Ashley Payne, Former Teacher Fired for Facebook Pictures

Many people dismiss teacher's unions as self-serving groups.  Then you see stuff like this and realize just how remarkably amateur administrators and school boards can be.  That's why teachers need unions -- to protect themselves against ignorant behavior like this.  

A notícia chegou ao Brasil através de um colunista de jornal de grande circulação no Rio de Janeiro. Simplesmente é estarrecedor que se trate qualquer profissional dessa forma. Seja professor ou qualquer outro. Mas uma vez setores conservadores da sociedade dessa grande nação do norte mostram a sua hipocrisia. Afinal, férias não podem ser aproveitadas da forma como se acha melhor?

No doubt a good upstanding christian moron, or group on good upstanding christian morons are behind the removal of this educator.  Keep it up christians.  "By their fruits you will know them," I believe that was written in that hideous collection of used toilet tissue.  That quote applies to your bigoted  behavior as well. Michael Klick

My apology: I mistyped this sentence: No doubt a good upstanding christian moron, or group on good upstanding christian morons are behind the removal of this educator. My intended sentence: No doubt a good upstanding christian moron, or group of good upstanding christian morons are behind the removal of this educator. I sincerely apologize for my mistaken typing.

I teach in a neighboring county and this has got my attention enough to delete people I work with and untag any pictures that couls be portrayed as inappropriate.  Apparently a student "tattled" but she wasn't firends with any students so not sure how they got to it...Anyhow, here's a story with more info about it from the Athens, GA paper.onlineathens.com/stories/111409/new_516320164.shtml

oops....got, not has got....

This is a shame and a disgrace. First of all she had no students as her friend on Facebook which means no student could have seen any of these pictures. The onwithly way a student or parent could have sen anything on her Facebook would be if a fellow teacher who was her freind on facebook showed it to them. In which case the teacher who did this should have been reprimanded for causing this whole situation. Furthermore a person's Facebook should be considered private domain and anything therein should be exempt from any public scrutiny such as this unless there were evidence of illegal activities which in this case there certainly were not. Hopefully justice will prevail and she will get her job back or at the very least be compensated for the damage to her name as a result of all this.

I've got a brilliant idea- lets regulate our lives and/or sanitize or edit our public social websites- it will be like an R-rated film that has been edited for regular tv. Don't people have their own lives? Probably someone who is envious that the young lady got to so somewhere and actually do something. If I were a teacher, I would make my social pages "private" only, because somewhere, someone in the public eye will get offended about something....the nation of the offended! Are you serious? IF she had photos of kissing someone would they have her quit because she might be sexually active too ( and oh my gosh- shes single!!!) Someone call out the firing squad- holy smokes...wheres the advil? I am getting a headache. Apparently SOMEBODY has nothing better to do than peruse the social pages of their childrens teachers. Creepy!  Probably some ultra- religious soggy breasted, cow stomach, who thinks all the world is going to burn in hell because we don't live by HER standards. I hope the teacher gets an apology and a multi-million dollar settlement. How dare these people think that they can regulate other peoples lives!!!

I hope she hires a Jewish lawyer who will pick their gentile bones dry. Michael Klick

Try to find some books on anger management... Look for ones with lots of pretty pictures and small words you can understand.

Big brother government at it's finest. Just imagine how the health care things will go....Imagine..(and it's not hard to imagine that is it?)...checking your internet usage...pages...visits."you say you don't smoke....but we see you visited online at Bob's cigar shop""you say you don't drink....but we see you looked up recipes for mojitos""you say you ....you say.... you say...."

Just for your information, I have an education, and am a practicing RN. I also have an opinion and if you don't like what you read, then you have the option of finding another website or other. You do not have the right to tell others that what they feel is of no significance. THAT is your opinion, and in such a case, can be taken with a grain of salt. What is the point of expressing ones thoughts? Its to hopefully stimulate an exchange of intellectual quality, maybe even enlightenment. How would you remedy the situation?  In your opinion, I suppose we should just walk around with our mouths hanging open, saliva dripping from the corners of our mouths,with knuckles scraping the ground, and ignore the situation. After all, it will go away on its own, like your rights to express how you think/feel.

She is a legal adult having a drink and that gets her fired?What's next?  Pregnant teachers, married or not, getting fired because the kids might find out she has sex? 

this is fu@king ABSURD!!! she was FORCED to resign. this is a joke. the person who sent the email is a loser! nothing but a miserable loser! and the entire school system should be ashamed of themselves!!  It is SO scary the levels of political correctness is climbing to - and it is only going to get worse.  I hope she takes that ridiculous school system to the cleaners!

Whoever forced her to resign need to resign...I mean be FIRED.