Naturally, this educator didn’t feel that she violated any school
policy with her part time gig. She claims:
"I'm a biologist. I have fished all my life. To fish and get paid,
and make as much money in two days as I make in a week teaching, it
was just an excellent opportunity and I would have been a fool to
pass it up."
Source: The Bob Rivers Show
"As a matter of fact, when I am on the boat, most of the time, I
give biology, marine biology lessons. It works out perfect because a
lot of the guys have never been on a boat before. They have never
fished, so they are coming off the boat with some fish and a little
bit of knowledge."
Source: WPTV News
Tiffany Shepherd Giving Marine Biology Lessons
The first thing is that the customers who use such boats aren’t
there to fish. The purpose is to be erotically entertained, which is
why this boat has shipmates who are beautiful women in bikinis or
who are topless.
So in other words, the men who book Smoke-Em
Charters are there to see some skin and watch the frolicking young
women shake their bare boobs. As a result, it is really of no
surprise that most of these customers have little to no knowledge
about boating or fishing because they weren’t there to catch
anything except for getting an eyeful.
These fishing boats may be a great place for a bunch of guys to have
a bachelor party at but it isn’t a venue for those who are expecting
to catch fish because it is a sexually oriented business. It is not
a place to obtain an educational experience about marine biology and
it is absurd to think otherwise.
Next, Shepherd insists that even if she was on her free time, she
would still fish in a bikini because fishing is her passion.
Now that is quite an eye opener because most people who do fish
usually don’t fish in their swimsuits. The exception would be if
swimming was also going to be part of their excursion. Most
fishermen would love to see a beautiful young woman in a bikini
carrying a rod and reel but that just doesn’t happen.
Overall, Shepherd’s rationale doesn’t pass the smell test.
The real issue is that the St. Lucie County School District, which
is Shepherd’s employer, doesn’t want to have any bimbos teaching a
classroom full of kids who have raging hormones. This country has
already been rocked so many times with seedy scandals involving
attractive female educators having sex with teenage boys and this
school district doesn’t want to be embroiled in any of that.
Consequently, a teacher working in a sexually oriented business is
not showing good judgment, so it puts the school at risk for
something bad to happen.
Out of fairness, what people do in their personal time is their
business. However, an educator is not an ordinary employee. He or
she is expected to maintain the trust of the local community
especially when they are overseeing the welfare of our children. The
past scandals vividly demonstrate how fragile this trust is.
Unfortunately, Tiffany Shepherd is a teacher who should have been
fired from Port St. Lucie High School a long time ago. She had
already racked up 30 absences within a school year which severely
impacts the learning experience for her kids. Unless it is a
legitimate emergency, most private sector firms would have given her
the axe. Regrettably, governmental entities don’t operate that way
because of bureaucracy, unions, litigation, and poor leadership.
Instead, Shepherd has become something of a minor celebrity because
there are so many people who enjoy the perverse and think that there
is nothing wrong with teacher sex scandals. Playboy Magazine also
wants to pay her and her shipmates to appear naked in one of their
issues. So instead of having a perfectly valid reason to terminate a
public school teacher, the school district has to fight through a
lot of bad publicity to get rid of her.
The bottom line is that school districts need to move fast with
problem educators. There are some people who aren’t cut out for
teaching and then there are others who take full advantage to abuse
the system such as having 30 absences.
Understandably, bureaucracy
stifles good leadership but action has to be taken as soon as
possible because a reckless teacher with bad judgment has to the
potential to create bigger problems down the road.
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