Topless – Jobless
Some people make a fuss about nothing. Just like in this story. So she posed topless online on her own website, what’s the big deal. Loads of people do it. If someone feels comfortable doing that and sees it as art rather than pornography, I really don’t see what the problem is. As long as it’s somewhat tasteful and you can still respect yourself after doing it.
Yes she’s a highschool teacher, yes her students probably have internet and yes they know how to surf online 
. Surely it won’t be the first time they’ve seen a pair of breasts.
I don’t want to see any of the teachers I had in my school period (primary school, high school and college) naked. But if they make a decision and want to do it online on their own website, why not? No one forces you to surf to their site and look at it.
Now they are trying to fire her, for what? Expressing herself in her own time on her own space in a way she feels comfortable. Isn’t that what having a website is all about. I do it all the time; I write what I want, when I want.
Some of you are probably going to bring up the ‘but she’s a rollmodel to our children’ crap. Yes I said crap. She teaches art in highschool and she is somewhat a ‘rollmodel’ to her students but what about the other so-called rollmodels out there. Entertainers such as artists or actors. They get paid a lot of money to take of their clothes (and all of them not only their top!) for magazines and no one speaks bad about THAT. No, instead a lot of people go out and buy the magazines. If you don’t believe me you should check under your brother’s bed or your son’s matrass..
They should stop pretending like she commited a crime. What’s next, punish every tribe woman in Africa because she walks around topless?!
5 Comments on "Topless – Jobless"
Personally I think she shouldn’t have done that. I know that it’s her website and people don’t have to look at it or whatever, but if her students end up finding it (which they will if they know how to surf the net…), then I think action should be taken. It can be art or whatever, but she shouldn’t have put it on the net for everyone to find. Those kid’s parents are gonna want her fired and I wouldn’t want to have a teacher who did that teaching me.
I think they should see it seperately, yes she’s a highschool teacher, but she’s also a person, an individual. She also has the right to express herself.
I really couldn’t care less if a teacher who did that would be teaching me in college or anywhere else. Everyone has their own life to live, for themselves not for anyone else.
It bothers me there are so many double standards in this world. No one makes a problem out of famous people doing it, and they supposedly set an example for kids too.
Like Amanda said, they’re making a mountain out of a molehill(s) .
*sigh… They really shouldn’t fire her.
It’s her personal space AND her body.
If they’re so bothered about it, they can choose NOT to view the pics. After all, it’s all in how each person sees it – or whether they can appreciate art.
im interested to see the pics so i could comment on that issue. hmm.
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That reminds me of Heather of Dooce who posted about her job online. Except that she wasn’t posing topless….but the main thing is, she got fired because of her blog.
Anyway, I think that it’s just making a mountain out of a molehill. I mean, what are the chances the kids would have especially googled “my art teacher topless”? Zero to none IMHO. Now that they’ve made a big deal about it though, the kids are going to especially google for the images. Stupid stupid stupid.