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 Teacher In Diversity
Dispute Can Still Teach
by The Associated Press
Posted: April 27, 2007 - 8:00 am ET
(Woodburn, Indiana) A high
school teacher who faced losing her job after a student newspaper published an
editorial advocating tolerance of gays can continue teaching at another school.
Amy Sorrell,
30, reached an agreement that allows her to be transferred to another high
school to teach English, said her attorney, Patrick Proctor.
"The
school administration has said in no uncertain terms that she's not going to be
given a journalism position," Proctor said.
Sorrell, who
had been an English and journalism instructor at Woodlan Junior-Senior High
School, was placed on paid leave March 19, two months after an editorial
advocating tolerance of homosexuals ran in Woodlan's student newspaper, The
Tomahawk. Sorrell had been the newspaper's adviser.
School
officials in the conservative northern Indiana community about 10 miles east of
Fort Wayne said Sorrell did not comply with an agreement to alert the principal
about controversial articles.
The agreement
she signed includes a written reprimand that says she neglected her duties as a
teacher and was insubordinate in refusing to obey school officials' orders.
Sorrell said
she is "very proud" of Megan Chase, the student who wrote the
editorial calling for tolerance and acceptance of gays, and the Tomahawk's other
writers and editors. But she said she could not financially afford to fight the
school district over her discipline.
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