Posted on 11/05/2005 3:23:55 PM PST by wagglebee
Family groups and educators, who breathed a sigh of relief when a teacher who was discovered moonlighting at a brothel was dismissed and de-certified, are shocked to learn that education officials instead helped the woman change her identity and reassigned her to a new school.
And all parties are shocked at reports the woman is still working as a prostitute.
The Queensland, Australia, teacher, in her 30s, was first discovered when another teacher visited a legal brothel and told other teachers. At first, education officials balked at doing anything with the information, saying they considered her a good teacher.
"She could not be fired because, technically, what she was doing was legal," one education insider told the Sunday Mail. "The Government would have been taken to the cleaners for unfair dismissal. The department advised her there were some moral and ethical concerns about her working in the sex industry and asked her to quit her job as a prostitute."
Reportedly, the woman agreed to quit her night job and was transferred to another school, complete with a new identity and a promotion.
The teacher, however, has not stayed in the classroom. Someone contacted the Sunday Mail last week and reported the woman was once again moonlighting at a brothel under the names Tiffany and Candy.
Education Queensland, the authority over the schools, disputes the claim, saying there is "no evidence" she is still working in the sex industry. The brothel, likewise, says it has no prostitutes by those names currently employed, although a Tiffany had worked there the previous year.
Meanwhile, school officials have refused to release any information, even refusing to confirm or deny whether the teacher had been employed there. The schools' website has been edited to remove the contact page for all teachers.
A source told the Daily Mail the principal had briefed the staff about the situation. Concerns over the fact the woman counseled students and supervised them on field trips were voiced, but, the source said, "This bloke from Education Queensland came to the school and told everyone not to say anything about it."
A spokesman for the Australian Family Association criticized the government's lax handling of the situation when it was discovered the first time.
"Teachers are role models and need to uphold standards the community expects," he said. "You cannot moonlight in something that has a community stench and not have some influence on regular life."
Dismissing those concerns, a spokesman for the Queensland Adult Business Association countered that the sex industry employs a cross-section of society.
"It is their personal life ... it has no impact on what job they might be doing."
"It is their personal life ... it has no impact on what job they might be doing."
It sounds like they have BJ Klintoon working as their spokesman.
She later admitted that it does employ a disproportionate number of politicians.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Wow, if Clinton had heard about this in the 90s, she'd have really been screwed. I guess it's just as well though, because collected from the likes of him would have resulted in the same thing again.
On the side, on the back, on the belly...
Hooking there is legal just as any other job.
It's the Sex Industry she's working in and paying taxes.
There also is a sex worker Union.
Can't fire anybody for pursuing a second job unless, but she's been evaluated as a good teacher.
OooKaaay. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander and all. No reprimand for the "client". Maybe there is morality in who is on top.
There was a German woman whose story we read a year or so back who was unemployed and was threatened with the loss of her unemployment benefits because she turned down a legal job as a sex worker. I wonder what became of that case.
As a teacher is she opposed to merit pay?
Beat me, whip me, make me divide by a minus one.
Exactly that what I thought. I wonder what happened to him / her??????
Any pictures LOL
I want the square root treatment
Yes, and, frankly speaking as an Australian teacher, I'd be opposed to any efforts to stop her working as a teacher.
I don't agree with her choice of lifestyle, or her choice or a second job, and I would weep no tears if prostitution was criminalised again.
But as it is, she is not doing anything illegal and her activities outside the classroom are her own business until they negatively impact her work.
There are schools here that would object to me as a teacher because I'm a member of the Liberal Party of Australia (which, remember is a conservative party despite its name). There are schools here that would object to me as a teacher because I served in the Australian Defence Force. There are schools here that would object to me as a teacher because I own and shoot firearms and I hunt.
But the law prevents them from holding my personal choices about how I live my life outside of school against me.
She's entitled to the same consideration. You can't just support rights when they protect the things you like.
Now - if she was teaching in a religious school, that'd be different. I think a Catholic school, for example, should have the right to dismiss a sex worker because their activities would be incompatible with the school.
But the same token, I would say a Quaker school - or any school founded on pacifism - would have the right to reject me as a veteran as being incompatible with their belief structure.
But when it comes to state schools - well, the law is what counts.
Mmmm....square root.
and whats that round the world geography quiz?
later pingout...
The teachers here in California are so bad that if she were here, I might even look the other way : )
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