A substitute groomer
All completely healthy and benign…
A substitute teacher at the King Middle School in Portland [Maine] was removed from the classroom last week and banned from teaching at the school after parents discovered the sub had shared inappropriate sexualized TikTok videos with students.
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The teacher in question was a substitute teacher named Lydia Lamere.
The teacher has also gone by Chris Lamere, Lydia Moon, Clodagh Moon, and Clodagh Lamere, and has identified variously as non-binary, as a transgender woman, and as a transgender lesbian, according to a review of public social media.
It’s not clear which name was used to apply for the role at King Middle School, a process that would have involved passing a criminal background check.
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Mark Davey, a Portland resident whose daughter attends King Middle School, said he learned about Lamere’s prurient posting when he saw videos of the scantily clad substitute teacher on his daughter’s phone.
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“Her gender or sexuality has nothing to do with why I’m upset,” said Davey. “The violation here is the sexualization of children,” he said.
Here’s a funny thing. The word “groomer” appears nowhere in the article, but it does appear in the url. Someone signaling for help?
So, a man then.
Clarity in language, people, clarity in language. Behaviour like this should negate any requirement for courtesy or politeness. Is he going to sue for calling him a man and using he/him pronouns? Let him. The burden of proof is on him. If he can prove that he has indeed changed sex, then he should. Until such time, we all get to correctly sex him in our speech and writing.
The article you linked to is short and well worth a read.
This is the video in question. If the students are only sharing the video and gossiping, the teacher got off easy! I would expect at least a few boys to show up in class with wet hair, eye shadow, and a big blue towel (imitation is, after all, the sincerest form of flattery).
This story was broken by Maine Wire, which is:
It’s worth mentioning that Maine Wire states that the story was taken up by a local TV station, which omitted the fact that it was the teacher himself who promoted his TikTok channel to the students, and spun it as a case of irresponsible middle-schoolers intruding on his privacy:
So full marks to the self-styled conservative news outlet, even if their writing is poor.
HIS “gender or sexuality” should concern you. Women don’t do this sort of thing. They just don’t.
Holy crap, no adult, let alone a teacher, should be sharing that sort of thing with kids.
James, woman rarely do that sort of thing. Very rarely. There have been cases of female teachers starting sexual relationships with boys, but it’s rare and still wrong. I honestly can’t ever recall hearing of a teacher, of either sex, sharing videos like that with a class before though.
Rob, sure, but those are the exceptions that prove the rule. Women who sexually offend are rare outliers and often mentally disturbed, so it’s enough to state the general rule that only men do it, because “normal” men do these kinds of things all the time.
James,
Ordinarily, yes. But in cases involving safeguarding of children, we really do have to worry about the outliers.
Fair enough, Latsot: let’s codify procedures to help catch the outliers and protect the kids. Presumably catching the outliers will catch the mainliners, too.
What I’m resisting in general, though, is the slow creep (which always seems to happen) that women are equal offenders in this arena. They’re just not. It doesn’t help that crime statistics are being skewed now by men being reported as being women. (I understand that wasn’t your point, I’m just trying to emphasize that it’s part of a bigger picture.)