Female Ky. School Workers See Strip Show

AP ^

[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.

[monday]

"Now, in most states, your employer could fire you for engaging in immoral behavior off the job, "

Not unless you have them sign a morals contract first. Of course you could make up some other reason to fire them but if you fire someone for morals they can not only claim unemployment insurance but could also sue you, assuming it was worthwhile.

[Tunehead54]

I believe this qualifies as a "Just DAMN" scenario. Talk about piss-poor judgment.

---

I think this is where to send it ...

Ping! ;-)

[DannyTN]

"If they weren't married, say single and shopping, would that be O.K?"

It wouldn't be ok, because the Superintendent is promoting public nudity.

[TheBattman]

Chippendales is a high-class male revue that became popular.....

Ummmm...anything that involves folks stripping and humping the air to entertain people of the opposite sex can't be classified as "high-class"...

But regardless of the morality of the Chippendale show, the use of school funds absolutely throws this off the deep end. The Jack The Jerk should loose his job. What's the difference between this guy taking/sending his female staff members to a Chippendales show, and a classroom teacher sending their graduating male Seniors (who are 18) to a strip joint?

[monday]

"It wouldn't be ok, because the Superintendent is promoting public nudity."

Strictly speaking, it isn't "public nudity". No one is there without consent. No children are present. Public nudity is illegal.

[monday]

"the use of school funds absolutely throws this off the deep end."

He didn't use school funds. Read more carefully.

[been_lurking]

It wouldn't be ok, because the Superintendent is promoting public nudity.

You wouldn't be a Taliban burka salesman by chance? I hope not, I understand business is way down in that field.

[BlessedBeGod]

This is sex discrimination against the MALE workers who have low morale. They should be treated acoordingly.

They should be sent to a Chippendales show? LOL

[DannyTN]

"You wouldn't be a Taliban burka salesman by chance? "

Oh that's right anybody wanting any semblance of morality enforced in the public arena is instantly equated with the Taliban.

It must really please you when the Democrats go do their nude protest thing. Do you join them?

[Junior]

My, but the prudes are out in force. The money used was private money; no one was forced to go; no one who went complained; and everyone of these folks was an adult.

Of course, we can't have anyone having a good time in a non-prescribed (by the self-appointed guardians of our souls) fashion, can we?

[TheBattman]

I somehow missed that - must have been blinded by my disgust....

Still very inappropriate. And my analogy still applies.

[Junior]

I guess if you get a job as a teacher, you've got to give up having a life, huh? These folks are adults and no one was hurt.

[Xenalyte]

Female Ky. School Workers See Strip Show

If he did it with his own money, and attendance was voluntary, then you GO, girl!

[Xenalyte]

it was wholly inappropriate for women involved in the education of children to be seen at such an establishment.

Not "to be there," but "to be seen" there. So if they'd been in a private room with the dancers, away from the rest of the audience who could ID them, it'd be okay?

[Modernman]

Oh that's right anybody wanting any semblance of morality enforced in the public arena

There was no immorality in a public arena here. In any event, you cannot enforce morality. You can only enforce the law.

[Xenalyte]

I always ask myself, "What would Brian Boitano do if he were here right now?"

[Xenalyte]

No, she will simply validate their value system as the nation continues slouching toward Sodom and Gomorrah.

"Validate their value system"? Ugh. What's the girl supposed to do, adopt all five illegitimate children and take her students to get their tubes tied?

[Modernman]

So if they'd been in a private room with the dancers, away from the rest of the audience who could ID them, it'd be okay?

Look, whatever you choose to do on your nights off is nobody's else's business.

[exile]

I'm not saying this particular incident is going to result in a harassment suit (however, an enterprising goldigger could make some scratch). This guy is just showing an amazing amount of bad taste. He's opening a Pandora's box of problems.

[Xenalyte]

That's what I was asking. Redd's post indicated that their mistake was in "being seen" in the establishment, not necessarily being there in the first place.