As a cheerleading coach myself I would want to know alot more about this case.  Was this long ago, recently and how revealing are the photos????  Has she done anything else inappropriate with the girls or give them reason to question her character???  Has she otherwise been a good role model.  Pretty obvious she is an attractive woman. 

How long has she coached?  What background checks were done prior to her hire? Is she a good coach and run a good program up top this revelation??

The issue I have speaking as a coach..would these girls or parent have done this if those girls had made the squad???  Sour grapes???! Retribution?…..just plain meanness?  

I’m not sure those are not the kind of girls or parents I would want on my squad either… given their method of dealing with their dissappointment.

Shame on the mothers for not dealing with this in a more professional way with the administration, coach in a proper civilized manner.. !

In my district,  teachers refuse to coach the program..(takes too much time they think they are already overworked and underpaid).

If it were not for volunteer coaches many of our programs would be eliminated….. some need to pick their battles with care…..they may win the battle but lose the war!

This could actually be turned into a good teaching opportunity for her girls…especially ones that respect her for the job she does.

I am on the fence on this one…I know teachers have lives outside of teaching and to be fired b/c of that life when she is not hurting any of the girls she is coaching or teaching…I dont think posing nude for playboy shows low self esteem…if you have the body and want to show it that is your choice.  I think its wrong these girls were so upset they didnt make the team they had to go and ruin this woman’s career. 

I truly hope once these girls grow up they can look at themselves in the mirror and truly say what they did was right in tattling on this teacher.  How would they feel once they get to college and need money so they are offered posing nude for a large sum of money, they take it, and then it comes around and bites them in their butts. 

I totally agree that if they had made the squad they probably would not have done this.  Yes, teenage girls are very vicious and vindictive.  The parents should have talked about to the coach before going to such lengths to defame her.  It didn’t turn out well for the mother who helped her daughter with cyberbulling which resulted in the death of a young girl.  What kind of parents are raising their children today.  I might be a little old school but I would have requested a meeting first.  What kind of example are you setting for these girls; I WAS TOLD NO, SO I MUST DESTROY THE PERSON WHO TOLD ME NO.  What happened to CORE VALUES?!?!?

As far as posing nude, I see nothing wrong with showing off what you got if you are comfortable with doing it.  I think you have a lot of self esteem and pride in yourself.  Adam and Eve were naked and comfortable with it until they were told otherwise. 

 

My opinion, yes, they should be fired. But I would offer up the caveat of whether or not the teacher was required to sign a morality clause to her employment contract. If she did, a resounding yes.

If you are in a job that requires you to be entrusted with youngsters (teens), what you do by night can not and should not blend into your day to day life. Anything that could be a distraction or cause controversy for the school, fellow teachers or students, needs to be taken into consideration.  A woman who poses nude and those images are online or in print, a woman who works as a dominatrix, does phone sex, belongs to a swingers club (that has photos posted online) all of these acts can and are distractions.  Young women and men who have seen their teacher nude, in a sexual manner….but in the class or gym they are suppose to separate that vision and go back to seeing her as strictly Ms. Christine…..yeah right.

Women who think they can do these things in their private lives with the thought in the back of their minds that their students may stumble across them, yet expect to go on as if that realization should not affect their teacher/student relationship are naive. It will, how could it not?

So, should she be fired? Yes. And as a side thought, if this was an incident of a gay male teacher who poses online for other men nude, I would believe almost every woman on this blog site would agree he would need to be fired. It’s the same thing ladies…..

I could be on the fence about this but I’ll go with this:

If there was an ethics clause then yes, she should have been let go. 

Otherwise, leave her the h*ll alone. She’s young, attractive and obviously smart. I’m assuming that prior to this little revenge binge from the girls and the parents of the girls who "couldn’t cut it" that it was a non-issue and if there was no morality clause it should have remained that way. 

The girls and specifically their PARENTS should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. How very "mature" of them…

It’s a real strange day when I agree with both SJ and Belinda, but I do.  This woman is way too young, emotionally at least,  to be entrusted with impresionable teenaged girls. And, as a woman who has been teaching since the early 70’s , I would be the first to agree that teachers are entitled to their private lives.  Throughout history, we can find examples of narrow minded school board members and parents attempting to dictate to teachers on the way they should conduct themselves. 

When I first started teaching, and this is no joke, unmarried female teachers who did not live at home or share an apartment with a female roomate were talked about and deemed to be, in all probability, tramps. Young teachers have every right to conduct their lives as they see fit, within the constraints of the law.

Having said that, the question then becomes, would I want a child of mine, or any child for that matter, to be taught by someone who thinks it’s all right to pose nude for money?  As SJ pointed out, so aptly, it all comes down to a woman’s value system, and what she is willing to do for money.  And, the answer is no.  I do not think a woman who thinks it’s perfectly ok to trade on her sexuality for money or fame or anything else is an appropriate role model for kids. 

Also, and in closing, the fact that she did pose nude  demonstrates to me that she did not give one rip about the effect on her students’ psyches and, as Belinda pointed out, the confusion they might have felt after witnessing pictures of their teacher nude.  Yuck!  Even as adults, I challenge anyone to conjure up a mental picture of their junior high school gym teacher ‘nekkid’ and not get edgy about THAT  mental picture. 

Fire her and hire someone who really wants to coach kids, not just make money til her big break comes alone.