Intercepts
A listening post monitoring public education and teachers’ unions.

This time it’s 30-year-old high school biology teacher Tiffany Shepherd, who moonlights as a bikini-clad assistant on a fishing boat for Smokin Em Charters in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

District officials claim they didn’t even know about Ms. Shepherd’s second job before letting her go, stating that she was chronically absent.

“She just doesn’t come to work,” Susan Ranew, the district’s assistant superintendent of human resources, told the Palm Beach Post.

Ms. Shepherd told the Post that she makes more money as a scantily clad sea hostess than as a Florida high school teacher (I don’t know how she can afford the monkey). She no longer needs to worry, as long as she follows the career path of the previous Florida bikini teacher, Erica Lee Chevillar, who parlayed a similar incident into national notoriety and, one presumes, a reasonable amount of coin.

I still think the Florida Education Association is missing out on a sure-fire member recruiting gold mine.