At the dawn of the summer, teacher Patrice Brown received a pink slip from her employer, asking her not to return for the 2022 school year. The curvaceous educator claims she was fired because the school’s principal took issue with her penchant for wearing skintight dresses and hip-hugging leggings. Brown, who teaches first- and second-graders, has been gaining notoriety for her workwear for years. In 2016, photos of her wearing skintight jeans went viral on Facebook, and she was dubbed #TeacherBae.
And in the years that followed, she hasn’t let the attention detract her from doing — and wearing — what she loves. Patrice Brown was dubbed “#TeacherBae” by social media in 2016 after a parent blasted pictures of her sexy classroom attire online. Patrice Brown I’d always go to work and take pictures of myself in the classroom setting, showing off how much I love my profession and looking beautiful while teaching kids,” Brown, 33, from Atlanta, told The Post, noting that her clothing is well within the “vague” guidelines for Atlanta Public School teachers.
It’s not just students wracking up dress code violations. Teachers are also getting written up for looking supposedly too sexy for the classroom. New Jersey art teacher Roxsana Diaz was criticized online this week for her form-fitting outfits, with incensed moms and dads calling for her termination. She’s hardly alone. Brown was fired from her teaching job after the principal learned that she was #TeacherBae. Patrice Brown
“Teachers are often bullied [for their looks] by the administration, parents, other teachers, and in higher grades, the students,” said Brown, who has found a new job at a different school teaching first-graders. “What teachers are wearing should not be the focus. The focus should be on the kids.” Diaz, of Pennsauken, N.J., echoed those sentiments amid her own classroom-clothes controversy via Instagram Monday.
