Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Malicious modeling?

CNN.com reports on a Catholic school who has fired a preschool teacher for being unmarried and pregnant. The school claims that they are simply "following the personnel handbook," where teachers are "expected to convey the teachings of the Catholic faith by his or her words and actions." Of course, one bit of irony about this situation is that if Ms. McCusker had decided to terminate her pregnancy, she would have violated Church doctrine...and yet saved her job. Exactly what sort of role modeling does the school have in mind? Ms. McCusker is truly caught between a rock and a hard place.

Lawyers for the fired teacher argue that the rules themselves are unjust. After all, how does the school district monitor male teachers' sexual habits? This is another example of inequitable treatment of women in the guise of observance of religious tenets.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

what kind of an example does this teacher, a single woman getting pregnant, set students? didn't she realize she was in a school where morality is stressed?

Anonymous said...

Her fight is against nature, not this school.

(anonymous because I have no blogger acct)