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Friday 9 May 2008, 4:00 pm

The Editor

Categories: Education

Tags: misconduct, NSW, teachers, Victoria, VIT

In NSW teachers get sacked for doing nude photo shoots with their partners in the Cleo sealed section.

A Sydney primary school teacher has been sacked for participating in a magazine nude photo shoot with her partner.

[…]

Mrs Tziolas appeared in the sealed section of Cleo magazine with her husband and nine other couples talking about their sex lives.

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“As teachers we’re expected to be somewhat superhuman and not have a private life,” she said.

“It’s denying the fact that teachers are normal. Yes we have sex, yes we enjoy it…”

In Victoria teachers get cautioned by the offensively useless Victorian Institute of Teaching for buying students grog, discussing sex lives and swapping phone numbers.

A TEACHER who helped a student buy a slab of beer and discussed her sexual habits has been allowed to remain in the classroom.

And despite claims the teacher also talked about using marijuana to “wean herself” off painkillers, the price of cocaine and losing her virginity, Victoria’s teaching watchdog has found she deserves a second chance.

The Victorian Institute of Teaching found that Louise Margaret Huntington engaged in “misconduct” by failing to engage in “professional relationships” with her students.

A panel of three teachers found Ms Huntington displayed “professional immaturity” when she swapped phone numbers with a 17-year-old male student from another school in December 2006 and began seeing him outside school hours.

The secondary school teacher — who talked to the student about her lesbian relationships — allowed the teenager to stay the night at her house after driving him to a supermarket to buy beer.

Somewhere in the middle is the right approach.

23 Comments

Bron (Friday 9 May 2008, 4:10 pm) #

Damn you! I was going to make a post along these lines, and conclude with a question asking when can we expect to see you in a centrefold spread.

Now, it’s back to writer’s block for me.

Anyway, it’s ridiculous that the teacher should be sacked for a tasteful nude shot. It’s not like she was posing a la Jenna Jameson or anything.
Iain Hall (not) (Friday 9 May 2008, 4:24 pm) #

That’s why sick depraved people like you teach in Victoria. Pervert. ;;;
Wah (Friday 9 May 2008, 4:38 pm) #

I wish Miss Hatzionakis at St Albans Tech (circa 1982) posed nude in a magazine.
Bron (Friday 9 May 2008, 4:41 pm) #

I recall my telling the story about my teacher Mr Ball in the comments somewhere, and I don’t particularly want to him nude ever again. Not that I did, technically. Just enough.
THR (Friday 9 May 2008, 4:42 pm) #

I had an RE teacher who regaled us with tales of his sex life…
Zombie Mao (Friday 9 May 2008, 4:46 pm) #

I remeber a high school teacher of the young blonde female variety who took a group of male yr 10 students to the public pool. She was wearing a high cut white one-piece which proved to be transparent when wet.

ahhhhhhh mammaries…er memories
Zombie Mao (Friday 9 May 2008, 4:53 pm) #

well Cleo should sell a lot of extra copies this month. Marketing Coup of the year so far.

Hell I’m going to get a copy.
Bridgit Gread (Friday 9 May 2008, 5:41 pm) #

Our maths teacher, Mr Vecchio, had a big wang and one day he actually let us play with it.
Mikey (Friday 9 May 2008, 7:54 pm) #

I had a teacher who demonstrated how to roll a condom on the blind kid’s cane and smeared spermicide all over the knobbly end.

She didn’t tell him what she was doing. So naturally he felt around to “see” what it was.

Poor blind fucker.

Same teacher later demonstrated birth by lying on her back with her legs spread on the desk, her face blotchy red as she fake screamed in pain.

I think it had an effect. Contraception was embraced.

Not that I ever needed one. All I got for packing franger heat was a condom ring forming on the change purse in my wallet.

Being a chunko was the only contraception I needed consarnit.
Mikey (Friday 9 May 2008, 7:56 pm) #

Oh the wife had a classic teacher. Wore the belted shorts /long socks combo. Liked to chat to the class with a leg up on a chair.

Only he didn’t wear undies and the balls … clearly in view down the shorts leg thrust horizontally at the class.
Krypto (Friday 9 May 2008, 8:13 pm) #

gee it’d be nice to like in a society where this kind of stuff never raised an eyebrow wouldn’t it?
I think it’s obvious that as soon as they went “public” their privacy was going to be compromised.
There’s no reason five year old little Johnny or Sally should have to think about their teacher naked. It was a silly thing to do.
Was it a sacking offence? I’m glad it’s not my call to make but you’d hardly describe it as exemplary behaviour on the part of the teachers involved would you?

I’m not disputing their right to a personal life, but a bit of discretion MIGHT be a good idea, for a junior school teacher, surely.
magic bellybutton (Friday 9 May 2008, 8:27 pm) #

We had a teacher who always had his hands in his pockets, pushed forward suspiciously close to his groinage.

To this day I don’t think he had actual hands. I know I never saw them.
magic bellybutton (Friday 9 May 2008, 8:28 pm) #

Plus, teachers are robots and have no lives. Everybody knows that.
Krypto (Friday 9 May 2008, 8:33 pm) #

I had a high school teacher named Mr Buchan, seriously, Buchan. WHY would ANYONE go into a field like secondary education with a surname like Buchan.
He was a nice guy too, a little warped after we finished with him, but basically a good guy.
philip travers (Friday 9 May 2008, 9:37 pm) #

I hope with all sincerity, that anyone who went to Frankston Technical School ,and remembers Darnett,will not spread malicious rumours here,now so ancient… that if the cork is still on them ,they will be the most valuable of drinkies. Do not recall for one instant that the wrestling champ he once was,and his mathematical teachings,and his undoubted skill of calling ‘School! Attention!’ was, in fact a Freudian Slip. Besides his glasses didn’t look like Sigmund’s at all. Refrain from remembering the rumour you must of spread,that Dawson,ex-Commo Dawson and his Valiant car was in fact,a whiskey in the cup of tea type of head of Dept. The Canticle of Liebowitz is something I had in common with him,and I learnt there was classical science-fiction. All rumour,respect the man. And do not even try to imagine the sex life of Koala second in command of discipline. And if you cannot remember Koala,you never went to that school. And I know,the father of, that league player,who shaved his legs,and wore garment on them in Aussie Rules was teaching there. He was a bloody frightening man,and a sex life that ended up with 10 kids. So keep your head out of the gas oven,only some weird trade drawing teachers do that. A frightening Dickhead,without a life. And eat your sultanas,and Hawthorn wasnt a sex ring.
THR (Friday 9 May 2008, 10:02 pm) #

Phil,
You remind me of Beckett.
John Surname (Friday 9 May 2008, 10:03 pm) #

That NSW teacher deserved to get the sack. I saw her and her hippy husband interviewed on TV today, airheads, both of them.
Krypto (Saturday 10 May 2008, 10:17 am) #

probably got a fanny like road kill too, I bet she has.
magic bellybutton (Saturday 10 May 2008, 10:33 am) #

Would the roadkill comparison be such that she had a nasty case of Vagina Dentata as well?
Tony T (Saturday 10 May 2008, 11:26 am) #

I’d sack her for her tats.

That’s tats.
John Surname (Saturday 10 May 2008, 11:29 am) #

Agreed - don’t let bogans teach.
Krypto (Saturday 10 May 2008, 5:39 pm) #

but John, if they stop bogans teaching, who’s going to teach PE, chasing a bag of wind around a paddock or standing around in the baking sun for hours before the ball comes within coo-ee of you on a cricket pitch are such important and valuable life skills after all.
JT (Monday 12 May 2008, 2:38 pm) #

1995 was a great year in the history of my secondary college*.

We had a student suicide, a principal who was up for sexual harrassment (I knew the teacher’s son) and a drama teacher# who asked two year 10 girls to perform a comedy sketch about cream, chocolate and orgasms that was going to be performed for year 8 students (I was in that class+).

*A certain large public educational institution on the southern Mornington Peninsula in the Rosebud area. (Oh geez, I hope I haven’t narrowed down!!!!!!!!)

#Who later had a sex change.