‘Honest, it was just a coincidence’

The family that blew the whistle on a California cheerleading coach’s nude modeling denied on TV yesterday they were trying to seek revenge.

The coach, Carlie Beck aka Carlie Christine, was a Playboy.com “cyber-girl of the week” in early February. As cheerleading coach of Casa Roble Fundamental High School outside Sacramento, Beck cut several girls from the squad for excessive unexcused absences, per school policy.

One of the cuts, Adelle Geniella, 14, and her parents found Beck’s cyber-girl photos on the Web and submitted them to school officials. Beck then lost her coaching job.

Adella and her parents deny that they were trying to get back at Beck. Instead, they insist Beck was a poor role model — cheerleaders cannot post nude photos on the Web, for example — and should have been fired. They failed to note that high school cheerleaders are underage, and Beck is not, of course.

Whatever.

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California HS cheering coach poses nude, loses job — surprised?

JISHOU, HUNAN — A high school cheerleading coach has lost her job after students and parents found her nude photos on the Playboy.com website.

Carlie Christine BeckCarlie Christine Beck (or Becker — news sources can’t seem to get her name straight), 20, (left) appeared on Playboy.com back in February, about the same time she was hired to coach the cheerleading squad at Casa Roble Fundamental High School (a public school) in Orangevale, California.

Bad timing, I’d say. Apparently, Beck did the Playboy.com shoot before taking the coaching job, and she says she was upfront about her modeling career.

Nothing much came of her nude modeling until she cut some girls from the squad for having unexcused absences. The offended girls and their parents then presented the bare facts (sorry, I couldn’t resist) to the high school principal.

She then lost her coaching job. The whistle-blowers (or tattle tales) deny they were taking revenge for the cuts, of course. “This is something that I would have brought to the attention of the principal whether she was on the team or not, as a parent,” Heather Geniella, a cheerleader’s mother, told News10 in Sacramento.

Uh-huh.

Every cloud has a silver lining, though. The publicity surrounding her dismissal has given her a lot more exposure (no pun intended this time), ensuring a successful modeling career — and 15 minutes of fame — for Beck.



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April 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Civil liberties, Commentary, Media, Schools, Teaching | Leave a comment

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