Teacher Fired For Viewing Pornography Sues District
A former Cedarburg, Wisconsin teacher, fired for viewing porn while on the job in 2006, is back, $9 million lawsuit in hand.
Robert Zellner was fired after school officials concluded that he had viewed porn, at his computer, on a Sunday, for 67 seconds. In the lawsuit, Zellner's attorney claims that the disgraced teacher was making sure that access to adult material wasn't available to students. The complaint goes on to allege that the school district violated Zellner's free speech.
The whole free speech thing probably isn't going to carry much weight, what with buzzwords flying around like porn, "blonde" and children(read the full article and you'll get the blonde reference). However, the elapsed time that Zellner spent viewing the page/s does raise some eyebrows, at least from a comedic standpoint. What pleasure could he have derived from 67seconds of porn?
Zellner may be lying, he may be a pervert and it may be a blessing that he can no longer find work as a teacher in Wisconsin. Anywhere.
On the other hand, an uptight school system may have ruined an honest man's life and, more importantly, his reputation. [Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, via Fark]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SufferNoMore @ Apr 21st 2008 10:01AM
Ok...dont most schools have filters to take care of just this problem...so it looks to me the filter was not working and his excuse may have a little weight to it....and for 67 seconds????? if thats all the time it takes him to get his jollies...he dont need porn....the bra section of a Sears catalog would send him right over the edge
Benefit of the doubt here folks....give him 2 weeks off for not going to the IT guy and addressing the problem with the filter.
67 seconds......thats too funny or just really sad if you know what I mean
Ian @ Apr 21st 2008 10:10AM
Strange that the school system had an IT clever enough to be able to time page views and remember them all, but wasn't able to block porn.
Ypocaramel @ Apr 21st 2008 1:49PM
I don't think watching porn makes a pervert, at least not a very disturbing one. The matter here is watching it at school.