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.
ROFL!!! I don't think attending a Chippendales show is illustrative of indecency or immorality. Now what?
Going to Chippendales is not reckless, in the opinion of many here. Now what?
Plus Tennessee law makes integrity and acts in line with the greater political and cultural environment a mandatory criteria for evaluating teachers. My guess is that most public school systems make morality and integrity a criteria.
My guess is that they wouldn't be that protected. They could certainly be reprimanded.
You said it yourself. It's up to the community to decide.
Just Your Opinion.
Do you really want to get into a community standards battle on which of firearms or male strippers would make teachers morally reprehensible?
Absolutely they do. Nowhere does it say that going to Chippendales is a no-no. The "rules" are very vague and open to interpretation.
IF you were saying that going to Chippendales leads to bad classroom behavior, proven by articles A, B, and C, I could agree with you.
But your argument is that YOU don't approve. That isn't good enough.
As the ONLY representative of the community on this board, let me assure you that no one cares.
No, they are both immoral, but I can only protect my kids from what I know about. The highest moral plane is to love God and to love others.
If you do that and do it well, you would think of the kids and the example you set and you wouldn't go to Chippendales and you certainly wouldn't try to get school teachers to go. And you would fire teachers that don't set a good example for kids. Not because you condemn the teacher but because their acts have made them unfit to teach kids.
Absolutely. Been battling all day. Didn't you notice?
Certainly true. But you might want to be really careful about deciding who is setting a good example. I emphasize to my children that God sees all things. They may avoid my catching them engaging in bad behavior, but God always catches them.
Gosh, all that and Hustler too! Here I was thinking I was a moral sewer...
In your opinion. Got any facts?
Go into the public arena and you are going to be going against Oprah, who will convince everybody you are the dangerous person dissing God.
I never thought you were a moral sewer.
Teaching Kindergarden is a high calling. I do hope you give some thought to (which you probably have already) being the BEST influence you can be instead of just being an acceptable or not bad influence.
In my opinion.
LOL, I can't say I've ever thought of myself as the batty aunt.
"Oprah"
Scary...very scary.
I promise to be a better influence than most of their parents.
The man used his own money, the women went of their own accord...they had a good time.
The idiot complaining is bad, the idiots on this thread acting holier than thou are just as bad.
Maybe even worse.
There were no children there!
These are not nuns, they are adult Americans.
They are as free to attend as they were not to attend.
Thank you. I judge that you are unfit to teach children because you are likely to interfere with the parent/child relationship by trying to impose your religious values on their children.
See how that works?
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