"We are outraged!"
Posted on 10/10/2007 11:16:44 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
A You Tube video featuring a Williams Field High School teacher dancing in front of her class is causing controversy in the district.
Somebody using a recording device captured Christina Mallon, a cheer coach and Humanities/English teacher, performing a cheer dance in front of her Gilbert class.
The You Tube video, called WFHS Humanities Class, does not explain why Mallon was performing the dance or what the circumstances were, but students are worried their teacher's job could be in jeopardy.
At least one You Tube comment indicated the viewer thought the dancing was inappropriate for inside a classroom.
School officials told ABC15 a teacher is on paid administrative leave, but they would not say which teacher or why.
Meanwhile, students say Mallon has been absent from class and cheer practice.
ABC15 tried to contact Mallon, but she did not return our calls.
She looks like she has school spirit.
Very ridiculous.
Unless there's another "something" to the story about which we'll be reading soon, having to do with a more intimate sort of dancing.
There is no reason I can see why any school district would legitimately suspend a teacher performing such a thing in class.
Those are idiotic administrators.
"We are outraged!"
Unless a pole was involved, what is the problem?
If “cheer dancing” is inappropriate at the school, why do they have a “cheer dancing” team and coach?
A warning is all that is needed, a teacher has to watch what they do all the time.
Is she dancing in her English class? Sorry, that’d fall under the category of “things she’s not paid to teach” and I’d support her suspension, same as if she were conducting an anti-war speech in front of her class.
“...I’d support her suspension, same as if she were conducting an anti-war speech in front of her class.”
Many English teachers make anti-war speeches all the time and never get suspended. The don’t get suspended for tossing in a DVD of Shakespeare in Brooklyn instead of actually working. If one has a class full of under-motivated slugs for 50 minutes one can shift gears once in a while. The suspension is silly.
Maybe they wouldn’t be unmotivated if the teacher taught instead of dancing or showing dvds.
I disagree, she should have enough maturity to know which class is which.
Wrong class, that's what they have lesson plans for. You know math is taught in math class, English is taught in English class, history is taught in history class, and cheer leading is taught at cheer leading is coached after school. Simple!
PERFECT PICTURE! ROTFLMturbanOFF!
No class does nothing but its subject every time, all the time. Everyone knows that much time in school is spent on socializing and other ephemera. When I was in high school, cheerleaders would come into classes on Fridays and do cheers. On Valentine’s Day, there would be singing telegrams and deliveries of flowers or balloons.
So unless she did this all the time, or the specific activity was beyond the bound of taste (cf. my original post), then I don’t see the problem.
Maybe it was the quick little simulated sex part near the beginning?
Teachers normally aren’t supposed to do that.
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