Vegan art teacher fired by school board
Posted September 25th, 2007 by minortopics | via www.chicagotribune.comArt teacher Dave Warwak, a recently converted vegan (almost as high on the annoying scale as a recent ex-smoker), decided to use his teaching position at the Fox River Grove Middle School to push his animal rights agenda instead of, oh, I don’t know, teaching the kids how to paint, and it got his ass fired:
Dave Warwak said he wouldn’t return to the classroom unless Fox River Grove Middle School served only lunches free of animal products, but with meat still on the menu, school officials on Monday fired the art teacher.
“We are not going to go vegan at this time,” said Pat Hughes, president of the Fox River Grove School District 3 School Board.
The board, which voted 7-0 to fire Warwak, said in a prepared statement that he told pupils not to tell their parents, teachers or the school’s principal what he was teaching and that he repeatedly refused to answer questions from school officials on that subject.
The statement also said Warwak converted his art classes into classes on veganism and animal rights.
Here’s the money quote:
“You are ruining my world and eating my friends,” [Warwak] said.
It seems like someone wasn’t properly balancing their protein intake…