Teacher Suspended for Taking Students to Hooters Restaurant

Thursday, December 17, 2009

 From the Associated Press
PHOENIX —  A Paradise Valley music teacher whose students performed at a presidential inauguration event has been put on administrative leave after taking 40 students to Hooters.
School district spokeswoman Judi Willis says that choir director Mary Segall accompanied choral students to an event last week, and during the outing the students ate lunch at a Hooters restaurant.
She says that Segall explained to officials that the restaurant, known for its waitresses' somewhat revealing attire, was the only place that could accommodate a group of that size. Segall could not be reached for comment.
Willis says the district believes there were other options for lunch in downtown Phoenix.
Hooters spokesman Mike McNeill says he's unfamiliar with the incident and could not comment.
Segall plans on retiring in January, and Willis says she does not know if she'll return before then.

JMC Ministries Response

written by Jeremy Caverley

It show a lack of irresponsibility on the teachers part saying that the only place where the children could be fed for lunch was at hooters.  There are fast food restaurants and other places for example McDonald's, Burger King etc. that accommodate bus loads of people sometimes on a daily basis. For the teacher to say that there was no other place to go is just ridiculous. 

It is outrageous when a 3nd grader is told by her teacher that she cannot read her bible during quiet time in class.  While another child a 2nd grader draws a picture of Jesus the teacher says the picture was too violent and is told he has to under go psychiatric evaluation. But a teacher can take children to a place like Hooters where there is scantily clothed women and where beer and alcohol is served and no one does anything until after the incident has happened not one child should have ever been exposed to that.

School is no longer a place of learning. It is a war zone where we send America's children everyday, and pay taxes to those schools so they can treat our children this way.  When will you the parents take a stand and say this is enough NO MORE!

1 Corinthians 6:12,13
¹²"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. ¹³"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.