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Teacher Fired Over Vacation Photos on Facebook

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 11/13/2009

24-year-old high school teacher Ashley Payne says she was forced to resign after posting vacation photos on her Facebook page.

Payne says these are the photos that caused her to lose her job.
  A high school teacher she says she lost her job for posting vacation photos on her Facebook page.

"I wasn't expecting to get fired, I hadn't done anything," says Ashley Payne.

Payne took her very first trip to Europe last summer. The 24-year-old English teacher took photos at the Guinness factory in Ireland and sipping wine in Italy.

"I didn't have any pictures posted of me dancing on a bar in scandalous clothing; they're just pictures of me holding alcoholic beverages," she says.

But Payne says when she posted the shots on Facebook, along with the expletive word that rhymes with "witch," a parent complained. Payne says the principal called her in and forced her to resign.

"I can't just go on vacation and have a beer," says Payne.
   

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