Melinda England - pictured below - is a 28-year old Knoxville schoolteacher who has all the haters after her because Melinda England’s MySpace page had a racy picture. OMG!
Melinda England MySpace picture causing all the fuss:
Oh for heaven’s sake, it’s not like she’s nude or anything! She’s just a young, divorced mom trying to have a bit of a social life.
The way the Knoxville, Tennessee newspapers and TV stations are trying to whip up a media frenzy about this poor teacher, you’d think she was teaching Satanic rituals in the classroom or something equally heinous.
Here’s Melinda’s profile picture from AbsolutePunk.net where her screen name was “xlpaws” and again this isn’t a naked pic or anything:
School officials sent this letter home with students talking about teacher Melinda England and her racy photos that could be seen online:
The haters are raving that she’s blogging on MySpace about prescription drug use and “out of control” kids. Well, it turns out her “prescription drug use” is Prednisone to help with flareups from fibromyaglia.
Quick! Let’s tar and feather her!
Why not focus instead on the unruly miscreants, aka her “out of control” students, who are kicking, biting, and hitting their teacher? Why not prosecute the real evil doers here?
A little jail time - or at least a visit from a sheriff’s deputy - would do the little brats a world of good! A lot more good than harassing a normal, woefully underpaid teacher trying to do her best at educating these cretins and still have a life at the same time…
At least the local Knox County Schools spokesperson, Russ Oakes, isn’t ready to railroad Melinda England quite yet:
“There’s nothing to indicate she’s done anything inappropriate with the students.” Oakes goes on to say that like everyone else, teachers have first amendment rights.
Of course, then you have the haters like Pat Hardaway, “It’s bad, it shouldn’t happen, shouldn’t do that kind of thing.”
Said parent Angela Smallin: “I think that’s horrible, someone like that at school that’s still here.” Hmm… can you say small minded?
And that’s what has all the Knoxville, TN haters in an uproar about elementary school teacher Melinda England.
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October 6th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Thank you. I don’t know who you are, but I feel the same way about the situation. I have seen this report and all the comments and rumors others had to say. Melinda England has done nothing wrong and I applaud you for trying to express the truth. Those blogs that you mention did not come from Myspace, but from a Fibromyaligia support group. Inskip Elementary is an inner-city school. Working in that type of situation has to be hard enough, and then to deal with this had to be horrible. Thanks again for doing the reporters job.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:29 am
i think all the dads are hot for teacher and thats got the overweight, minivan driving soccer moms all upset…
October 8th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
I would like to engage in a discreet, personal relationship with Ms. England. She appears to have a “killer-BOD” and a seductive personality. Please e-mail me for more details. Complete discretion and privacy ensured.
October 8th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Everyone seems to have forgotten that Tennessee was where the infamous Scopes trial was held. (For those who don’t know what that was; a teacher was teaching evolution in the school system; or watch the movie “Inherit The Wind”) So why should anyone be surprised at the reaction of the “offended” parents Would be any different now.
October 8th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Frank,
Melinda seems to be doing the “duck & cover” thing right now because all her profiles have been taken down or made private.
It’s possible you could contact her through her xlpaws profile on absolutepunk.net:
http://absolutepunk.net/member.php?u=137661
Gotta love that “xlpaws” screen name…
October 8th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Great post on a pathetic situation.
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October 8th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Good for Melinda,she looks hot and she’s not hurting anyone, why don’t the nuts leave her alone.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
He has nice tits! I’d do her!
October 8th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
ooops… I meant SHE has nice tits! I’d do her!
October 8th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
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Melinda England sexy nude video here:
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October 8th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
lol at the Frank Turtle and Big Johnny comment!
I find it funny the media and several blogs can’t even get the website correct saying it was “absolutepunk.com” and “xlpaw” pfftt.
Melinda has done absolutely nothing wrong!
Allegedly this has all come about from her ex-husband who brought the photos to the attention of her employer. Lame.
Great post, and #1 on Google for Melinda England.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
As a parent and a mother who is active on the PTA I believe this teacher has done nothing wrong. She did not solicit the website to her students. What this teacher does on her on time is her business. If the parents don’t want the kids to see the pictures then it’s the parents job to control their kids safe access to the internet which is what they should be doing anyway right?
Someone needs to remind these parents they do not own this teacher, she is allowed to have a life outside the school.
Shall we check up on all the parents at the school? Are we saying there is no parent at the school that may have a myspace account with suggestive pictures? Are we saying that these people are all Saints and should therfore judge this womans private life? It’s her PRIVATE life and none of their business. If the kids know about the pictures it’s because someone’s parent told them…
Plain and simple it comes down to parents need to control kids access to the internet it’s their job.
Let this teacher alone for Heaven’s sake. Shame on whomever pryed into her life to blow up this issue!
October 8th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Ummm….last I checked, teachers were supposed to be ROLE MODELS for kids….whipping out your tits and plastering them on a myspace page for all to see is NOT something I would want my daughter to aspire to do, nor would I want her taught by anyone with such a stunning LACK of judgement…if nothing else, this woman is to DUMB to teach. Buh-bye, and good riddance.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
While the photos are not any worse than you can see on TV any night of the week there is a slippery slope for people who are in administrative or supervisory positions especially with children. Yes young kids shouldn’t be looking at the internet without supervision but what about if she was a High School teacher? High school students are very excited and get worked up over things like this. Teachers have to maintain a certian amount of authority and discipline in a class. It would be very difficult to do and therefore the teacher might not be able to do an effective job teaching with students distracted in this way. You can’t have one rule for this teacher and another rule for a different teacher. Teachers can be dismissed everywhere for Moral Turpitude. This is a very broad brush and covers just about anything that a Superintendant says it covers. It doesn’t have to be an illegal thing. The military has such rules too. A military person can not speak at a political rally in uniform, for example and keep his job,
This is a judgement call but it’s unlikely that this teacher will have her contract renewed if not outright fired.
The moral of the story kiddies is don’t take photos that you can’t show in church or to your mother. In this case a photo is forever and this young woman may very well lose the benefits of a very expensive education for a long time if she is ever able to salvage anything.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Does anyone know what her myspace ID is?
October 8th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Once again we have more sensationalist garbage from your local TV news lackeys. Lauren Davis, the butch looking short haired dyke on Knoxville’s channel 8, needs to be bludgeoned with a truncheon… the sooner the better, and let the opposing TV outlets find sponsors and carry it live.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
You stupid POSes who defend her lowlife behavior are just lowlifes yourself. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Sheeeooot. She’s not even pretty.
October 8th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
She looks great without her shirt. I have seen more tit on mothers with hungry babies. Tits are not that offensive as long as you aren’t the Muslim religious police.
In Europe women at the beach are all topless too! And it isn’t always this pretty.
October 8th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Sounds to me like someone is jealous. Dont you have anything better to write about then some teacher and what she does in her free time? Is she exposing this to the kids? Why are YOUR kids on the computer and not being supervised on what they are looking at? Last I checked Myspace is a huge network of people trying to meet new friends or catch up with old ones…Instead of sitting here bitching about what Melinda is doing in her free time, why dont YOU take YOUR kids to the park or read them a book. Get off your fat ass and be productive.
October 8th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
OMG. I have 2 kids in this school and I’m not outraged. You prudes need to wake up and realize that while you have a right to be upset, the rest of us have a right not to give a crap.
October 8th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I had to see what all the hullabaloo was all about. I had been taking up for this young lady on another site. I am still taking up for her; but I thought someone else posted her photos. I didn’t realize she had done this herself. All I have to say is; the photos aren’t risky enough for her to get into trouble for. I do have to say though, that as a teacher, she should be more careful about what she posts on an all public internet. My Space doesn’t necessarily mean totally private space. She opened herself up to the possibility that someone who is easily offended may see this and get the wrong idea. Ladies beware, this can happen to any of us, so be careful when it comes to the internet!!!
October 8th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
The photos are inappropriate.
I would not want Ms. England teaching my daughters. They look at teachers as being role models, and whatever Ms. England is modeling is certainly not positive.
As far as Ms. England goes, it is not “her business.” If what a teacher does affects my children, it is my business. If what the teacher does affects the schools I as a taxpayer support, it is my business.
As far as the posts here go, people who care about their kids, and who care about what they are exposed to inside and outside the classroom, from teachers or otherwise, are not “nuts.” Your name-calling cheapens and coarsens the entire issue. If the name-callers among you have any capacity for shame, you will be embarrassed for yourselves.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I’d like to take f&*k ‘er.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Shouldnt we be worrying about the kids that are bringing guns into the schools? Primetime TV has language and nudity on it. Start censoring the cartoon network. My point is that kids that young shouldnt be online unless a parent is supervising. But then again are you supervising what they watch on tv or what games they play on a gaming system? Lets move onto something more important. Why the outrage? Get upset with her if she did something to the kids…but she didnt. Shes a teacher by day and a single 28 yr old woman by night. Sure shes a role model but what are you really upset about? The fact that she has enough nerve and self esteem to post pics like that? or are you upset that you looked at her site and was turned on by it and you got caught looking?
October 8th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
This is a massive non-story. If it weren’t for some uptight prude in the administration we wouldn’t even know about it.
Truthfully after looking at the pics my first thought were that if she were flat-chested and/or fat, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
JFP: Remember that the Scopes Trial was a publicity stunt, and that while state law prohibited teaching evolution, it also mandated using a textbook that taught evolution.
Your bringing that up would be relevant if this case was either a publicity stunt by Ms. England (it is evidently not), or a case of ridiculous, conflicting laws (likewise).
If the idea is “Tennessee is backwards”, well… sure doesn’t seem especially so. Raving parents are alive and well in “progressive” climes, I assure you.
(Full disclosure: I’ve never even been to Tennessee, and have no dog in the fight.)
Rick: Why would you not want Ms. England teaching your daughters? Can you suggest one thing she is known to have down in class that is inappropriate?
Did she tell her students to go look at her pictures?
(And the argument that whatever a schoolteacher does is your business if it in any way affects a school, because you pay taxes, ends up stripping school staff of all rights whatsoever.
Write an unpopular book? Well, that would “affect the schools”, so … out it goes?
Hold an unpopular opinion? Affects the schools, better not.
Why, there’s no part of a teacher’s life you couldn’t claim to control with logic like that. And, oddly, I think you’ll find that doesn’t make for good schools or attract competent teachers - especially at the salaries new teachers command, total control over their lives for the sake of your overwrought sensibilities just can’t be worth it for them, can it?
You’ll get a lot more sympathy, I reckon, if you limit yourself to directly affecting your children by her actions in front of them than nebulous third-party side-effects and effects on ‘the schools’ as a unit, and dismiss the idea that you own her actions outside the classroom because you pay her salary with tax money.
It’s not nuts to care about your kids. It is pretty close to nuts to react like this, about this, however.)
October 8th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Hell’s bells — I _am_ a prude, and even I’m not upset…!
October 8th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
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October 8th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
I MEAN I WOULD F**K HER……..TITTY F**K HER ACTUALLY TEACH OR NO TEACH SHE NEEDS TO BE F**KED
October 8th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I’m not sure it deserves the media coverage it is receiving . . . in fact I know it doesn’t . . . but those are still pretty racy pictures for a school teacher who is supposed to be shaping young minds. I know we have lowered our standards to the point where parents allow their fourth grade girls to wear shorts with “Juicy” on their butts, so maybe I am being too prudish, but still, you have to set the line somewhere.
BTW, I am not a “hater.” Like I said this is receiving way to much publicity, but I think an in-house reprimand and telling her to get rid of the photos is not unwarranted.
Finally, I wonder how this would look different if she were a highschool teacher and young teen boys were checking her out. I believe we have had some pretty shocking female teacher to boy student activity lately in the news.
It’s a slippery slope folks.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Rick, your daughters are probably out there doing things that would make Ms. England blush, so get off your high horse.
I am trying to think of how this case is different from the infamous Salem Witch trials but other than the fact that there haven’t been a few others drawn into it I don’t yet see the differences. Surly the same type of sanctimonious hypocrisy is at work here. On the other hand maybe don’t have mirrors in Tennessee.
October 8th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
i think the pics are not that serious im from a place where every 1 minds there buisness but obviously the no life having people always worried about some 1 elses life dont aggree . my advice get a life people its 2007 and other countries are laughing at us hard with good reason to be .
October 8th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Ye gods, why don’t they just rename it ‘Harper Valley Elementary.’
October 8th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
“Why not focus instead on the unruly miscreants, aka her “out of control” students, who are kicking, biting, and hitting their teacher? Why not prosecute the real evil doers here?
A little jail time - or at least a visit from a sheriff’s deputy - would do the little brats a world of good!”
Man, those haters are really out of control.
October 8th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Dat Fan Says: “the rest of us have a right not to give a crap.” Brilliant DF. Were your kids the ones doing the biting and kicking? It’s great that you care so deeply about the situation. Inskip is one of the poorest areas of Knoxville. The kids in that neighborhood need the best teachers they can get. Some that can provide great teaching skills to prepare these kids for the future. Christenberry Heights is in that neighborhood. It is a low income housing development that is predominantly minority. You may “have a right not to give a crap”, but it may be your kids that are getting bit and kicked next time. You know you are agreeing with the person who wrote the “crap” above, and he was suggesting jail time for elementary school kids.
October 8th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
You old goats at this school are jealous your not getting laid. Long past your glory days of a body like that move on!!!!!!
October 8th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Okay, Just because she is a teacher she cant lead a normal life…Grow up!! It doesn’t show anything. Are you mad b/c she looks better then most females?? This is stupid - It’s like saying you can’t have nice sexy pictures of yourself because you work at a bank or something. I think that people are over-reacting and need to find something better to do then bother some teacher - She hasn’t done anything wrong. I think that the little home moms are jealous b/c she looks good and all they do is sit at home, eat and watch Maury. Leave the chick alone and let her have a life - I think it’s time for people to start acting like adults instead of high schools girls, “OH MY GOD, did you see what she is wearing” it’s old and childish - worry about your kids and your husbands and leave her and her life alone…She’s a person and who gives you the right to judge her - You dont like it when people automatically accuse you of being stuck up b/c we dont drive nice cars or b/c we dont get every morning at 5:30 to get dressed for work - just grow up and act like adults!
October 8th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Look, I don’t want to make things worse for her… but, at the same time, Insty promised me “pictures”. Those are just thumbnails above. Plus, I can’t get the aduvids link to work and I’ve been trying for the past half hour.
This is not what blogs are supposed to be about.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Oh my! I am assuming you are just trying to be funny. Using terms like b/c and calling the woman you are defending a “chick” means that you are probably a 12 year old boy. You use hyphens instead of periods, have long rambling sentences, and grammar problems in general. And you then tell others, at the end of your comedy routine, to grow up and act like adults. That is funny. Post something else please.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
TLB,
Looks like a typo, try .com not .con for the tld…
as for pics, she was already doing the duck & cover thing by the weekend, so all full-sized pics were/are long gone…
October 8th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
This is the best thing that could happen to that woman… Hopefully, they’ll fire her and she will move on to a real job that pays a decent salary, without having to deal with these moronic (non) parents…
I know many people who either quit, or were fired, from teaching and, in every case, they went on to something better…
When you consider how are politicians are constantly betraying our trust and acting like the whores they are and are making millions (of our money) doing it w/o any reprimand, this is nothing… A tempest in a teapot.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
I like her pix.lol. they’re emo. Thats all it is.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Personally, I’m in that area and even I think that this girl is getting a really raw deal. Honestly, she’s not the most attractive woman I’ve ever seen, but I think that what she does away from a school setting is no one’s business but her own. It isn’t like she was sending these photos to students. I’ve seen more explicit stuff than that on “Entourage” or even “Desparate Housewives” so this seems to me, like the hardcore fundamentalistic zealots of Tennessee needed to have something to complain about. Honestly, I’m a Christian and while I don’t think it was the best judgment to post the photos, I don’t think she should be getting this type of witch-hunt against her. Let the woman do what she chooses to do away from school in peace so long as she’s not having sex with the students. Besides, what were the odds of those kids actually FINDING her profiles anyway?
October 9th, 2007 at 1:32 am
I’M SORRY BUT I THINK THIS IS ABSOLUTLY REDICULOUS….I KIVE IN THE AREA AND I THINK THESE SO CALLED ADULTS NEED TO GROW UP AND STOP STARTING PLAYGROUND TALK ON THIS WOMEN..PEOPLE ACT LIKE SHE POSTED HER WEBSITE IN THE SCHOOL PAPER AND SHOWED HER PICS IN THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA…IT JUST DRIVES ME CRAZY..SHE CAN NOT BE PUNISHED AND CHASTERSIZED FOR HER FREE TIME AWAY FROM THE SCHOOL…..AFTER ALL SHE IS A YOUNG DIVORCED WOMEN WHO IS A SCHOOL TEACHER FOR A LIVING NOT JUST A TEACHER PERIOD…CAN ANYONE POSSIIBLY WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE SOMEONE JUDGE YOU AND BE SO CRUEL TO YOU FOR SOMETHING YOU HAVE ON YOUR OWN PERSONAL MY SPACE..IT IS A FREE SITE IN A FREE COUNTRY ( WE THOUGHT) IF THE STARCHY PARENTS ARE SO UPSET ABOUT THEIR KIDS SEEING HER MY SPACE THEN DO YOUR PARENT THING AND KEEP YOUR KIDS OFF OF THE SITE…NO MORE PROBLEMS…AND FOR THE SCHOOL AND PARENTS TO LET THE KIDS GET AWAY WITH THE KICKING AND BULL CRAP JUST GOES TO SHOW THESE PEOPLE WONT RAISE THEIR OWN KIDS CAUSE THEY ARE TO BUSY TRYING TO RAISE HELL WHERE THERE IS NONE…..AND THEN FOR THEM TO BLOW IT UP LIKE SHE WAS A BIG DRUG ADDICT AND PORN STAR ARE REDICULOUS..IF THATS THE WORST SHE DOES I AM GLAD TO KNOW SHE IS TEACHING IN MY AREA..WELL I GUESS I GOT THAT OFF MY CHEST…LOL MELINDA FROM THIS 45 YEAR OLD MOTHER I AM PROUD TO KNOW YOU ARE THERE AND NO MATTER WHAT STAND UP FOR YOURSELF…..JAMIE
October 9th, 2007 at 3:12 am
She showed poor judgement in posting those photos - they could affect the way her students view her. Much like wearing a way too short skirt to teach in.
She showed good judgement in pulling them down.
Overall - not a significant story.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:25 am
Still looking for some nude photos of melinda england…
October 9th, 2007 at 5:50 am
She’s adorable! Wow - talk about sexy!
October 9th, 2007 at 7:53 am
Hmmmm. Somehow, having some posters here insult my daughters and call me “nuts” has not changed my mind. That is really surprising…those arguments are so PERSUASIVE.
LOL.
As I said above, the pictures are inappropriate.
Ms. England, by posting them, showed terrible judgment. Indeed, her terrible judgment calls into question her fitness to be a teacher.
What message was she trying to send by posting the pictures? I dooooooon’t quite think “I am a responsible, mature teacher and an excellent role model. Trust your young children with me” is the look she was going for. But that is what teachers are supposed to be.
Meanwhile, Theresa (currently Poster #25) has a lot to say.
She says, “Shouldnt (sic) we be worrying about the kids that are bringing guns into the schools?”
You mean we aren’t concerned about guns in schools?
In any event, Theresa, one word: multitask. Most people can carry more than one thought at a time. Imagine–we can care about bad behavior among teachers, AND guns. All at the same time!
Theresa also says, “Primetime TV has language and nudity on it.”
Can you distinguish between the behavior we tolerate from actors (whom we accept as indecorous louts, and rarely expect to be role models) and teachers (whom even Theresa agrees are generally role models)?
Theresa, her intellectual output pretty well exhausted, concludes, “are you upset that you looked at her site and was turned on by it and you got caught looking?”
Wow. So much ignorance in less than one full sentence.
First, I did not go to her site. I came to this one, via Instapundit.
Second, I was (mildly–she is not all that great looking) turned on–which I guess was the whole point of her pictures: to have guys go to her page and to turn them on (ummmm….go back to my “What message was she trying to send by posting the pictures” paragraph).
Third, I did not “get caught looking”; Instapundit said the pictures were here and I wanted to see what the fuss was about. In any event, looking at pictures and then posting about them is hardly “getting caught.” At least on this planet.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Sigivald: You said it was not a publicity stunt and it was not a case of conflicting laws. I’m not sure you are right since we don’t know the purpose of why Ms. England posted the pictures (If not for publicity, why post them in the first place?). Also, I guess the freedom of speech and the morals clause could be considered a conflict in the law, if it was her intent to bring up this subject. Also, after the Michael Vick thing, not sure I would use the “no dog in this fight” analogy. LOL However, I am not from TN either and I don’t have a ___ in this fight either. How’s that for PC?
October 9th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Let me start by telling you that I gave Melinda over one year to take down the pictures and at the time I asked her to take them down we were still married. I also told her that if she didn’t that others would find out about them. Not only did she not take down the pictures but they grew in numbers and were posted on other websites. She wanted the world to see the photos and now she has her wish. It was her bad judgement that got her into this and now she has to face the public. She would not listen to me, so maybe now she might want to start listening to what I really want to say. I just want the right to see my own daughter.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Teaching is a profession in which a person needs to maintain a certain authority. What was said above about “what if” Ms. England were a high school teacher is absolutely true. She could never maintain authority in a classroom full of kids who had seen her half naked. Like it or not, teachers, judges, police officers, and people with similar levels of public authority need to hold themselves to a higher standard. Ms. England is young–she made a young person’s mistake. What she did was unprofessional, but not illegal. Whether her career survives her indiscretion is something we’ll have to wait and see.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:50 am
What’s unprofessional about what she did?
October 9th, 2007 at 10:04 am
If a man teacher did something like this he would be suspended immediately pending investigations.
When women have sex with kids they get a slap when men do they go to jail for life Wheres the justice?
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October 9th, 2007 at 11:45 am
I personally think that this whole issue is ridiculous yea she had a photo that is not professional but this goes way past the classroom and respect. This whole case is about civil rights and freedom of speech if we let these people run her out of town and bury her career and years of education because one little “racy” photo ( I’ve seen more revealing ads for underwear on the side of a bus as it drove down a main street), what is next? We as americans have the right to make our own choices and act upon them as we feel is right, she may not have made the choice that the majority agree with but it was her right, and she shouldn’t be punished for it. If they wanted to resolve this issue it should have never been released to the media but handled on a personal level between her and her employers, now we have a witch hunt on our hands and its not gonna end till someones career goes up in flames. Do the right thing people don’t let this woman lose her chance at a decent life because she had a momentary lapse in judgement, I mean who hasn’t been young and done something along the same lines.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Bobbby:
Did you look at the pictures?
October 9th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
SHe is a cool girl the Pics where done for a band cover leave the girl alone, he X-husband is an ass, and she takes meds for an issue she has to vist the Dr for evey month, I know her on a personal level… Her kid is cool and she is cool, So she should have locked up her myspace profile, but then the big question is why would little kids be on myspace anyways… I know her X husband did this…. And this guy is a Jerk all he wants to do is to stop paying child support…. He shoud go back to the service and should leave her alone!!! he just is trying to control her……
October 9th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
If it was on myspace and she’s an elementary school teacher….. Children of that age aren’t supposed to be on myspace…. Why don’t the parents do something about their children that lie about their ages to set-up pages and use names including words like sexy and hotty etc? Nothing says responsibility like a parent that ignores their pre-teens doing this and then spouting a witch hunt over a 28 year old….
October 9th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!!!! how come we didn’t have any teachers like this when i was going to Kingston Elementary?? all we had was a bunch of ol’ bitties that looked like they were on their last leg.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
She’s an elemetary school teacher who put up provocative pictures on the web in a public forum. You can police your kids as best as you can but you can’t others and in a day where kids have better access to each other than one has to their own kid there has to be a line drawn somewhere as to what’s acceptable behavior and what isn’t. She made a very poor decision given her position. That’s the bottom line.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Poor girl. Having to deal with a blackmailing ex-husband and now all this attention.
Aren’t we supposed to be encouraging young people to teach? This prudish outburst won’t help.
October 9th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
I think shes got some really nice tits
October 9th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
I feel the same as many of you with any kind of intellect do. This so-called teacher, with not many years of life experience, is required to be a role model as she decided to step into this role of educating herself to teach. Maybe in this state it doesn’t take much and any dumb individual can be a teacher, but the fact is she is and was wrong and she should loose her job. If my child were in her classroom - we’ll, he/she wouldn’t be any longer…let’s put it that way. We can only hope that these parents will refuse to have their child “taught” by an individual holding a teachers certificate of this caliber. She obviously is screaming for attention and love and I do feel sorry for her. Maybe Miss Melinda would do better getting a job in some red light district - they say you don’t have to be pretty either - she can even bring a paper bag.
hmm….
October 9th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Excuse me….lose
October 9th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
“Poor girl….”
Let’s keep in mind that this “girl” is 28 years old.
One ceases to be a “boy” or a “girl” well before he or she is 28.
My son earned a Bronze Star at 23…in other words, he made life-and-death decisions, leading combat troops in the field, when he was 5 years younger than Ms. England.
She is a none-too-bright grown woman who has terrible judgment. Not a “girl.”
Just sayin’.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
So you have nothing better to do then to pick apart my opinion Rick? Get over yourself. I dont care what you worry about. All I know is that you have nothing better to do with your time then sit at your computer and argue an invalid point.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
nice tits
October 9th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
well I live just south of Knoxville and I was on the fence until I saw the pics. OMG I can’t wait to call in to the talk radio shows tomorrow and lamblast them for being stupid. Ive seen more tits walking thru walmart. BTW it was her ex-husband who notified the school admin. Bas&trd
I just hope it doesnt cost her her livelihood. They way they are acting you’d think she meant to slept with a 4th grader.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
i think that as long as she has done nothing wrong or in appropriate with any of the children then she has a right to a private life. This is part of life and if you dont like the pics then simply dont look. the new age of computers have caught up with the undseireables just like dirty magazines so deal with it
October 10th, 2007 at 12:24 am
Jealous wives….
October 10th, 2007 at 3:04 am
i just heard about this ”video” today.. i watched it to find nothing wrong with this… their making this into one big thing. What Melissa was doing would be the same as a cheerleading coach would do in front of her students. so her dances moves were too much?? I didn’t think so. I actually find that to be a very clean dance.. If you watch videos these days.. thats just inappropriate. I don’t know what all this fuss is about. No need for all of this. I guess the town needed something new to talk about.. sad.. I’m With you Melinda!
October 10th, 2007 at 6:07 am
“My precious angel children are being taught by this person?! Oh, heavens no!” =O!
Parents today think their brats are so wholesome… The wholesome brats aren’t so sweet when mommy and daddy aren’t around! Listen to their conversations - the language(!) and topics(!)
Give me a flippin’ break, and get a grip! What teachers do on their own time, is THEIR business. They should earn millions for putting up with YOUR brats all freaking day!
October 10th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Theresa (currently Poster #65) says:
“So you have nothing better to do then to pick apart my opinion Rick?”
Theresa, you make so little sense it is just plain fun to fisk what you write.
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Moving on, several posters here have made the point that: (i) Ms. England’s ex-husband turned her in; and (ii) he is a jerk.
Even if both are true–so what? Does that mean she did not post the pictures? The pictures are not of her?
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Several posters here have also said Ms. England is entitled to a private life.
Mmmmmm…she posted pictures of herself on the Internet in hopes that people would look at them. When you post pictures of yourself on the Internet in hopes that people will look at them, you pretty well give up any claim that what you are doing is “private.”
October 10th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
First of all, “Ex-Husband”, what a down low dirty thing to do to a woman. So you can see your daughter?? BS. I’m pretty sure when the courts decided to give you zero days of custody they knew what they were doing, and at that point it was taken out of Melinda’s hands and placed into their hands–so blackmailing her to see your daughter should not even be an option. It’s not even her choice at this point. What an asinine excuse.
And to those who keep calling her dumb- I’d put money on the fact her IQ is higher than yours. Having pics on the internet- maybe not such a good idea but Melinda kept her copies private.
Ex-husband, from the sound of it you have done nothing but give your ex-wife an enormous fan base, lol.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
The definition of Private isn’t what it used to be. Yes the pics were on a public domain, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with them IMHO. Regardless if she did post them or not I don’t think she should be penalized for it. You’d think she posed in Playboy the way some are reacting. Everyone has made mistakes, hers hasn’t hurt anyone and everyone has the right to do what they wish so long as its legal. So far as I know those pic arent illegal and should be considered free speech. The fact that the school system has some rules that governs teachers should they have to live by them 24/7 365? I don’t think that is fair, nor do I think it should be legal. That would be like the Postal Service rules govern my life 24/7 365. I wouldnt be able to talk politics or religion. I’d have to dress in my Postal uniform everywhere I went.
There should be a clearly definable line between my work and my private life. If my work governs even my private life how private is it? Where is freedom in that? Everyone here has the right to their opinions, its in the Bill of Rights. So is her right to express herself without fear of reprisal so long as its legal. That she is a school teacher shouldn’t remove that right. Had the ex not sent the URL to the Administrators how many people from that school would have seen them? Had the school not sent a letter home with all the students practically NONE of the parents would have ever seen them.
October 10th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
People need to relax and realise that there is life after you clock out, and what you do on your time is your business..Utter nonsense to try and impale this woman for trying to have a life away from work..So what, she posted partial nudies…Big deal!! dont want your kids to see them, dont let them on the net…internet is a place for adults, not kids…anyone seen “to catch a predator”? no? watch some of those then let your children on the net, see what that does for your concious..
October 11th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Responding to post #66 from Rick:
“Let’s keep in mind that this “girl” is 28 years old.
One ceases to be a “boy” or a “girl” well before he or she is 28.”
You are absolutely correct. Democrats state that children are 24 or less.
October 11th, 2007 at 8:59 am
Let’s not forget where all this is happening: Baptist Country, Bible Belt (a.k.a. Chastity Belt).
Nowhere else on earth do we have so many narrow-minded, lordy Jesus-is-my-Saviour degenerates who take offense by a little picture that shows great-looking cleavage.
You see this sort of thing at any Oscar Awards ceremony. But in Baptist Country it is the work of the devil.
October 11th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Folks, the teacher didn’t put those pictures on HER myspace page…her boyfriend did,on HIS page, without her name. Her myspace page is and has been always private. The “story” is a non-story and is a great example of piss poor journalism…her ex-(jealous)husband “alerted” Knoxville channel 8 news to the ’story’ and they ran with it
Poor judgement on everyone’s part in my summation.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I have been following this. I own a business in Knoxville and I advertise on WVLT. Although her bone-headed boyfriend could have shown better judgement, she should be allowed to be a woman. If the ex-husband would move on this whole thing would have been avoided. If there are “rules of morality” for teachers, they probably don’t include anything about the new “web culture” that we are living in.
But mostly I agree that this is shotty journalism and seems to be being sensationalized by WVLT, so I canceled my advertising in protest. My ad budget with them is small so it probably won’t matter.
I don’t know any of the parties involved, I just thought I don’t want my money supporting a news department that would sensationalize something so stupid.
I figure it must have been a slow news day so this looked good (sex is always good for ratings).
October 12th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Melinda England is a moron. Prospective public school teachers are taught in college to uphold a certain level of privacy and decorum. It’s just part of the territory of choosing to teach public school.
Especially since she *could* have made her profile private, and enjoyed her adult life away from potentially prying eyes. Why did she choose My Space as a venue, anyway? Everyone associates My Space with kids…she could have easily done these activities on a more appropriate site.
I’m not judging her for being topless or sexy, I’m judging her for being a simple-minded fool. What she did was just plain dumb. I know not to do what she did, and I don’t even have my teaching licence yet.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I think her husband’s letter says it all: listen to what I say, do as I say, etc. He even admits that he did it to punish her for not obeying his wishes. What an overbearing, controlling ASS!
Speaking as a public servant, what I do off the clock is nobody’s damn business as long as it’s legal. Just because the public pays my check doesn’t give the public any special rights.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
FIRE HER !
October 12th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Bullsh*t “e bradley”… and I totally agree with “Perspective”. Public school teachers are paid by public, taxpayer money. The taxpayer decides who we will hire to do a publicly-funded job. Screw up and you’re out, especially any miscreants that end up in the education system, police agencies, firefighters, local, State or Federal government, etc.
And yes, myspace.com is PG-rated; it’s initial target audience was supposed to be the under 18 set. Now porn-spammers and pedophiles abound at that website. It’s also a wonder how they let crappy, psuedo-porn pages like that remain online there, yet they shut down other myspace pages that critique important political or social issues, of which we should all be paying attention to, instead of thinking with the brain-less “head” located below men’s beltlines.
It’s obvious, that not only have our government institutions become severely corrupted by sick perverts and criminals, but our media has also been contaminated by the same. Time to wake up and weed out the neanderthal-minded scum in the U.S., the ones who think primarily with their sex organs, and start to re-establish common decency and common sense in Our Nation.
By the way, if this woman wants to strip, or literally whore herself out, let her do so off of the public dole.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:42 am
All this flap makes me worry about my mothers sanity for moving to such a dreadful place as Tennesee. I hope there is a defence fund for this poor, put upon teacher. Never have I seen anyone so severely castigated for so little in my entire life. Hey stoopid, (sp intetened), garbage collectors are also paid by tax payers money and they can do identify theft which is far worse than this so called lapse in judgement which may not have been available to the public except via her ex. Get a life which is about something more constructive than trying to screw up some else’s. Hey, anal retentive Rick, have you spotted any grammatical errors yet, maybe you should put your over protected kids in private school or better yet home school them yourself . Public school might be too much of a reality check. Tax payers mony is such a rediculous pittance that it barely buys a code of conduct during business hours, to imply that it should extend into private life is like adding insult to injury. Maybe you should watch Cinemax to get some perspective, sometimes they give it away for a few days in the hope that you will buy it, nudity, sex, and all. Will you find it before the kids? Hope so. That is a much bigger problem than Miss England. Glad I don’t live in a third world country like Tennesee!
October 13th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Ye who can cast the first stone…
If “poor judgement” has now become sole justification for losing your public job, then many teachers and pretty much all politicians will be out. If this young lady is fired for being a “bad example” to our young people, then any teacher who takes a drink of alcohol, drives over the speed limit or smokes a cigarette should be fired. How could they possibly teach the innocent minds of our children if they so flagrantly disobey laws or disrespect their bodies in such a foul and dispicable manor?
Personally, I would prefer a person teaching my child who is a little more open minded than many of the hypocrites who are ready to burn this young teacher at the stake. They stand on the pulpit of Christianity and morality, but they forget the most important lessons of Christ: forgiveness and love.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Nice juicy tits!
October 15th, 2007 at 8:51 am
To boojim — I don’t know where you live, and don’t care. But to state that Tennessee is a “third world country” because of this story shows that you my friend live in a “third world”. It’s as if something like this has never happened in your world? Where do you live, anyway? Utopia?
October 15th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Teachers have always been held to a higher standard than the general population. Fifty years or so ago, you could not even be preganant in front of your students. I do not feel that Melinda did anything wrong. If she is not tenured, then she defintely has risked her chance of being rehired. She needs to be alittle smarter about these things. I am a teacher, and there are at least 101 reasons why I have always lived in a different town than the school I teach in. People are hypocritical. She should have made her space private. Why would she want to risk the possibility of a student, fellow teacher, or administrator seeing it? That makes for hard discipline and uncomfortable situations. I feel sorry for her, but she did put herself into this situation. I do not think she should be fired over it, but I bet at the very least, because I know how school districts roll, she will not be rehired.
October 15th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I can’t believe people are comparing this to the Salem Witch trials. Are you completely ignorant of the fact that SHE DID THIS ON PURPOSE? I refuse to see Melinda England as a “victim”. While I personally - with my background in exotic dancing - don’t judge her for a second for being sexy, I sure as hell don’t see her as a victim either. This is the 21st century. She CHOSE to put those pictures in a PUBLIC profile on My Space, rather than keeping them private or “friends only”. Besides, she could’ve easily chose a more adult-oriented site than My Space. This is not the Salem Witch trials, people. I don’t even see this as a feminist issue. Get a real cause, people. This woman is far from being a “victim”.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
[...] way onto the Intarwebs (including MySpace and absolutepunk.com). You can find the photos here: http://hitsusa.com/blog/164/melinda-england/ -Kris 10/14/07 12:37 PM - When the school found out, they sent a letter to her students’ [...]
October 17th, 2007 at 12:35 am
Dear Bryan, Actually I do live in Utopia and we save our shrill screeds for more important things like teachers having sex with students. Having the puritanical self rightous holier-than-thou thing down pat certianly goes a long way toward earning third world status, income per capita also helps. Actually its a compliment because it implys that Tennesee is ahead of the curve. In case you have been sleeping lately gold has gone up $100 an ounce in the last couple of monts, oil is knocking on $90 a barrel, the dollar has lost 50% of its value aginst the Euro since 2000, and Banksters are getting off scott-free with their ARM scams. And just this week we get news that not since 1920 has there been this much difference between the income of the rich and the poor. You don’t need a crystal ball to see that CONgress and the white house are driving the US into a third world country. Quick, log onto urbansurvial.com and get a “NO INCUMBANTS 2008″ bumper sticker to cover your “Bush-Chaney” or “Kerry-Edwards” badge of shame. If you think there is a nickles worth of difference between them then you really are asleep. Me, I’m waiting for a “No Republicans No Democrats 2008″ bumper sticker. If enough people wake up and smell what CORPGOV is brewing inside the beltway I won’t be the only one waiting. Tennesee really is a beautiful state in spite of its third world status.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Its the second time.
Checking in to see if everybody.
Glad to see other.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
You don’t really need or want that lifestyle, it might hurt y’all slowly more…….Just tell him you
don’t wanna repeat something your not too proud of…
November 7th, 2007 at 1:15 am
I fucked her. Then I made her clean her own room.