Last Friday, a school teacher at Isabelle Jackson Elementary School in Elk Grove, Northern California gave her 24 students a DVD of class memories as they went off on summer vacation. The children were recorded sharing stories. By accident, a six second segment of her having sex on a couch was included. Although originally asked to return the recordings, a spokesperson for the school system has asked that parents now destroy them.
This is the height of bad judgment and incompetence. Who knows what damage she did or might still do. I feel sorry for her, but my concern is mostly for the kids.
http://www.egusd.net/Jackson/index.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31717690/ns/us_news-weird_news/?GT1=43001
This brings up the question about the type of people to whom we entrust our children. It sounds as if there shall be no reprimand against the teacher. But, is not the violation of innocence a type of abuse?
Okay, it was an accident, and if she is married then she is entitled to relations with her husband, but is it moral to video record such intimacy?
If not married, then she is both sexually permissive and into sexual voyeurism. Years ago, such an event would cost the teacher both her good reputation and her job.
I suspect the school board would have done better to insist upon the return of the DVDs and to personally orchestrate their destruction. Potential future scandal is real. What if a depraved parent puts the video online or seeks to profit from it? What about the possibility of blackmail? This teacher has made a nightmare scenario for herself.
Her name has been withheld, but what about the good name of the other forty-five to fifty women who work at her school. Parents will talk and so all the immediate parents and their families will know about it. Everyone else will look at the school roster and wonder, which woman is it?
How can these kids ever look at their teacher again in the same way?
THINGS HAVE SURE CHANGED FROM THE DAYS OF LEAVE IT TO BEAVER! IF THIS GAL WAS HIS TEACHER, AND HE SAW THE VIDEO, I THINK HE WOULD HAVE DONE BEST TO CLIMB A TREE AND STAY THERE!
I am kind of wondering if there is an angry boyfriend, or husband, that “helped” the mistake to happen.
This is why I’m so obsessive about quality control.
Forgive her. And get on with life.
Maybe it is part of a trend?
February 2008
A Granby High School teacher (Norfolk, Virginia) used a cell phone to send photos of herself in various stages of undress to students. 24-year-old Natasha L. Sizow of Virginia Beach was arrested and charged with two counts each of indecent liberties and use of a communications device to facilitate crimes against children.
October 2008
A sexy German teacher in her 20’s put on her own x-rated “high school musical” when she performed a spontaneous saucy strip at a start of term party. She was supposed to be supervising the 15-year-old pupils when she striped down to her underwear at the school in Hungary. It was only another teacher intervening which stopped her going further, much to the disappointment of whopping students.
May 2009
(South Wales) Jane Moyle, 44, a primary school teacher, is understood to have resigned from her job immediately after rumours spread about an intimate film which portrays her with her husband Colin, 49, enjoying what have been described as “sex games” with scenes involving costumes. The video appeared on the Internet. Her husband has been on sick leave for several months from his post as a law teacher at a secondary school.
Observations
Seems like there is a lot of bad judgment going around. Those who would deliberately expose themselves to children commit a criminal act. This seems like something else. But will the teacher ever be able to get beyond it? Even if she moves, the story has gone international.
By the way, the news has released the name of the 29 year old woman. The secret is out. She teaches 5th grade. But CBS says she will probably not lose her job.
What is interesting is that the news media got a copy of the DVD-R and have posted censored pics. I suspect someone sold it to them. If you ask me, that is the truly IMMORAL person. Parents were asked to destroy the DVD.
It seems that the poor girl made a legitimate mistake. She has a right to her sex life and privacy. If she and her lover like to keep a record, is that not their business?
Thank you for a forum to discuss such matters without foul pictures or obscenities.
I question the morality of anyone who feels the desire to “record” their acts of intimacy- married or not. A loving act of intimacy is not one meant to be watched and rewatched- who knows, maybe with popcorn? To me- it’s another form of pornography, plain and simple.
Oh my goodness. What kind of people are in charge there?
Although I will admit to my own children catching their teacher kissing their principal upon occasion. ;) They haven’t asked me to stop kissing their dad yet, so they must not be too scarred.
Why do people feel the need to video tape
their sex acts. Don’t they realize that they will have to one day render an account of their sinful actions.
I thought that the marital act was sacred.
The “woman caught in adultery” (John Ch 8) all over again!!
Woman is no one here to condemn you?
Go and sin no more.
Great catch EddieL!
Some of your readers may be interested in reading this article about permissiveness, described as “liberal 2″. Liberal 1, or the traditional meaning of the term, is about tolerance (although I must say the current use of this word too makes me wince), equality under the law, willingness to consider the other point of view, etc. How it turned into a licence for smut of every imaginable variety, is up for speculation but those who lived through the 50’s know there were sensible limits then put upon “freedom”.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/july/31.54.html
The point about this article (and it hits home for me since I have been living among different cultures): DECENT people anywhere abhor the so-called values of Liberal 2. But the confusion comes straight from the idiot box that presents American culture as being irreverent, blasphemous, smutty and foul mouthed.
Now that Hollywood values are so prevalent, it is no surprise that they are being acted out in schools.
More and more, though, people are getting fed up and want to take back their society and clean it up for their kids.