31 August 2011, 13:32 Society

Stripper kicked out of school

In England, a high school teacher was forced to resign when it turned out that in his free time he worked as a stripper and porn model. His behavior, discrediting the position of a teacher, was discussed on Wednesday by the General Council of Teachers of the City of Birmingham.

31-year-old Benedict Garrett drew criticism; he prepared students for adult life, telling them about economics, sociology, medicine and health, including sex. A nice and polite teacher taught children from 11 to 18 years old to “be open-minded, patient and respectful of other people.” However, Garrett's colleagues looked at Garrett with a completely different look when it was suddenly revealed that at night he undresses in bars on stages and dances striptease on a pole. At this time he goes by the name "English Johnny".

The teacher was exposed by his own students. They found links to pornographic videos of Garrett on Facebook and told their parents. However, it turned out that Ben-Johnny himself did not hide his desire to undress. The very first line in the search engine for the teacher’s pseudonym turned out to be a link to his website, containing provocative photographs of a half-naked muscular man. The videos included a clip from a panty festival, as well as footage of a photo shoot in which Garrett acted as a dog. In another Irish radio interview tape, a stripper reveals his double life, revealing he earned more than £200 for stripping in front of men. “Women usually pay twice as much,” he admitted.

The convicted teacher decided to leave school and plunge fully into the sex business. However, he was unable to escape the accusation of disgraceful behavior. The day before, at the first meeting of the teachers' council, he gave a heated 30-minute speech, trying to explain that personal and public life should not be mixed. “Teachers can also go and get drunk at a bar, they are people too, and it’s their choice!” says Garrett. In his Twitter micro-blog, he said that it seemed that he had been heard. “Well, yes, when the students asked in class what a vibrator was, I told them, but I didn’t bring it to class!” — the stripper is indignant. He explains that he was only preparing children for adult life - for everything that would surround them outside the school walls, including pornography.

Garrett did not believe in the successful completion of the “trial.” “Am I really going to go all the way to the end to hear the inevitable?” - he wrote in the micro-blog in the morning, going to the council. A few hours later, Garrett reported that the board had recognized that the teacher had “violated public trust” and issued a verdict: a two-year suspension from teaching. “They thought I was a danger to society. A little late, isn't it? - he summed up.