High school teacher fired just because he took students to strip club

The Daily Caller ^ | 10-24-2013 | Eric Owens

[Steely Tom]

Was that wrong?

[null and void]

If it had been a gay strip club he’d still have his job.

[GeronL]

just because?

He should be in prison

[Wiggins]

He was just teaching chemistry. LOL.

[camle]

if ya hafta ask....

[null and void]

Were we in a just world, yes.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

So, as he should be.

He’s a moron.

[Buckeye McFrog]

hmmm....back when I was in school, in the throes of puberty, with my hormones awakening....where WERE all these male teachers who would take you to strip bars, and all these female ones who would sleep with you?

Just born too soon I guess.

[MinuteGal]

Oh, lookah
The teach with the hookah
Is now a crook-ah
Throw at him the bookah

Leni

[donmeaker]

I went to a strip club once. The hamburgers were very good. The buns were even better.

[Uncle Chip]

just because ...

It's called contributing to the delinquency of a minor and he should be in jail for it -- not just fired.

[a fool in paradise]

"Was that wrong?"

One way to boost school attendance among seniors.

[TurboZamboni]

He was also a volleyball coach and a sponsor of many after-school activities.

I'll bet.

[a fool in paradise]

Lechien also faces a trio of counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Is that law still enforced? Lock up the heads of Planned Parenthood.

[a fool in paradise]

Doesn’t sound like any minors attended the strip joint. Strip joints around here these days don’t even offer nudity.

Possible charges are supplying beer/liquor to those under 21 and tobacco to those under 18.

He associating with students was improper but hardly the type of scandal the NEA has been good at terming “isolated incidents”.

[Alex Murphy]

A chemistry teacher in northwest Indiana has been fired and criminally charged because he allegedly ferried a group of students to a strip club and gave them beer and hard liquor inside his home. The sacked teacher, Travis Lechien, had taught for a decade at Hanover Central High School in the exurbs of Chicago, reports local NBC affiliate WMAQ. He was also a volleyball coach and a sponsor of many after-school activities. Lechien, 32, had been suspended without pay since Sept. 10 before he was fired. Previously, the school board had refused to accept his attempt to resign.

That reminds of this story:

Students at La Salle University in Philadelphia say exotic dancers were part of a professor's extra-credit symposium on business ethics....Students say the dancers kept their clothes on. Sophomore Brad Bernardino tells WPVI-TV that one dancer gave a lap dance to assistant management professor Jack Rappaport....Students say they have a new teacher.
-- from the thread Exotic dancers perform at Roman Catholic La Salle Univ., for business ethics class

[a fool in paradise]

And if we take into account the “near legal age” argument that is used for tolerating sex with a person below the legal age, then the drinking and smoking are no big whoop.

[Salvation]

He doesn’t know the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety and fear of the Lord.

Not a wise move on his part to expose students to this.

[Mastador1]

He was just teaching chemistry. LOL.

I think he went over the line when crossed into the biology teachers realm. You have to stick to your own subjects.