Stockton, CA – A high school teacher has been dismissed for attempting to build a porn empire from her school laptop.
A lot of teachers try to make some extra money on the side (heck, it’s how I ended up in writing full time), but for Heidi Kaeslin, a 37-year-old teacher formerly of Stockton’s Lincoln High School, that extra money was apparently meant to come from porn.
She didn’t seem to get very far into her empire, as she was busted after setting up several domains from her school laptop, one of which was mysluttyteacher.com (side note: A little surprised that wasn’t already taken).
A panel form the state Office of Administrative Hearings confirmed their decision to dismiss Kaeslin this week , saying that files they found on the school laptop were “pornographic, lewd, vulgar or repugnant.”
Some members also branded Kaeslin’s behavior “immoral.”
Kaeslin was a special education teacher and girls’ soccer coach, and had been employed at Lincoln since 2002. She got caught when her estranged husband told officials that the domain names were registered to her home.
She also allegedly had a partner in crime in retired cop Richard Fields who was employed at Lincoln as a resource officer. Fields is also reportedly Kaeslin’s lover, but that is so Daily Mail “allegedly,” I don’t even want to comment on it.
In any case, Fields told the Stockton Record that the domain names were bought with the intention of building a profitable pornographic empire, before the parties involved got bored with the project. He also said that the allegations were “completely overblown,” so you get the feeling they didn’t get very far.
But students apparently told a local TV station that mysluttyteacher.com had an ad stating: “Have you ever seen your teacher’s breasts before? Well now you can see them.”
Kaeslin herself admits that her attempt to build a porn empire online amounted to pretty bad decision making, but doesn’t think she deserved to be canned.
“Some people might say, ‘What you did was immoral,’ ” she said. “I feel like what I did personally, I should not have done. That’s why I stopped. Yes, I made a bad decision, not just about accessing and categorizing but even just having an affair. Yeah, I made some bad choices. Do I feel like I should be fired over it? No.”
Watch a video report of Kaeslin’ case below. The best part is the student reactions to the story. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
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