A teacher employed by the Fort Zumwalt School District in O’Fallon, Missouri has triggered an investigation into his conduct following a controversial tweet.
On October 3, the teacher posted comments ridiculing same-sex marriage to his Twitter account.“Never should have allowed gay marriage to start with,” the tweet read. “Marriage is between man and woman, plain and simple.”The tweet invited immediate backlash from students and parents.
A short time later, the teacher posted an apology of sorts. “I made a post earlier that was apparently insensitive to many and hurtful,” it read. “We all make mistakes and mine was public.