This time, he did not have the advantage of the media to focus on this wretched event.
On a recent trip to London, where he chaperoned several students, he found liquor in the room of one of them: a 14 year old girl. This same student managed to be “caught” in a conversation with another student, which was then brought by the parent to the school authorities. The conversation mentioned, “hand holding” and “kissing”, none of which ever happened. After the police questioned her, the student told the police she made it all up.
It appears the girl planned for her conversation to be "discovered' in order to get revenge on her teacher.
Nothing is as heinous as a child molester, except when a teacher does it. The board acted swiftly, and rightly so. The teacher was relieved of his job, ordered off the school premises, and told to speak with no one. He was shattered, fearing the worst, and with no way to prove his innocence.
His union did nothing to back him up, since he, under duress, was ordered to resign, which he obediently did, not realizing, and not told that signing his resignation would shut the door to and negate his claim for reinstatement.
He was forced to hire a lawyer to defend himself at great expense to him and his family.
There it is; a vengeful student, who maliciously lied, a teacher, beloved by his students so much they posted an online petition to restore him to work, and a school board that won’t rehire him for reasons having nothing to do with the case.
Then, why? He once was asked, in front of a class, if he was married. He answered that he was. In fact, he is gay, but he didn’t feel it was proper for a role model to tell that to a class of high school students, so he fibbed. That protection of his civil right to privacy is the reason he was told he was not eligible for reinstatement. He lied to his class.
It’s a mess. He has a home, a mortgage, car payments, all the usual expenses, and saddled with the near poverty a school teacher must endure. His savings are gone, and his prospects with any other North Carolina regional school board, given this case, are nil. Justice took a holiday where he was concerned.
I am disturbed at the kind of minds that allowed this honorable man to drown by turning their backs on him. His principal told him he was on his side, but when the decision had to be made, that same principal, hands tied, refused to reinstate him. Investigation yielded that the principal had no choice in the matter, and was handed a statement to read when asked about the case.
Someone upstairs on that school board is acting behind the scenes, and allowing J Michael Beech to go down, most likely because he is gay.
The media would certainly have a field day with this, and yet, Beech refuses to allow anyone to bring this affair into the public eye. He believes justice will triumph, and he will be exonerated as he so well deserves to be.
There is a dangerous precedent here, that a vicious student can lie and a teacher loses his job.
Some of his students got together and placed a petition on the Internet. Here is the link to the petition. I beg you to go there and read what they say about him.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/JMichealBeech
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