Supreme Court to hear teacher porn issue (WI Teacher Union Fight)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 12/11/06 | Tom Kertscher

[gb63]

He could do a Bill Clinton -

"I never had sex with that computer!"

[Dixie Yooper]

Good Ole Anna Nicole. I used to watch her show. One of the dumbest things on TV, but it was like a train wreck getting ready to happen. I had to keep watching to see how much worse it could get.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

this guy probably has a really freaky fetish and the school board and union DO NOT want it to be known publicly what sort of a teacher they had been exposing the kids to

[Dixie Yooper]

For 67 seconds, it could have been the results of a Google search gone bad.

[July 4th]

That's public money going to make trial lawyers rich, who will then invest in liberal causes to raise taxes and repeat the cycle.

Wrong side. That's money that the Cedarburg School Board has paid to a reputable corporate and education defense firm that's trying the case against the union.

[gb63]

I use Firefox also. A jpg on this forum opens within fractions of a second. However, many of the jpgs available in binary groups range from 200,000 to 500,000 bytes or more. They may take from 1 to 3 seconds each.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The article keeps referring to "the teacher's computer".
Is not the computer the property of the school?
If so, the teacher should have no legal right to be able to deter the school from doing as it pleases with the computer or any data contained on the storage devices.

[lesser_satan]

Ridiculous. Anything he downloads using the taxpayers' machine, bandwidth, and time is de-facto public information.

[jdm]

I missed your earlier post. 'Duh' on my part. Makes sense now!

[em2vn]

If he's a union member the union is required to represent him or face a law suit. How strongly it represents him is another matter.
If he was a non-union member working for a school that was represented by a union the union would also be required to represent him.

[sbMKE]

Truth of the matter is the more the guy talks, the more it's becoming evident that he's lying about his "only 67 seconds" of porn surfing at school. I'm assuming the 1,500 number is being floated to bolster public opinion against the guy in the face of the "one simple mistake" crowd. A mistaken wrong turn on the web (say to whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov) can land all sorts of ugly stuff on your work computer, sure, but 1,500 images takes a long time regardless of how you "stumble onto it."

The problem this case underscores is that teachers in these parts (and I assume most) don't get fired for anything they do. And with the government's virtual monopoly on education, parents have no choice regarding teachers - whether they be porn surfers, agendists of any stripe or just plain incompetent.

[Erasmus]

She's a piece of work of art.