Constitutional Law

Mich. teacher can keep job despite 'coarse' conduct

By By The Associated Press

HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court won't get involved in a dispute between a school district and a teacher who was photographed simulating sex acts on a mannequin at a boat party.

The court's Oct. 27 decision to sit it out means the L'Anse Creuse district in Macomb County can't fire Anna Land.

The middle school teacher was fired in 2007 but the state Tenure Commission and the Michigan appeals court overturned that ruling. In May, the appeals court said Land's conduct was "coarse" but not illegal and not inappropriate for an adult event.

The pictures were taken without Land's knowledge in 2005 and posted on a website two years later.

Full post as published by First Amendment Center on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).