he take her up for his wife (yes) that is honour ok and trust the meaning is man was ment to be honest and to take a wife did not mean marrage it ment life long comitment to that one person and it was made public that all should know this is how God wanted man to be honest to his word and curruption has torte us all different.

Conception of a child out of marriage for a mother of six and also a widower is no doubt an indecent thing but this should not be amounting to firing her at her job which was very indecent of that school's administration. So its a clash between two indecencies :)

to far the schools need to learn rights human rights not just theres

Horny is horny,6kids i rest my case!

The school board is behind the times. Back in the 50s it would make some sense, but now days it's ridiculous. When I was in college the strictest upbringing led to the wildest kids in the dorm. Parents need to teach good judgement not rely on images from school to be the moral code.

i see a lawsuit in that school's future

the Southerland Christian School in Saint Cloud, Florida are sending out a message. We know if you date this might occur and the school will not stop interracial dating or marriages
this is from bibical times to now. The wrong message to children yet a right message to them
there is surely a debate on this matter. Children don't have sex before marriage or children don't date outside your race?

I dont buy it. Anyone working in a Christian institution that I have ever known had to sign a morality clause as a condition of employment. I'm not saying what the school did was right by any means. But generally Christian schools hire christians to teach there and premarital is frowned upon in the christian faith--I can't see how she could claim to not know that?

that went over my head.i know that if the student is young I CAN understand them getting fired,.these are the sign of what was told to us when we where little .in the bible,.tell things that are going to happen..crime.fauid.shooting.lying.teacher are suppose to be married for a life but that not the case..I don't know the whole story of the matter or sitaution.but in the end it will tell itself.to many people are getting married for the wrong reason not the right reasson.I am not herr e to judge only God can do that.