Support Our Teachers
OK people, it’s time to stop talking about the Teacher Lap Dance that went down (no pun intended) at Churchill High School during Spirit Week. I don’t have all the details, mostly because I don’t care, but I have seen the video, and quite frankly I don’t see what all the commotion is about?
A couple of teachers got carried away during a dance competition during Spirit Week. They did a little dirty dancing that was too provocative given their rank in society. For that moment they forgot they were teachers and acted just like everybody else. For that you think they should be punished? What if it was students performing the same dance? Do you think it would be international news? What if it was footage outside of school? What is the difference?
My wife is a teacher and she won’t have a beer at the Moose Game. Her philosophy is “24 Hour Teacher” and that is one extreme. Another teacher I know is covered in piercings and tattoos and likes to party. Does that mean when he is at school he is influencing his grade fours to go out and get tattoos?
Today I went to 7-11 near Glenlawn and there were a bunch of kids hanging out in the parking lot. On the way back to the car I noticed a large penis had been drawn in the dirt on my driver side mirror. Some kids were laughing at it as did I. It was obviously drawn on there the last time I was out with my stupid friends. If I were a teacher pulling up to school with a big dick on my car should I be worried what people think. It’s inappropriate but should I be fired? Is it because of the dick or is it because teachers should not drive dirty cars? Does that send the wrong message? Do you think we are overthinking this a bit much?
Is it the parents raising all the stink? They think their kids might be influenced by some kind of provocative dance? Hope your kids don’t watch TV? Hope they weren’t glued to the Olympics watching all those genitals on skates bump and grind each other. Those female skaters with their little skirts flying in the wind for everyone to see. The men in those tight pants trying to show off the very last bit of their manhood and dignity that hasn’t been stripped away by the sport. Climbing all over each other like sweaty monkeys in heat and then judged for their efforts.
You tell me which is more provocative:
DIRTY. AMAZING HOW SOMETHING CAN LOOK TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT.
I saw the teacher video and I tell you there was nary a twinge compared to how horny I get watching the couples skate.
Parents need to give their kids some credit. I know Churchill starts at grade seven so lets start there. In grade seven I was watching Madonna on Video Hits and thinking about what I would like do to her on the banana seat of my two wheeler. Flipping through a VOGUE magazine at the Doctors office made me weak in the knees. I used to race my sister home from school so that I could pull to Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up” video on our VHS. I think the song was 4 minutes long and I never got past the first verse. That was before the internet! Nowadays if you think a little sexy dance between two (fully clothed) influential people is going to push your kid over the sexual horizon you had better order the plans for your own tinfoil balloon and hide them in the attic. Another option might be to find some time when your boys are not playing violent video games or your girls out shopping for provocative clothing to have a little talk.
Last year it was the poor gay teacher who was reprimanded because he had a picture of him and his husband on his desk. I think it was a grade seven class parent who was offended by this when his son came home and had some questions. Instead of just treating that teacher like a person it became a big scandal. He was asked to remove the picture, kids were moved to other classes, and I don’t even know what became of the teacher. Now what do you think that grade seven classroom learnt? Maybe we should leave the teaching to the teachers, it seems to work better.
Are we that desperate for media? Do we need more to bitch about than the weather and the rising cost of gasoline? One headline I read printed in bold letters “TWO TEACHERS ACTING VERY UN-TEACHERLIKE”. Good one. Maybe instead of good teachers losing their jobs the news should weed out a few of the weak themselves.
In fact I read this article and something tells me Tom Brodbeck never comes to work with a dick on his car. Although I wish I knew where he parked.