Florida teacher fired over bikini photos

[MaineDolFan]

She's pretty freakin' hot, too.  Something about that tattoo on her shoulder slays me.  SMART & hot chick with tattoos.  Sign me up.

Semi NSFW.  No nudity, you just don't want your boss over your shoulder when you open the link.

Story and pics here:
http://a11news.com/70/tiffany-sheppard/

News cast video & interview with teacher here (safer):
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/05/01/pne.teacher.fired.cnn[


Maine side note -- at least she wasn't sleeping with any of her students!

[StL FinFan]

Doesn't everyone have pictures of themselves in a swim suit in some way shape or form?  BTW- the links are not working for me so I can't see the actual pictures. 

[Sunstroke]

Man, no links there...talk about a tease!!

[MaineDolFan]

FIXED!

[Brian Fein]

Holy wow.  She took some pictures in a bikini?  HOW DARE SHE?!

She didn't pose nude, not in Playboy, didn't make a porn and post it on YouTube, didn't molest a student, didn't even show her bikini photos to her students.

But she's fired for taking photos in a bikini?

Pussification of America at its finest.

[StL FinFan]

2 questions, 1 statement

1) Did she actually work topless on the boat?  I can see where the school would have a problem with that.

2) What's with the tramp stamp?

3) Someone wrote in the comments that she was  "blessed with major-league hooters".  Um .. okaaaay ... I am woman and I can tell those came from a plastic surgeon, so unless the surgeon is also a member of the clergy, there was no blessing going on.

modified to add: I have no problem with women getting implants if it makes them happy. 

[Philly Fin Fan]

Something tells me there is a lot more to this story that we don't know about. Sounds like she is using the pictures as a way of defending herself ("I was only fired because of the pics"). She says other teachers missed more work than her, but what kind of a job was she doing when she was there? Were all of her students failing? Did students complain they weren't learning in her class?

[CF DolFan]

Something tells me there is a lot more to this story that we don't know about. Sounds like she is using the pictures as a way of defending herself ("I was only fired because of the pics"). She says other teachers missed more work than her, but what kind of a job was she doing when she was there? Were all of her students failing? Did students complain they weren't learning in her class?

Exactly Philly.  I had to find it but I heard it yesterday. She was fired for missing 30+ days of work. She did get some good advertising off of her story though.

http://www.wftv.com/news/16103271/detail.html

Teacher Says District Fired Her For Scantily-Clad Charter Boat Job

POSTED: 7:49 am EDT May 1, 2008
UPDATED: 11:09 am EDT May 1, 2008


PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- A Florida teacher says she's out of a teaching job because of her second job.
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Tiffany Shepherd worked at Port St. Lucie High School and Smokin' em Charters, a fishing boat known for having scantily-clad women.

Shepherd said she thought the district was under the impression that she worked there topless, but Shepherd says she always wore a bikini.

The district said Shephard was fired because she missed more than 30 days of work.

[CF DolFan]

What would you learn in her class other than not to stand up?

 

[bsfins]

After watching the Video,they talk about the moral turpitude clause in her contract...
but as stated earlier,they fired her because of her excessive absences.....(as CF mentioned)
This is another supposed to be shock story....

I don't find her attractive....The only picture,I'd have a problem with my child seeing if she was my child's teacher....Would be the one where she's grabbing her breasts....The other pics, I could say (as she says) You see worse at a day at the beach....

[Dave Gray]

I can't say anything about this specific case, but Ms. Dave is a Florida teacher, and she's told me in the past that they have to sign some kind of decency clause.

It seems really vague to me, and that you can pretty much be fired for whatever, as words like decency are up to interpretation.

I don't like when a job tries to police you when you're off the clock, especially when they are legal activities.  If you want to teach kids, then do porn on the night-shift, by all means, go ahead.

[stinkfish]

I wish that I had a teacher that looked like her. Only Nuns for me.

[Guru-In-Vegas]

Pussification of America at its finest

This statement gets thrown around here a lot.  What I get from this is that its going from bad to worse.  From what I can see its just remnants of the family values bullshit and "let's keep everything moral" mentality from decades ago.  America has been pussified and would like to remain that way, hence, our extremely hot teacher firing.

[stinkfish]

^I hope you don't think of me as pussified, but I think that family values and morality are kind of good, and important for society.

[Brian Fein]

So is that to say that no one should ever hire relatively attractive females as teachers?  Only nasty, ugly old ladies, or men?  Because someone's bound to find a picture of a young hot girl in a bikini that she took at some point in her life.

Guru- what I meant by that statement was probably more eloquently expressed by Dave's statements.  What she does off the clock is her business, as long as she does her job from 9 to 5 (or 8 to 2:30, in this case).  I have a problem when people start bringing extra-curricular activities into question where they don't belong.