Teachers Suspended After Performing Lapdance at School

Teachers need some education on how the information age works. If kids think it's worth watching, it will end up on the internet. Also the parents are over reacting, there are far worse things on the internet you child has already seen.

Overreacting? That kind of behavior by teachers is NOT appropriate. Just because there are worse things out there doesn't make it okay. And not all 14 year old kids have parents who let them see smut on the internet.

Just the tiniest bit of common sense would have served these teachers well. There is a big difference between kids watching something they know they shouldn't on the internet and watching something that has been condoned by their authority figures.

AMEN Jen.

I'm tired of this 'you're square and you don't get it' excuse. I don't care what time period we live in now compared to before.

Having teachers do something like this is neither cool, funny, or hip.

Oh dear!

As an educator myself - I am torn here. This pair were dumb (and dumber to imagine that the kids here were without immediate access to social media).

On the other hand, they don't look much older than the kids themselves. I have never thought it a good idea to go straight from university to teacher training and then back in to school. The gap is not wide enough in terms of years, between the students and the teachers. The school should take a long and hard look at their recruitment policies for teaching staff.

The gap between the ages of the people involved her is plenty wide enough for the experience of five or six years to lead to inappropriate displays of course. Perhaps not too wide for group behaviour to be dictated by the many rather than the few.

I hope that this leads to constructive debate about the entry age for teachers in to High School education. Perhaps it is better (as I believe) for people to work in the 'real world' for a few years to get a better idea about who are the children and who are the teachers - and then consider education as a career.

It is - as is shown here - fairly easy to allow the moment to go to far - and then infantilisation in this case follows but with the unfortunate addition of all too adult knowledge - and then the completely inappropriate behaviour.

I do hope that the pair are not banned from teaching for life, however. Rare is the person who does not have some truly embarassing memory from their teens or mid twenties. Or perhaps at any time in life. They may yet have something to offer the world of education - even if it is a future of condoms and bananas.

If schools like this insist - as they obviously have - in employing extremely young teachers (extremely cheap and move on before they accrue many benefit rights) then they must expect this.

I say this with a semi apology to those young teacheres who cut the mustard - but must then feel bound to pursue my own question as to why they would want to rejoin the world of children so soon after leaving it.

The final responsibility for this lies almost as much with the school as with the pair of idiots who chose to go back to high school so soon after they left it.

Oh - and sorry for the typos - this was done quickly. If I had been at work.... :-)

It's in poor taste and inappropriate but I wouldnt be that upset if they were my kids teachers. I might have to pull out the ol' "Im not mad just disappointed" line on these two. Im willing to bet a lot more provocative dancing happens at this school's prom.

I wonder how nobody thought a simulated sex act, even if relatively tame, in front of the student body might not be the best idea.

Up there in Canada, ya' know, eh, they git the cabin fever 'bout this time 'o year...they just have 'ta let loose a little, and could blame them ?

Ahh, now that I actually saw the video, yeah, it's pretty bad. The oral act was stupid. I still stand by my belief that your kid has already seen worse, but as far as conduct regarding their job roll, it was unprofessional. My mistake.

Plain stupid. That's what it is. Understandable on the part of these 2 teachers in the spur of the moment, but still moronically stupid- Most kids have mobile phones that can send recordings straight to their social sites and everyone should know by now that anything out of the ordinary hits the internet within about one human's heartbeat and is reviewed and commented on within about 5 human breathes... To forget that is beyond stupidity.

...But I wonder if these teachers should be suspended for that- I would rather say that they deserve a good very public shaming by all the parents and by their collegues and televised on the internet and that not only they, but all the teachers should be sent to some awareness-course to prevent them from doing similar stupidities in the future.

I understand the teachers may have been trying to get a rise out of the students, but that is no reason to act like a hormonal 14 year old.

If it happens in public, and is worth watching it's gonna end up on YouTube or on a file sharing site.

I'm suprised they were just suspended, I'm sure I would have been fired at my workplace.

You know, what they did was unprofessional and really kind of dumb. They should be role models and set good examples for their students.

However, if it is so bad, and it does "corrupt the youth" so much... Why is it being publicized on almost every network news program?

I'm getting tired of the moral-police saying, "Look at this horrible thing!" and then showing it to us.

I think they should have been suspended for the act, but then the student should have been suspended for taping and posting to YouTube. And the networks that are putting this on their 6AM, 5PM, and 6PM news shows should be ashamed of themselves for what amounts to a boat-load of hypocrisy.

Things happen...Yes in the name of fun and trying to raise much needed money for the school, both teachers should have used better judgement. There is know need for them to lose their jobs. You tube is enough.

They are good teachers. The male in the video really went to far... but then again.. Over half of TV shows the same thing.. Simply put the teachers should have put their thinking caps on.. as far as the students..
trust me....they see sexual realted images on TV every day including in cartoons.

Ummm. I can't remember seeing any teacher of mine pretend to lap dance and perform cunnilingus on another teacher. If it were just the dance, I would be more forgiving.

These two should be fired for unprofessional conduct. There are way too many professionals looking for work to keep these two idiots on the payroll.

Everyone say's that the kids have seen worse, yes I'm sure they have, but they are not supposed to see anything of this nature from professional educators or so called! Teachers are supposed to be good role models and set standards for the youth. They are not supposed to try and be cool, try to fit in with the kids, try to be the most popular (their high school days and drama are already over, it's time to get serious), and they most definitely shouldn't perform lap dances or display any sexual acts in front of anyone much less at a high school pep rally where they are the adults that people are supposed to take seriously. What has the world become? If they feel the need to do things like this together they should just hide out in the janitors closet together or more appropriately leave their workplace and get a room!