Clearly there is only one way to resolve this question once and for all: all of the teachers in this thread must post porn videos involving themselves online, then wait 6 months to see what happens.
Did any of your students find your videos (you’ll need to enlist student moles for this)?
Were you mocked and ridiculed behind your back (you’ll need to enlist student moles for this too)?
Did your student’s grades spring up, or droop down?
You’ll need to send me the website password so I can monitor the situation…unless you’re really old.
I don’t see the connection between 2 and 3. Sure there will be mocking, that’s a risk the teacher took. We certainly mocked teachers for a lot less. But, as an example, the two teachers in my school who were widely suspected of sleeping with students generated a lot of gossip. My grades didn’t suffer in either’s class. I can easily imagine quite a buzz if one of my attractive teachers was known to have a porn page, yet even if I viewed it a few dozen times, I don’t see a reason for my grades to drop. I still would have to read Great Expectations and be prepared to discuss it in class.
If Hitler’s art teacher wasn’t in porn, he would have paid attention in class and become a better artist. He would then have been accepted into art school and built a fulfilling life as a painter of moderate renown.
That’s the point of the study, to see if there is a connection. I think a large sample study would show grade degradation. You apparently believe otherwise. That’s why this study must commence.
Sorry, there’s no porn site big enough to see all of me. My porn name is Tibby Longfellow.
So if Mrs. Polly’s husband cheats on her, a fact which comes out publically when Mr. Polly and his amorous companion are caught making out behind a shed on a Ring doorbell camera video that gets posted on the town’s NextDoor page, and this leads to Mrs. Polly being publically ridiculed due to a sex scandal - should she be fired from her teaching position?
No, she should not be fired. If anything (thinking of how my classmates and I would have reacted back in the day), we would feel sorry for Mrs. Polly and become even more receptive to her teaching.
I’m just going to disagree that porn is victimless.
Porn wasn’t even widely available 30 years ago. Somehow, we got along. Porn really isn’t necessary at all. For anything. It’s more like the commercialization of alcohol production produced a whole bunch of alcoholics and other drinking problems, and it indeed did do that. It’s why we got Prohibition. You need to know what went on before.
Porn is already interfering fairly significantly in a negative way in the lives of its users. And it does indeed require actors as well. And I guess we can pretend that we will neve meet these people that we are masturbating to, whoops I guess that didn’t work in this case.
“Behavior unbecoming an officer” is an important regulation because it reflects the professional standards that military officers are expected to uphold. Officers who engage in conduct that dishonors or disgraces themselves or their position may compromise their character, reputation, and ability to lead. Such conduct may also undermine the trust and respect of their subordinates, peers, superiors, and the public. Therefore, behavior unbecoming an officer is prohibited by Article 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), and may result in administrative or criminal penalties.
Substitute teacher for officer, teach for lead, students for subordinates, and firing for criminal penalties, and that pretty much reflects my view on this topic.
But, I agree teachers should not be fired without compensation unless banning “unbecoming behavior” or something similar is spelled out in the teacher job description, which I assume it is not. Although, it seems common sense to me.
That’s true of nearly everything. 30 years ago I couldn’t order unlimited soap, scissors, paper towels, ice cream, mangoes, little plastic figurines of elephants, or live eels from my couch. Now I can. All those things are much more widely available today.