Facebook flap in Barrow raises troubling fairness issues
I was going to wait until Monday to post this column but I am putting the piece up now as I think this story deserves a healthy dose of sunshine. To grasp this entire bizarre story, please read my two earlier related posts, especially the one right below on the anonymous e-mail that set this whole tragicomedy in motion.
Ashley Payne posted 700 Facebook photos of her European vacation; she says only 10 showed her with alcohol
After her three-week trip to Europe this summer, Barrow County teacher Ashley Payne posted 700 photos to Facebook. Ten of those photos showed her in pubs and beer gardens.
Payne’s Facebook page is set to a high privacy level and is accessible only to friends to whom she has granted access. Recognizing her position as a role model, Payne says she has never allowed access to students or parents at Apalachee High School, where she taught.
Believing that only her adult friends could see her postings, Payne also felt comfortable posting a brief comment on Aug. 26 announcing that she was headed out to play “Crazy Bitch Bingo,” a popular game played weekly at a Midtown restaurant.
But by the next morning, someone had sent an anonymous e-mail to the Barrow superintendent. The e-mailer claimed to be a parent whose daughter had access to Payne’s Facebook page. The daughter had allegedly seen both the note about bingo and “unacceptable photos” of Payne “smiling with alcohol for all her online friends to view.”
“Her behavior is intolerable,” wrote the e-mailer.
Less than two hours later, Payne was sitting in the assistant principal’s office, where she was pressured to resign. According to Barrow spokeswoman Lisa Leighton, the incident demonstrates the high standard of conduct to which school employees are held.
Initially, the school system told me that it would not reveal the name of the mother who sent the e-mail to protect her privacy. But it turns out that Barrow has no idea who sent the e-mail or whether the parent or daughter even exist.
The e-mail itself reads as though it was written by another teacher rather than by a parent.
When summoned into the meeting with principal David McGee and assistant principal Dorann Mansberger, Payne acknowledged the posting of vacation photos and her use of the word “bitch.” But she pointed out that she had never allowed students or parents access to her Facebook page.
Payne is now suing to get her job back.
According to court documents filed by the district in response to the lawsuit, “Mr. McGee told Plaintiff that she would be suspended and her conduct reported to the Professional Standards Committee. Plaintiff asked if she could resign.”
At that point, however, the stories diverge. McGee says that Payne volunteered to resign. Payne says she was coerced.
“There was no mention of a warning,” Payne said. “No ‘Could you please take these things down?’ I was told, ‘We are going to have to suspend you and your only other option is to resign.’”
“At no time did I tell her she had to resign,” countered McGee in a statement released by Barrow officials. In that statement, McGee concedes that he presented Payne with some dire scenarios:
“She asked about options and I told her she always had the option of resigning. I told her that I had no idea what the Professional Standards Commission (PSC) would do. I told her I had seen suspensions, fines and loss of teaching certificates.”
If such a case had indeed been forwarded to the standards commission — an anonymous e-mail, with no proof that a child was actually involved, complaining about photos of American tourists sitting in beer gardens and the use of the word “bitch” — it should have been laughed off as groundless.
The fact that instead a school system reacted so recklessly and quickly — with no apparent skepticism whatsoever — finally helps me understand how so many people fall for those Nigerian e-mail scams.
In several conversations with the Barrow spokeswoman, I was told that the critical issue wasn’t the vacation photos or Payne’s use of an expletive. Instead, it was the “fact” that she had given a student inappropriate access to her personal Facebook account.
A “fact” for which there is no evidence whatsoever.
This is the Internet folks. The “concerned parent” could have been anybody: an old boyfriend, a jealous teacher, a nutcase. Barrow administrators didn’t know anything about the sender of the poison e-mail.
But they did know Payne.
A 2007 University of Georgia honors graduate, Payne had taught at the high school for two years. She seemed to do fine; her students posted higher End of Course Test scores than the county average. (McGee seems to agree, writing: “Ashley has completed two satisfactory years at Apalachee High School.”)
A confused Payne now wonders whether she had unknowingly crossed some line with her boss, noting that she had met with McGee a week earlier to lament that he had never observed her class. But she did not think that conversation might contribute to the loss of her job.
According to Leighton, the Barrow spokeswoman, the county had recently unearthed a policy for teachers dating back to 1938. Those antiquated rules required that unmarried female teachers live with families and never be seen outside after dark. Seen from the perspective of 70 years later, those rules seem preposterous, Leighton said.
But it doesn’t take the perspective of 70 years or even 70 seconds to recognize that the policy that entrapped Payne is ludicrous, dangerous and unfair.
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randi dalton
November 15th, 2009
12:49 am
I worked in this cluster and had the exact experience. Good reports all year and suddenly, no contract. It is common place. As stated above, another teacher’s spouse wanted my job, and got it! It happens everywhere. In other counties, kids can make up ANYTHING and tell their parents and the teacher is disposed of without the chance to even face her accusers!
Warrior and Mom
November 15th, 2009
7:34 am
The opposite happened to a teacher in Henry County. He was a black teacher, taught 3 years in the classroom. Got arrested and convicted of domestic violence. He was then promoted to assistant princpal for the next 3 years, to which he was convicted of DUI and illegal drugs. He was again promoted to principle. All in less than six years…because the office was not “dark enough”. That is the problem with alot of affirmative action, based on race and not on qualifications, not even a background check. Both arrests were with a city and within Henry County.
I am a proud graduate of Clayton County, and also have a bachlor’s degree is accounting. You are welcome for fighting for your freedom of speech. You are tolerant as long as it in line with the far left or Obama. When you took prayer out of schools, guns were brought in.
V for Vendetta
November 15th, 2009
8:51 am
Warrior and Mom,
You are correct about Affirmative Action. I have seen similar things myself. It happens more often than many people realize.
However, prayer (or religion) has no place in schools. Schools are for learning–not for fairy tales and imaginary friends.
South Georgia Teacher
November 15th, 2009
10:38 am
I have a similar story. During the budget cuts of this previous year our school system decided to let around 39, I think, teachers go. When it came time to tell everyone I was pulled to the front office to meet with our school’s director.
Before I begin let me state some facts about my year thus far.
1. It was March or April when this occurred. So far I had not had a single classroom observation. Not one.
2. I created the team-based disciplinary plan that our group of teacher’s used. I was the one that assigned class isolations and corporal punishment.
3. In our one and only benchmark test that was given about a month before the CRCT, my kids had the highest score out of SIX teams in the 6th grade.
4. I am a fully certified teacher.
5. I had not received any warnings of any sort. All I ever received were compliments from parents, students, and other teachers.
6. I am male, and taught science.
So, I was pulled into the director’s office. I, too, was told that it would be a good idea for me to resign. I was told that I neglected classroom discipline, that my management styles were weak, and that in short I “needed to grow up”. Remember, this was coming from an administration that had not stepped foot in my classroom all year long, and it was directed at a teacher that had created and held fast with his cluster’s discipline plan.
I didn’t know what to do. They wanted an answer by the end of the day, and once I left I had to get back to my room to teach for the rest of the day, so deep thought and discussion with a lawyer or any knowledgeable person was out of the question.
I ended up having the director destroy my letter of intent to resign. There was no way I wanted this to look like it was what I wanted. The school system still refuses to issue a reason of separation, or whatever you would call it.
Lost what little faith I had in the public school system that day.
EducationCEO
November 15th, 2009
12:43 pm
@SouthCobbDiva She probably had a hard time finding a lawyer with ba&&s big enough to take on a district. You all have to realize that Georgia does not have a teachers’ union, hence this type of tomfoolery is even making the newspaper/news. There are things done in GA schools that would not fly in states where there is a strong and competent union in place. At least the majority of the people on here are now seeing the garbage that festers inside school buildings.
EducationCEO
November 15th, 2009
12:52 pm
Warrior and Mom,
While I understand that everyone makes occassional errors in posting, please do not spout your anti-Affirmative Action rhetoric if your post is filled with 4th grade-level words incorrectly spelled.
A lot, is and always will be two words;
Bachelor’s degree;
Principal is a position; principle is a belief
Not all minorities who are promoted are done so because of Affirmative Action. If you know anything remotely true about History, you would know why AA was necessary, and still so in some parts of this country, e.g., Georgia. If you want to discuss discrimination, we can go into the fact that you can count the number of minority GA superintendents on one hand; how about the fact that Af. Americans account for more than 50% of the students in Special Education programs when they account for less than 20% of students in Gifted Programs and minority enrollment in GA’s schools is approximately 40%. No, we will not go into that because that is not what the post was about. Stick to the subject.
Dean Poirier
November 15th, 2009
1:22 pm
The school board’s actions were heavy handed and outrageous. This is another case of Zero Tolerance Gone Wild.
Having said that, this case doesn’t surprise me at all. Local authorities don’t seem to think there are any limits to their authority. This applies whether the authorities in question are Black, White, or Sky Blue Pink.
So far at least, the US is governed by the Constitution, not the Old Testament, although the American Taliban seems intent on instituting their own version of sharia law. They are probably looking forward to the day Ms. Payne’s supposed transgression could be dealt with by stoning.
The fact that: “Payne’s Facebook page is set to a high privacy level and is accessible only to friends to whom she has granted access” absolutely vindicates her, but even if that were not the case, this is still a free country. At least that’s what they used to teach kids in civics class. (Do they still have civics, or has that been replaced by spreadsheet and word processing?)
My big question is: Where is her union in all of this?
irisheyes
November 15th, 2009
1:32 pm
Dean, there are no unions in GA. All we have are “educational associations” like PAGE and GAE. While I appreciate the liability coverage they provide, they also represent administrators, so there probably was no help for her from them.
This is exactly why teachers in GA are afraid to speak up about the state of education here. Cross the wrong person, and you could find yourself bullied right out of a job. I understand why she felt the need to resign. If I was a 2nd year teacher, and my admin was sitting there telling me I could lose my license if I fought termination, while if I resigned they wouldn’t turn me over to the PSC, I’d probably consider resignation too. The thought being: better to try and explain away a resignation rather than not be able to teach again ever. That’s what is so awful in this situation. They completely misrepresented what the PSC would do. Maureen, I’m curious. Have you talked to anyone at the PSC? Would they have taken any action if Barrow County had reported her?
In The Know
November 15th, 2009
5:41 pm
Dear Maureen,
Thanks for exposing this story! I KNOW first hand what a school administration can do when they have a motive for treating a certain teacher in this way. The difference between Ashley and me is that I refused to resign over some jealous coworker with an agenda. This has caused me to be in a political web between the “Powers to Be” in the County and School Click. They are not looking for truth and facts and can care less about whom they hurt in the process. Their only Goal is to win and be right to save their face to make the public think that they are really and truly looking out for the school system when in all acutuality they are participating in a catastrophic SIN against a fellow human being. They know this to be true but their drive to be right is overruled by their selfish preservation of their egotistical images. They are ego maniacs!
I truly feel for Ashley and her family. As far as my story…… Stay Tuned!!!!!!!!!!
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majii
November 15th, 2009
7:45 pm
I think that I know McGee. After graduating from UGA, my first job was in Barrow County where, if I recall correctly, he was a new assistant principal at the Barrow Co. HS. He came to work there the last year that I taught there. If this is the man, I CAN believe that he told her she could either be suspended or resign. He skipped the warning, probably without thinking about it. In Barrow Co. the school system will side with the community members 99.99999% of the time. It’s rural, sort of isolated, very Christian-oriented (at least on display), and very conservative with a slight disdain for out of county persons. There is really not much to do there as Athens is the closest larger city in the area. All of this adds up to the attitude that the principal and community have adopted toward Ashley. I’d file a civil rights lawsuit along with the original lawsuit. Someone passed that information on to McGee, and that someone had an ax to grind with Ashley. Some of the women there can be scheming, petty, and vindictive, and some of them have power they wield behind the scenes. IMHO, they mistreated this young lady because they figured they could get away with it.
cricket
November 15th, 2009
10:27 pm
It wouldn’t surprise me if the unsigned “parent” email was fabricated by administration. Somebody wanted her out for some reason and they didn’t have one so they dug up something. If a REAL parent had a problem with her they would not have been shy about complaining in person. They never are any other time.
ScienceTeacher671
November 15th, 2009
10:48 pm
Click, clique, klick….it’s all the same thing, right? I mean, teachers know these things, don’t they?
Scooter
November 16th, 2009
12:59 am
Maureen–Have you found out who was hired to take her place? That should be public record. I’ll bet the person is related to someone on the Board or to someone else working there who has “power”.
Bill
November 16th, 2009
4:32 am
Please if she was drinking during the school day that would be one thing but come on. For you crazy parents most teachers drink lets be real. IQ’s in this county most be very low amongst the school leaders. Drinking is a legal thing. How stupid can you get. On other hand, most adults don’t go out of there way to have pictures of them drinking on facebook, but you shouldn’t be in trouble for it. Whats next, you go out to diner have glass wine and get fired because a student is there. These leaders are special kind of stupid. Please I don’t think pastors are held to this high a standard.
HS Teacher, Too
November 16th, 2009
8:40 am
irisheyes — about ten years ago, during my second year of teaching, I got married during the school year. Before anyone asks why I would, as a teacher, take a week off for my wedding, it was because my fiance’s work schedule — and his salary — necessarily trumped mine. Fortunately for me, I had worked elsewhere before teaching.
Why was I so lucky to have had a little work experience under my belt? Because my principal told me that to allow me to take a week off, s/he’d have to report me to the PSC and I would likely lose my certificate and I’d never again be able to teach in the State of Georgia!!
I have heard many similar stories, and this leads me to believe that administrators (a) have no real idea what the PSC will do, but (b) like to use it as a threat, particularly over young/new teachers who don’t know that the threatened consequences are unlikely.
If we want to talk about unconscionability, let’s talk about that.
As for Ms. Payne, she was doing nothing illegal! I have heard many colleagues say that they won’t drink in public for fear of this sort of thing happening to them (not necessarily with Facebook, but with parents seeing them and reporting them). For what? For doing something they are legally entitled to do.
I think it’s not untimely to reexamine the code of professional conduct and to make some modifications. We need to acknowledge that there is a tremendous difference between having a drink or being seen with a drink, and, say, showing up to work smelling of booze.
Meme
November 16th, 2009
10:02 am
Now why would you want to attack the person who took her place. This may just be an innocent bystander.
Micro_engineer
November 16th, 2009
10:32 am
I am not a teacher, nor do I pretend to understand what teachers deal with on a daily basis.
Accepting an “anonymous” email as the basis of a confrontation for someone’s personal life is not just anti-productive, immature, but also a bit asinine.
I am truly sickened by “anonymous” emails, phone calls, or other methods for a coward to do damage to others. Personally I believe if someone is enough of a coward to hide then I/we should not respond to anonymous accusations. You have a right to face your accuser-or at least in “civilized” societies.
Far worse, at what point in time did this teacher’s personal business become OUR business? It did not, and to regulate someones personal life outside of work is an affront to liberty & our personal freedom.
This does reek of jealous/envy of some kind; due to the high-school level behaviour going on, its as if someone is quite envious of a smiling, pretty, smart teacher who has her life together.
My sincerest sympathies to those teachers/employees out there who have dealt with something like this before! UNBELIEVABLE!
michelle
November 16th, 2009
12:06 pm
Liberal teacher’s unions at their best! No brains, not one of them.
Elizabeth
November 16th, 2009
1:00 pm
I agree that this situation is outrageous and unfair. That being said, perhaps now all of you who cry “no teacher tenure” will understand the difference between “tenure”, Fiar Dismissal rights, and no rights (for teachers). There is no tenure. Teachers whose administrators take the time to document poor teaching, etc., can remove a teacher after a hearing has been held. Teachers who possess the right to documentation and a hearing have “Fair Dismissal ” rights, which means only that there must be a hearing and documentation of wrong doing before a teacher can be fired. You must work in the state of Georgai
for three years and be offered a 4th contract ( whether or not you sign it) to be eligible for fair dismissal rights. Those without these rights can be fired or nonrenewed with no explanation given and the teacher has no grounds for appeal
and is not entitled to a hearing. The system is not required to give a reason for the dimissal. Situations like this one are the VERY REASON that Fair Dismissal was established for teachers. It was done to prevent anonymous accusations from other enployees, students, parents, and the community to be used to wrongly accuse teachers with no recourse for the teacher. It was established because kids and parents and sometimes other colleagues find it easy to falsely accuse teachers and get away with it. Only the teacher gets punished.
Unfortunately, Ashley has NO legal grounds on which to base a suit over her dismissal. However, I hope she files a personal damage lawsuit for slander, libel, and defamation of chracter against the school system. They deserve it.
Meme
November 16th, 2009
1:22 pm
@michelle – why is this the union’s fault? I am laughing at the term union since we don’t have one.
philosopher
November 16th, 2009
1:45 pm
This is simply another version of “lots of people say that you…” a tactic used by administrators in all fields, not just teaching. If they take a dislike to you but have no ammo, they make it up…”we’ve heard people saying’”, “Your coworkers” are complaining that you”, etc. ( vague, unsupportable but generally unfightable tactics). But this time a not so smart someone tried to use email as the weapon, unaware that it can be disproven…this should be interesting in it’s fallout. Sorry, Ashley…
Deborah Fagin
November 16th, 2009
2:35 pm
Someone please tell this educator to join MACE! GAE AND PAGE are more so for the administrators than for us. The general public would be horrified to know what goes on behind closed doors within the school systems. If you are a praying woman, pray and ask the Lord to protect you and to return to you what is yours. Remember, at the end of the day, no one can take what the Lord has intended for you!
philosopher
November 16th, 2009
2:40 pm
@South Georgia Teacher : I’m sorry you lost your job in the manner that you did…but if corporal punishment is what you consider appropriate discipline, I personally am very glad you are NOT teaching children.
Vampirella
November 16th, 2009
4:49 pm
Ashley, who is hot BTW, stated in her own words that she was resigning “for personal reasons.” She said she was returning to graduate school. Not one syllable about Facebook, booze or bingo. Now, she has found her a willing shyster who has contrived a different story. however, the burden of proof will be on Ashley, who is a bitchin’ babe BTW, to prove she was “coerced” into resigning. Lots of luck making that fly. Interesting to note that this story blatantly states that she was “pressured” to resign. Vas ya dere, Downey? What happened to that pesky adverb? As in: Brian Nichols allegedly murdered three people. I guess Nichols was entitled to more benefit of the doubt than a school principal.
Maureen Downey
November 16th, 2009
5:01 pm
Vampirella, I feel quite comfortable writing that she was pressured because of the principal’s statement – made in writing to the district’s own attorney – that, “She asked about options and I told her she always had the option of resigning. I told her that I had no idea what the Professional Standards Commission (PSC) would do. I told her I had seen suspensions, fines and loss of teaching certificates.”
I consider it pressure for a principal to tell a 24-year-old teacher that if she does not resign, she could lose her ability to ever work again as a teacher.
What would you call it? Kindly advice? Helpful information?
I don’t think that was the intent.
Maureenella.
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future-teacher
November 17th, 2009
10:41 am
Apalachee High School needs to be more worried about married teachers having open affairs with other teachers, and teacher’s affairs with their own students than worry about Ms. Payne’s situation. I am not a teacher yet, but about to graduate and enter this scary world of teaching. In my classes we are told that we should delete any pictures that are not very professional or that could get you in any trouble. We are also warned to keep our Facebook or Myspace or Tweeter accounts private as possible. We are also taught about the Code of Ethics, and no where does it say that you can’t legally have a drink if you are a teacher. As long as you are not on school time or school campus, you are just another citizen in whatever county you live in. Even though teachers are held to a higher responsibility, they are still humans and can live as they please. As long as what they do does not interfer with their teaching ability what’s the big deal? Again, AHS has many more problems to worry about then this petty situation with Ms. Payne. I wish her the best of luck in this case and hope she comes out on top.
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Joanne
November 17th, 2009
11:09 am
EVERY teacher needs to be a member of a professional organization, whether GAE or PAGE, in order to have advocates should something like this happen to them. Barrow Co’s actions are unconscionable, hypocritical, and ridiculous, but nonetheless they cost this teacher her job. Will DFACS now check each student’s homelife to ensure their parents don’t have a glass of wine or say anything stronger than “heck”?
Joanne
November 17th, 2009
11:18 am
Teacher & Mom, get your facts straight. This happened in BARROW county, not Bartow.
FirstAmendment
November 17th, 2009
12:58 pm
Maureen,
You should start a campaign to get Ms. Payne a job in another school system, perhaps an Atlanta area school, so she doesn’t have to go back to Barrow. Her job references are likely ruined. She needs to be able to go on with her career in a much better environment.
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Warrior and Mom
November 24th, 2009
11:36 am
Oh, wait, never mind. I am a racist ass. I never should have said a thing. I feel sorry for my kids, too.
Apalachee Student
December 15th, 2009
10:27 am
I go to Apalachee and Ms. Payne was replaced with Mrs. Hanna the JV and assistant competitive cheer leading coach. Mrs. Hanna is a HORRIBLE teacher, I’m a 9th grader and my 4th period gym teacher (Coach Holmes) cusses all the time. (ex: someone asked how do you spell “Mitch” and he said bitch but replace the b with an m. how he didn’t get in trouble for that don’t know because Mr. McGee was in the room when he said it)
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JesusFreak
August 23rd, 2010
4:27 pm
Sad situation for this teacher, hope it can all work out in her favor. In the end, it is the kids that are being deprived of an obviously good teacher. The teacher isn’t socializing in school, she was obviously doing what she was being paid to do. Maybe she will be encouraged by the number of people posting in her favor.
Parent and Teacher
August 23rd, 2010
7:37 pm
If only parents were held up to the same standards, after all, they are role models too. I worked in a small town school (until last year) where we were not allowed to buy alcohol, cigarettes or eat in a bar. We would also get a “talking to” if we were seen in public holding hands with a man, even if you were engaged to that man like I was. All of those things fell under, in their eyes, the state’s morality clause for educators. I never understood how any of those things lessened my effectiveness as an educator.
Old Hag
August 23rd, 2010
9:10 pm
This is intolerable and unacceptable. She should be stoned to death.
Shell
August 24th, 2010
9:08 am
Another good teacher gone over something completely innocuous. This is what makes good teachers throw our hands up and leave. Teachers barely make enough to survive, and have to endure this? No thank you
GA
August 24th, 2010
10:49 am
I wanna know WHO that mysterious e-mail sender more than anything about this Facebook-teacher issue..
TXMAMA
August 24th, 2010
12:02 pm
Ok so what did you learn today kids?
1. Teachers are not allowed to go on vacation and enjoy them selves like everyone else
2.Teachers are not allowed to relax and have a drink with friends
3.Teachers are not allowed to take pictures and share them with friends and family.
4.Teachers are not allowed to have a life of any kind
Teachers take care of our children everyday and give them tools to use for life, so lets take away any enjoyment they have, and make sure they dont behave like human beings because they arent human “right”? Thier teachers and they dont deserve to have fun,or relax,or take pictures of a vacation and share them with friends and family “right”?
This shouldnt even be an issue, were is the proof ? If the mystery students mom was so worried about this were is she now to back up her life destroying story?
Jarden
August 24th, 2010
1:25 pm
Good grief. Common sense dictates that you don’t put ANYTHING you don’t want everybody to see on Facebook. I don’t feel sorry for her at all. It’s called Using Your Head.
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