NEWS: We're In Yr MySpace, Denyin Ur Teaching Credentials

CULTURE: We're In Yr MySpace, Denyin Ur Teaching Credentials

Reason #25 Why MySpace Will Never Cease to Fascinate Me: everyone -- especially, one would think, college-educated kids -- knows the dangers associated with making your after-hours life easily accessible, and yet it is not enough to squelch the mind-bogglingly intense urge to show the entire world just how fast you can pound gin tonics and mug for your best friend's camera.

Even so, there are limits, and I think this story not only hits that limit, but plows through it with a bulldozer and keeps on trucking. If no one ultimately wants to hire you because of your epic kegstand photoset series, that's one thing. But to not even be allowed that chance?

Inconceivable. What really bothers me is that the dean cites "promoting underage drinking" as the reason for denying her a credential, and yet the article states that she's now 27, making her still in her mid-twenties at the time the picture was taken. Unless she's partying it up in the photo with a bunch of kids from her teaching intern work, I don't see how the issue of underage drinking is relevant. If the Millersville University School of Education has a problem with potential teachers who might get caught up in their own social lives and come to school hungover, that's valid (a little unfair, but valid). If Millersville University is actually a prestigious ninja school and Snyder went too far against the code with her pirate rendevous, that's valid, too. But why go tacking on hot-button buzzwords like underage drinking? It can't possibly be the problem.

I hope she wins the lawsuit. If she put in the time and did the work, she ought to have earned the credential. Leave it up to the schools themselves to determine if she's hireable. Times are tough on the job market for a drunken pirate these days, but I hope she succeeds.


_DictionaryGirl_ has no singular "drunken pirate" pictures on her Myspace profile; however, she does have one from 1988 where she's wearing a pirate hat at Disneyland, and it's right next to one where she's simply drunk. Alert the press!

it was this guy

rediclous.

As if teachers never ever ever ever drink in college.

that is fucking retarded.
talk about overboard.
do university officials seriously not have better things to occupy their time with?

i'm increasingly glad i graduated college on the eve of the myspace phenom.

Maybe their rationale is that she's so debauched, she might debauch the children she teaches? I don't know, it's still ridiculous and unfair.

christ, the world really is run by cunts, isn't it?

Myspace is the devil. I had a friend fired from a Boy Scout summer camp as a result of her myspace.

What was the nominal reason?

And if the dean had an issue with this, if he really thought the picture was inappropriate, shouldn't he have, say, asked her to take it down? Even that's silly, but at least it's not mind-blowingly stupid.

Wait, you are telling me that people actually DRINK in college and there may even be underage drinking in college?!?! WTF? NO WAY!!! Everyone that ever got hired out of college was a clean virgin who never even cursed.
Damn that drunk pirate!!! She is a curse on society!!!

i had teacher that drank in class or on their lunch break.

underage drinking my ass

devilry.

Clearly she was just demonstrating her knowledge of the drinking requirements of piracy. We need more teachers with this sort of insight.

of course it is.
if an individual school doesn't want to offer her a job based on that picture, so be it (although i think that's completely stupid too), but it shouldn't disqualify her from getting a teaching certificate in the first place from her university.

although, i have to wonder who uses their real name on myspace anymore and has a public profile when they are old enough to be contemplating future employment? what happened to her is unfair, but i do kind of still want to smack her for being dumb.

She should not have been hired because she was dressed like a pirate. End of story.

Well, if they were ninjas, they certainly wouldn't admit it. That would defeat the purpose.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

You wouldn't believe how many resumes I've gone through where people use an email address that, when put into Google, immediately returns their myspace page full of compromising pictures and professing their love of their drug of choice. It's astonishing. I don't know if these people don't know what's so easily found about them online, or if they just assume that the people reading the resume won't be technically savvy enough to punch a name or email address into Google.

As a sidenote, the number of people who use email addresses like xxsuperhottiegurlxx@whatever.com for their resumes is also astonishing. Make an email address for professional use, people!

You know, it is kind of unprofessional of you to just post out my email and call me out like that on a public board.

i think thats well out of order, although i do find the idea on the dean looking at her myspcae a little more un-nerving...

wait a few weeks, and it'll come out as "Perverted Dean stalking students on Myspace!"

i dont get it?

hah.

ahahaha *headdesk*
that's frightening.

i just assumed that after all this hoopla over employers finding people's facebook profiles and whatnot that everyone would be way more careful about what they put out there.

that's what i get for giving humanity any credit.

Wait, they gave her an English degree instead? Why?