Federal courts rarely afford much weight to the "academic freedom" of public school teachers when they're disciplined for what they say during class, but an Illinois district court has made an exception in a rather unlikely factual setting: A Chicago teacher suspended for saying the "n-word" in front of sixth-graders.In Brown v.
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New York court: Firing a teacher for social-media “vent” was “shockingly” unfair
The unemployment lines are littered with former public employees who made misfired jokes, shared PG-13 photos (or even G-rated ones), or aired complaints about their jobs on Facebook.