Morals? We don't need no stinkin' morals...
One of our city councilmen has resigned in a swarm of adultery rumors. He is claiming it is because he "wants to get out of public life." He is also on "extended sick leave" from his job as high school principal. The rumor that has caused all this is that the married principal is having a "relationship" with the female vice principal. Apparently, there is talk of little else in the school by parents and students alike.
"...last week Mr. M took a sick leave from his job as principal at S High School after district officials learned he had a personal relationship with a subordinate.I feel that adultery is wrong. As the saying goes, shit happens, but society is different today. It's easy and acceptable to end a marriage. So you want to be with someone else - decide. Either don't do it, or get out of the relationship you're already in first. That said, I have to say that one of the more disturbing things about this whole story is the reason they have cited for transferring MR out of SHS.
M R, the former assistant principal at S High, was transferred to N I School after the relationship came to light."
"While School Board member X stopped short of characterizing the relationship between Ms. R and Mr. M, he confirmed it was the reason she was transferred last week.So... what they're saying is that it's ok for the married principal to be f***ing the vice principal, but hey, now that the relationship is out there in the open, we have to transfer the v.p. because it' s not OK to have your mistress be your subordinate. Is this the lesson we want to teach our kids?
Earlier this week, X said Ms. R's transfer stemmed from the district's anti-nepotism policy.
A former board president, X said he believed the district had a strong policy separate from the nepotism statute that bars one partner in a marital or "significant-other-type" relationship from having a supervisory role over the other."
Not me. Not my kids. While we may not be church-going religious, we do hold ourselves to a moral standard. We teach our kids right from wrong. Guess there will be some discussion about this fiasco.
2 Comments:
Corporate rules are solid and so, well, there. Morals, however, are dynamic, flexible, and cannot exist without people who believe in them. Probably why they put heavier emphasis on the subordinate thing than the adultery committed. They could be having an open marriage, we do not know for sure.
The school board my very well have felt that what was going on was morally wrong, but they can not transfer someone or even fire someone on the grounds of their morals. They are probably just making sure that there is no grounds for sueing the school district. They have to find a legal means of doing so, like the rules on relationships with subordinates. We as parents have to teach our children the moral aspect of it all.
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