Ethics

Quaker Teacher Fired Over Loyalty Oath

By Ed Brayton

Here's an absolutely repulsive story.

California State University East Bay has fired a math teacher after six weeks on the job because she inserted the word "nonviolently" in her state-required Oath of Allegiance form.

Marianne Kearney-Brown, a Quaker and graduate student who began teaching remedial math to undergrads Jan. 7, lost her $700-a-month part-time job after refusing to sign an 87-word Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution that the state requires of elected officials and public employees.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 03, 2008 (boomark / email).