While the District Attorney’s Office agrees that it is highly inappropriate to teach while intoxicated, it is, unfortunately, not illegal.”
Reminds me of one class I had in high school right after lunch. The teacher was occasionally late getting back to class from the bar.
This has the “There’s ain’t no rule says a dog can’t play basketball” energy to it and I love it.
Alcohol is a vice that adults are allowed to have.
If the teacher isn’t driving, is conveying the information, and the kids are not getting hurt, how about fuck off?
Alcohol is not a vice that adults are usually allowed to have at work. Most jobs will fire you for being drunk at work.
We probably don’t need a criminal law specifically for this though.
Yeah, whether or not they are fired, because it is certainly unprofessional behavior, it isnt criminal. Unless you count that they were somehow putting the children in direct danger, but that probably isn’t the case for a geography or math teacher. Drunk woodshop teacher, maybe?
If a dangerous situation arose and the teacher failed to respond appropriately due to drunkenness, I’m sure that charge would be appropriate.
If a dangerous situation arose and a sober teacher failed to respond appropriately, no charge whatsoever though, right?
Prohibitionists need to get back in their lane.
Once again, if the job is getting done, and noone is getting hurt, what is the problem?
I don’t believe for a second that this teacher can convey information just as well sober as they can drunk. It might not be a crime, but it’s unethical to mess with a child’s one and only chance at getting an education like that.
Adults are allowed all sorts of vices. You can do drugs, participate in orgies, listen to the Beach Boys. But that doesn’t mean you should do any of that at work. Especially if you work with children.
You don’t need to believe it, I’m sure a lot of teachers would do a whole ton better with a buzz. Be more fun, more engaging.
Your puritanical attitude is your own, and you need to stop forcing your own misconceptions on others.
In my experience (sober for two years, and a lot of talks with people in various stages of alcoholism to help with my own), while this maybe has some truth to it in lucky circumstances, the kind of people willing to have a buzz in that situation aren’t the kind who stop at just a buzz
Are you sober because you got your mental health issues addressed and you no longer needed the vice?
Or are you sober because prohibitionists locked onto you, beat you down, punished you, sucked up all your money, broke you, and now you are “sober” like someone who lived in San Jacinto and was thrown into the pit, was broken, and is now a “devoted free thinking Scientologist”?
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
So you caught a charge and got reprogrammed by a court system that focuses on the substances, not the crime.
Gotcha.
