Quote From: kg_aphiI 100% agree with this. Kids are not stupid, by far from it in fact because they have so much more access to information from a variety of ways that were never available even a few years before. These kids knew exactly what they were doing and how much trouble it could get the teacher in in someone read it at face value. They did in maliciously and purposfully and you can't tell me that they didn't know it was wrong.
I've read other comments about how teachers should get out of the job if they can't take the poor treatment and that the kids go through more than they do. How do you know that? everyone was a child/teenager at one point and therefore have had our own problems or have our own problems in life. Don't you dare tell me we don't have heartaches because "we're older" that's bull. As a newly graduated teacher, I chose this profession because I want to be able to relate to the students and make school fun and interesting for them.
Regarding the teacher who made a mistake in her past with the porn movies, that's something she will always have to live with but look at what she's done for herself now. She's got a family and had respect from her school before the past came out. I don't think she should be blamed for something that happened 15 years ago. Everyone grows up and makes mistake that's what life is. I would rather have someone who can say they screwed up and changed their life teach instead of someone who hasn't lived a day in their life and can't relate to what's going on in todays society. There is no need for this poor teacher to have to go through what she has. It's not like she is still doing movies or has for a number of years. There are doctors who were strippers in order to pay their way through school, do we humiliate them, force them out of their job and distrust them with our bodies because of this? NO! It's not illegal to buy or rent these movies if you're of age and therefore even though it's not the most praised job in society it's still not illegal therefore she did nothing wrong.
When I see how educators are treated by society, I drag out my soap box. The person who said teachers should get out if they couldn't take the poor treatment is an example of societies messed up priorities. They will spend every Monday night watching a bunch of muscles crash into each other and it is okay to pay those masses of muscle 3 million a year each, but heaven help the teacher who wants to make enough he or she does not have to moonlight. Many of my friends are teachers and they don't have a full evening with their own children. They are busy with lesson plans and correcting papers. When the class has needs and the funding doesn't cover them, a lot of money comes out of the teacher's pocket.
To the person who made that boisterous remark: A teacher teaches because he or she is an idealist. They sure as h are not doing it for the money. How would you like to make $40,000 a year and put at least 2,000 of that back into your job? How would you like to be treated like a second class citizen? Teachers obviously care more about the kids than their parents do. It is the teacher who tries to instill a love of learning and values into the kids.
Summer comes and the kids get out of school. The teacher has to go back to school for CE's to keep her profession upgraded. Despite what you think, because you didn't even bother to learn what is real and what is not, teachers do not have 40 weeks and summers off.
And to rub salt into the wound, kids are not taught respect for teachers anymore.
Off the soap box now.
Kids across the country are playing pranks and harassing teachers. Tericka, a high school science teacher who loved her job, lived in fear of her scandalous past catching up with her and getting her fired. Students eventually found out about her shocking past and the news spread throughout town like wildfire. Are other teachers taking her side, or do they feel her punishment was justified? How can she move forward? Then, Anna, an assistant principal, was harassed on the Internet when two students created a fake MySpace page alleging to be her. She says they completely attacked her character and need to be held accountable for their actions. Was this just a practical joke gone bad, or were these students out for revenge? Find out what Anna did to show these kids that some jokes just aren't funny. Could the mischief your kids get into end up costing you thousands of dollars? Talk about the show here.
