Teacher fired for having Facebook photo with two glasses of alcohol

This is dumb. This is why our education system sucks, teachers fired for doing legal things, and not for being a bad teacher.

A teacher who consumes alcohol? Shocking. I was a teacher, I've done worse. It's deplorable what they did to her.

This makes no sense, this country is going crazy

what a stupid decision,she's a teacher, yes, but she`s also a normal person. Even the priests drink in public (during their masses) and nobody messes with them, so, what the f***, she should sue!

well, what do you expect? gettin' all smashed on dat pinot noir

this is so dumb. I live in Georgia and yes we are 50 years behind the times.

The decision to fire this teacher for holding glasses of alcohol in a Facebook picture is absolutely and utterly STUPID! The only ones being harmed are this teacher's former students.

I find this ridiculous when there was a local woman (teacher) who was photographed topless in a hot tub with her students and posted on Facebook who still has her job . I assume if it were one of the male teachers with his pants down to his ankles and his arms around students, they would string him up. It is unbelievable what will get you fired and what won't.

I bet she has sex too, and showers NAKED!!!

Scandal!!

Would not more public protests against this type of violation against rights to private life, discourage indiscriminate mob injustice? Without a protest against each and every similar occurrence, don't we merely encourage injustice?

The south is still pretty polarized over alcohol. There are still counties where it's illegal to buy, sell or transport liquor over county lines in many states.

Fascism!

Parents who are upset over an adult legally having a drink are totally clueless and I feel very sorry for their children because their parents have no clue how to raise children. The principle, and whoever else is responsible for the firing of this teacher are incompetent fools and should themselves be fired and barred from ever being hired for any public job again. The stupidity of Americans never ceases to make me sick to my stomach. I don't know why I am continuously surprised by how stupid people are, but I am.

I wouldn't be surprised if the parents that were upset at this are drunks. Still, the schools reaction was way over the top and unwarranted. It's not like she was getting people to buy prescription drugs for her.

wow...this actually makes me feel a little ill.

Facebook ruins lives. You set your privacy settings, and then they change the profile...so you have to change the settings again...then they change something else.
Right now, if you are tagged in photos, they show up in the top of your profile for everyone to see. -THAT'S A SECURITY RISK.

I think Facebook should be sued. They are actually at fault for this.

aren't we in 2011?? what happen in doing it right away?

and yes, she should get her job back. The school was wrong for trying to get involved in her personal life. The school was wrong, they should fire the principal.

dont teabaggers just make you wanna throw up in your own mouth?

the 2011 Chevy Cruze (and just about every other product out there) now comes with with real-time Facebook status updates.
..."We're sorry. You're going to have to quit or be fired because you picked your nose in your car and it showed up on your Facebook page."...

what's going to happen when American Standard starts doing the same with their toilet fixtures?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Is she married? If not I imagine a lot of school districts would like to offer her an invite!

More erosion of freedom...I hope she sues the hell out of them and wins, but who knows in this repressive political climate? The parent who reported this seriously needs to get a life.

Their pissed because they don't understand facebook their still trying to fidder out siifering and gozendas

double fists breh

One must wonder what goes on in the minds of idiot conservatives who would come up with the choice resign or get fired for a facebook page with alcohol in the hands of some person of age, It was not pot or heroin its just wine and Guinness

WoW! The President can have a televised "Beer Summit" but a simple school teacher can't reminesce about a European vacation that wasn't a pub crawl so much as a tour of brewery's. Guiness is one of the finest in the world and worth a tour. This is Irish Heritage. What does Barrow School District have against the Irish/German? ;)

And she wasn't even having sex with her students?
There is something seriously wrong with America.

This is beyond stupidity. Facbook is something private(not totally private though). Why should the school care?

Facebook's like big brother's watching you...this is insane.

I began to read this story and wondered why would any school force someone to resign over something that was private. Then I saw which school did this and all was answered, Georgia public.

The South is the most hypocritical area of our nation.

It holds a bs sort of standards but really has none itself.

http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

Seams to me that there might be more to this. What about the other ten pictures from that night, or the comments about them from either her or her friends? Just sounds like there has to be more to it.

This is just silly.

don't you know, teachers aren't allowed to have lives. Man, some parents really are assholes these days. I'll bet she was a cool teacher, good to have someone with some worldly experience teaching your kids.

Thats not right-she did not have it in the classroom-all my sympathy to her and I hope she files a lawsuit and wins bigtime :)

Ridiculous!! I am sure there will be a lawsuit filed like yesterday.

I would understand firing her if a parent found an online picture of her
with 2 cocks in her hands . . but 2 drinks? Really !?!

Let them keep taking your civil rights people. It started with smoking and after they figured out they could criminalize legal behavior in the name of the nanny society, it will never end. It is this kind of thinking that allows a principal to feel that s/he has the right to regulate and punish legal off the clock behavior.

I hope she wins her suit because this is outrageous, but every time we allow laws and regulations to be passed in the name of that a small group of people that think they are protecting us from ourselves, we fall further into a world where personal freedoms will be a memory.

the problem with firing teachers so easily across the U.S nation is that theory of us thinking teachers have no outside life that they live and eat in a fucken school, the fact a teacher has a drink of alcohol means she "oh i dont know...can fucken drink" does not mean she is an alcoholic, does not mean she is giving kids alcohol, and does not means he is a bad teacher!!

these parents in america are the same as their kids, little whiny, scared of reality fucken morons!

Google President with a Beer, or politicians with a beer, should we fire all of them?

"It just seems odd to me that you could get fired for being a legal adult enjoying alcohol with a camera nearby."

America: Land of Police State Persecution, Google

TSA's "VIPER teams" now at bus stations in Florida
NAZI POLICE STATE: TSA Invades Roads & Highways With VIPR Checkpoints
Public School illegally SPIES on children IN THEIR BEDROOMS! 1984 is HERE!

The new world order is not at teh door, they are in your bedroom!!!!
Wake Up!

if your a teacher ,.your an example to the youths , if you want to be on facebook you better make your page under a pseudonym so your students cant find it.

This is a society that does not encourage underage drinking and actively discourages alcoholism especially when the kids are more prone to addiction and even has laws against it , alcohol is thee gateway drug and the last thing we need is teachers promoting it, wise up and use your head and you should be alright.

It does not take much to have a private page for your friends and family and public one to interact with your students.

You should most certainly be able to be an adult doing adult things , but adults especially teachers are role models and examples and they need to take the extra steps to make sure they maintain there integrity.

Of course, I have to be extremely careful what socia network sites, I use and what information I share. In fact in the Army we have strict rules concerning what information we are allowed to share with even friends and family. Also, much like the civilian job market, your superiors have access to your social networking sites if its something your ashamed of, dont post it. The only time I run into trouble and when I try and censor my young wife, whom I have uprooted from her friends and family in New England and have shipped her everywhere from Upstate New York, Texas, Georgia, and New Mexico. As far as this young teacher enjoying a glass of wine in a perfectly respectful and adult sitution is just pure insanity and just another example of the moral police just acting like the assholes that they are. I hope this young teachers desire to educate our young hasn't been destroyed and she gets her job back. WTF is wrong with my country.

Facebook strikes again. We live in the Too Much Information Age afterall.

Only in the Bible belt would such puritanical non-sense be tolerated.

Did they actually know if she was drinking an ALCOHOLIC Beverage in that wine glass? Or they just made the assumption. I don't think it's a good thing to promote Alcohol, but then again she didn't promote it while teaching in school now did she? I just don't know how to feel about this yet? Getting Fired for this situation is kinda Drastic if you ask me. BUT, it's up to the schools descretion I guess? I hope that they never have a picture posted of them in any compromising situation in the future, otherwise they will be suject to severe decisions also!

Wine? Guinness?.... thats all? i would think she wouldn't have to worry about those silly things. She is supose to be an example for the children but she wasn't chugging beers left and right and a total lush. Teachers spend about the same amount of time in school as a doctor and get paid way less and are forced to take 3 month unpaid vaction every year in the summer. And they get fired over the dumbest things.

I think that some PI out there needs to hunt down that principal, and find plenty of photos of him engaging in drinking, smoking, gambling, or other fully legal adult activities, then force him to resign because of it.

Then make HER the new principal!

"A parent complained to the school about Payne’s profile"

Someone's life is dull and boring.

She is a cutie pie, I bet the complaining parent hates her because she's beautiful.

So the teacher drank alcohol and went to a site with the word "bitch" on it? I bet the parent & principal drink communion wine in church, while reading a bible that has words like "Whore" and phrases like "a man and his Ass"

I didn't up the fact that they fired you. I upped it for the fact that it is on Current and you are attempting to get your job back & secondly to clear your name. Hopefully you have a strong union & they can help you with that. Good luck. It doesn't seem like a big deal; you are of legal age to drink and that is all you are dong. It's not a drug photo or sex photo. It doesn't seem that they had a right or a just cause to fire you.

I hope she wins her lawsuit.