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In Modesto, California, a high-school teacher received word that her position was being terminated. As if that wasn’t bad enough, now the school is investigating her because she made a crack to her students in response to the news: She said she was going to consider stripping and selling eggs.
According to Salon.com’s “Broadsheet” blog, one 16-year-old student’s parent, Anna Geisen, was responsible for complaining to the school about the comment. She said:
You are in a position of authority. You don’t make comments of that nature, you are dealing with teenagers … teenagers who are very impressionable.
The unnamed teacher may not have a future in education, Tracy Clark-Flory writes, but perhaps she should consider a future in stand-up comedy:
… told in a Janeane Garofalo deadpan, that is one guffaw-worthy line. As with most good comedy, though, it’s funny because it hits on a raw reality: The recession has so many feeling profoundly hopeless — and for women, true economic desperation often means selling our bodies in one way or another.
We don’t know if the teacher was joking or not, but I would have hoped a room full of 16-year-old kids would have been mature enough to handle this kind of straight talk. I know I always appreciated it. Maybe it was mostly mom who didn’t. I’m not a mother, however I can sympathize with wanting to shield your children from the world’s harsh realities. But these are freakin’ teenagers, and she just made someone’s bad situation worse. Maybe a better solution would have been to drop by the school and have a one-on-one chat with teach.
What do you think?
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Well, she already lost her job…
Was it inappropriate for the classroom? yes.
Worthy of a no-future-in-teaching-ever-again reprimand? no.
Mommy dearest is totally overreacting. We had teachers make dirty jokes all the time by that age and it hardly scarred us for life. I think the most traumatic incident was when my sex education teacher got an erection right after he was describing the ways boys might hide them. It was so hard not to stare and not to giggle and he was clearly having a hard time continuing with the class too. We got jokes about porn and strippers. One of my teachers offered to take us to a strip club on the way home from a school trip in senior year. I think he really might have stopped too but we told him we had to get back to get the bus home from school.
It’s stories like this that make my grateful for a lifetime of private religious schools. At very least the teachers rarely said anything to cause a scandal.
Hmm…we had a teacher, who told students that they were retarded and on one occasion said to one guy that he just should jump out of the window (class room was on the 4th floor). Well, and he said a lot of other crap as well.
What this woman did was completely innocent compared to that idiot (and I bet he’s still teaching…in Germany, teaching positions are basically for life and it’s almost impossible to fire someone).
Where do you guys find these photos to accompany posts?
Like beyond this very specific instance, what could this photo have been used for?
Do you guys have a weird current-news-related Clip Art service?
I kinda vaguely remember having a sense of humour at school. We would have said things like that ourselves, not been freaked out if the teacher said them!
I’m not really sure this is a big deal. I’d be feeling pretty disillusioned if I just lost my job.
Guess they really wouldn’t like the story about my husband’s friend getting rolled by a hooker over the weekend.
And yet, my tech comm class loved hearing it this morning.
I think that it was funny. My daughter had a teacher who treated the kids like they were people instead of fragile babies in need of gentle voices. They liked her. A lot. So did I.
Oh big deal, it was a class full of 16 year olds. It’s not like they haven’t already been looking at porn on the internet for 6 years.
When I was in high school, the only teachers I really respected and paid attention to were the ones who were not afraid to relate to us a little.
I’m not saying it wasn’t unprofessional, but given the circumstances, I give her kudos for not using three languages’ worth of swear words. I would’ve.
Who thought it would be a good idea to tell the woman she was fired right before she had to teach anyway? Guess this was a lesson learned in that department.
I’m disgusted with that mother. Who the hell does that? I’m willing to bet money that 100% of those kids have seen movies like Superbad, Scary Movie TV shows like Entourage and Californication. Obviously the teacher’s comments were a bit unprofessional but we’re talking about teenagers who are largely sexually active and very socially aware! This makes me SO ANGRY. I wish I could write a letter to that school and the mother and reprimand THEM. There are SO many other things in this world worse than a crude joke in a classroom. That poor woman did not deserve that.
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I think that the teenagers are 16 and thus old enough to deal with the world. For Christ’s sake, it was just a joke, it’s not like they’ve seen someone die. What do you guys entrusts your kids with?
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