Walker wants porn-viewing teacher to lose license

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Walker wants porn-viewing teacher to lose license

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6 hours ago • The Associated Press(22) Comments
MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker wants a middle school teacher who viewed pornography on his classroom computer to lose his license.

Walker sent a letter today to state Superintendent Tony Evers saying he should act quickly to begin license revocation proceedings against Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District teacher Andrew Harris.

The school board voted to fire Harris in 2010 after he and other teachers looked at sexually explicit images at school. But an arbitrator ruled in 2012 that Harris had been unfairly terminated and after the state Supreme Court refused to take up the case, Harris returned to the classroom Monday.

Neither Harris's attorney nor a spokesman for Evers immediately returned messages seeking reaction to Walker's letter.

The facts aren't in dispute. He looked at porn many times at school, using school equipment (and presumably when he should have been doing non-porn related activities). The arbitrator judged that because students weren't also viewing porn with him, it wasn't an immoral act. Firing him was wrong.

So, back in class he goes thanks to a bizarre union-supported arbitration process.

I don't know about those of you who work for other people but porn-viewing at my place is pretty much a career-ending event. Accidentally clicking on porn malware once won't do it but repeatedly using our network to check on 'Nasty Science Babes' will get you fired. We don't employ or even grant access to minors except rare, highly supervised instances. Our issue isn't moral corruption, it's productivity and hostile workplace issues.

LaCrosse Trib