Former Guilford Connecticut high school teacher Nate Fisher is out from behind the Eightball, but he is still looking for another job and maybe a new career.  Fisher, who asked a 14-year-old girl to read Daniel Clowes Eightball #22 as a makeup assignment (see 'Teacher Resigns Over Eightball'), was under investigation by the Guilford Police Department for possible offenses including impairing the morals of a minor and breach of peace.

Fisher told the New Haven Register that he was 'extraordinarily relieved' when the State's Attorney's decided not to prosecute.  Fisher, who hadn't talked to the media while he was under investigation, admits that he made a mistake in assigning the book that he had read in a graphic novel course at the University of Connecticut, but hadn't reread since, but his statements to the Register clearly indicate that he felt the situation was handled poorly (see 'Issue Identified') by the school's administration and that he was forced out: 'I just think the way it was handled wasn't right, and it was bad for everybody... I never thought that I would be pulled out of my job without any due process, without being able to defend myself or give my version of the events of what happened. I felt like they really didn't take into account anything about my career that had happened before.'

Fisher, who since the incident has been taking courses to become a paralegal, hopes to be able to continue teaching and he has been applying for new teaching jobs.  He told the Register: 'I'm hopeful that there are school systems out there that will see this for what it is, and I'm hopeful that this isn't something that's going to define me for the rest of my career as a teacher.'