Teacher jokes about lubricant with students, district says termination too ‘extreme’

A Washington state trainer has obtained a “letter of reprimand” after making sexually suggestive jokes with college students throughout class, however the administration has declined to terminate the educator, saying such punishment can be too “excessive.”

Casey Anderson, a trainer within the Anacortes Faculty District, posted to social media an alternate she had with college students in regards to the novelty “cat butt” tissue dispenser in her classroom. Anderson described utilizing Vaseline to load tissues into the dispenser. 

“The Anacortes Faculty District has performed an investigation involving the highschool trainer’s dialog at school and subsequent social media publish in regards to the dialog,” Anacortes Faculty District Superintendent Justin Irish advised Fox Information. “Each the publish and the dialog have been inappropriate and never tolerated by the district. The trainer admitted the conduct and has been cooperative with the investigation.”

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Anderson described the interplay on Fb as a “current entry” into “Issues Ms. Anderson Will Hear About From HR.”

“So in my room (image connected) I’ve a cat butt tissue dispenser. At present, the dispenser is out of tissues. A scholar seen this and requested, ‘How do you refill it?’ I pause for a second, then inform my class, ‘I flip down the lights, placed on some mushy music, and use a LOT of vasoline,’” Anderson wrote on Fb.

Anderson went on to recount instructing college students to retrieve a jar of petroleum jelly, generally used as a sexual lubricant, from the classroom closet.

“I’ll have them retrieved [sic] an enormous container of petroleum jelly I had in my closet (for…causes…) and positioned it proper by the cat,” Anderson continued. “Class took a flip after that.”

“The trainer obtained a proper letter of reprimand. On the continuum of potential repercussions of progressive self-discipline, that is an escalated response,” Irish advised Fox Information. 

“Though this conduct is regarding, it doesn’t advantage such an excessive outcome as termination. The district reached its determination in session with authorized counsel, the trainer’s union and relevant state legal guidelines. The district expects all staff to stick to skilled requirements and can proceed to work with all workers to make sure that these requirements are met.”

The social media posts went viral after being posted to the extensively adopted Twitter account Libs of Tik Tok, which boasts over 500,000 followers.