Meet Tiffany Shepherd, a biology teacher who got fired from her job at Port St. Lucie High School in Florida. She claims it was because of her second job as a bikini mate on a fishing tour boat after school, a story she recently revealed on the Tyra Banks show. See her photos and biography below.
As a biography, Tiffany Shepherd is a newly single mother of three kids, ages 2, 6, and 9, and worked for the St. Lucie County School District for four years. After a divorce earlier this year put a strain on her finances, she had to find a second job. She began working as a bikini mate for Smokin’ Em Charters. It was a new business venture that her boss, Gil Coombes and his wife, Kat, had started, which combines fishing and a bevy of bikini clad beauties. The job requirement for a Bikini Mate was posted on the Smokin’ Em Charters website - “look hot in a bikini”. There are some bikini mates who are semi-nude on the website, but Tiffany did not go topless while on the boat. But she did do this.
Tiffany's appearance on the Tyra Banks show was well received. Banks: “Take a look at these photos of Tiffany. She’s a high school biology teacher and she says she was fired after she took a second job as a bikini mate on a charter fishing boat.”
Tiffany Shepherd said, “I can make $600 in two days’ fishing. That’s a week’s pay for me.”
School officials claim that Tiffany’s Bikini Mate job was not the reason she got fired. They say she missed more than 30 days this school year.
If the school officials fired Tiffany Shepherd based on the fact that she missed more than 30 days of work that's fair. In my opinion eve if this is the pretext of firing Shepherd is still fair because posting bikini photos and being a bikini mate does not really go in parallel with teaching to high school students.
I would like to stress that taking bikini photos may be OK, depends on the context, and Tiffany Shepherd may be a great biology teacher, however, school is a sacred place. High school students are in their growing and formation years. Their bodies are changing and they go through the years of puberty. If those students see their teacher Tiffany Shepherd in bikini photos, what parts of biology are they going to think about during the class? How effective those classes can be? These are questions that are hard to answer.
We know that many of our readers may not agree with our stand on the case of Tiffany Shepherd's firing. However, if she thinks that she can earn her weekly teaching salary in two days of taking bikini photos, she should have quit her teaching job herself.
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