Teacher fired despite his rights

A New Jersey school board terminated a longtime substitute teacher on Jan. 15 because he shared a Bible verse in the course of a conversation with a student. After sharing the verse, the teacher offered the student a New Testament, which the student accepted.

The Phillipsburg School Board contends it fired Walter Tutka for violating school policies that stipulate a teacher must remain neutral when discussing religious materials and is prohibited from distributing religious literature on school grounds.

If the story being told by Tutka and others is true, then it seems that the teacher was terminated for nothing more than the free exercise of his religion. Read more

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A New Jersey school board terminated a longtime substitute teacher