And These Are My Knickers

Yuliah Alma on a suboptimal substitute teacher:

When not conscripting middle-school children into his cross-dressing psychodrama, and presumably being thrilled by the thought of 11-year-olds seeing him in various states of undress, while discussing “kink” and sexual positions, Mr Lamere tells us, “I’m not a predator, I’m just a woman who happens to be super tall and hot.”

Mr Lamere’s employment history includes “environmental educator” and, er, pest control.

Update, via the comments:

We’re told, by Tess Nacelewicz, communications co-ordinator for Portland Schools, that “the process for vetting substitutes includes interviewing candidates and conducting background checks.” Readers may therefore wonder what was made of Mr Lamere’s fairly extensive – and, shall we say, uninhibited – social media presence. A presence only deleted, hurriedly, following parents’ complaints. Readers may also be tempted to imagine the candidate’s job interview. Did someone sit opposite Mr Lamere and decide, “Oh yes, here’s a totally stable and not-at-all concerning person. Let’s put him in charge of small children…”?

It is, I think, interesting that so many psychologically marginal people are being employed to teach small children. To a degree that suggests they’re being actively selected.

As noted following one of the items linked above,

Likewise, their teachers’ favoured, and rather niche, sexual activities.

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