Where did NCLB and Reading First (under investigation) start?
A) TEA
B) UTHSC-H
C) UT System
C) All of the above

*The Reading First Initiative was established through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

If ID would even chance a scientific prediction maybe they could get James Randi to test them for the million dollar prize.

Enjoy.

In this case it doesn’t matter. She is clearly a victim of religious persecution and discrimination. As such this is so illegal that she would have excellent chances in court.

So I take it that you agreed with my previous statement that

Even employers in one of the two “at will” states cannot abrogate an employee’s civil rights with impunity.

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Austringer:

Employees in Texas are treated as “at will” employees.

In this case it doesn’t matter. She is clearly a victim of religious persecution and discrimination. As such this is so illegal that she would have excellent chances in court.

The head of the Texas State Board of Education, Don McLeroy is a religious extremist, avowed creationist and associate of the DI, and a religious bigot who considers himself the judge of who is a real Xian and who is a Fake one. He has been trying for years to get rid of evolution teaching in public schools. They are where the ultimate responsibility for her dismissal lies.

Chris Comer wasn’t creationist enough or orthodox Christian as McLeroy refers to fundie Xians. She was in the way of their attempt to rewrite Texas science standards with a fundie religious slant. It is guaranteed that her replacement will be a creationist.

A court case would be illuminating. I bet the email and paper trail between the leadership of the Texas school system would read something like a cross between a Stalinist show trial and a Catholic Inquisition.

PS: There is a lead lining here. I’ve read some of McLeroys bigoted ravings. He appears to have little scientific knowledge about biology. He is a religious bigot. He also seems to be pretty dumb.

Here’s the number
Lizzette Reynolds 512-936-6060

Employees in Texas are treated as “at will” employees. That doesn’t mean that other states do so (the only other state with that policy is Virginia), nor does it mean that what the TEA is doing is correct. Even employers in one of the two “at will” states cannot abrogate an employee’s civil rights with impunity.

Further clarification of my previous comment: if someone commits a criminal offence while doing their job (e.g. fraud), they can be sacked straight away without any comeback on the employer.

(1) This incident is an utter disgrace. Lisette Reynolds should be locked away (preferably in a nice soft cell where she can’t do anyone any harm).

(2) Boy, you guys have some dumb employment law in the US. IIUC, there is no country in western Europe in which an employee may legally be fired for a “first offence”. Certainly where I work we are obliged to issue two written warnings prior to a person being sacked.

A friend of mine works in France, and the company he used to work for was bought out by a US company. The American bosses decided they didn’t need the office in France so they closed it and made all the employees there redundant. They should have checked up on French employment law first – it cost them a huge amount in redundancy settlements (my friend received 13 months’ salary as the initial redundancy settlement; plus, in France, the unemployment benefit is about two-thirds of the salary you were on before losing your job; plus, in France, there is a bonus payment when you find a new job, which is one reason that taxes are so high in France).