After Downing Street
Quaker teacher fired for changing loyalty oath
Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 29, 2008
California State University East Bay has fired a math teacher after six weeks on the job because she inserted the word “nonviolently” in her state-required Oath of Allegiance form.
Marianne Kearney-Brown, a Quaker and graduate student who began teaching remedial math to undergrads Jan. 7, lost her $700-a-month part-time job after refusing to sign an 87-word Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution that the state requires of elected officials and public employees.
“I don’t think it was fair at all,” said Kearney-Brown. “All they care about is my name on an unaltered loyalty oath. They don’t care if I meant it, and it didn’t seem connected to the spirit of the oath. Nothing else mattered. My teaching didn’t matter. Nothing.”
A veteran public school math teacher who specializes in helping struggling students, Kearney-Brown, 50, had signed the oath before – but had modified it each time.
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You Gotsta be kidding me, and this happened in Cali?
What’s gonna happen when people get with the problems of the pledge of allegiance & that buncha bunk (watsa “wichit” anyway).
But all due respect to Quakerism, they run goinpiece, proposing this philosophy of ‘bearing witnes’, getting some vid footage for a few more millions in anti-whaling donations, and then disappearing back to Quakertown. All due respect, that just isn’t activist enough, brethren!
Sometime pacifism just won’t cut it, you actually haveta act on your ethics ta get anywhere
My father worships quakers, being a Swarthmore boy and a self-proclaimed CO (not that the draft board was having any of that!). I’m having trouble with their Greenpeace position of non-interventionism– which brings me to the problematic addiction of cultist christian sects and their wonderful woodwork but failed effect on the killers,
I love pacifists, but history shows ya gatta grow some balls to actually make a difference (and even Jesus had balls!).
You Gotsta be kidding me, and this happened in Cali?
What’s gonna happen when people get with the problems of the pledge of allegiance and start having problems with that buncha bunk (watsa “wichit” anyway).
But all due respect to Quakerism, they run goinpiece, proposing this philosophy of ‘bearing witnes’, getting some vid footage for a few more millions in anti-whaling donations, and then disappearing back to Quakertown. All due repske, that just isn’t activist enough, brethren!
Sometime pacifism just won’t cut it, you actually haveta act on your ethics ta get anywhere
My father worships quakers, being a Swarthmore boy and a self-proclaimed CO (not that the draft board was having any of that!). I’m having trouble with their Greenpeace position of non-interventionism– which brings me to the problematic addiction of cultist christian sects and their wonderful woodwork but failed effect on the killers,
I love pacifists, but history shows ya gatta grow some balls to actually make a difference (and even Jesus had balls!).
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