A secretary at Bangor Schools has resigned and some teachers have been reprimanded for their role in a video showing them having an inappropriate conversation at a local bar. At a meeting of the Bangor School Board Monday night, district attorney Robert Huber told WSJM News two teachers have been given formal reprimands, which puts them on administrative probation, and four more have been given verbal reprimands. 
 
 “We made our best assessment based on the facts, and reasonable minds can differ about things,” Huber said. “This was our call as to what we thought was best under the circumstances.” 
 
 It was a packed house as Huber addressed parents upset that the teachers may have been talking about students in a game in which they chose whether they would have sex with, marry, or kill different individuals. Huber said they were only talking about staff. Not everyone was happy with the school board’s reaction. 
 
 “Not that people don’t have a right to go out after work and get together, but you don’t comment the way they were commenting, and it really disturbs me,” resident Annie Davidson told WSJM News. 
 
 Some parents said they were shocked by the language being used by the teachers in a video that has now spread all over the internet. 
 
 “It’s very appalling to know that my granddaughters who are with me are being educated by people like that,” we heard from another woman. 
 
 Although there won’t be additional penalties in the incident, Huber said he thinks everyone involved has learned an important lesson. Board members had little comment. The video was recorded last month at the Bangor Tavern. ||||| Related Coverage Video shows school employees’ inappropriate talk 
 
 
 
 
 
 KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) –- Two teachers for Bangor Public Schools have resigned after video surfaced showing school employees naming co-workers and students they’d like to kill or sleep with. 
 
 School district attorney Robert Huber told 24 Hour News 8 Tuesday one of the teachers resigning was among those given a written reprimand by the district; the other had been verbally reprimanded. He said the school board still needs to accept the resignations. 
 
 During Monday night’s board meeting, Huber said two teachers and a school secretary, Patti Waite, were involved in the inappropriate comments recorded in the video posted to YouTube Monday. The teachers received written reprimands and Waite resigned. Four other teachers who were present received verbal reprimands. 
 
 At a meeting Monday evening, the Bangor Board of Education president said the six-minute video was recorded in mid-January and that it shows district employees. 
 
 A FIREABLE OFFENSE? 
 
 Some outraged community members called for the firing of those shown on camera, but it’s not clear whether the situation legally rises to the level of a fireable offense. 
 
 “Teachers and everyone else has (sic) a Constitutional right to freedom of speech,” said Sarissa Montague, an attorney with the Kalamazoo law firm of Levine and Levine. 
 
 However, Montague says there are exceptions to the rule. 
 
 “As it applies to the teachers, if there was something in their contract, in their union agreements… something like that that prohibited them from saying this, then that could be an issue,” explained Montague. 
 
 RIGHT TO PRIVACY 
 
 Also called into question is the staff members’ right to privacy. 
 
 “There are statutes, they’re called eavesdropping statutes, and they make it illegal for people to record private conversations without the permission of the people who are participating in the conversation, said Montague. 
 
 But again, Montague says there are exceptions to the rule. 
 
 “When you have six people in a bar, a bar that is open to the public, it is certainly difficult, I would say, to say that that is a private conversation,” she said. 
 
 A LOT OF GRAY AREAS 
 
 The bottom line: almost everyone has the means to record you and send it out to a lot of people. 
 
 “I don’t know necessarily that there is a black line that separates what you can do and what you can’t do,” added Montague. “However, you certainly should use common sense when you have having conversations that can be overheard by anybody.” 
 
 Montague says there are also a number of gray areas if someone involved in the situation wants to file a civil lawsuit, especially when it comes to proving damages. 
 
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– Two teachers and a superintendent's secretary have resigned after video surfaced of them playing a game of "F***, Marry, Kill" involving coworkers and students last month at a bar in Michigan, Fox 17 reports. Some of the students named during the game have special needs. According to WOOD, the video was posted to YouTube on Monday and was addressed during a heated school board meeting that night. The three Bangor Public Schools employees who resigned could be heard making inappropriate comments in the video. Four other teachers present in the video were reprimanded by the school district. One parent at Monday's school board meeting called the video "disturbing" and said it "shows that maybe they're not right for this job." Police were made aware of the video after another Bangor Public Schools staff member filed a complaint "because she felt threatened" by it, WZZM reports. The chief of police says he watched the video and didn't see anything criminal in it. According to WSJM, an attorney for the school district says he think's everyone involved has learned from the incident. (Police say a PE teacher stole cash out of students' lockers.)