Quaker teacher fired for changing loyalty oath
Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer
Hayward, Calif. - 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 teachingremedial math to undergrads Jan. 7, lost her $700-a-month part-time jobafter 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 careabout 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."
For more on this article, go to the San Francisco Chronicle.
A depiction of the oath Kearney-Brown altered may be found here.
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