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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.
Sending female employees to a strip club? This guy is begging for a sexual harassment lawsuit.
This is sex discrimination against the MALE workers who have low morale. They should be treated acoordingly.
They still have this Chippendales garbage? Nothing worse than women trying to act like they are having a good time acting like men. I'd rather clean up cat puke. Never found overly pumped up hairless men with breasts to be sexy. Always seemed very gay to me.
Clearly, the same type of wisdom and perspective that leads one to go to strip shows.
Poor judgement, poor taste. He should have bought them lunch in a fancy restaraunt. That would have worked just as well and not been questionable.
Maybe the superintendent thought it was a furniture show...
We have a saying here in our office....anything can happen in Kentucky...and usually does....
Typical liberal slime bucket that run the public schools.
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
What a hump. The guy paid for it with his own money. If you don’t want to go, don’t go.
Never found overly pumped up hairless men with breasts to be sexy. Always seemed very gay to me.
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Perfect description of my reaction! But perhaps the writer, who descibes such a spectacle as "high class", is of that persuasion.
I believe this qualifies as a "Just DAMN" scenario. Talk about piss-poor judgment.
The guy paid for it with his own money.
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Indeed he did. And he probably did not violate any laws or policies, but the point is that it was wholly inappropriate for women involved in the education of children to be seen at such an establishment. Fair or not, those in education need to hold themselves to a higher standard.
Aside from his choice of career, which is of course that of a fund raiser for a malevolent monopolistic business enterprise, he is a pretty good fellow. WHAT in the world was he THINKING?
I read that the Southern Baptist Convention stopped short of a resoultion asking that their members to remove their children from the public schools. It is rather routine articles like this that give support to such a resolution. In many states more outrageous things than these go unreported.
I agree that it wasn't the greatest idea, but I still say the person who wrote the anonymous letter to try to have him fired over it is a hump. A gutless anonymous hump.
$420/20=$21.00
Yeah, a fancy MacDonald's?
I've noticed a distinct lack of requests for pictures on this thread. Not that I'm asking.
The gay male employee-educators will file suit for not exclusion.
Then the bi-sexual educators will file suit for not being able to view a dual show, male and female.
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