After googleing my name, I found several things out. Number one, is that there are other people, around my age, with the same name. This is odd because I have never known anyone with my same name. One of the girls seems like a great person who has volunteered and written papers about her experiences, while the other is more "flirtatious." Luckily, the more flirtatious one looks nothing like and so there will be no mistaking the two of us. I found myself on various websites including:
- http://www.spokesman.com/letters/writers/14674/
- http://www.modelmayhem.com
-http://www.ewu.edu/x50430.xml
-http://www.spokesmanreview.com/news/live/body.asp?ID=library%5Cgrad01%5Cgrads-ferris
-http://www.soccerbuzz.com/recruits/2001recruitsa.htm
-http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20010208/ai_n9982960/
-http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=20021019&id=Y7cyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i_IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6724,6873921
-http://lovelyhotties.tumblr.com/post/765416024/muscularbabes-rachel-lassman
-http://ww.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/555642/0
What I found was that a lot of the sites had to do with soccer. It kind of brought me back to my old soccer career days and made me think about how my life would have been different if I had only stayed with my original plan and stayed at Colorado College. It turns out that my head coach there, ended up being the head coach of the Women's National Team which means I would have had an aawesome opportunity to get to that level. But that's how the world works and you learn and move on from your mistakes as best you can.
The other thing I realized I came up for a lot was modeling pictures. I used to model quite a bit, long before I ever wanted to be a teacher. Unfortunately what I didn't know is that some of my pictures got stolen and put onto sites I didn't even know about. I would say for school purposes, some of the pictures might be deemed inappropriate...they are tasteful thought, not slutty. I was also a part of hometown hotties for Maxim magazine which is probably frowned upon. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get rid of those pictures.
I do feel that as teachers we have a status to uphold for sure. However, we all had lives before we got into teaching where we all experimented and had fun and have the pictures to prove it. It is a slippery slope when dealing with this because I feel that as teacher's we may be held to higher standards than other people. I'm not sure what the correct answer is. I would like everyone's thoughts. My parents think I should delete all my modeling sites which I can see their point for sure, but it's also something I like to do..... would love feedback, thanks.
I think as long as they are tasteful pictures (and the one I saw was) then there should be no repercussions for leaving them BUT you should be prepared to answer questions about them if and when they come up from your students. And also be prepared for a "hot teacher" reputation and the pics to be spread all over the school! If I found pictures like that of one of my teachers in high school I would make sure everyone knew about it. So I guess that is my advice, if it were me I would proabably remove them but I personally would like to maintain an aura of mystery with my students. I don't want them finding anything about me on the internet at all!
ReplyDeleteBut I would definitely want to keep that pic somewhere because you do look hot!
I agree with Kim that as long as they are tasteful you shouldn't have to worry about them. I know somewhere on the Internet there are pictures of me in college that I would not want the world to see. Like you said, a lot of the problem is not being in control of being able to take them down. People should appreciate your beauty, not ridicule you for it.
ReplyDeleteI like being able to look back on sports stats and see that there is still existing evidence that I played collegiate volleyball (even if it was only DIII). They bring me back to a time where I had the opportunity to be part of a team! I want my students to see that. I think it is important for them to know that you have a life beyond teaching, but they don't necessarily need to be involved in that life.