Hopewell parents find teacher in burlesque video online and proceed to go apesh*t – she’s since resigned

by | Jul 30, 2015 | POLITICS

Looks like the local news folks are fully embracing a slow summer news cycle and finding any and all facebook complaints worthy of turning into 2:45 second broadcast reports.


Looks like the local news folks are fully embracing a slow summer news cycle and finding any and all facebook complaints worthy of turning into 2:45 second broadcast reports.

First there was the Richmond Mural Project complaint, and now there’s a poor teach in Hopewell who’s getting shit on for cutting loose at a local burlesque event.

Here’s details from CBS 6:

What some call racy videos popped up on Twitter and Facebook Monday, showing a Hopewell High School teacher wearing next to nothing. The videos have some parents calling for her job, but our legal expert explained Monday that probably won’t happen.

The YouTube video of the teacher participating in a burlesque show had been viewed at least 2,000 times by late Monday. Some high school parents said they could not believe their eyes.

“A lot of booty bopping, a lot of breasts,” parent Bernadette Thomason said. “The whole nine yards.”

“I can’t believe a teacher that’s supposed to be teaching our children the right way would do something like that,” another parent Mary Peterson said.

The Youtube Video in question, shot in 2014 at the Michigan Burlesque Festival in Detroit, MI, can be seen below:

The teacher’s performance name, Lottie Ellington, has a facebook page with public posts and she has been taking the blow back from parents in stride. “I am an adult, and I am human,” reads one post. “I am not in anyway ashamed of my art, my life, my sexuality or my choices.”

Fuck’n A right, grrl, get em!

Looks like Yahoo Parenting has been keeping up with the story and Ellington has opted to resign from teaching locally.

“The school board has accepted the teacher’s resignation, and she is no longer an employee at the school,” Hopewell School District interim superintendent Melody Hackney told Yahoo Parenting in a statement.

We wish Ellington the best of luck either way.

Brad Kutner

Brad Kutner

Brad Kutner is the former editor of GayRVA and RVAMag from 2013 - 2017. He’s now the Richmond Bureau Chief for Radio IQ, a state-wide NPR outlet based in Roanoke. You can reach him at BradKutnerNPR@gmail.com




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