High School Coach Fired for Appearing in Playboy
Angry parents managed to make their school fire a cheerleading coach who had posed naked for Playboy. But for all the outrage from parents over this woman who was supposed to be acting as a “role model” to their kids, is anyone surprised the real reason Carlie Christine got canned was because she refused to overlook a few school rules?
According to a California TV station, Christine was fine until a few girls didn’t make her squad because of unexcused absences from school. That’s when the girls’ cranky parents made copies of her centerfold (which is quite nekkid – our big brother publication Nerve has the pictures if you want to see – but you’ll have to search for them yourself on Google, they’re definitely NSFW) and dropped them on the principal’s desk.
Apparently, they wouldn’t have cared who was coaching their daughters until they found out no one was coaching them.
Now that word is out, of course, that Christine was Playboy’s “cyber girl of the week” and posed totally topless in the centerspread of the magazine. And parents are mad that she was ever allowed around their kids.
I’m on the fence about this one – perhaps more so because of the duplicity of the parents. It’s a pity they couldn’t be righteously indignant BEFORE they wanted Christine to bend school rules for their kids.
While I would hope that a cheerleading coach, who is supposed to be someone teen girls look up to, would have a little more respect for herself than to do this, I will say she was doing something completely legal (she wasn’t on a street corner, folks), and she did it on her own time. She wasn’t holding a modeling shoot in the middle of practice. And last I checked, cheerleading coaches don’t exactly make a lot of money.
What do you think parents? Should Christine get the ouster or should these parents learn to grow up?
Image: Nerve
(Also of note: Brett points out, over at his site Daddytips.com, that Ms. Christine’s online modeling profile says “no nudes.” Riiiight.)
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Knowing well what teachers make I say good for her. Playboy is like the Ranger Rick of the porn world anyways. No big deal.
I as a male and a father of a young girl am torn on this. I agree and disagree with many of the comments that have been made about this. 1) On one side i agree maybe she made a poor judgment call on posing nude however in the same breath it is a huge honour to be asked to pose for such a popular magazine. 2) I could see the issue the parents have with there kids seeing a teacher nude but what about the movies these kids watch. Also like Sam (above) said if you look at face book or my space or twitter how many young girls post pics of them selfs in bikinis or in some sugestive and provocitive poses. (it saddens me they do this) 3) I as a parent of both boy and girl would rather my children see nudity (not soft or hard porn) rather than shooting and killing on tv shows movies and even the news.
I guess it is all about parental censorship and moral majority. I think it could have been handled diffrently, and more of an adult fashion. I am sure if she looked the other way on the students not being where there sapposed to be none of this would have happened. That being said she got fired for doing here job and because of this her personal life comes in to play. She wasnt molesting kids or drinking and driving or doing drugs. She was nude.
Parents need to back off, she’s an adult. As for those who don’t think posing nude is a form of self-respect, well, she must like how she looks to think others would as well and it’s not like it was against her will. I doubt any of us who are insecure would ever let anyone take a naked pic.
I agree with you completely, Laure68.
If I may play devil’s advocate…
I agree that Americans are way too uptight about nudity. However, Playboy can be viewed as very degrading to women. I wouldn’t be so much scandalized, but worried that my daughter had a potential role model who was in a magazine that showed this very false way that women are supposed to look. (And I am a bit horrified at the idea that posing for Playboy is a sign of self-respect. There are so many things girls can do to show that they respect themselves in this day and age, it seems very backward to say this is one of them.)
ridiculous, if someones pervo dad wasn’t subscribed to cyber girls then no one would know! who cares , it was done OUTSIDE of school. at least it wasn’t penthouse!
Unless she’s recruiting the girls to pose for Playboy it’s really no one’s business. Admittedly, I’d think twice about a teacher that did that because inevitably the teens are going to get wind of it and see her in all her glory and I think you lose a little of their respect (I’m not in the camp that posing nude is sign of self respect) when they’ve seen their teacher so vulnerable, but whatever, kind of a good learning lesson for the parents of the teens to discuss how the teens feel about this and if they think it says anything about the person and our culture. Other than that, unless the school has a morality clause (and some private institutions do) then it shouldn’t have been a big deal.
It’s only an issue if you make it one. This has nothing to do with her not allowing those girls to be on her squad. Why would the parents even care what this adult women does on her own time? These kids are exposed to so much more over the internet and are probably send their friends naked pictures of themselves on there phones. Playboy is not a big deal, I can’t believe that they are making an issue over this, it is just sad really. And to claim that she is a role model for young women, she is a cheerleading coach, she coaches them in cheerleading, that is as far as her role in their life needs to go or should go.
Parents should grow up! Christine did nothing wrong…
It’s funny to me that we show violence to our children daily. A fist fight to save the girl, bombing the bad guys in war. As long as we’re the good guys, we can battle the bad guys all we want.
BUT….
When it comes to love, or sex, or nudity we TOTALLY freak out! No boobs, no kissing, no talking about sex. THAT’S BAD…
I think Christine posing for Playboy shows self respect. If it were in some hard core mag, I would MAYBE think differently. None of that is an issue anyhow, as I highly doubt she was showing her centerfold to the girls.
She simply stood her ground for what was right. But, the spoiled little brats’ parents couldn’t have their precious little babies kept from their lives’ calling as cheerleaders…. especially since all they did wrong was cut class. Not like they were missing anything REALLY important…
americans are such prudes.