Tennessee teacher out of a job after taking sick student to ER and paying the bill

[n2doc]

By Tina Robinson

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound right.

However, this was the reality for a Tennessee teacher named Jennifer Mitts, who says she was forced to resign from her post at Red Bank High School after she took an ill student to the emergency room and paid for the bill.

Mitts footed the bill because the 20-year-old student did not have health insurance, according to an online petition supporting the teacher.

Even though officials at the school say that they were only threatening to suspend the teacher for her caring deed, Mitts told WTVC-TV that school officials “dictated to (me) what (I) should write in the resignation letter, including forcing (me) to waive (my) right to a hearing.”

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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/tennessee-teacher-forced-resign-taking-sick-student-er-172253288.html

[Blue_Tires]

1. Evidently she'd gotten a reprimand for doing it before

I understand that her heart is in the right place, but just send the kid to the main office and have them call 9-1-1...Did she really just up-and-leave her classroom to make this trip?

[okaawhatever]

2. What are you talking about leaving her classroom? The story didn't say that. I think it happened

after school.

[Blue_Tires]

5. this was DURING school hours

Red Bank teacher's story on student's doctor visit at odds with officials, records
http://timesfreepress.com/news/2014/apr/02/red-bank-teachers-story-at-odds-with-officials/?local

[okaawhatever]

6. Oh, okay. You didn't post a link to that story and the story posted didn't include that info. Thx

for the link.

[Control-Z]

3. I must have missed the part

where she just up-and-left her classroom to make this trip.

[Blue_Tires]

4. I was asking, not saying...

The story doesn't give a whole hell of a lot of details...

But it is reasonable to assume this happened sometime during school hours, right?

EDIT: This did happen during school hours

http://timesfreepress.com/news/2014/apr/02/red-bank-teachers-story-at-odds-with-officials/?local