[Jalapeno]

I suspect the teacher wanted the photos discovered. I bet she tipped her students off to them, either directly or indirectly.

[Paleo Conservative]

Pictures?

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Ahem. There are rules about articles mentioning pictures...

[operation clinton cleanup]

The photos came to light as a result of a feud over ceramics equipment with another art teacher

Say what?

[muawiyah]

If it weren't for coeds studying to be primary school teachers art students wouldn't have live models.

[basil]

Good grief! It was about a hundred years ago (more or less) that my dear old Dad warned me to never write down anything that I didn't want the world to see.

I guess his advice is doubly good today---just change it around a bit to include putting anything you don't want the world to see on the interenet.

[Anti-Bubba182]

""People don't realize when they put their entire diary out there, they're giving very private information to the public," said Kate Brooks, director of career services for liberal arts students at the University of Texas at Austin. "You never know what's going to appeal to someone or disturb someone.""

I would think most know the above.

[oceanview]

this idea that your employer can control your private life, is getting out of hand. how long before they start firing people for smoking at home, how about a person that gets a divorce, does that violate a "moral standard" and can someone be fired over that? can a teacher be fired for going to a bachelor party at a stripclub on his private time? where does it end? did she commit any actual crime doing this?

[free_at_jsl.com]

If a teacher can be fired on these "moral standard" grounds, then all the gay teachers should also be fired on the same grounds. There are many people who find homosexuality offensive.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I agree...this is her 15 mins of fame, she will be on Hannity and Oreilly and Larry KIng and try to have a modeling or movie career. she is one stupid woman. Get her out of the schools. what a Maroon!

[mirkwood]

[Cowboy Bob]

The photos, which were posted on Flickr.com by her partner,

Partner, not boyfriend? Hmmmmm...

[ApplegateRanch]

"People don't realize when they put their entire diary out there, they're giving very private information to the public,"

This, too me, is the real issue, rather than the pics themselves.

Anyone too stupid to understand the above quote, who doesn't keep their private affairs, and privates, private, is too stupid to be educating children.

Unfortunately, NEA doesn't allow stupidity or ignorance to be a cause for firing, so it takes an egregious display of idiocy to get the job done.

[Al Simmons]

I'm having a little problem with this - maybe there were truly offensive photos that have been removed, but I saw nothing on that website that offended me.

Methinks its the schoolhouse NAZIs on the rampage again. I guess Christians aren't the only ones targeted.