Posted on 06/17/2004 7:21:12 AM PDT by esryle
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- When Covington schools Superintendent Jack Moreland saw an advertisement for a Chippendales show, he thought it would be a good morale booster for his female employees. So he shelled out $420 to send 20 female staff members to a Chippendales show to see buff men strip off most of their clothing.
It worked, but it also raised the ire of at least one person, who wrote an anonymous letter to the state Office of Education Accountability accusing Moreland of using school-district funds to pay for the strip show.
Moreland said he spent $420 of his own money for the show - and faxed his personal credit-card receipt to investigators.
"I did it in fun, and they went in fun, and I don't think there was any harm done," he said.
Bryan Jones, a lawyer for the Office of Education Accountability, said he couldn't confirm or deny whether his office looked into a complaint.
The women who attended the show said they enjoyed it.
"We just laughed and laughed and laughed," said Jena Meehan, the superintendent's secretary. "It was a spectacle, to be sure, and to have all of us there was even funnier."
Chippendales is a high-class male revue that became popular in the 1980s. Well-muscled young men wearing bow-ties and bare chests strip to scanty undies for female audiences.
Moreland is the former president of the Council for Better Education, the superintendents group that brought the historic lawsuit that resulted in the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 and its revolutionary reform of Kentucky's public schools.
Yes.
Why was morale low in the first place?
Come on, X, admit it: drunken housewives, steroided guys with orange tans in man-thongs shaking to "Rock You Like A Hurricane," over-priced beer, dingy surroundings.
You're telling me that's not your favorite way to spend a Tuesday night? Geez, what a stiff :-)
Why not?
Let's put it this way, I wouldn't go back to my OB-GYN if I found out he sat at his home computer, even if only once in awhile, looking at pornography.
Why not?
Let's put it this way, I wouldn't go back to my OB-GYN if I found out he sat at his home computer, even if only once in awhile, looking at pornography.
Considering the American public's love of pornography, there is a pretty good chance that your OB-GYN does look at porn, at least once in a while.
"He should have bought them lunch in a fancy restaraunt."
"$420/20=$21.00 "
Or a movie with large popcorn and drink. I think you get free refills. :-)
Sadly, you can't. We are slouching toward Gommorah. But I just find it intesting that those who say, "Don't impose your morals on me" have just imposed their morals, their view of right and wrong back on the rest of us.
Impossible, you can easily tell the difference between a chippendale dancer and chippendale table but what is in the drawers.
I thought that's what you meant. :) BTW, I looked at your homepage. You watch too much Simpsons, LOL! So does my son.
I'm sorry. I swear I didn't hit post 3 times!
One of the top ten sentences you don't want to hear yourself saying - "It seemed like a good idea at the time"
No such thing as too much Simpsons. All of life's answers can be found there.
Excellent point.
My guess is the Superintendent didn't invite them after hours. I bet he invited them while he was on the job acting as Superintendent.
Regardless, he has a supervisory role over these teachers and any interaction with them either in public or private is relavent to the job.
For one thing, (and here comes that nasty double standard!) men in strip clubs looking at women are far more lascivious than women in strip clubs looking at men. It's just a different environment. It's much more social. Were they stripping, they would be in an entirely different situation than being at a male strip club. Besides, I said it was good because it improved THEIR morale, not the morale of others.
Or, according to your thinking, men in speedos and bow ties dancing around is just plain funny...then I suppose you see nothing wrong with male educators who go out & earn some extra income "improving the morale" of female voyeurs. After all, they wouldn't be doing anything sexy. It would just be a "funny" act. And what could possibly be wrong with educators who moon-light as comedians?
The real question is, why do you think you do get to say what people do on their own time? Unless you think their students will be at these clubs, I really don't see what difference it makes. Personally, I don't plan to send my kids to public school primarily because I have _NO_ control over what kind of person the teacher is or what they pass along to my children. It's the bitch of a free society - I won't tell someone else what they can and cannot do when they are not working so long is it doesn't directly affect their job, but I do have the right to decide whether I want to be involved in that system at all.
The presumption that we know the entire moral code of a person by one part of their life is simply ridiculous - I would bet there are plenty of people on this board who are quite conservative parents, teachers or both who have activities they wouldn't ever let on to their children. And so long as it's kept away from the children, it's their perogitive.
Protecting the innocence of children and taking away all the freedom of adults do NOT go hand in hand.
Only if she goes into class and gives a full report of it - some people can keep their personal activities separate from their professional ones.
Of all the things bringing the morality of our youth downward, this is the LEAST threatening thing I have seen in a long time. In fact, it just looks like light-hearted fun. No one brought the kids, showed pics to the kids, told stories to the kids - it was a bunch of ADULTS having their own fun. The point of teaching children morality, IMHO, is so that as adults they can tell the difference between a fun night out and utter depravity, so that they can make decisions that don't harm them as adults. These women are already adults, and didn't do anything harmful. No one is burning in hell for giggling at overly pumped guys in speedos.
FYI, as you seem to have difficulty in your reading comprehension
Moreland said he spent $420 of his own money for the show - and faxed his personal credit-card receipt to investigators.
And it's "LOSE his job"
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