High School Guidance Counselor Fired For Sexy Lingerie Photos

Tiffany Webb Can you be an effective guidance counselor even if there are racy bikini photos of you floating around the internet? According to the Department of Education, the answer is no. Tiffany Webb, a guidance counselor at Murry Bergtraum HS for Business Careers in Manhattan, was fired from her job after 12 years at the school because of sexy photos of her that she took well before she started working at the school.

Webb, 37, disclosed to the DOE that she had taken model shots between the age of 18 and 20, years before she became a city teacher in 1999. She’s been investigated three times by the DOE, and spent some time in a “rubber room,” because of them; but she has always been given satisfactory ratings, and been cleared to work again. Last year, days before she was due to get tenure, former principal Andrea Lewis claimed a student showed her a racy photo of her, which prompted the latest investigation.

Webb was dismissed for “conduct unbecoming” of a DOE employee soon after: “The inappropriate photos were accessible to impressionable adolescents,” ruled a three-member chancellor’s committee. “That behavior has a potentially adverse influence on her ability to counsel students and be regarded as a role model.” The dissenting vote argued that “she should not be punished for something that happened years ago.”

Now Webb is suing the DOE for wrongful termination, sex discrimination and violation of First Amendment rights—and she still wants to get her job back. To make matters worse, her lawyer noted that the photos have all been photoshopped as well, with her face on different bodies: “She had no control over it,” he said.

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Lingerie sale parties help BlueBella past £1m mark

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Vicki Owen

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10:16 EST, 7 October 2012

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10:16 EST, 7 October 2012

Emily Bendell, founder of lingerie firm BlueBella, expects turnover of more than £1million this year.

Sales for the business, which recruits women to sell lingerie through parties, social media and e-commerce sites, is up 140 per cent on last year, she said, adding: ‘Our network of BlueBella consultants is growing really quickly.’

The Oxford University philosophy, politics and economics graduate, who got £50,000 in investment three years ago from Addidi Business Angels, a women-only investment club, thought female investors would understand her lingerie business better.

Women only: Emily Bendell is backed by female investors

Other investors in BlueBella, launched in 2005, include Incito, also a female-only investors network, and LoveHoney, an online retailer of sex toys.

Bendell, 31, who had the idea for the business after a summer job in a lingerie shop, is now an ambassador for Start-Up Loans, the Government’s loan scheme for people aged 18 to 24 who have a business idea.

She quit a job editing a legal journal to set up the business.

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