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View submission: Have any of you ever gotten fired?
I got non renewed by a charter school district after I testified against a coworker for having inappropriately touched a student of mine. The entire class was witness and I was the adult she reported it. Mind you, two months prior to that incident, I had submitted a report to the principal that this same coworker was behaving inappropriately with ME, and the principal’s response to that was, verbatim, “You’re not actually accusing him of anything, right?” And when HR contacted me in regards to the student’s case, the investigator asked me for my perspective since I was a teacher to the student and on the same grade team as the accused, and when I asked if they’d received my report, the investigator was appalled because they’d never received a report despite me having detailed documentation regarding the incidents I had endured from him. On one occasion he went as far as making sure I, and several new female hires, knew that he was close friends with the principal and long time friends with the CEO’s husband. That freak is STILL employed by that district and I was put out of a job. Several of my coworkers came forward when news broke out of me being replaced and were outraged, several of them had been witness to that man’s unwelcome approaches and or overheard his “locker room talk.”
Thankfully, I was able to find work at a neighboring district, though I did take a major pay cut, but I’ve been employed with them for 2 years now. They take staff and student safety far more seriously here, though our new superintendent is an absolute nightmare.
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