Teachers who go the extra mile to help students in need should be rewarded, not given a choice between being fired or resigning. Please sign this petition and join others in asking Principal Justin Robertson of Red Bank High School in Tennessee to give Miss Mitts her job back, pay her salary for the time she was unemployed, publicly apologize to her, and get extra insurance so that teachers like Miss Mitts are protected when they go the extra mile to help students in need.
Here is what Miss Mitts did. When a young student needed to go see the doctor because the school nurse thought she had pneumonia, Miss Mitts volunteered to take her to the hospital and foot the bill for any charges she would incur because the student did not have health insurance. When Principal Roberts heard that she did this, he called her into his office and told her that what she did was a "liability." Miss Mitts had been given a warning last year for taking a young student with a 105 temperature to the doctor WITH the student's parent's permission. She was told not to do it again but she thought it was OK this time because the student with suspected pneumonia was 20 years old and therefore a legal adult. Even though both students may have suffered harm by not going to the doctor, Principal Roberts saw fit to give Miss Mitts the choice of being fired or resigning for her good deeds.
If you believe that good deeds should be rewarded and not punished, please sign this petition to ask for justice.
If you're still not sure, you can watch this video from 2012 about Miss Mitts when she won the Golden Apple Award for her teaching.http://youtu.be/qgavkULjv_U
Updates
Reached 2,500 supporters
April 15, 2014
Reached 1,000 supporters
April 1, 2014
Reached 100 supporters
March 25, 2014
March 24, 2014
Principal Robertson thinks he can quietly push a hero out of our school while we look the other way. We are almost at one hundred signatures so hammer this link out to everyone you know and force him to acknowledge how wrong he is.
1,225 Comments
This is an example of a teacher going over and above her job requirements and showing compassion and concern for her students. She is an asset to your school district and you do yourself as well as the students a grave disservice by not appreciating that.
I live in Ontario Canada. I feel that the parents of the students should pull their kids out for fear that if one of them got severely ill at school the faculty, by this precedent, would be forced to stand by and let the child die. Disgraceful
As a retired teacher, and understanding that all districts have rules regarding behavior, in this case it seems that the district showed poor judgment in firing the teacher. I do not believe the district's claim that they did not force the resignation.
Ms. Mitts is a sweet lady and a wonderfull teacher I'm class of 2012 and had Ms. Mitts for English and the entire class loved her. Ms. Mitts was one of the few teachers who really cared about her students, she should be rewarded for caring not punished.
Miss Mitts should hold her head high she did the RIGHT thing! I took a student home once because I could hear her crying from my front door, she was let out at the school her parents didn't know school had been cancelled should I have left her to freeze?
an outrage
This is atrocious. While its understandable that the school might have policies to prevent litigation in case the outcome was negative, it is absolutely unfair to fire a person for being a good human being.
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Teachers who go the extra mile to help students in need should be rewarded, not given a choice between being fired or resigning. Please sign this petition and join others in asking Principal Justin Robertson of Red Bank High School in Tennessee to give Miss Mitts her job back, pay her salary for the time she was unemployed, publicly apologize to her, and get extra insurance so that teachers like Miss Mitts are protected when they go the extra mile to help students in need.
Here is what Miss Mitts did. When a young student needed to go see the doctor because the school nurse thought she had pneumonia, Miss Mitts volunteered to take her to the hospital and foot the bill for any charges she would incur because the student did not have health insurance. When Principal Roberts heard that she did this, he called her into his office and told her that what she did was a "liability." Miss Mitts had been given a warning last year for taking a young student with a 105 temperature to the doctor WITH the student's parent's permission. She was told not to do it again but she thought it was OK this time because the student with suspected pneumonia was 20 years old and therefore a legal adult. Even though both students may have suffered harm by not going to the doctor, Principal Roberts saw fit to give Miss Mitts the choice of being fired or resigning for her good deeds.
If you believe that good deeds should be rewarded and not punished, please sign this petition to ask for justice.
If you're still not sure, you can watch this video from 2012 about Miss Mitts when she won the Golden Apple Award for her teaching.http://youtu.be/qgavkULjv_U
Updates
Reached 2,500 supporters
April 15, 2014
Reached 1,000 supporters
April 1, 2014
Reached 100 supporters
March 25, 2014
March 24, 2014
Principal Robertson thinks he can quietly push a hero out of our school while we look the other way. We are almost at one hundred signatures so hammer this link out to everyone you know and force him to acknowledge how wrong he is.
1,225 Comments
This is exactly the encouragement I need to finish my teaching degree. A kind teacher in my home state goes the extra mile to protect a student's health, and she is forced to resign. Red Bank High, thanks for contributing to Tennessee's brain drain.
This is an example of a teacher going over and above her job requirements and showing compassion and concern for her students. She is an asset to your school district and you do yourself as well as the students a grave disservice by not appreciating that.
I live in Ontario Canada. I feel that the parents of the students should pull their kids out for fear that if one of them got severely ill at school the faculty, by this precedent, would be forced to stand by and let the child die. Disgraceful
As a retired teacher, and understanding that all districts have rules regarding behavior, in this case it seems that the district showed poor judgment in firing the teacher. I do not believe the district's claim that they did not force the resignation.
Ms. Mitts is a sweet lady and a wonderfull teacher I'm class of 2012 and had Ms. Mitts for English and the entire class loved her. Ms. Mitts was one of the few teachers who really cared about her students, she should be rewarded for caring not punished.
Miss Mitts should hold her head high she did the RIGHT thing! I took a student home once because I could hear her crying from my front door, she was let out at the school her parents didn't know school had been cancelled should I have left her to freeze?
an outrage
This is atrocious. While its understandable that the school might have policies to prevent litigation in case the outcome was negative, it is absolutely unfair to fire a person for being a good human being.
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This is exactly the encouragement I need to finish my teaching degree. A kind teacher in my home state goes the extra mile to protect a student's health, and she is forced to resign. Red Bank High, thanks for contributing to Tennessee's brain drain.