Teachers Booted for School Lap Dance - Updated

(Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) For their participation in an arguably licentious lap dance during a school-sanctioned event, gym teacher Chrystie Fitchner and math teacher Adiel Ahmed have been let go.

In a statement, a division spokesperson said Fitchner resigned Monday, with the resignation to take effect at the end of June.

In the interim, she will be away from the classroom on sick leave under the terms of the collective agreement teachers have with the division. She was suspended without pay on March 3, but has been receiving sick benefits, the division said.

Ahmed, who had been working with the board on a contractual basis, will not have his contract renewed. His contract expired Friday. He had been suspended from teaching without pay since March 2, the division said.

Monday's decision brings to an end months of speculation about how the division would respond to the Churchill High School spirit week incident, which students described as being like "sex on the dance floor."

Reportedly, the trustees said the two teachers could apply for positions at other schools within the system but neither would be given a reference. Check here for another video of the lap dance.

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Teachers Lap Dance in the Great White North
[Previous 2/25/10 post]
(Winnipeg, Canada) Aghast, readers! Teachers, students and parents are aghast that an incident of suggestive lap dancing took place last week at Churchill High School.

A video shows "students giggling, gasping and screaming as a male teacher and female teacher perform a sexually suggestive dance in the middle of the gym." Coupla hosers, eh?



Both teachers were sent home without pay for their sexually suggestive behavior. However, they have not been suspended. I would suspect as much since the sexually suggestive nature of the episode and the video is barely discernible.

On the other hand, when the Canadian media get to describe the incident, it becomes much more salacious.

How raunchy was the dance?

"The female teacher threw her head back and thrust her one leg out as the male teacher continued to dance over her. There was butt-slapping and further gyration," notes a report from the Globe and Mail.

The report adds that then the man dipped his head down between her legs and simulated oral sex.

Whole lot of simulating going on, eh?

Companion post at The Jawa Report.