Texas School Moves to Fire Teacher After He Came Out - Then ON to Students

[Barack O'Cumswallower]

A teacher in Texas says he was targeted for firing because he’s
gay, but the school district claims, without providing
specifics, that it’s because he sent an inapprpropriate text to
a student.

Dr. Josh Hamilton has been teaching professional communications
and college readiness for three years at Grapevine High School
in Texas. He also coached speech teams that won state and
national championships.

According to The Star-Telegram, Hamilton was helping students
prepare for a speech competition hosted at the school in
September when he talked about being openly gay. He meant it as
a motivational speech, he says, describing his struggles with
mental health issues and how he emerged happily as a gay man.

"I was like heck, you guys watched me struggle for years through
my own mental health battles, because that what it was, and come
out on the other side of that has a happy functioning gay man,"
he told KXAS news.

The next day, he says, school officials called him in for
questioning about what he shared with the students, and asked to
review his cellphone use. He turned the phone over, saying he
had “nothing to hide.”

Following that, he was placed on administrative leave. This
week, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD board members voted unanimously
fire him for violating the district’s texting policy. The policy
prohibits employees from communicating with students via
personal accounts.

At a school board meeting, human resources executive director
Gema Padgett said, "Dr. Hamilton violated the standards by
developing inappropriate relationships with students, providing
inappropriate information to the students concerning his
personal life, through text messages, treating students as
family members or close friends and providing inappropriate
personal information to the students.”

The district has not elaborated on what Hamilton is alleged to
have said in the text messages.

For his part, Hamilton says, he sent text messages to a student
who babysat his son, but says there was nothing inappropriate
about the communications.

According to a statement from Kristin Snively, a spokesperson
for the school district, “Mr. Hamilton’s sexual orientation has
absolutely nothing to do with the reason Mr. Hamilton has been
proposed for termination.” She added that the firing was due to
“violations of the District’s electronic communications policy,
violations of student privacy, failure to follow written
directives, and violations of the Texas Educator’s Code of
Ethics.”

Hamilton says he’ll appeal the decision to the Texas Education
Agency, which would entitle him to a due process hearing. His
hope is that he can retain his teaching job.

"Sitting in the board room and hearing her use the word
‘inappropriate, inappropriate, inappropriate’ painted me to the
public as a child predator," Hamilton said. "This has been the
worst experience of my life.”

You made the decision to be gay.

You also made the decision to attempt to groom children to be
gay.

You deserve no sympathy.

Keep your unwanted degenerate lifestyle to yourself.

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