Not Such an April's Fools for Indiana Teacher and Correctional Officer

Two women, one a journalism teacher, and one a correctional officer, were facing termination from their jobs because of Free Speech.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/17005912.htm
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14265704&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416045&rfi=6


The teacher was suspended because she let one of her high school students put out a report supporting homosexuals, and the correctional officer was suspended because she told the press the truth about how bad the conditions in the prison were.

Both women claim that their right of Freedom of Speech was violated. I agree with both cases. Their Freedom of Speech has been restricted, because in both cases because their superiors have set certain rules for conduct they felt that those rules were broken.

In the teacher's case the school board felt that administration should have agreed and authorized for the article to be published in the school paper.

And in the lieutenant's case the correctional facility board felt that because she was a non-union employee she was an at will employee meaning she had to follow the guidelines to whatever the prison set forth; even if she did not agree with it.