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Susan Sherman, a religious education teacher who is also a registered nurse, was recently on a mission in Kenya in eastern Africa. When she returned, St. Margaret Mary school requested she take a precautionary 21-day leave and produce a health note from her doctor, according to a statement from the Archdiocese of Louisville.
Sherman, who taught religion to seventh- and eighth-graders, chose to resign instead, according to WDRB.
It was not immediately possible to reach Sherman for comment. Officials at St. Margaret Mary referred questions to the Archdiocese.
Cecelia Price, chief communications officer for the Archdiocese, said the decision to request the leave came from the school itself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/03/kentucky-teacher-resigns-ebola_n_6096824.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
JI7
(89,252 posts)davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)Maybe you could show me a post where a DUer was advocating quarantine for someone who was in an African country where there has been no Ebola. I'd be very curious to see where these "progressives" are.
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)The panic and scientific illiteracy in our Idiocratic nation disgusts me. Fuck those school administrators.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)cave to the comforting lies rather than expose the terrifying truth that they are all idiots.
Logical, scary as hell, but logical. The teacher has resigned, and I hope is suing their cowardly asses off....instead of using this to teach the parents about science they chose the cowards way out and caved to the fear.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)For going to Dallas.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)At least they've actually had Ebola in Dallas.
Besides, I don't really mind seeing Texas get treated as a pariah state.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I see 'chose to resign'.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)That said, no need for a quarantine or dr's note.
But no need either to exaggerate by saying "forced to resign".
True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)I have zero patience for morons like these parents. None at all. I would be shoving maps in their faces and asking them in my most condescending possible tone to point out where Kenya is, where Liberia is, and asking how far apart they are based on "the little line thingee at the bottom with the distances on it - you know, the Dumbfuck Bar, for people like yourselves."
JI7
(89,252 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)some media whores themselves can't correctly identify countries (or states, for that matter)
JI7
(89,252 posts)than serious news reporters.
these days the most i learn from tv news is from a chef who does shows on food around the world.
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)The teacher chose to resign, rather than accept a 21-day paid leave.
Disagree with whether you believe she should have had to make a choice of that nature all you want, but it was a choice - not a forced resignation.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)As I was reminded in an earlier post today, this is the state where people have no objections to toddlers shooting each other dead because it's "God's will". http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025752045
Cha
(297,322 posts)her job.
Dorian Gray
(13,496 posts)Seriously? Parents, read a newspaper and look at a map.