Lee Livengood, the West Virginia teacher who rose to fame for bullying a transgender student in the bathroom, will finally be looking for a new job.
The Harrison County Board of Education, which oversees Liberty High, the school where Livengood teaches, voted unanimously this week not to renew his contract. The board had suspended Livengood over the incident which occurred in late 2018, though it did allow him to return under a probationary contract. Now, with criticism mounting over his return, the board has decided to terminate him completely.
“There’s no other reason other than the fact that we just desire not to have him continue as an employee of the Harrison County Board of Education,” said Superintendent Mark Manchin.
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Last fall, Livengood followed transgender teenager Michael Chrichfield into the men’s room and demanded he use a urinal to prove he is male. When Chrichfield refused, Livengood proceeded to harass him further, refusing to let him leave the bathroom and remarking “I’m not going to lie. You freak me out.”
Chrichfield’s family, with the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union, threatened legal action against the school district should the board not punish Livengood. He received a suspension without pay, though was allowed to return to work earlier this year. A “note of apology” also drew a public outcry for its perceived insincerity, and the ACLU had criticized the Harrison County Board for not fulfilling its good-faith effort to establish policies to better protect transgender students. With the threat of a lawsuit mounting, it appears that the Harrison County Board has taken steps to rectify the matter.
Here’s hoping Livengood has fun in the men’s room of the unemployment office.
DCguy
THIS is why all the troll accounts on here are constantly trying to say “Don’t boycott, don’t complain, don’t speak up, it’s just a difference of opinion”.
Because they know that bigots back down when their wallet is threatened or a lawsuit is looming, and they don’t want the bigots to have to back down. Good for this kid for standing up for himself.
Polaro
“Good for this kid for standing up for himself.” Too good to pass that comment up – assuming you read the story 🙂 Stand up, get it…oh, never mind.
By the way, expressing an opinion is different from harassment. What this man did was totally wrong and I’m glad he’s no longer working with students.
@HarryB at q-meet.us
Yes, you are right
nitejonboy
Good, hope the bastard never gets a job as a teacher again,he’s a disgrace!
Oso Coqui
Question: Asst principle follows a male student into the bathroom to watch him pee standing up? An adult male stalking a male child for the purpose of watching him pee and that didn’t send off the alarms, call child protective services and the police as not only sexual predatory but harassment? And the school allowed him to return and needed the threat of a lawsuit to have the school act? Would their response be with a cisgender male or female or a transgender female? Did the school forget that regardless of his gender identity this is still a child being followed into a restroom by an adult for the purpose of watching him pee. That didn’t cause them some alarm?
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
1000% Co-sign
Conservatives simply can’t mind their own flocking business and just leave this kid alone no one focusing on what you were dead on about..,.
A teacher followed a kid into a bathroom and was interfering with the kid urinating!!!!
JennyMcPike
Exactly!! Teachers are supposed to protect our children, not harass and sexually abuse them! That school board is no better – not having the balls to say why they were not having him back – instead just saying ‘we just don’t want him is all’.
draven
I feel sorry for the student I can only imagine what he was going through. I was bullied growing up. I only could run to my room and cry in my pillow. It was horrible. No one to take up for me. It broke my moms heart. My dad really didn’t know and he worked so when he came home I wouldn’t burden him with my teenage problems of being gay. He did give me great advice though. He told me I would grow up to be a wonderful person. And I did!
That man is a creep for doing that to that child!!!!!
Gary Q VV
Actions and outcries against bigotry, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other irrational fears must not waver. We, the LGBTQ community, are not alone in this fight. Our supporters stand in unity with us. So, don’t allow nay sayers, aka trolls, persuade you from speaking out.
Doug
He looks like a lush.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
And the countdown til a kiddie sex scandal with this vile, abhorrent smcubag begins…..
Mick406
During our drug testing in the military, two soldiers stand right beside you and watch to make sure the urine comes out of your penis and you are not cheating with a bottle. Does this make them eligible for a perversion lawsuit? I always hated that test. It was all I could do to get started peeing!
BivisibleGuy
The difference is that you volunteered for the military and were a consenting adult. This is a very different situation involving a minor. He should be on the sex offenders list without question.
Even as a preschool teacher, we understand the importance of privacy and only help young children with toileting as they feel comfortable, keeping our contact with their private parts strickly professional and as needed. DEMANDING a view of a child’s genitalia is sick, sad, and morally/ethically reprehensible.
TimothyBeauchamp
If he had been “Livengood” he wouldn’t have been fired. Bada bing! Bada Boom!
JennyMcPike
I’m here all week folks !
ElPillo
Sadly, he’ll be hailed as a hero by the extreme right and be working or teaching somewhere else.
CarrieV
And yet we have bathroom laws to keep transfolk out of “cis-het” bathrooms for fear of the eebil transperson touching, scaring, or otherwise harassing the goodly Xtians.
Saps48
Maybe this teacher just didn’t want a girl using the boys bathroom…
Kangol
Or perhaps he’s just a perverted adult bully and he received part of the punishment he deserved.
Dwik27
F’ing nut cake. The red nose tells me this jerk needs to reacquaint himself with his old friend Bill.