How Do School Districts Spot Teachers With White Supremacist Views?

[TexasTowelie]

By the time he began teaching Japanese at Skyline High School last year, Stephen Arnquist had allegedly been posting his white supremacist views online for years.

School districts routinely conduct background checks on prospective teachers and school staff before hiring them. But how likely is it that one of those checks would turn up the kinds of writings that Arnquist is accused of posting online?

"Highly unlikely," said Kenneth Trump, a Cleveland-based school safety consultant.

Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, said school districts typically run criminal history checks before hiring new teachers or school support staff. While those checks are generally effective at finding past criminal behavior, they wouldn't help school officials spot racist online posts, he said.

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[3Hotdogs]

1. I would think such views are Constitutionally protected as long as they don't

result in behavior or rantings that influence classroom performance.

[get the red out]

2. I was also thinking

As vile as those views are, what would keep a town from deciding they don't want people who have expressed personal views like Atheism to be able to get teaching jobs in their community?

[beachbum bob]

3. expressing racists views is grounds for dismissal from many jobs, including those paid by taxpayers

no free speech guarantee for job security.

[3Hotdogs]

4. Interesting.... being a member of the communist party was grounds for teacher dismissal in prior

years. You had to sign a loyalty paper in order to get a teaching job in N.J.

Forget that any dirty, pinko commie would lie on such an oath in order to get the job an corrupt the nations' 'utes.