Posted on 11/05/2005 3:23:55 PM PST by wagglebee
Family groups and educators, who breathed a sigh of relief when a teacher who was discovered moonlighting at a brothel was dismissed and de-certified, are shocked to learn that education officials instead helped the woman change her identity and reassigned her to a new school.
And all parties are shocked at reports the woman is still working as a prostitute.
The Queensland, Australia, teacher, in her 30s, was first discovered when another teacher visited a legal brothel and told other teachers. At first, education officials balked at doing anything with the information, saying they considered her a good teacher.
"She could not be fired because, technically, what she was doing was legal," one education insider told the Sunday Mail. "The Government would have been taken to the cleaners for unfair dismissal. The department advised her there were some moral and ethical concerns about her working in the sex industry and asked her to quit her job as a prostitute."
Reportedly, the woman agreed to quit her night job and was transferred to another school, complete with a new identity and a promotion.
The teacher, however, has not stayed in the classroom. Someone contacted the Sunday Mail last week and reported the woman was once again moonlighting at a brothel under the names Tiffany and Candy.
Education Queensland, the authority over the schools, disputes the claim, saying there is "no evidence" she is still working in the sex industry. The brothel, likewise, says it has no prostitutes by those names currently employed, although a Tiffany had worked there the previous year.
Meanwhile, school officials have refused to release any information, even refusing to confirm or deny whether the teacher had been employed there. The schools' website has been edited to remove the contact page for all teachers.
A source told the Daily Mail the principal had briefed the staff about the situation. Concerns over the fact the woman counseled students and supervised them on field trips were voiced, but, the source said, "This bloke from Education Queensland came to the school and told everyone not to say anything about it."
A spokesman for the Australian Family Association criticized the government's lax handling of the situation when it was discovered the first time.
"Teachers are role models and need to uphold standards the community expects," he said. "You cannot moonlight in something that has a community stench and not have some influence on regular life."
Dismissing those concerns, a spokesman for the Queensland Adult Business Association countered that the sex industry employs a cross-section of society.
"It is their personal life ... it has no impact on what job they might be doing."
Nice try : )
"You can't just support rights when they protect the things you like."
That's the best line I've heard here or anywhere else lately.
I thought your government down there demasculanized and disarmed ya'll???
Has something changed?
:P
We do have universal registration and the storage requirements for more powerful firearms are pretty strict, but it's perfectly possible to own a gun if you haven't got a criminal record. There's probably around five to seven million legally held private firearms in Australia, and that's not that bad for a country of only twenty million people.
Like the old joke says, I hadn't had any in so long I didn't know they moved it!
Great news! Thanks for that update...
Uh oh..
"Leave me alone, I'm a family man, and my bark is much worse than my bite.."
*snicker*
(Hall & Oates popped to mind..)
What do they say about owning a .50 caliber? Some of our politicians are nervous about civilians here having them.
Without checking, relying on memory, you'd need an 'E' licence to own a 50 calibre. These are reasonably hard to get. It's not impossible, but while I know a dozen or so people with D licences, I only know one with an E.
(A/B = single shot, C=semi-auto, D=auto, E=special category - roughly at least, it's a bit more complicated than that. A/B is very easy to get, C is reasonably easy, D is where it starts to get hard, and E seems to be really hard.)
1. is she a competent instructor in her school subjects?
2. is there any evidence what so ever that she did anything to corrupt her charges?
if the answer to 1 is yes and the answer to 2 is no (and this does seem to be the case), then folks ought to stfu and get on with their lives.
Who keeps going to the brothel to "catch" her working there??
I'll bet I know why they didn't want to fire her. She might be a very good teacher, but prolly excelled on her 2nd job!!!
Nice to have multi-talented personnel working for you!!!
Back in the early 70’s two women in the ROTC program hooked their way through a local collage. Apparently they both had a sizable military clientele. Upon graduation they were assigned to Fort Eustis. The look on one of their faces was priceless the first day she took over her platoon – and saw a couple of her old customers in the formation.
This is what happens when people compromise on morals - they create more problems than if they'd stuck to their guns on the moral grounds.
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