Vegan teacher dismissal hearing.
June 23, 2008 - A Board of Education dismissal hearing for a middle school teacher who was fired for "turning his classroom into a forum on veganism," abandoning the art curriculum and asking students to keep it a secret from their parents according to school board documents.
What began as a simple be-kind-to-animals project approved by administrators who even participated--marshmallow Easter "Peeps" were made into "pets" to be cared for--got out of hand when Warwak put the "pets" in cages, pots and pans and between slices of bread.The hearing officer repeatedly admonished that the hearing wasn't about whether veganism, "is right or wrong or good or bad."
"The problem was when it turned into a PETA advertisement and it was against the school lunch program," testified Fox River Grove Middle School Principal Tim Mahaffy at the Illinois Board of Education's three day closed hearings into Warwak's dismissal conducted at the Fox River Grove City Hall in April.
Cornell University Professor Emeritus Dr. T. Colin Campbell testified.
Arbitrator has yet to make a ruling about David Warwak.
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Patterico's Pontification had a post on Warwak.
