Utah teacher Mindi Jensen found herself in trouble after parents discovered her Instagram account in which she posts pictures of herself body-building.
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She posted pictures and her words of inspiration on Instagram using an alias, but her students at North Stanpete Middle School in the city of Moroni, Utah found her account and their parents got to know all about it.
She’s in pretty good shape and proudly posted photos of herself competing in the bikini category. Make her profile private, 2) take her pictures down or 3) be fired. They called it immodest. “They called the pictures inappropriate and these are my fitness and show pictures in my sport, in my uniform in my bodybuilding sport”, said Jensen. She said she started getting into fitness to help her deal with depression from her break-up, which has inspired others to do the same. “If I put it to private, it’s not going to reach these people that might need and understand me”.
Jensen said the school board met regarding the issue this week, and ahead of the meeting the principal asked her if she felt strongly enough about not setting the photos to private that she would stake her job on it, and she said she did.
“I thought with my body being stronger maybe it would soak into my emotions, my heart and my brain and strengthen that so I started fitness”, said Jensen.
“Why are my rights being taken away and not the child’s right”.
“Why are my rights being taken away and not the child’s right?” It’s between the parent and the child.
‘Put restrictions on your children. “I’m doing this all for the first time”, she added.
A fitness model and teacher was afraid that she was going to be fired from her job Wednesday after posting pictures of a bikini competition where she took third place.
Jensen was not present for the meeting but afterwards she says she was contacted by the principal who said she was no longer in danger of losing her job.
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When a few over-zealous parents complained to the school board on the grounds that these snaps were “inappropriate” and “pornographic”, Mindi was given three choices.
