Coach Fired for Composing Obama Song

(Franklin, Tennessee) Last month, a 26-year-old football coach at Grassland Middle School, Bryan Glover, was fired from his position for composing a song critical of President Obama and sending it to his acquaintances on the Internet. Here's the song.



Within hours, students' parents reportedly called the school and complained.

Glover said the principal at Grassland Middle School told the head football coach to release Glover from his position with the team.

"He just said parents were complaining, maybe there was a comment of racial overtones," Glover said,

"I found it amusing," said parent Michael Kasaitis about Glover's country song.

He said no matter the opinion on his music, the link was sent from his personal email account and it is free speech.

"I was totally upset. He has every right to write a song, write a book or to make his opinion known," said Kasaitis.

The Superintendent of Williamson County Schools refused to say why Glover was fired, but he did speculate it could be an issue of how he obtained the parents email addresses.

"If someone is sending an email to parents using our system or knowledge you obtained through our system, you are limited in what kind of message you can send to parents, " said Dr. Mike Looney.

Okay … but I'm not really sure what it means to be "limited in what kind of message you can send to parents."

In the final analysis, I suggest Glover was fired because his song offended the political sensitivities of school administrators and not because he possessed email addresses.

Tip: Rita and Eugene

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