Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Teacher fired for vegan lessons

|
|
 
  
Published: Sept. 25, 2007 at 2:32 PM

FOX RIVER GROVE, Ill., Sept. 25 (UPI) -- A Fox River Grove, Ill., middle school art teacher has been fired after he refused to stop advocating veganism during classroom lessons.

The Fox River Grove School District 3 School Board said in a prepared statement after a 7-0 vote to fire Dave Warwak that the instructor had turned his art classes into lessons on veganism and animal rights, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday.

Warwak had told his students not to tell their parents, teachers or school administrators what was discussed in the lessons and he himself refused to answer questions from school officials on the subject.

Warwak was asked to leave school property Sept. 4 because he refused to discontinue his lectures on animal rights.

"You are ruining my world and eating my friends," he said at the school board meeting. He refused to return to his classroom unless the school cafeteria switches to a meatless menu.

"We are not going to go vegan at this time," said Pat Hughes, president of the school board.

© 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
The making of the Oscars Cheerleaders of 2012 The Chicago Auto Show
The Tibetan Moniam Festival in China The Most Desirable Women of 2012 The best kisses
Additional Odd News Stories
Your Daily Horoscope
The almanac
1 of 25
Meryl Streep and Colin Firth attend the "BAFTA" ceremony in London
View Caption
fark
Photoshop this striking side shot
You gotta ask yourself what kind of management a motel has it when a room there contains a body...
Twins in yearlong quarantine. No, they don't want any Doublemint gum
The Marines are apparently doing things we think only happen in Rambo movies
Remember back in the day when you had to walk to school, barefoot, uphill both ways, in the snow?...
Time to load up on beer, milk, bread and beer, north Atlanta is in for massive blizzard with up...