Why Are School Teachers Fired ?

From the Sun: A primary school sacked a woman teacher for telling heartbroken nine-year-olds there is no Father Christmas. Parents were furious when tearful youngsters went home saying they had also been taught elves and fairies did not exist either.

From MSNBC: An art teacher whose off-hours work as a so-called “butt-printing artist” became widely circulated among high school students has been fired. His paintings sell for as much as $900 each on his Web site.

Murmer, a teacher at Monacan High School, was suspended in December after objections were raised about his private abstract artwork, much of which includes smearing his posterior and genitals with paint and pressing them against canvas.

From ABC: An award-winning Texas art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a trip to a museum has lost her job.

The teacher took her students on an approved field trip to a Dallas museum, and now some parents are upset. Other parents are worried about the future of the art program at the school, which they cite as a reason for moving into the neighborhood.

From NYTimes: In May, Nichole Byrne Lau received an evaluation saying that her students at the Williamsburg Charter High School were “lucky to have you as their teacher.” This month, she was fired.

Ms. Byrne Lau, 33, said she had been singled out for distributing copies of the pay scale for teachers in New York City’s traditional public schools and organizing her colleagues to press for better salaries and benefits. “I’m devastated,” she said yesterday.