Teacher who placed Craigslist sex ad can be fired

seems less about his sexual orientation, and more about the fact he was soliciting sex in a public place.

I think the ruling was valid.

 

This.

 

Craigslist is not a public place. If internet sites were considered public places, then a great deal would be taken down for breaching 'indecency' laws or some other law that is not permitted in public places.

And why is sex being vilified here? Sex is perfectly natural and it shouldn't be viewed as something bad; it doesn't affect his ability to teach, he was doing it in an entirely disconnected way from his teaching (I assume) and also in a private and discrete way (as Dan said you have zero chance of finding out this unless you were looking for it in the first place... it's not like he was doing it in a park toilet block).

The only message the judges are giving is that sex is a bad thing and anyone that has sex is unfit to come into contact with children.

 

I'm sick of people's private lives being used to erode their professional image in their public lives.

 

Exactly. I think that what happens in bed should stay in bed, to be blunt. And unless he's sleeping with a student, which obviously isn't the case at hand here, it does not affect his teaching ability in any way. Plenty of teachers are married, having sex, and getting pregnant, and they're still fully capable of teaching their students. Are we really going back to the old days where a schoolhouse teacher must be young and unmarried to be able to teach something to their students? I thought we got over this nearly a century ago.

 

Imagine how you would feel if you accidentally saw your teacher naked on a site like that.

 

I recently saw one of my professor's dating site profile. It included, shall we say, measurements, explicit ones. It in no way impacted his ability to teach me even if it was really, really squicky. Same thing applies here. Teachers have sex, students shouldn't be sheltered from that.

 

This is a middle school teacher. He posted explicit pictures of himself. I reiterate. Imagine you're 13 years old, and you see your teacher naked on the internet while screwing around with your friends.

 

I'd be totally squicked out, yeah, but it would hardly be the end of the world. Besides, I'd have to have been looking for this to find it. It was in the "looking for sex" portion of Craigslist. Caveat emptor as far as I'm concerned.

 

I'm sure they'd see it as perfect blackmail material tbh.


I don't know what to think of this. I think it was a bit silly of him to do something like this, I mean, can't you make it anonymous, apart from like .. your email address of phone number? I mean, the dad isn't exactly going to ring all of them to find out which one is a teacher. Though I find it quite funny that the dad was looking at it in the first place.

Actually, yeah, that's kind of careless of him.

I accidentally came across my teacher's facebook, with all of this drunk photos on. Thankfully, there wasn't anything scarring, but I did think "Dude, you should have made this private, what if another student who's much more malicious finds this?"

 

As far as I'm concerned, Craigslist is where people go to laugh.

 

This is stupid, imo. Why go on a site if your going to be offended and whine about it. If these people can't handle seeing someone naked, then wtf are they doing on a section of craigslist called "Men Seeking Men"?? lol Yeah, maybe the teacher should've made it more anonymous, but getting him fired is overboard. If people were afraid their kids were going to see it, they should be using that energy to stop them from going on craigslist into a section that's obviously sexual.

 

craigslist is public. anyone can post, and any one can respond.

is it really appropriate for a teacher to use soliciting sex online? this isent about his sexual orientation, but the public way he choose to seek sex.

 

I think its stupid how what teachers do in their private life can get them fired..

 

there was nothing private about posting a seeking sex post on craigslist.

 

There is nothing private about anything on the internet. Even sites like EC that require registration are hardly private.

 

What does this have to do with his teaching? Really. Yes, using craigslist for a hooker is stupid, but