Gay School Sup't Accuses Board Of Trying To Push Him Out

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/10/100306school.htm

A suburban Chicago school superintendent says the Board of Education is trying to fire him because he is gay. Lambda Legal on Tuesday informed the Bremen Community High School District and its president, Evelyn Gleason, that it is filing a discrimination charge with the Illinois Department of Human Rights on behalf of Richard Mitchell.

"Ms. Gleason didn't want Dr. Mitchell to be hired and now that she is president of the Board, she's doing everything in her power to get him fired because he is gay," said James P. Madigan, Staff Attorney in Lambda Legal's Midwest Regional Office.

In 2004, Mitchell interviewed for the position of superintendent with members of the School Board. Following his interview, then Board member Evelyn Gleason encouraged other members of the Board not to hire him because he is gay.

The Board chose to hire Mitchell through the end of the 2007 school year, and following an assessment of his work in 2005 the school board extended his contract through June 2009.

[xchrom]

1. but of course.

gay is a reason to send people to gitmo for some folks.