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They didn't go strip for money, they went to watch a campy strip show, which is exactly what Chippendale's is, whether they take themselves seriously or not. Women dancing naked may be sexy, but men in speedos and bow ties dancing around is just plain funny. They didn't take pictures and show the kids, they didn't go home with the strippers, they just went to a show and had fun. I don't have any problem with that at all. Perhaps this guy didn't show the greatest judgement, but it sounds like the teachers had themselves a good time, which improved their morale, which can only make them better teachers, not worse.

Of course they didn't go strip for money, but according to your logic, what would be wrong if they did (as long as they meet your bottom line of "improving 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?

Of course they didn't go strip for money, but according to your logic, what would be wrong if they did (as long as they meet your bottom line of "improving the morale of others")?

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.