Holy cow!!! - teacher and porn

my2monkeyboys wrote: This is just mind boggling!
http://www.asylum.com/2008/09/12/teacher-a...o-to-classroom/

grandma replied: Kids aren't safe anywhere now days...holly crap!

lisar replied: OMG.......

TheOaf66 replied: ooopsie

AlexsPajamaMama replied:

jcc64 replied: So, I'm thinking the teacher was in front of a regular monitor he forgot was hooked up to a smart board which projected the porn onto a screen that the whole class could view- do I have that right? So he basically became so engrossed in what he was watching on his own monitor that he didn't realize the kids, who were supposed to be working on a project, could also see what he was looking at? If I read that correctly, which was a little unclear based on the way the article was worded, it was a mistake, a very BIG mistake, but not a deliberate intention to inflict this material on the kids. Idk, people are human, including teachers, and they make really dumb mistakes sometimes. The question here is intent, and that will hopefully be established calmly, rationally, and w/o hysteria. It was a big time sloppy mistake, but I don't know if I'd automatically be calling for the guy's head w/o substantial evidence that it was deliberate, and I can't imagine how you'd be able to establish or refute that.
I guess the biggest question is why that school's technology dept didn't have a firewall to automatically block inappropriate content?? Unless of course it was already downloaded on his computer, which is entirely possible.

Crystalina replied:
Or the even bigger question (IMO) is why in the heck is this guy watching porn when he's supposed to be in teacher mode? I mean really, I would not want my child having to deal with a teacher that was just all "hot and bothered" (if you know what I mean) just a second before. Eww, that's just nasty. Why is he even going there while he's supposed to be teaching?

Just to add, I didn't read the article just going by what's posted here. I'm assuming this happened at school during school hours.

stella6979 replied:
I agree. A mistake is one thing, but he was deliberatly looking at porn while at school and that is just not acceptable. I mean, I have nothing against porn, but there is a time and place for everything.

jcc64 replied: A lot of times kids are doing "seat work" or small group work, and it was probably during one of those times that he committed the transgression. Do I approve of looking at porn in school, absolutely not. But he certainly wouldn't be the first person to surf the web during work hours. How many of you do it, and are maybe even doing it right now? Granted, it's not porn, but I'm just saying...

stella6979 replied:
Surfing the web is one thing, but if you can't curb the urge to look at porn until you get home, I really think there's something wrong with you.

Crystalina replied:
Yeppers! And around kids? I mean really!!! What a sicko. How could you even get into that porno frame of mind (for lack of a better phrase ) surrounded by kids? Creepy! and if my kids were in his class I'd make sure porno was the last thing he thought about because his dicky-doo would be hurting. He obviously needs a therapist if he can't stay away from the porn long enough to get through a work day.

CantWait replied:
NOT that I agree with any of this AT ALL......even so, yes we all surf the net at work, but there are things that are inappropriate to surf unless at home. What if a student had come up to the teacher regarding the project with a question????

redchief replied:
Honest mistake or not, I wouldn't want this guy teaching my daughter (or son for that matter, but I'm thinking in the here and now here with Kaitlin being my high school aged child). He's certainly not the first person to be wasting time on the job, but this is certainly not the kind of transgression one sees every day either. Should he lose his job over it? I don't know whether the incident is enough to overcome the power of the teacher's union (don't get me started on them), but he should be punished to the full extent possible under their disciplinary policy. It's true everyone makes mistakes, but people get fired for honest mistakes every day if they bring harm to others.