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If your child's teacher was also a stripper and starred in a porn movie....

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worraliberty · 31/08/2011 18:02

...And communicated with a number of students via text message, email and Facebook, would you be happy or not that they kept their job?

Do you think the decision to find this teacher guilty of unacceptable professional conduct... but to allow them to continue teaching, was a fair one?

I'm in two minds really as surely the kids would see a teacher like that as a bit of a joke now? Confused

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14733096

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catgirl1976 · 31/08/2011 20:23

I would be turning up at more parents evenings and manning the cake stand :)

I do think it might have been treated differently if it was a female teacher though and the text messages and fb contact sounds unprofessional. Somehow I am more concerned about that (not that there appears to have been anything in appropriate said) than the stripping / porn

But then I am an ex glamour and fetish model.

create · 31/08/2011 20:40

IMO what he does (that's legal) in his own time is his business. I would be worried about over friendly use of text/FB though.

Don't see how you can argue that it eats into his prep time etc, are teachers not allowed to be Scout masters/do tutoring in the evenings/play sport....?

If the pupils saw his films on the internet, who was supervising their internet use? No worse for them to see his porn film than any other.

Itsjustafleshwound · 31/08/2011 22:01

Sorry Blush - bigger fool me!!!

I still don't think it is right ...

MmeLindor. · 31/08/2011 22:10

Of course it would have been handled differently if the teacher was a woman.

more pics here and an indepth analysis from the DM

I imagine the school PTA is enjoying a surge of new memberships

MmeLindor. · 31/08/2011 22:12

Although there is somehting a bit creepy about his website where he states, "for the past 4 years I have been teaching young people to be open-minded, respectful, tolerant of others..."

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worraliberty · 31/08/2011 22:14

sigh Why did my teachers never look like that? Sad

I would have had 100% attendance if they did Grin

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troisgarcons · 31/08/2011 22:15

Where I work, two teachers were dismissed this term for gross misconduct for allowing pupils as friends on social networking sites. There were other factors (not child protection issues) that also came into play. However, a lot of teachers do use FB for pupil contact, especially in 6th form as a means to exchange HW etc.

Don't have an issue with particular teachers private life/2nd jobs; we never know what goes on behind closed doors..... how many will be wife beaters? alcoholics? swingers? doggers? naturists? view child porn? It all goes on in every walk of life.

troisgarcons · 31/08/2011 22:18

Actually - it just popped into my head .... my sons teacher was on BBC3 stand up comedy programme last week - and that has done the rounds. Didn't bother watching it but it caused lots of sniggering

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worraliberty · 31/08/2011 22:23

but it caused lots of sniggering

Not full on laughing?

He'd better not give up his day job Grin

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troisgarcons · 31/08/2011 22:25

worra - and he is the most drop dead gorgeous thing I've ever set eyes on at parents evening (I feel like a cradle snatcher as I coo over him)

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worraliberty · 31/08/2011 22:27

Bastard!

In my day they had to wear brown cords and hacking jackets. I think it was the law Hmm

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Sewilma · 31/08/2011 22:43

One of my secondary school teachers was "exposed" by a newspaper as a fetish topless kiss-o-gram in the early 90's. She was not sacked, no uproar from parents and didn't receive any trouble from the students because she was a fantastic teacher.

But I think casually communicating with pupils on social networking sites is dangerous. Not saying anything untoward happens in the majority of cases but it's blurring the lines where there should be a professional distance. A teacher is someone in authority, not a "mate". Using it as a resource to keep in touch with sixth formers is probably a good idea but the teacher should use a "formal" account, not a personal one, which maybe the Head monitors or is aware of?

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worraliberty · 31/08/2011 23:44

There's no need to use FB to keep in touch with 6th formers

Email is perfectly sufficent and the teacher doesn't get to read all the crap they write on their walls Lol.

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MyCatHasStaff · 01/09/2011 00:03

To me, it's a question of judgement, and I don't think his is great. It all very well for him to say he teaches "young people to be open-minded, respectful, tolerant of others..." but every teacher should be doing that, without having to strip or star in porn movies.

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