A Dibrell School teacher claims he was falsely accused of touching another student by three students aiming to get him fired and he wants a policy change to make sure this situation does not happen again.
Marc Pyburn addressed the Warren County School Board on Monday night during the public comment segment and told the members that students recently attempted to get him fired for enforcing the cellphone policy.
“I am tough, but I am fair. At our school we enforce the phone policy,” said Pyburn. “I had a situation where some students didn’t appreciate the fact that we were enforcing this. I had a student threaten to get me fired over this. Two days later I had a student stand up and say to me, ‘How can you sleep at night when you have fondled another student?’ So I sent this student down, another student down, and it took two and a half hours before this matter came about that all of this was made up to get me fired.”
Pyburn says he has been an educator for 26 years, and eight of those years were in Gallatin where he says he had his life threatened multiple times. He says this situation was worse than any of the things he experienced in Gallatin.
“Rarely in my 26 years of teaching have I ever woken up thinking I have got to go to school today, 99% of the time I go to school because I love it. I teach because it is a calling and I love to teach. That has been stripped from me. Completely stripped from me. I have taken some time off and I am going back on Friday, but it is...
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