<p>“Man, I hate this culture sometimes…Maybe the elementary school teacher that is a part-time stripper need to pay the bills. Whatever the elementary school teacher do in his or her spare time should be no body business as long as it is legal.”</p>
<p>So if the teachers decide to augment their income by working summers in legal brothels in Nevada, that would be fine with you?</p>
<p>[St</a>. Lucie teacher: Bikini charter cost me my job](<a href=“Search - palmbeachpost.com”>Search - palmbeachpost.com)
[Teacher’s</a> firing attracts major media attention](<a href=“Search - palmbeachpost.com”>Search - palmbeachpost.com)
[Teacher</a> works as bikini-clad mate on fishing charter boat](<a href=“Search - palmbeachpost.com”>Search - palmbeachpost.com)
[Marina</a> kicks out topless charter service](<a href=“Search - palmbeachpost.com”>Search - palmbeachpost.com)</p>
<p>OK here is a real-life story. It’s happening a few counties away. A high school teacher is working weekends for a charter boat company that advertises bikini-clad and topless “mates.” Her pictures are on their web stie, as well as pictures on her myspace. SHe is divorced, raising sons as a single mom. </p>
<p>She is also missing alot of days at school. She worked at one high school for three years, and at the point she was to be offered tenure or not asked back, she was not asked back. This is her first year in the same county at a new school, again on the three year provisional time. She teaches biology, and has had over 30 absences from school this school year alone. She used up her sick time for the year in the first 4 weeks of school. In this county, if a bio teacher is absent, all that is in the classroom is a sub. It would not be a bio sub or even a science sub. It would just be a teacher who would not likely be teaching anything bio that day, but supervising reading, homework etc. </p>
<p>She lost her job last week. School board claims it is the absences and other problems. She goes public with her second job and claims the school board fired her for what she did in her spare time, and that she is not one of the topless mates, she one that always keeps on her bathing suit. </p>
<p>The third link above is to pictures the newspaper easily obtained of her from the charter website and from her MYSPACE. Her myspace was not “private” but available to anyone who wanted to see. Picture 7 is from her myspace. </p>
<p>You decide.</p>
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<p>Why wouldn’t it be?</p>
<p>I view teachers as role models, and don’t want a sex worker to be a role model for kids.</p>
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<p>Smart move. I had a “legit” reporter do an interview with me when I was in undergrad. She DID create an article but in the process completely slanted the article in a disengenous way and hurt my own privacy by betraying my trust. It’s not a big deal to me, but I would advise against putting any trust in a reporter.</p>
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<p>To each their own. I have a friend from HS who became a teacher and danced on the side. Now, she is a successful porn star with a happy life and millions of dollars to her name. I think such a life is quite favorable when compared to the lives that many of these kids will end up living.</p>
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<p>Haha, I almost responded to a similar “reporter,” and now I’m not sure whether she was real or not, but the only reason why I neglected to respond was because at that time it was near the end of quarter and I was drowning under deadlines!</p>
<p>Galoisen, I disagree. Reading someone’s Facebook page is NOT the same as rummaging thru their trash. If you post it online, do NOT be surprised if anyone reads it. YOU POSTED IT, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.</p>
<p>justbreathe, you are right about customizable settings. It is easy to now limit what different people can see. The general public could see nothing, some “friends” could see part of a profile, and others could see “all.” </p>
<p>If you’re going to use Facebook, learn to use it properly, and if you don’t bother with basic privacy settings then don’t complain when other people view it.</p>
<p>As Readers Digest recently commented, “This is not the first generation to do stupid things. They’re just the first ones to broadcast it for all the world to see.”</p>
<p>Myspace is for creepers…</p>
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<p>Yes, but there is a legitimate intended audience – for example, profiles may be open to anyone in a particular network and I would not expect who was not a bona fide member of that network to have access to my profile.</p>
<p>But that’s really beside my point. My point concerned more of people who didn’t mind the world seeing what they did in their private life, but get disciplined anyway.</p>
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People who have an “intended audience” need to learn to use privacy settings.</p>
<p>This bugs me because I’ve been trying to get this message thru to my kids and they think I’m an old fogey. The truth is that I can see the long-term effects of this a LOT clearer than they do. I understand perfectly well how to use the internet, but they are teens and don’t understand that what they do today can affect their future, and that “you never get a second chance to make a first impression.” </p>
<p>My D talks about “Facebook creepers.” I said, “If you don’t want people to look at it, then why did you bother to put it online?” Duh.</p>
<p>to my fellow “old fogies” - maybe one of the reasons that we are cautious is that we weren’t always old and we can imagine the consequences if some of our youthful antics resurfaced. I am thinking of friends who are now elected officials - some with a high degree of recognition - who might have been derailed by pictures floating around of their poor judgment. In my own life, I don’t think I would have been appointed to certain boards or hired for certain jobs if my questionable behavior had been immortalized.</p>
<p>So, while I don’t want to argue the point - sometimes people who advise you to be careful aren’t unaware of your rights or uptight. In fact, it might be quite the opposite.</p>
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<p>What is poor judgement? Getting naked and drunk is poor judgement? Why? Because old people don’t like it?</p>
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<p>Which is exactly one of the reasons we have the problems in Washington that we do. Being elected is often all about: liing, covering up, and smearing others. The people that do these 3 things the best excel in politics. The voting public is filled with morons and sheep that often base their decisions off things (such as this) that have nothing to do with the candidate’s ability to perform the job.</p>
<p>VectorWega, since when to old people not get naked and drunk? Who says they don’t like it? We’re just not stupid enough to put it online for the world to see.</p>
<p>Believe me, “young” people didn’t invent being wild. Ever heard of an era called the 60’s? Thank heavens people didn’t have digital camera phones then, some people would never be able to escape of the stupid things they did.</p>
<p>"justbreathe, you are right about customizable settings. It is easy to now limit what different people can see. The general public could see nothing, some “friends” could see part of a profile, and others could see “all.” </p>
<p>People who are your friends today may not always be your friends. They could end up being enemies who happen to have screen shots of embarrassing things that you did.</p>
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<p>Why is it stupid? It’s stupid because people try too perpetuate a standard which they themselves have not lived up to and which goes against human nature.</p>
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<p>Once again calling it stupid. I propose that it is not stupid at all. What is stupid is people portraying it like it is stupid, when it is clearly not.</p>