Nothing says 'skank' like a belly piercing AND a tatt above your depilated hoo-haw.
Carly McKinney, a 10th grade math teacher at Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado, has been placed on administrative leave after a local news station found half-naked pics, photos of the 23-year-old smoking pot and inappropriate Tweets under the handle @CarlyCrunkBear on the internet.
I'm going to write this twice so that it will hopefully sink in:
In this day and age, do not allow anyone to point a camera at you if you are in any state of undress because the resulting image will end up on the Internet.
Again, with a little English: IN THIS DAY AND AGE, DO NOT ALLOW ANYONE (NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU THINK YOU TRUST THEM) TO POINT A CAMERA AT YOU IF YOU ARE IN ANY STATE OF UNDRESS BECAUSE THE RESULTING IMAGE WILL END UP BEING WIDELY DISTRIBUTED ON THE INTERNET. THIS APPLIES DOUBLY SO IF YOU ARE FEMALE.
Now, if it happens that you are the one who points the camera at you in a state of undress, then you are so stupid that I really, really hope you don't reproduce and pass your stupid genes on to another generation. If it happens that you are also a teacher — a female teacher of 16-year-old boys, no less — you're probably a candidate for a night of Rehabilitation.
Holy Hell, what an idiot.
The funny thing is, I think it's safe to assume that Carly McKinney probably feels like she's being unfairly persecuted for being a Free Spirit.[
[UPDATE]
Dan reminds us of the sextortion angle.
Dan Collins on February 1, 2013 at 11:08 am said:
And watch out for those sextortionists.
Chris W. on February 1, 2013 at 11:39 am said:
I'd buy that for a dollar.
Starless on February 1, 2013 at 12:12 pm said:
After she loses her teaching job, you might be able to. She's going to have to find some way to pay for her doobies.
jefferson101 on February 2, 2013 at 8:14 pm said:
My Conservative side says that she is a brain dead idiot, and deserves to be fired. OTOH, my libertarian side asks how much of your personal freedom do you have to give up in order to be employed as a Teacher.
I do not approve of her flaunting of her behavior, but even Obama's kids have a right to a private life, according to the Media. I pretty much have to ask how any legal behavior (even if it is perhaps post-facto legal relative to the Pot) should or ought to have an effect on your employment.
I haven't seen any pictures that were NSFW, or any behavior that is not legal where she lives. So, what do we do about things like that?
For The Record: I don't approve of legalizing pot, either, in general. But it's a fait accompli in Colorado, so it's legal there. What did she do that is so disturbing that she should be fired?
Just asking…….
Starless on February 3, 2013 at 7:25 am said:
For one thing, she's supposed to be a role model for her students. How many of her male students noe have her pics on their smart phones for "alone time" purposes and how many female students now got the impression that it's okay to be all skanky because their cool, young math teacher is? For another, more important, thing there's probably a moral turpitude clause in her contract. Even if what she did was technically legal according to state law (and I'd say she was really pushing the envelope there), if it strayed outside "community standards" (which I'm guessing it has) the district has plenty of legal ground to fire her.
On top of all that, what she did wasn't private. It's not like someone hacked her phone, stole those messages and images andthen posted them. She posted those things to Twitter and Facebook herself.
Finally, being 23, I'm guessing she doesn't have tenure yet so she can't dig in her heels and have union lawyers flock around her to protect her. Rule number one for being a public school teacher: if you want to act like an idiot and/or become lazy and incompetent, you wait until after you have tenure. Her failure to understand that alone proves she's not capable of doing the job.
This seems like a pretty good article on the subject.
jefferson101 on February 3, 2013 at 9:47 am said:
Hey…She is being a role model for her students. I suspect, however, that you intend to suggest that she should be a positive role model. If that's a requirement, they need to fire about 75% of the teachers in this country.
I surely don't disagree that she's as dumb as a box of hair, but what's next? Some teacher posts pictures of themselves at the shooting range and gets fired? I have a concern when legal activities that someone disapproves of can get you fired. There are a whole lot of worms in that can that have nothing to do with drugs or alcohol.
Starless on February 3, 2013 at 10:22 am said:
I suspect, however, that you intend to suggest that she should be a positive role model.
I stand (sit, actually) corrected.
Some teacher posts pictures of themselves at the shooting range and gets fired?
Does that activity violate community standards and constitute moral turpitude?
My dad was a teacher from the '60s through the '90s and that was an issue which was important enough that even I knew about it as a kid. He knew that if he fucked up outside of school and it got back to the community he served that it would jeopardize his employment status. If he ever encountered students or parents outside of school, he automatically went into Teacher Mode. It was about professionalism,
Maybe it's an unfair standard, but it's a fact of life for teachers, has been for basically ever, and if you enter the profession unaware of that fact then you have failed to properly inform yourself about what you've gotten yourself into.