Tamara Hoover is the most popular teacher in school
Tamara Hoover, an art teacher at Austin (TX) High School, is in danger of losing her job for posting topless photos of herself on Flickr, where by the way she has a friends list of 1467 people. Many of them look to be of high school age.
Hoover, according to CNN, was an excellent teacher, able to help students find their creativity. Whats she apparently couldn’t do is get along with another (uglier I bet) teacher, who apparently ratted her out in a disputed over a piece of ceramics equipment.
My personal feelings on this are mixed. On the one hand it isn’t like she was posting hard core sex tapes. She was topless, for (insert random diety name here) sake. If you are in high school and you don’t know what boobs look like you have bigger problems than Tamara Hoover posing topless. On the other hand maybe she does deserve to be fired. Not for any morals violation, but for being stupid enough to post the pictures in a publicly accessible place. Especially given all the attention MySpace and Flickr have drawn recently. Is being a dumbass a cause for termination under her contract?
Update: Here is a link to her MySpace page where she is accepting donations to help her fight. (Perhaps she’ll start selling photos to make some real coin?). She lists her occupation as “unemployed” so it appears that she does not hold out much hope of keeping her job. I say keep her and fire the old tire that ratted her out.
By the way, the photo’s were taken and posted by Hoover’s female partner, Celesta Danger, who put up hundreds of photos of Hoover as part of an on-line documentary of their lives together. This was her take:
“I don’t think I can be responsible for other peoples’ perceptions or reactions when they look at my photos, it has to do with their state of mind at the time,” Danger said. “I’m not out to change people’s minds, but I’m not a pornographer.”
Update: Who would have thought that this would become a big story in the blogosphere? I mean semi-hot teacher who posts topless pictures of herself? Why would hot topless teacher be of interest? Here are some folks already on the story:
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Khen’s Pen: who quips “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TAMARA HOOVER HAS BOOBS!!!”
Canadian Geek notes the similarity with this smokin’ hot teacher.
Beauty Secrets 101 even did an analysis of Tamara’s make-up with a few beauty suggestions
Photo credit: Is This Really Journalism?
Another update: Tamara Hoover is apparently well thought of at Austin High School as this stat sheet from Rate My Teachers shows:
Tamara Hoover
# of Ratings: 55
# of Responses: 14
Average Easiness: 4.0
Average Helpfulness: 4.5
Average Clarity: 4.4
Popularity Total: 48
Overall Quality: 4.5
Averages are based on a maximum score of 5
Do you think that is because a Hot Topless Teacher is always popular, or is she really an outstanding teacher as claimed elsewhere.
Another Update: Tamara Hoover was the lead story on CBS New’s Blogophile today. Just goes to show you should get all your breaking news here, even though Independent Sources didn’t rate a mention desite our excellent in-depth coverage.
Update: As of June 26th, Tamara has 2,232 MySpace friends. This is probably 2,231 more friends than the teacher who ratted her out and got her fired. Some pretty funny comments and a surprisingly diverse group of supporters (that is not exclusively young males who just want to see her boobs). Also from her website, here is the email address for the district board of trustees for her former school district: trustees@austinisd.org.
Update: The Austinist as an interview with Celesta Danger, Tamara’s lover of three years and the photographer in the Tamara Hoover case. Some interesting tidbits including the controversy has led to record-breaking traffic for Flickr, that Tamara failed to achieve the higher moral standard that is expected of teachers in Austin yet she doesn’t drink, smoke, do drugs, and is a Vegan. Tamara’s attorney asked if an Austin teacher had an abortion would she be fired?
And yet another Tamara Hoover Update: 6/26/2006 It appears that Tamara Hoover’s partner Celeste Danger has also posted a .mpg of a topless Tamara Hoover getting her haircut. In the interest of full disclosure it is available here.
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June 19th, 2006 at 7:13 am
As skinney as she looks in the photo, maybe her posing was TRULY topless. She is so flat her boobs probably look like raisens on an ironing board.
Chuck
June 19th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Rule 1: Don’t fire good looking teachers.
June 20th, 2006 at 3:09 am
Ha esses diretores são boiolas, a mulher e gata e tem que mostrar mesmo, se eles tem mulheres feias em casa o problema e deles e não dela.
Fica esperto diretor vai arrumar uma mulher bonita para você, aposto que eles são todos sexualmente reprimidos.
June 20th, 2006 at 6:17 am
I can’t help but wonder what this will do to her relationship with her partner, Celesta. Is Tamara going to be mad at her for causing her all this trouble, or will this bring them closer as they fight the school system together? And thanks for the link to my site!
Sharon
Beauty Secrets 101
June 20th, 2006 at 11:18 am
I’m thinkin’ Fransisco-Brasil might be onta sumpthin’..
June 20th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
See more pictures here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/79642866@N00/
June 21st, 2006 at 5:09 am
Si, amigos. Este boobies pucito non grande.
June 21st, 2006 at 5:09 am
Si, amigos. Este boobies pucito non grande.
June 21st, 2006 at 12:41 pm
I think shes hot
June 21st, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Pedro said yes friends, her breast are’t that good lol, even though some of it is wrong.
June 21st, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Flat chested lezbos just don’t do it for me. I would fire her dumbass for having such crappy pictures posted online
Seriously do you want your little kids being taught by an obviously drug addled freak? lol
June 21st, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Flat chested lezbos just don’t do it for me. I would fire her stupid ass for having had such crappy pictures posted online
Seriously do you want your kids being taught by somebody who’s clearly a freak? I know I DO! lol
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:26 am
bence çok ho? ve sexi bir kad?n amac? ne olursa olsun onu görmekten memnun oldum sevgiyle kalmas?n? ve gönlünce ya?amas?n? temenni ediyorum sevgiler sana tamahara
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:49 am
a stand. The nude pictures have been removed from her girlfriend’s account (her Myspace is here). The pictures that are still up indicate that Austin High School boys are being seriously deprived of an attractive education. This has been all over theInternetso I won’t repeat what’s already been well-tread. But it is interesting that after all the talk about being careful of what you put on your MySpace profile, you now have to be careful of what your friends say about you in their profiles.
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:49 am
a stand. The nude pictures have been removed from her girlfriend’s account (her Myspace is here). The pictures that are still up indicate that Austin High School boys are being seriously deprived of an attractive education. This has been all over theInternetso I won’t repeat what’s already been well-tread. But it is interesting that after all the talk about being careful of what you put on your MySpace profile, you now have to be careful of what your friends say about you in their profiles.
June 23rd, 2006 at 5:17 am
I did a Google search online about “Tamara Hoover pictures” and this is what I found: Tamara Hoover Flickr Nude / Naked (Oh & Fired!) Tamara Hoover, The Nude Art Teacher | Women Lifestyle, Fashion …Independent Sources » Blog Archive »Tamara Hoover is the most popular teacher… Yeah! Ongoing support for her: www.myspace.com/mshoover Naked Teachers are awesome! Is this really journalism?: Tamara Hoover UPDATE Austinist: Statesman Op-Ed Weighs in on
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:08 pm
There is a little bit of an exhibitionist in all of us, pretty sure that the intent was not to broadcast globally, but think that quite a few males have had a teacher that made them wonder what they looked like naked. Personally I can think of a few, including my 7th grade art teacher. Looking at the volume of data that comes up in a google search from this you have to wonder how this could be used to broadcast more useful or profitable information. Tamara’s partners photos were interesting, but not sure that she or Tamara were ready for a product launch & very few companies could afford the kind of publicity this generated.
Based on the ripple that this caused in the web it will be interesting to see how it is duplicated for more materialistic purposes beyond an expression of love. Hope for the best for both of them in the future.
June 24th, 2006 at 8:11 am
I think she really looks great,the other folks are pee-off because they didn’t or was ashamed of how they really feel.She expressed herself,an discided to show it”You go Girl Your HOT”
jim Paris,Tx.
June 26th, 2006 at 4:19 am
what they need to do is fire the teacher who showed to pictures to the students. not only is she a RAT, she also violated this so called moral clause by exposing the students to the pictures besides who hasn’t seen breasts give me a break.
June 26th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
If Tamara was my teacher and I came across a photo of her naked, striking erotica poses and have the words “fuck me” on my belly, I would not consider that art. I consider her a freak. And yes she has the right to be a freak but then don’t be a teacher. Nudity can be artistic but whats so poetic about “Fuck ME.” She does not belong in the teaching profession. We don’t need teachers who walk around with a “Fuck ME” T-shirt on. She’s too immature to be a teacher. You would think she’s a high school student by the way she’s acting. ALL i know is that if she gets her teaching position back then that whole incident that happened with Pee Wee Herman who jacked off in a porno theater on his own time in his private life, lost his career and show happened for nothing. If justice was good enough for Pee Wee then its good enough for tamara hoover.