Seeing your school teacher in public is one of the most traumatising and confronting things that can happen to you as a kid.
As the daughter of a school teacher, I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve rounded the aisle of a grocery store with mum by my side and come face-to-face with a startled primary school child.
Kids whose eyes always pop out of their skulls as soon as they see someone who is usually confined to the classroom clutching paper towels and a loaf of bread in a supermarket on a Saturday afternoon.
As you get older though, you start to realise your teachers are not pod people who power down in the classroom at night and then proceed to dream sweet dreams about correcting your maths homework.
And let’s be honest, given the crazy things our kids get up to… can you blame them? Post continues after video…
Apparently, this realisation has yet to dawn on parents from the Cumbre del Noroeste Institute, who recently became enraged when they spotted viral video footage of one of the school’s teachers twerking in a bikini.
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At least in Victoria the teaching contract in public schools does stipulate maintaining an appropriate image in public. It also stipulates use of social media (not using real names) and that when in public you are always responsible for the children around you.
I totally don't agree with it, but if I wanted to teach that was part of the deal. I also don't get up to anything likely to get me fired. But getting fired is also bloody difficult so I don't really think teachers have anything to worry about, at least in the public school.
I do not care what my children's teachers do in their own time, so long as it's not illegal.