MSNBC: Gay student teacher gets Oregon job back

[Heidi]

updated 10/21/2010 7:46:38 PM ET

A gay student teacher will be reinstated to his teaching position in the Beaverton School District under an agreement reached between Lewis & Clark College and the school district.

Seth Stambaugh, a Lewis & Clark Grad School student teacher, was removed from Sexton Mountain Elementary School in September following a complaint by a parent, based on a conversation Stambaugh had with a student about his marital status in which he stated it would be illegal for him to marry because he would choose to marry a man.

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Stambaugh will resume his student teaching duties at Sexton Mountain Elementary School next Thursday, returning him to his regular Thursday and Friday schedule.

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Earlier this week, 22 parents of students at the school wrote a letter in support of Stambaugh, calling on the district to reinstate the student teacher, whom they said had "positive rapport" with his students.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39787463/ns/local_news-portland_or/

Earlier DU/GD threads:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=9283706
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=9290852
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=9290852
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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. How about that?

Sometimes the good guys do win, when all is said and done.

I'm especially pleased that the parents came to his defense.

Recommended.

:hi: Heidi!

[Heidi]

2. It restored a little bit of my faith in people's willingness to stand up for what's right.

:)

Good evening/morning, Peggy! :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Good to see you posting, my dear Heidi!

Thanks for bringing this hopeful, uplifting story to us...

:hug:

[MissB]

10. A bunch if the parents wrote a LTTE

asking that he be reinstated.

[nofurylike]

4. K&R GREAT post, Heidi! thank you for posting it! YAY!! nt

[laconicsax]

5. Great news!

[TexasObserver]

6. recommend

[Heidi]

9. .

Mornin', Texas! :hi:

[TexasObserver]

15. It's good news! Glad to have some for that young person.

Mornin' Switzerland!

[Hannah Bell]

7. how could he have been fired? teachers are never fired. but glad he's reinstated, great parents.

[boppers]

8. Beaverton? WTF?

They do know about the MAYORS of Portland and Silverton, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Adams_(Oregon_politician)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stu_Rasmussen

Freaking strip-mall suburbs.

[Reader Rabbit]

11. People move to Beaverton to get away from those damned liberals.

There has been a veritable shit-storm of blow-back on this issue—as well there should have been. I know all the teachers at Sexton Mountain wrote and signed a letter in support of Seth. It's good to hear that there were parents willing to jump the district's jello on their asinine behavior, as well.

[LWolf]

12. I'm glad to hear that he was reinstated.

Student teaching is, of course, not a job. School districts and school sites do not choose who gets to be a student teacher. TEACHERS agree to take a student teacher from a university, or not. It's good to see the district and the university join together to do the right thing:

We are moving forward with our common values and principles of equity, respect and inclusion.

[HuckleB]

13. LTTE From Parents: Bring Seth Stambaugh back to our kids' classroom

http://blog.oregonlive.com/myoregon/2010/10/letter_bring_seth_stambaugh_ba.html

[KurtNYC]

14. Again -- It is NOT "illegal" to marry the same gender

Is there a fine? Is it a misdemeanor ? a felony ?

IT'S NOT ILLEGAL !

[boppers]

16. Have a definition:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/illegal

Fines and criminal classification are irrelevant.

[DFab420]

17. ??

I really hope you just forgot the sarcasm emoticon or something..

Either that or your having fun with syntax because in this country, and this time, two males or two females cannot "legally" enter a binding marriage. Which would make a marriage of that kind...Illegal...No fines, no prison, you just can't do it.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

18. Unrecognized is not illegal

[DFab420]

19. Soooo

When we talk about LEGALIZING gay marriage, we should actually just say, it's time to recognize gay marriage?

Also in legal terms. DOMA defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman. Wouldn't that mean any other marriage would not be considered...legal?

To say it's Unrecognized but not Illegal is to parse words on a subject that doesn't need that type of parsing..

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. it means that i can have a ceremony like a marriage in new york state and have broken no laws

but ny state will not give me the rights of marriage.

i am not sure why thats such a difficult concept to get.

[DFab420]

21. Not hard to get at all

My grandmother had a ceremony in D.C a few years back. But it's only LIKE a marriage.

Would be nice if we could just call it that....but legally you can't. Because of DOMA which defines marriage in a legal sense.

*Again, I think we are just caught up in the syntax of it, which is what I was originally asking the above poster about. If he was trying to be funny in a syntax sort of way, or if he had no real problem with the way the law of the land stands now...

[Sweet Charming Dem]

22. Actually, your grandmother can be LEGALLY married in DC

It would be "unrecognized," but not illegal, in most other parts of the country.

I'm with Priyanka on this. I'm not quite sure why you're so up in arms on insisting that gay marriage is illegal.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

25. Certainly the issue is recognising gay marriage, not legalising it.

I'm quite sure there are numerous gay couples who have married one another without the intervention or acknowledgement of the state. Are you saying they're not married?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

30. ''in this country, and this time, 2 males or 2 females cannot 'legally' enter a binding marriage''

In some states, they can.

[political_Dem]

23. Stories like these give me hope in the world. K and R.

[HughMoran]

24. K&R

1 parent can get the teacher fired, it took 22 to get him reinstated. :eyes: Whoever fired the teacher should be fired.

[Arugula Latte]

26. Thank goodness!

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[WillyT]

27. HUGE K & R !!!

:applause::applause::applause:

:woohoo:

:kick:

[Ishoutandscream2]

28. God bless those parents

There is good in the world! K and R!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

29. I am glad he got his job back and very sorry that he was discriminated against