{"id":157996,"date":"2016-12-08T09:22:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=157996"},"modified":"2016-12-10T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:22:32","slug":"teacher-fired-for-saying-abortion-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/teacher-fired-for-saying-abortion-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Teacher fired for saying he personally believes abortion is wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>\u201cI find abortion to be wrong, but the law is often different from our personal opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Canada\u2019s National Post, that statement was enough to get a teacher fired from Fraser Academy, a private school in Vancouver, last month.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/author\/cblatchford\">Christie Blatchford<\/a> reported corresponding with the man, who asked that his name be withheld. He contended that while teaching a 12th grade law class, he gave several examples in which an individual\u2019s moral beliefs might conflict with the law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleAd1\">\n<p><!-- \/1011927\/LAN_300_by_250_top_article --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1473179053567-0\" class=\"ArticleAd1a\"><script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1473179053567-0'); });\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After revealing his thoughts on abortion, a student declared she felt triggered and fled the classroom. She later demanded an apology and complained to administrators after the teacher refused. \u201cWhen I didn\u2019t show contrition,\u201d he said, \u201cI was summoned upstairs and grilled by two administrators who told me my job was on the line.\u201d The teacher agreed to offer an apology, but as Blatchford described, it wasn\u2019t well received:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He apologized specifically to her, but then made what was apparently a fatal error: He said he liked her, that she was a bright and engaging student, and said he\u2019d told her father just that at a recent parent-teacher night.<\/p>\n<p>She stormed out of the class in tears, and he was again castigated by his superiors, this time for having been \u201ctoo personal\u201d in his apologia.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 30\u2026 [h]e was told he \u201ccould no longer continue in the classroom,\u201d and was offered a short-term medical disability top-up for employment insurance. He was then escorted down the hall and off the premises.<\/p>\n<p>He repeatedly asked what he\u2019d done wrong or if there was an allegation of misconduct. \u201cThe answer I got back was that I was recognized as an outstanding teacher, but student \u2018safety\u2019 was the school\u2019s primary concern.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Postmedia (the National Post\u2019s parent company) has since published a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/christie-blatchford-posh-vancouver-school-places-staff-under-gag-order-after-teacher-fired\">follow-up report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI find abortion to be wrong, but the law is often different from our personal opinions.\u201d According to Canada\u2019s National Post, that statement was enough to get a teacher fired from Fraser Academy, a private school in Vancouver, last month. Conservative columnist Christie Blatchford reported corresponding with the man, who asked that his name be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":56267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Canada: Teacher fired for saying he personally believes abortion is wrong<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The teacher says that while teaching a 12th grade law class, he gave several examples in which an individual\u2019s moral beliefs might conflict with the law.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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