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To: Dianna
"Just curious, as I am a soon to be teacher, may I (in my own time) enter the Hustler store in Cincinnati and make a purchase for my husband and myself?"

As a teacher, you need to be aware of the influence you have on the kids entrusted to your care. And that influence is not limited to what you do on the clock. Kids will learn and be influenced by what you do off the clock. That's the nature of the profession you have chosen.

The likelihood that anyone knows you entered and purchased something from a Hustler store is probably low, but I would be discreet about it, because while you may be purchasing something that is entirely appropriate within the context of marriage for you and your husband to be enjoying (for example, lingerie), the possibility exists that someone you know is going to see you.

If they do there is a strong possibility that they will gossip (which the bible condemns strongly even equating it to murder) about you. And if they do gossip, it's likely that they are going to associate the Hustler store with Porn.

Thus you have to be prepared for the possibility that your students are going be whispering on the playground that Ms. Dianna likes Porn and goes to Porn shops.

So my advice is, for the sake of your students and your career, if you are going to teach in Cincinnati, don't go to the Hustler store there. Either go somewhere else, or by the items you want from an establishment that doesn't have the same negative association.

And if the Superintendent of Schools invites you and many of your coworkers to go to the Hustler store or to see Chippendales. Polite thank him for the offer and decline and don't go.

190 posted on 06/17/2004 1:19:52 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
So my advice is, for the sake of your students and your career, if you are going to teach in Cincinnati, don't go to the Hustler store there. Either go somewhere else, or by the items you want from an establishment that doesn't have the same negative association.

Wait a minute. It seems that the problem isn't what I actually do, but what people MIGHT say or think. Going to Chippendales is suddenly equivalent to having dinner with a male friend because some people might assume that I am having an affair and say so.

Surely children thinking that I am having an affair is just as damaging to them (I'm not sure they'd care a lot or understand much, frankly)as if I were actually having an affair.

Teachers are to be under the thumb of the small minded gossips? THAT is certainly MORAL.

198 posted on 06/17/2004 1:30:52 PM PDT by Dianna
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