*A North Carolina teacher has been suspended after the school district discovered a video of her taking in a pole-dancing class, Newsweek reports.
Kandice Mason, a sixth-grade teacher at West Hoke County Middle School, said she shared a video of her pole-dancing on her private Facebook account. But somehow the clip was seen by her employers.
Mason, who also works part-time as a pole-dancing instructor, said she received news of her suspension while she was preparing for the new school year.
“I was really excited,” she told WSOC. “I had already been given my classroom.”
Mason said she hit the pole as a form of exercise and to unwind.
“That’s how I stay in shape,” Mason said. “That’s how I feel like I can express myself and have time for myself.”
Watch her in action via the clip above.
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Mason said the school did not fully disclose why she has been suspended, but administrators cited a policy that states: “As role models for the school system employees are responsible for their public conduct…even when they are not performing their job duties as employees of the school system,” reports ABC 7.
The single mother of two, who holds an MA in psychology, a BA in English and a certificate in phlebotomy, has fired back at the school district for punishing her over a private/personal hobby.
“It’s just an art for me. I just don’t see it as negative,” she said.
“I’ve worked so hard to try and make sure I can provide for my daughters and our livelihood to have it jeopardized just for doing something that I’m passionate about,” said Mason.
And she’s really not here for the jerk who leaked her pole dancing video to the school.
“It wasn’t even like it was a parent or student that brought this up. It was someone that was being malicious and pretty much trying to make me out to be a bad person,” she said.
Hoke County Schools released a statement saying: “Kandice Mason has been suspended with pay pending an investigation.”
According to the report, her case could go before the school board, which would have final say on her employment.
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