Art teacher under fire for nude photos

Another teacher in trouble. And I"m still asking myself where were these teachers when I was in highschool???? Austin ISD wants to fire an Austin High School teacher over nude photos posted on the Internet. The AISD school board Monday unanimously decided to begin the termination process for Tamara Hoover, who teaches art. The board said Hoover violated the terms of her employment contract. Hoover has been on paid administrative leave since May 19 after school officials found out about the images. She defended her actions in a blog by saying that the pictures are not pornography but "artistic photography." According Hoover's attorney, she never told students about the photographs, nor are they on her own Web site. The district learned about these pictures through another teacher. "The teacher who was there said, 'Whoops, something's happened here that shouldn't.' She shut down the computer and went and told the principal about it," said Jay Brim, attorney. "What she (Hoover) did is leave herself vulnerable to this kind of problem. She did not do anything that I believe was violative of any of the districts standards or rules." The process to fire Hoover will take months, but her attorney thinks they have a good case and her photographer says this is about art. "The definition of pornography is material with no artistic or aesthetic value -- created for the sole purpose of stimulating sexual arousal. That's not my intent at all," said Celesta Danger, photographer. http://www.kvue.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=70702 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199899,00.html