Sullivan Central High School teacher suspended for 'unprofessional behavior'

Sullivan Central High School teacher suspended for 'unprofessional behavior'

By Onlykhabar News Media Mon 28 September, 2020 ( about 5 years ago ) 🎤755 Viewerseducation

A teacher at Sullivan Central High School was recently notified that he would be suspended for three days without pay for “unprofessional behavior.”

On Sept. 3, Jeremy McLaughlin, who teaches physics, received a letter of reprimand and notice of the suspension from Sullivan County Schools Director David Cox. Some of the complaints drew attention to crude language and “unprofessional behavior” on McLaughlin’s personal Facebook page, Cox said. In the letter, Cox said that he and other school officials “recently received a number of complaints” about McLaughlin.

Screenshots of the posts in question — which the complaints said were publicly visible for a while — were included in the documents released to the Herald Courier. The records were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. “Not wearing a mask doesn’t make you look strong, it makes you look like a selfish piece of [expletive].  One post, dated July 24, showed an image of a boy who appeared to be in his early teens.

Saying you have a medical condition and you can’t wear a mask makes you look like a lying selfish piece of [expletive],” McLaughlin wrote in the comment accompanying the image. And in another, dated July 25, he mocked a man for wearing a fishnet face covering at a local grocery store, saying, “Brother, you don’t look clever, you look like you’re wearing your side chick’s panties on your face.” And in another, dated July 25, he mocked a man for wearing a fishnet face covering at a local grocery store, saying, “Brother, you don’t look clever, you look like you’re wearing your side chick’s panties on your face.” Cox called the survey-related comments “highly unprofessional” in his letter to McLaughlin and said the posts with crude language broke with teachers’ responsibility to be positive role models for children. 

“As you know, my Facebook profile is my own personal account and at no time have I purported to represent the Sullivan County Department of Education, the Sullivan County School Board, or Sullivan Central High School,” McLaughlin wrote about the comments containing crude language. It wasn’t clear whether the conference had happened yet. Both Cox and McLaughlin declined to comment, while McCoy could not be reached Wednesday.  

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Sullivan Central High School teacher suspended for 'unprofessional behavior'

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