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Hooters - should this teacher be suspended for this?

Was it correct to suspend this teacher for taking the students to "Hooters" restauran


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A high school teacher took her male choir to "Hooters" restaurant after performing Christmas carols. As a result she was suspended.

What do you think? Should this teacher have been suspended for this?

Here is the article: Paradise Valley High School teacher who took students to Hooters in Phoenix is put on leave


Personally, I think it is ridiculous. "Hooters" is not a strip club. It is a restaurant, not reallly different from Chili's or TGI Fridays and I doubt the teacher would have been suspended for that.

The reality is....the parents of ONE boy complained.
Which raises a bigger question....should the parents of one child dictate what is "appropriate" for everyone else?
 
You wouldn't care about your son going or the suspension of the teacher?
 
My high school football coach used to take us to hooters!! He thought hooters was like a 5 star restaurant!! :lol: So my answer would be absolutely no!! Though I do wish my high school football coach had been suspended for other reasons, notably because he was a completely **** coach.
 
I've never been in a hooters. Are they all topless?

If so, I'd say that the teacher showed such bad judgement that I would question her suitability for being a teacher even if I didn't find the act offensive, myself.

What a stupid thing to do.
 
no they usually look like:

hooters-girl-ashley1.jpg




Though usually a little more chunky, older, and a few c-section scars. ;)
 
I've never been in a hooters. Are they all topless?

If so, I'd say that the teacher showed such bad judgement that I would question her suitability for being a teacher even if I didn't find the act offensive, myself.

What a stupid thing to do.

No. Hooters is a family restaurant....like a chili's or Applebees. The only difference is that the waitresses wear shorts and are generally (but not always) bigger chested than the average female.
I've been to many a "Hooters" and generally, I see all age range in the restaurant. Unfortunately....many people perpetuate the myth that it is somehow a strip club or in the vein.
 
I've never been in a hooters. Are they all topless?

If so, I'd say that the teacher showed such bad judgement that I would question her suitability for being a teacher even if I didn't find the act offensive, myself.

What a stupid thing to do.



No!!! It is just a restaurant where the waitresses wear shorts and tight t-shirts!! It is honestly no big deal. Had it been a second grade class, I could understand the problem(though parents take kids their). For high schoolers, it is not a problem at all!!
 
no they usually look like:

hooters-girl-ashley1.jpg




Though usually a little more chunky, older, and a few c-section scars. ;)

Thank you Rev...that is a perfect example...though I must say, she is larger chested than most of the Hooters waitresses I've seen.
 
i feel most sorry for the kid whose parents complained

and it's a bogus suspension, assuming there was no minimum age of entry which was not achieved by the students who went ... indicating it was open to the public

we've become a nation of the easily offended
 
A high school teacher took her male choir to "Hooters" restaurant after performing Christmas carols. As a result she was suspended.

What do you think? Should this teacher have been suspended for this?

Here is the article: Paradise Valley High School teacher who took students to Hooters in Phoenix is put on leave


Personally, I think it is ridiculous. "Hooters" is not a strip club. It is a restaurant, not reallly different from Chili's or TGI Fridays and I doubt the teacher would have been suspended for that.

The reality is....the parents of ONE boy complained.
Which raises a bigger question....should the parents of one child dictate what is "appropriate" for everyone else?

Not maybe the best of choices, but it's nothing bad. It's time to quit listening to people being unreasonable and bitching about stuff. Sure, there are legitimate things to bitch about; but if we follow all the bitching then the most unreasonable of people start setting the rules. And **** that.
 
i feel most sorry for the kid whose parents complained

and it's a bogus suspension, assuming there was no minimum age of entry which was not achieved by the students who went ... indicating it was open to the public

we've become a nation of the easily offended



I totally agree. It seems to me, that people like being offended these days. It doesn't make much sense to me. :shrug:
 
Oops. I accidentally voted for "Yes," so subtract 1 vote from that.

I don't think the teacher should be suspended for taking the kids to Hooters. However, I don't think the teacher should have taken the students to Hooters. It's not because I have any disdain for Hooters. It's that this is 2009 and if you don't anticipate the sensibilities of the most sensitive parents, you're in a lot of danger for reactions like this. That's just the way it is.
 
Silly suspension. I've seen kids plenty of times at Hooters. If the waitresses were at all nude, I could understand parental concern. But as it stands, it looks like one kid's overbearing parents had to spoil a harmless trip to eat some wings.
 
Silly suspension. I've seen kids plenty of times at Hooters.

But those are probably kids who go there with their parents. Parents who don't go to Hooters probably don't go because they disapprove of the restaurant, and so disapprove of anyone else taking their kids there too.
 
But those are probably kids who go there with their parents. Parents who don't go to Hooters probably don't go because they disapprove of the restaurant, and so disapprove of anyone else taking their kids there too.

Or they don't have a clue as to what "Hooters" is and are basing their "outrage" on misconceptions that they have heard.
 
But those are probably kids who go there with their parents. Parents who don't go to Hooters probably don't go because they disapprove of the restaurant, and so disapprove of anyone else taking their kids there too.
For what reason? I cannot think of one legitimate reason, so please help me out. It sounds like the parents made an emotionally charged argument(OMG IT'S HOOOTERS!!!1!!!1!) and got the teacher in a tough spot.
 
I did vote yes. Why, because after being a teacher for 23 years, she should have know that the parents would go batsh$t crazy over her taking there "virgin little boys" to a Hooters.
 
For what reason? I cannot think of one legitimate reason, so please help me out. It sounds like the parents made an emotionally charged argument(OMG IT'S HOOOTERS!!!1!!!1!) and got the teacher in a tough spot.

the waitresses don't wear burkas?

the only one i could think of ...
 
I think you should have more options on your poll. They could have counseled her and given a warning, plus sent out a general memo to the school staff that this sort of thing is not in keeping with school policies. I think the parent of the child had every right to complain.
 
I think you should have more options on your poll. They could have counseled her and given a warning, plus sent out a general memo to the school staff that this sort of thing is not in keeping with school policies. I think the parent of the child had every right to complain.

certainly. the parents had a right to complain

that does not make their complaint a valid one


what would the school administration have established in that warning as the teacher's benchmark for future conduct ... being able to anticipate the unreasonable objections of a student's parents whose views were not mainstream? the best way not to avoid mistakes is to do nothing. is that really the standard we want to set for our public employees?

isn't teaching difficult enough already without imposing such unattainable expectations
 
It's a very valid complaint. Many people don't share the same liberal 'anything goes' values as some of the posters here. They disapprove of a restaurant that appeals to the baser and more exploitative values of society. They expect the schools to try to instill some of the nobler virtues into impressionable young people. They also might find it even more inappropriate for a female teacher to take young males into a titillating setting such as hooters.
 
It's a very valid complaint. Many people don't share the same liberal 'anything goes' values as some of the posters here. They disapprove of a restaurant that appeals to the baser and more exploitative values of society. They expect the schools to try to instill some of the nobler virtues into impressionable young people. They also might find it even more inappropriate for a female teacher to take young males into a titillating setting such as hooters.

it's a public restaurant without an age limit to access, licensed by the local government to operate for the general population's enjoyment. if it posed a menace to a portion of the population - in this instance to school aged children - then more limited access would be imposed as a condition of its operations. that does not appear to be the case in this instance. no harm, no foul
 
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